🔭 Northern Fox Fires Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...

The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway

Section 1 of the executive order is like "in order for this to mean anything, Congress must act." The rest of it is like "X department shall convene a task force to provide a list of recommendations etc. etc." It's completely toothless and this "blocking states" headline is brain-dead stenography.

Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.

A major case was decided last week against a Georgia ban on gender affirming care for transgender people who are incarcerated. The previous policy was cruel, forcing medical detransition. S. Baum writes for EITM here. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Twenty years ago, over 90% of revenue from recorded music came from physical album sales. Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

🔴 Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...

BREAKING: At least seven Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza City and northern areas as Israel continues attacks across the so-called yellow line truce demarcation. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p5c13r

Forty-four Palestinian workers have died trying to cross the wall since October 2023, when Israeli authorities revoked almost all permits, according to the Palestinian Workers’ Union. interc.pt/4pgkfJf

You may be cool, but you’ll never be Cary-Hiroyuki-Tagawa-at-the-1995-premiere-of-Mortal-Kombat cool

Rewatch complete of Lam Ngai Kai’s bonkers manga adaptation. Yuen Biao as always is great and gets a chance to let loose in an extended action scene with a great extended cameo by the legendary Gordon Liu. Zany stop motion creatures, 90s effects and a rocking end credits song!

Despite Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, the skilled Attallah family of artisan potters continue working in their damaged workshop, preserving a craft and heritage that has survived for generations.

“Once sprayed into the nostril, noroxone works quickly to free up opioid receptors in the brain, allowing compounds like heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine to reattach and fatally interrupt respiration.”

Apartment building belonging to the family of bombing suspect Abdul Karim Sanoubar demolished by Israel on Tuesday.

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers aje.io/usdhib

1. Missouri prefiled bills are in, and the anti-trans panic continues. One even goes as far as to ban social transition in schools. Any teacher who "supports" it, including name changes, pronouns, or "treatment," would be fired. Even with parent permission! Subscribe to support our journalism.

1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care. “These regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence." Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...

An Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, Gaza also killed photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi.

Palestinian prisoner Abdulkarim Sanobar’s home in the occupied West Bank was blown up by the Israeli military, after he was accused of a bomb attack on empty buses in February. Rights groups say blowing up the homes of prisoners is collective punishment and a war crime.

Video shows the moment two Palestinian men were arrested by Israeli soldiers in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the occupied West Bank.

BREAKING: An attack by Israeli settlers on a water well east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has cut off the water supply to several Palestinian towns, according to the Jerusalem Water Authority. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5equzi

Really cool that now people are realizing the health and ecological problems that come with massive data centers companies are offshoring the issue to countries with no regulations and framing it as economic development armenpress.am/en/article/1...

BREAKING: Israeli forces have stormed the town of Sebastia, northwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, report our colleagues on the ground. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/oapeu6

I've written a short comment regarding this new MIT study that is being passed around and why it is horseshit. "11.7% of US workforce is being replaced by AI" my ass. Thought that might be of interest. Also - thanks for all your work, you are one of the best resources out there.

The UN warns the Palestinian economy is facing its worst collapse on record, among the 10 weakest worldwide since 1960, driven by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and decades of restrictions. 🔗: aje.io/dgpsyu | #Infograph

With an MOU on a proposed tar-sands-to-B.C. pipeline now signed, some slam the conditions of the agreement.  Hear more on APTN News Brief:

Sweeping changes to Bill S-2 that would eliminate the second-generation cutoff from the Indian Act will face a crucial vote in the Senate on Tuesday. Read more about this weeks Nation to Nation on our website:

Anvisa aprova vacina brasileira contra dengue, a 1ª do mundo em dose única. Após 12 anos de pesquisa e cinco de testes, imunizante foi produzido pelo Instituto Butantan. Em 2024, a doença matou quase 6 mil brasileiros. Confira a reportagem completa: glo.bo/4rf9Hvg #JN

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024. This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.

Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet. He directly cites today's MOU:

Further court action by First Nations could be coming as they grow impatient with the federal government over safe water legislation. Indigenous Services Canada has promised to reintroduce it in the fall session which ends in less than two weeks. www.aptnnews.ca?p=280372

Observers condemn Israeli army's killing of two Palestinian men in northern West Bank as 'shocking crime'.

#Thanksgiving & football go hand in hand, and THE FRESHMAN (1925) shows the frenzy has been around for over a century. Harold Lloyd’s chaotic climactic game helped shape every underdog sports comedy that followed. Touchdown! 🏈 Watch the full #publicdomain classic ⤵️ archive.org/details/the-...

Israeli forces target buildings in central Gaza's Bureij and eastern Khan Younis.

1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman. This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The US-backed GHF is halting operations after more than 2,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and foreign contractors in and around its distribution sites, according to UN figures aje.io/7jd82r

Pardon me?? Ben Mulroney, host of Global News’ flagship political Sunday show, and prominent journalist Steve Paikin are both in Israel getting a briefing from the Israeli government??? What the absolute fuck, dude.

While the US government did not identify the official, economist Fritz Alphonse Jean told media he was the target.

The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food. The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals. The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.

More than 650,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher for Tawila, and the UN is warning of urgent humanitarian needs. Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, has killed tens of thousands of people and forced about 13 million from their homes. #Infograph

Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than 9.5 million people and left millions at risk of starvation. Despite the country’s vast natural resources, ongoing fighting and shifting control of resources make feeding its population impossible. 🔗: aje.io/cmn21f | #Infograph

Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. 🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph

Following up an earlier story. City councillors found a loophole and conducted a CityHousing Hamilton Board of Directors meeting by email, following council's failure to reach quorum on November 5. The cost of the legal opinion involved has been charged to the CityHousing Hamilton budget. #yhmcc

The game show audience is already howling as I hit the button and chants along as each word of my giant IS THAT GOOD sign illuminates

* A Hedge Against AI Crash Emerges as Oracle CDS Market Explodes @bloomberg.com $ORCL

1. Trump's Anti-Trans HHS Report authors have been unmasked, and as someone said, "Now we know why they were previously kept anonymous." It's a who's who of hate groups and billionaire-funded anti-trans activists. We detail the names in our latest report. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Human Rights Watch says Israel forcibly displaced 32,000 Palestinians from three camps in the occupied West Bank during “Operation Iron Wall”, calling it a war crime and urging investigations into senior officials, including PM Benjamin Netanyahu. 🔗: aje.io/w2wwey | #Infograph

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

1. New Zealand's right-wing govt has banned new prescriptions of puberty blockers in a major concession to its far-right flank. The move was to be announced by the health minister, but the far-right NZ First preempted it, calling it a "win in the war on woke." Subscribe to support our journalism.