Make sandwiches, not war. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/us/politics/trump-sandwich-guy-verdict.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE8.0G7N.nHOnPAYoENx0&smid=nytcore-ios-share https://washingtonian.com/2025/08/18/sandwich-guy-has-become-dcs-hero/ (Thanks […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This was.. a brand new sentence. Also the most exciting thing to happen in Palo Alto #billionaires

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

OpEd: The Great Gatsby is a warning about the perils of excess. Of course trump embraced and celebrates it. – Jenice Armstrong https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/tsa-federal-shutdown-snap-benefits-trump-extravagance-20251106.html?id=OLRrauv4BFc82 #oped

Seems important — why could that be? 🤔 "China bans foreign AI chips from state-funded data centers" https://tribune.com.pk/story/2576102/china-bans-foreign-ai-chips-from-state-funded-data-centers #nationalsecurity #cybersecurity #geopolitics #china

"Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit." https://grist.org/indigenous/native-alaska-villages-were-already-on-the-frontlines-of-climate-change-then-a-typhoon-hit/

Should be a warning to regime loyalists, everywhere. “It is in many ways a modern echo of the old Soviet refrain: “Comrade Stalin, a terrible mistake has been made!” – a phrase once uttered by devoted communists who realised too late that Stalin’s purges would not spare even the faithful.”

Typhoon Kalmaegi batters Philippines, bears down on Vietnam https://apnews.com/article/typhoon-kalmaegi-philippines-vietnam-floods-a21373fe3b7044b0ffb3afa2f2aa3958 - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/6/typhoon-kalmaegi-bears-down-on-vietnam-after-114-killed-in-the-philippines […]

Here's your extremist news for the day: "Round-the-world walker hits Channel Tunnel snag" — and has a (crazy) solution. Hashtag "bureaucracy?" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50yx9l1n4o

Pretty damning — https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/ #republicanshutdown #trumpshutdown

Shelter in place advised in Yazoo City, Mississippi, after an explosion at the CF ammonia plant. https://www.wlbt.com/2025/11/05/residents-ordered-evacuate-following-ammonia-leak-yazoo-co/

Looking back after nine months of trump's 2nd term — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/first-year-trump-what-happened

The first American Pope is not happy with the way migrants are being treated in America. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-leo-calls-for-deep-reflection-about-treatment-of-detained-migrants-in-the-united-states #migrants #immigration #humanrights #PopeLeo

KTLA: Major fast food chain offering $1 meals in SoCal amid government shutdown Carl's Jr. will provide "a Kids Hamburger, Small Fry and Kids Drink for just $1 to qualifying guests.... To receive the discounted meal, guests are asked to show one of the following: A federal government employee […]

US Government shutdown hits 36 days, now the longest ever. Impacts individuals — tens of millions — as well as society and the economy. https://www.dw.com/en/us-government-shutdown-now-longest-ever/a-74621074 #republicanshutdown #trumpshutdown

More dark news — as the administration tries to return us to the Dark Ages: NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center is being destroyed: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-is-sinking-its-flagship-science-center-during-the-government-shutdown-and-may-be-breaking-the-law-in-the-process #space […]

Live summary of US elections: all the big races for office and ballot initiatives have been called. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-results-latest #uspol #uspolitics #uselections #election #elections #electionconsequences […]

Remember the BALCO scandal and Victor Conte? You probably remember some of Conte's clients. https://apnews.com/article/victor-conte-died-90d020e6a06e2fec0bd5edbfeee25332

What is to stop them from suddenly and illegally labeling an overloaded boat full of of asylum seekers as "illegal enemy combatants" because they allege an assault on the US — and then sinking it in the open ocean, rather that assisting or turning it back? […]

Nothing to see here... 😬 "China waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at a UK university to get it to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, documents seen by the BBC show..." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o #china #humanrights […]

[Hunger, military] United State Space Force: we're not paying you, but if you need food help, you might look at the SNAP program 😬 https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4319696/help-available-for-airmen-guardians-civilians-to-mitigate-lapse-in-appropriatio/

“Despite her grievous losses, Ms. van de Perre expressed awe in her memoir…. “I can still hardly believe that people who should have remained unremarkable ended up memorialized on lists and monuments,” she wrote. “We were ordinary people plunged into extraordinary circumstances.”” 🕯️

White House: "Oh, hey, we lied. But that was then. Trust us now."* https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.78MJ663 *Nah. They lied then and they're lying now — and they'll keep lying. It's what they do. #disinformation

I hope the Dodgers don't accept any invitation to the White House if they get one — or use the platform to protest this awful administration if they do.

Glad we get that extra hour to sleep.

Epic Game 7 — and my team's not even playing (Phillies).

Instead of Patel being fired for using federal government property to fly around with his barely legal girlfriend, the 27-year veteran of the FBI who blew the whistle on him got fired.

Ridiculous #rfkjr Orders #cdc to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore #windfarms HHS Secy RFKJr directed CDC staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar with the matter, as #trump marshals his admin to thwart the #cleanenergy source he loathes […]

Look at us. We’re all here, on the 97th most popular social media site, enjoying a live event together.

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

No words for the bottom of the 9th.

Wow! This game...

Big day in New York tomorrow. Some photo from 42 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/magazine/nyc-marathon-finish-photo-history-rod-dixon.html #running #newyork #marathon #newyorkmarathon

TLDNR' Get outside. It's good for you. https://apnews.com/article/wellness-urban-walking-cities-ae7c613234590d1cde93ed9793c623a3=

Look up — and have a great day (and awesome weekend)! Also don't forget to set those clocks back if you're in the U.S. #shabbatshalom #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #nature #trees #sunshine #autumn #leaves #bluesky #dst

Food diplomacy – https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251031/p2a/00m/0na/010000c

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

Antiscience influencer up for top job. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion/casey-means-surgeon-general-nominee.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.BFuP.8-4X-LjTynD-&smid=url-share

Restoring a Confederate statue without appropriate contemporary commentary or comment is not about preserving or protecting history. It's about wanting to return to a darker, crueler past — about rewriting history […]

Opportunist at the top — Vance. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/jd-vance-yale-law-school.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.fFkq.o--lRR5tkja2&smid=url-share

But the whales!! 🐳🐋🐳🐋🐳 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:445txkzk2c6qvvpcuzehrbxv/post/3m4fh66k7oc2n #renewableenergy #renewables #wind #windpower #uk

Providing the facts and stated outcomes from an important diplomatic meeting like this newsworthy but not assuring, because trump is almost as mercurial and unpredictive as he is vindictive […]

When the reporter becomes the story — a profile of S.V Dáte of Huff Post. Hard to say that anyone brings out the worst in this administration because it's all right there on the surface, but Dáte has really been a target. He's a good reporter; White House staff is hired because they're […]

"I think this is the worst place on Earth now; it's the biggest humanitarian emergency on Earth and it happens in the dark, really - there has been far too little attention to what's happening in Sudan." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c364jgkge46o #sudan #elfasher

Peace lover? M.A.D.* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-orders-pentagon-begin-testing-nuclear-weapons-immediately-rcna240681 *Mutual Assured Destruction 😕

Much of America is afraid. Afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid America’s legal and judicial institutions will no longer protect them. If Americans don't wake up, organize, and fight harder to defend the rule of law, we'll find ourselves living in an authoritarian system

How does anyone from the regime even know who Wole Soyinka even is? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/28/trump-administration-strips-nigerian-nobel-winner-wole-soyinka-of-us-visa

Lovely calendar: who gets hurt when by the government shutdown — https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/10/29/the-government-shutdowns-about-to-hit-home-for-millions-more-here-are-the-key-dates-coming/