What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Not like the stacked cracker boxes that pass for architecture now

Watch to the end 😭

"On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match" I also have frustrations on Etsy, not more expensive, but lots of mass produced products, and original handmade or vintage items are buried in a bunch of generic stuff www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Tails aligned in bird watching

So…@hcrichardson and I will be livestreaming a conversation at about 7:00 tonight ET. You can find it at my YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Harriet's favorite window spot

And...making Coca-Cola use cane sugar, grown domestically mostly in Florida and Louisiana, is sure to enrage farmers where sugar beets are grown, which is a lot of other places!

Repealing an electoral result reflects “a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to determine policy questions.” No. People voted for what they wanted. Republicans repealed it. That reflects a growing struggle over democracy.

This is the most complete article I've read so far about the weather alerts, or lack of, for the Texas floods. Do I understand correctly that all of our phones are already enabled and ready to receive IPAWS weather alerts? wapo.st/4nIIGyz www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today (I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.) What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing." Really bad.

Shame. Quirky and enjoyable

I've been on The Wolverine more than a few times. Pretty comfortable. Where else in the Midwest is a fun and useful train ride?

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

"Seed, pesticide, and banking monopolies " are endangering farm country Are they also endangering or interested in completely controlling our food sources?

If your bike lane isn't protected in some way, you probably shouldn't even call it a bike lane. Attn cities, stop painting a line on a busy street and then complaining that no one uses it. Unless you seriously traffic calm the street and police the cars

See you at 1 AM, yes, you read that right, when Republicans take up the spending bill, which includes a provision that would restrict courts from holding gov’t officials in contempt for violating court orders—possibly explaining the subterfuge. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

Just hanging out on Caturday

Chicago friends, Dust storm warning. Visibility could be near zero forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.ph...

It took about 6 days of me laying on the couch sick for Harriet to apparently decide I was non threatening enough for her to snuggle up. Hedy decided I was ok after a year living here, but Harriet is still aloof. Happy #caturday

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Reminds me of my father, this is a reenactment. Maybe about the same age

The young man in front could be my father! Article makes good points, but another reason is the shocking lack of any knowledge of history by many. I have H.S. friends who don't know about NATO, the Blitz, Chamberlains appeasement etc. And don't care to make any effort to learn wapo.st/3SldpTM

Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

Me: "You're telling me you got some of it wrong?" Derek Thompson: "Yes we got some of this wrong, in the process of describing it." I did a fascinating interview with @dkthomp.bsky.social, co-author of the new book 'Abundance'. We touched on that Ezra Klein/Jon Stewart viral broadband clip.

Or, instead of relying on a bullshit machine that will dry up a lake to tell you stupid lies, you could simply read a book, watch a documentary, or see a film. www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

I'm buying almost all of my eggs directly from farmers, or at my local co-op. Most have not raised their prices at all, or only a very small amount And I get a far superior product www.levernews.com/animal-farm-...

A very rainy Caturday, Hedy playing Princess and the Pea on a nice clean fluffy stack of towels.

Hedy enjoying the fireplace #caturday

Gabe and Mjolnir need a new home, can you help? Rowan, their human who has sadly passed, wished for them to remain together. Will help get them relocated to anywhere within the United States; please read on for more details! 🧵 Signal boosts & sharing are appreciated 💙

Mississippi Burning, according to Amazon Prime app, leaves in 38 hours. Interesting timing, considering it's been on there forever. Stars Gene Hackman and Willam Defoe, both fabulous. Now on Kanopy, my new source for movies www.imdb.com/title/tt0095...

I see this all over, even in a lot of older adults who apparently slept through half their classes. I wonder if we even went through the same school, so sometimes it's a failure to want to learn. Her @sorayanadiamcdonald.com next reply is even more chilling, I'll repost it next

ALL states need to pass a utility law like this. Consumers should only pay for utility service, not marketing, investor relations, or lobbying. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...

Have mentioned this before, but the parallels with election administration are really striking: complex systems require a lot of specific knowledge. Outsiders immediately assume fraud to explain the stuff they don't understand rather than talking to someone who does.

so much wrong with this and the framing - obviously! - but also a great example of how certain media fixation with “coming up with a clever name for blatantly obvious shit/trends” ends up whitewashing whats going on and misinforming an audience. it’s a media pathology

Hedy and Harriet cuddled up. Hygge to the max with these little ones. #caturday

VERY funny, but it also almost made me cry, and not in a lol kind of way.

Huh. Worth thinking about and learning more. Anyone have any book recommendations? Fiction ok, it usually motivates further non fiction reading- ex, something interesting in a novel, I wonder if it's true, go to the library. I read Disgrace by Coetzee, was so disturbed I'm not sure I absorbed much

This seems plausible. I've doubled down on my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) contract for the upcoming season. I definitely want local farmers st stick around and stay in business

My children have pointed out, more than once or twice "no Mom, that isn't common knowledge ". So I'm a nerd who reads stuff.

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

I want to point out that this is NOT a buy-out! Those who take the offer simply get permission to telework through September, at which point they lose their jobs. Media coverage of the details has been pretty misleading.

And Chicago has BlockClubChicago blockclubchicago.org

I am trying to cut back for a while on "What's Wrong With the Media, Chapter 4 Bazillion." But this CJR piece about/with @pkrugman.bsky.social is too important not to read Congrats to PK on speaking out and Charles Kaiser and @columjournreview.bsky.social on the story. www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

I'm thinking a local literacy org, and maybe League of Women Voters. Because getting books into the hands of kids who don't have much access, and promoting live debates so people can hear what their politicians are up to seem like good steps in helping people to start thinking for themselves

Disappointing blame shifting, when in reality there is a lot of blame to go around. I blame the entire system and it's disingenuous political supporters. Here is an overview of how other countries do health care. 2019, but still very relevant pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/heal...

Not being able to order search results by date (or any other criteria) is an exercise in frustration. Seems like they don't want people to be informed, especially about how reporting changes over time