Celebrating my 58th today. I am grateful, humbled by this journey and blessed beyond measure. ❤️
After his dog died, 6-year-old Buddy Braley wanted to do something in his honor. With the help of his family, he invited people to feed goats at his home in England, raising thousands of dollars to buy dog beds and toys for shelters. Read more: https://wapo.st/4xha7Ev
Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.
Scott Pelley is the real deal. CBS news is dying and 60 Minutes is being marched to the slaughterhouse.
Scott Pelley is the real deal.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2mo agoINSIDE THE MEETING: Scott Pelley aggressively grilled new "60 Minutes" Executive Producer Nick Bilton and accused Bari Weiss of "murdering" the newsmagazine, according to audio obtained by @status.news. Full story here: www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
Show us how you've changed. Me at 17 and me at 57.
Judge You Harshly 🦋✌️🤟🖖🌈@judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 2mo agoShow us how you've changed. Me at 17 and me at 62.
Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59
Rob Base, ‘It Takes Two’ Rapper, Dies at 59
Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock and best known for the hit 'It Takes Two,' has died. He was 59.
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Breaking News: James Murdoch is buying New York magazine, Vox Media’s podcast network and the Vox website for more than $300 million, a dramatic expansion in U.S. media for the younger son of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
James Murdoch Buys Half of Vox Media
The media scion is buying Vox Media’s podcast network, New York magazine and Vox.com for more than $300 million.
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Sen. Ossoff: "These attacks on the NIH and cancer research cost lives."
Three-story, spiral staircase at our Apple Store. I declined the elevator. I thought I was good for it. Baby, let me tell you that I was not—in fact— good for it. I am now resting my laurels in a nearby coffee shop, rethinking my lot in life. 😂
a man with a beard is taking a selfie with his cell phone .
ALT: a man with a beard is taking a selfie with his cell phone .
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"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings."
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3mo agoI wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
Bobby Cox, the Baseball Hall of Fame manager who led the Atlanta Braves to five National League pennants and a World Series championship in the 1990s and was ranked No. 4 for career victories among major league managers, died on Saturday. He was 84.
Bobby Cox, One of Baseball’s Top Managers, Dies at 84
He led the Atlanta Braves to victory in the 1990s and was later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for his leadership.
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“As if six bullets in the back are merely evidence of poor judgment instead of moral collapse.” @goldietaylor.bsky.social
Nurse Blackie@ladytaco.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔥🔥🔥 “Because American Christianity, particularly in its white evangelical expressions, has too often found a way to accommodate brutality so long as the person inflicting it speaks the language of order, righteousness, or authority.”
"And there it is again: the compromise verdict America reaches when confronted with the unbearable truth of state violence. Not innocence. Not accountability in full. Something softer. Something survivable for the system itself. Reckless homicide."
GOLDIE.@goldietaylor.bsky.social · 3mo agoEvery so often, Ancestry delivers astonishing data. This time, it located the father (John) and grandfather (James) of my fourth great grandfather Matt Daniel of NC. Discovered pension and society membership documents from Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
"This is the architecture of modern policing in America. It is not simply about violence. It is about permission. Permission to perceive Blackness itself as imminent threat. Permission to turn fear into legal justification."
GOLDIE.@goldietaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔥🔥🔥 “Because American Christianity, particularly in its white evangelical expressions, has too often found a way to accommodate brutality so long as the person inflicting it speaks the language of order, righteousness, or authority.”
GOLDIE.@goldietaylor.bsky.social · 3mo ago
The world will remember the billionaire, the yachtsman, the Braves owner, the environmentalist, the provocateur. I’ll remember the man who answered a letter from somebody who was still trying to become herself. goldietaylor.substack.com/p/the-last-t...
Cable news is selling tickets to an arson in progress. The house is our republic. open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...
Burning Down the House: Why CNN Won’t Punish Scott Jennings
CNN's bombastic, fact-allergic contributor wasn't always a Trump sycophant.
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Veterinarians had little time to question how the kitten who was rushed to their animal shelter had become covered in white glue. After hours of cleaning, the cat’s gray and white fur appeared. Shelter staff named the cat Elmer.
Elmer the kitten, found in a bucket of glue, got lifesaving care and a home
Veterinarians soaked the cat, named Elmer by rescuers, for hours in canola oil to remove the adhesive.
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Warnock: "I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy. I'm tired of racism. I think it's a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady."
The late philosopher Jürgen Habermas believed that “the essence of democracy was discourse, back-and-forth argument about ideas and values,” Adam Kirsch writes. America’s autocratic turn darkened what Habermas called a “politically rather favored life”: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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