I completely believe that ballmer and the league were going to make a deal that left them with a wrist slap and ballmer deciding to spike the football and pants Silver in public by leaking that report to ESPN completely killed that from happening lol
NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...
NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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Despite dating me for six years and knowing me for seven, she still wants to marry me!
Philly people—my good friend is missing, please keep a look out and please call the number below if you have any info at all.
Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard
Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans?
Non-stop Islamopbohic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.
inthesetimes.com
“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 10mo ago"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
Just a heads-up, the last version of @theappeal.org that existed is no more. Some folks seem to be doing some new stuff with the IP, but me and most of the remaining staff are gone. Not sure what their plans are but leaving that to them to explain.
Women detained in Philadelphia say they banged on their cell doors for hours pleading for medical attention, but nobody responded. On Tuesday, voters approved a ballot measure to bring more oversight over what's happening in the local jails: boltsmag.org/philade...
Philadelphia Measure Would Bolster Oversight for the City’s Deadly Jails
On May 20, Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued the city’s jails for decades.
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The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3
Partner just tried to write “Fyodor Dostoyevsky” using text-to-speech and it called him “Theodore Dubstep”
Trump's nominee for surgeon general is a Fox News contributor who has been lying about her credentials. It seems her medical degree is from some shady Caribbean school.
Trump's surgeon general nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, faces scrutiny over credentials
President Trump and his nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, have made claims about her certification and schooling that appear to be misleading.
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BREAKING: Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the national Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, according to a letter obtained by The Appeal. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...
Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center
A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.
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This is indeed the undoctored image still up on Google Maps, FYI
UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃@falconryfinance.bsky.social · last yr.If you go to 13°32′1″N 88°48′18″W and click the satellite layer, it’s still there. I just took this:
Feels like focusing on criminal records kinda misses the point, which is just that the administration wants to do ethnic cleansing
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last yr.Trump officials have described the men deported to El Salvador prisons as “the worst of the worst.” The reality is that of 238 migrants accused of belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang, just a small fraction had ever been charged with serious crimes
One thing is certain: We are about to experience truly unseen of levels of Apes being Gone. All of them, perhaps
Check r/buyitforlife, buying stuff that lasts instead of the cheapest thing you can find on Amazon/at Marshall's is best practices regardless of this really is the end of American economic hegemony.
Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · last yr.To be clear, I am not an economist lol, but if you want to feel proactive, I would ask yourself, "what can I go buy right now that I might need that will last for multiple years?" Clothes, electronics, any foreign-made goods, etc. And also ask, "what debt can I pay off?" bsky.app/profile/kimk...
Don’t love that a key conservative belief is that “the New Deal was bad and World War II was what actually saved the US economy”
Call me naïve all you want but I’m still kinda floored his plan is *just* “tariffs.” Like I assumed he’d at least try some sort of conservative-approved manufacturing tax-break scheme or something, but he’s somehow actually dumber than I thought possible
So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last yr.Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
“They’re calling it the barrel with suspenders, folks. Barrel with suspenders. You keep hearing it! I said we should call it Trump Barrel but they said it sounded too close to Trump Bindle, which you people love so much already!”
Psyched to check my phone in the bread lines soon and find out Depression 2 was caused by a 19-year-old intern named Fart_King using an AI chatbot to write policy
Can’t stop laughing at how bad Cory Booker’s speech backfired, he talked so long that no one’s ever gonna go back to re-listen to it or pull clips from it
Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · last yr.Here's my conversation with Cory Booker. We talked about ketosis, unanimous consent, the Whitaker whiplash, and how he's hoping to inspire the public to protest. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
So the plan seems to be make imports prohibitively expensive to force companies to build infrastructure using those prohibitively expensive imports
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: community organizer and @indivisibleskagit.org member Lelo Juarez was detained and is being held by ICE. We join Indivisibles across Washington, immigrant activists, and WA electeds in demanding his immediate release:
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · last yr.We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵
Germany is boycotting Israel's conference on combating antisemitism because the Israeli government invited too many neo-Nazis. (www.timesofisrael.com/french-germa...)
Okay I'm really sorry everyone but what point during any of the like 10-12 fucking years the left has been warning you about the mainstream attitude on foreign policy and civil rights of Democratic Leadership was this supposed to surprise you. We sent you a boat, we sent you a helicopter
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2y agoIn this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents. He is a traitor who needs to resign.
