OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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So Josh Hawley, noted election denier, referenced 404 Media's work throughout the Flock Senate Hearing yesterday. We are a journalist-founded and owned media publication. Hey Josh, if you're going to use our work, subscribe bro: @jasonkoebler.bsky.social www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
"I have no talent for subordination" - Belle van Zuylen.
Hobbit day? Is there a party gathering to ride off and make the world better and slay dragons?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party Dance
ALT: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party Dance
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CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."
With the backlash to Flock, cities are moving to Axon cameras. But what exactly are they doing with them? 404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs, @josephcox.bsky.social explains. You can too: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
Ireland fines Google €403 million on behalf of EU for location data breach
Ireland fines Google €403 million on behalf of EU for location data breach
'As a result of Google's failures... individuals could have been unaware that their location was being used to influence them with ads or to infer their interests,' said Graham Doyle, deputy commissioner for Ireland's Data Protection Commission.
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I just learned Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Womp. All the more reason to use @bookhive.buzz or @popfeed.social
I feel like this should be bigger news. It could be great if written and handled well. #miracleman #comicbooks www.marvel.com/articles/com...
Miracleman Makes His Marvel Universe Debut in 'Avengers: Armageddon' #4
Learn more about the big reveal from 'Avengers: Armageddon' #4 by Chip Zdarsky, Delio Diaz and Frank Alpizar, on sale now!
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So they could end it if they wanted to but are waiting? For what? Stop it already!
Max the Silent@max-the-silent.bsky.social · 4w agoWhy after the midterms and not 6 month ago?
We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Weija Jiang should clearly be grilled at every single moment about her close relationship with notorious racist and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
SEPTEMBER DATA SCIENCE BOOTCAMP — DAY 9 IS LIVE! Today we’re diving into NumPy for Computing In this session, we’ll learn how NumPy makes data manipulation and numerical computing faster, simpler, and more powerful. 🎥 Join the LIVE session: youtube.com/live/LcjnTMt...
NEW: The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly potent greenhouse gas.
EPA to Loosen Methane Rules, Boosting Pollution From Oil and Gas Wells
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing a rule that’ll drastically weaken restrictions on “stripper wells,” which tend to be old, poorly maintained and prone to leaking methane, the highly p...
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For years, a small team of FBI agents pursued the case against a Saudi man who helped two 9/11 attackers. But former officials say their efforts were discounted and even blocked by FBI headquarters.
25 Years After 9/11, Questions About the FBI’s Pursuit of Saudi Suspects in the Case Have Only Grown
FBI agents quickly identified a Saudi suspect who helped two of the 9/11 hijackers. But families of the victims are demanding to know what happened in the bureau’s investigation of Omar al-Bayoumi.
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“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack
Watching my twenty-something kids fall in love with CDs and vinyl is something else. "I can listen without paying every month?" "Nobody knows what I put on or when?" They're not being nostalgic. They're discovering, for the first time, that a song can belong to you and only you.
Superman “Justice for Children” PSA (1975). Art by Neal Adams
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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