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middle-aged-momcore. very california.
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The silence of US elites about this remains stunning & utterly damning.
Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Citizenship for anyone who has been living in the U.S. five years or more.

Because this shit is institutional sadism. Pure bureaucratic villainy.

www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...
Georgia Army veteran deported to Jamaica after 50 years in U.S., despite appeal pending
The Georgia Army veteran was deported to a country he hasn't been to in decades despite his family saying his case was never fully heard.
www.cbsnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Getting a birth certificate is a real pain. I ordered one online from the state and had to jump through a bunch of hoops, including paying a 3rd party to verify my ID, and then it took weeks to arrive.
February 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Update: I showed clips from An American Tail and from Fiddler on the Roof. The Fiddler clip made a real impression!
I'm supposed to give a presentation to my kid's class about our family's immigration story and I'm wondering if just showing clips from An American Tail is cheating...
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Long associated with reproductive health, estrogen also has a powerful impact on skin, kidneys, bones and more, UCSF researchers find. "We now live about three decades beyond menopause," UCSF's Holly Ingraham says. "We need to truly understand how the hormones affect us." https://ucsfh.org/4cpgspc
Rewriting the Story of Estrogen
The hormone’s role in women’s health reaches far beyond reproduction.
ucsfh.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous.

Signal: makenakelly.32

www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Dinosaur Convention out here with higher moral standards than the Cabinet.
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 AM
I'm supposed to give a presentation to my kid's class about our family's immigration story and I'm wondering if just showing clips from An American Tail is cheating...
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
In case anyone needs to watch Amber Glenn skate this a.m... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja9w...
Glenn masters her nerves in Olympic team event free skate
YouTube video by Olympics
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
What if our surveillance AI killed your dogs?
February 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
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Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.

So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.

Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.

That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 AM
So people don't necessarily like the Seahawks, but they hate the Pats. Have I got that right?
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The longest two minutes in football history are the ones between us and the halftime show.
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I am I used to be too cool for Green Day and now I think they’re awesome years old
February 8, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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When risks, costs & benefits are clear & big; the time pd. is circumscribed; & a group (like the US X-country ski team) makes a rule they require each other to uphold, folks can mitigate risk.

Meanwhile, the Finnish women’s hockey team has noro after karaoke.

fasterskier.com/2026/02/in-i...
February 8, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Touching sand
February 7, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Skyline cleanse ahhhhhhj
February 7, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Amazing she can do it! I hope it feels good to be out there.
February 7, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Half her job is breathing!
February 7, 2026 at 4:41 AM
She sounds good but she looks kind of miserable. Someone get her some of that risotto
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"
February 7, 2026 at 4:22 AM
I’m definitely going to be an Italian Olympic opera note for Halloween. Who’s in?
February 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”
800 Google employees demand an end to any cloud contracts with ICE and CBP
The petition also called for executives to protect vulnerable Google employees, "from cafeteria workers to data center employees."
www.businessinsider.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:28 PM