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The familiar IDF maps are back, now with Tehran instead of Gaza or Lebanon and Farsi instead of Arabic. This massive area of Tehran is being threatened.
Map by the IDF
June 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1 Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2
April 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
karenfran.bsky.social
These constant attacks are aimed at getting struggling people to blame trans folks for their problems. And they’re designed to keep us all politically reactive, overwhelmed, and unfocused on the deep systemic failures of our society.

otherwords.org/trans-people...
Trans People Aren’t to Blame for Your Struggles - OtherWords
Anti-trans politicians want struggling people to blame trans folks for their problems. But we’re allies in the fight against hardships we know all too well.
otherwords.org
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
karenfran.bsky.social
“A 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies, has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government, three sources tell WIRED."

Source article: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
New comic: How to tell a Carpenter Bee from a Bumble Bee. Thanks watchingbees.com for the help!
Support me on Patreon for more content: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon
A six-panel comic called "How to tell a carpenter bee from a bumble bee." It shows an Eastern Carpenter Bee on the left, and an American Bumble Bee on the right. On the left, the first panel's text says "smoother, shinier abdomen" and points to the glossy black butt of the carpenter bee. On the right, the second panel's text says "hairier abdomen" and points to the fuzzy butt of the bumble bee. In panel 3, the text says "chews a hole in wood to make a nest - most species of carpenter bee nest in plant material" and a carpenter bee is shown next to its circular hole in a piece of wood. In panel 4, the text says "nests on & sometimes in the ground - various species nest in different sheltered spaces" and a few bumble bees are shown at their nest deep in grass. In panel 5, the text says "good at carpentry" and a carpenter bee is shown wearing safety goggles, next to an elegant piece of furniture and various tools, and she says "I made a credenza!" In panel 6, the text says "good at bumbli
June 4, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Every time I read articles about extremely wealthy people/companies engaging in unethical behavior to become even more wealthy, I think about this excerpt from the book the psychology of money.

The endless quest for more is so damaging, especially when pursed by those who already have enough.
At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.
June 2, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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wtalabi.bsky.social
Hey SFF community, can we help boost this small press doing big things like publishing bold new work and translating/publishing a story by Ihor Mysiak, who was killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

[I know you already do a lot, @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com but a share from you will help]
June 5, 2024 at 1:42 AM