PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start:

go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah explaining that it is not Israel nor the Israeli lobby controlling the United States, but U.S. corporate, military and Christian Zionist interests that use Israel as their tool.

I am in charge of waste management in Gaza City. The Israeli occupation has launched a war on our sanitation facilities and waste management systems, creating an environmental and health crisis that will take years to recover from.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/waste-is-piling-up-in-gaza-the-publ…

It’s strange the things that will bring one to the edge of tears these days, but this did it for me

This passage on the Bosnian genocide from David Halberstam's "War in a Time of Peace" hits different in 2024

Would someone in tech please talk to libraries about how decades of making their labor invisible has worked for us? Spoiler: Too well, lots of budget cuts and devaluing of the labor no one can see. People think that the materials are made available by magical elves.

one of the biggest problems with "we must partner with a Reasonable Republican" messaging - even if your goal is to pick off R-leaning indies - is that it completely contradicts the (correct) messaging that the Republican party is now a fascist cult that wants to destroy the country

To be clear, if Trump wins there will be political violence.
If Trump loses, there will be political violence.

Republican federal judges have struck down six major Biden initiatives in two months. GOP politicians don't have to advance the party's very unpopular views. Instead, they can rely on the party's super-partisan judges who never have to stand before voters. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"Aid workers warn that without a humanitarian pause, a vaccination drive due to begin this weekend could fail to reach enough children to stop the spread of the virus, which was detected there this month for the first time in 25 years."

Nate doesn’t think AT ALL about systemic risk. It doesn’t even occur to him.

The downstream consequences of pumping up a trillion-dollar gambling industry are someone-else’s-problem. Nate doesn’t think about them. He just wants to revel in how COOL and CLEVER the winners are.

The chapter reads like he’s covering the opioid industry, complimenting the Sacklers for really figuring out how to build a market for their product.

The odds of being released on parole in Virginia have gone from slim to nearly impossible in recent years under new GOP leadership: In March, the parole board approved just 2 out of 117 cases. boltsmag.org/virginia-par...

guys i think the worm legitimately ate rfk jr.’s brain

Yet another article laundering far-right into "economic anxiety." The author never considers whether men support Trump because they like his policies on immigration or queer people. She just lets them cast their preferences in the most sympathetic light possible.
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/u...

For @nytimes.com I wrote an essay about turning a derelict lawn into a thriving wildlife garden and learning to see soil not just as a medium for life, but as a living entity in its own right. It became one of the most emailed and most popular articles on Facebook overnight! Gift link 🎁

Subway is owned by a private equity firm that raised the prices on their $5 footlongs up to $14.

Now the price back down to $6.99.

It was never about “inflation.”
It was a private equity firm using inflation as an excuse to price gouge customers.

Always expose corporate greed.

“US District Court Judge Charles Simpson on Thursday ruled that the decision by Kenneth Walker, Taylor's boyfriend, to fire his gun when officers burst into the home was "the legal cause of Taylor's death," rather than warrantless entry, according to court documents.”

abc13.com/post/felony-...