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I'm not religious, but this Pope seems like a really good dude.
ground.news/article/pope...
ground.news/article/pope...
Pope returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of reckoning with colonial past
The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. Pope Le...
ground.news
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I'm not religious, but this Pope seems like a really good dude.
ground.news/article/pope...
ground.news/article/pope...
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Without warning, the Trump administration cut funding for groups that provide support to crime victims suffering profound physical, emotional, and financial harms. bit.ly/483zmiY
Justice Department Slashes Essential Services for Crime Victims
After four decades of bipartisan progress, federal support for crime victims is unraveling.
www.brennancenter.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Without warning, the Trump administration cut funding for groups that provide support to crime victims suffering profound physical, emotional, and financial harms. bit.ly/483zmiY
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ICE today deployed its agents in Charlotte. The decision follows years of retaliation from federal authorities and North Carolina Republicans—ever since voters elected a sheriff who opposed assisting ICE in 2018.
Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:
Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
ICE today deployed its agents in Charlotte. The decision follows years of retaliation from federal authorities and North Carolina Republicans—ever since voters elected a sheriff who opposed assisting ICE in 2018.
Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:
Bolts reported on this dynamic in 2023:
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A few of the clouds lit up beautifully at sunset after the rains this afternoon. The official Anza-Borrego Desert State Park weather station storm total was 0.81" for today (Photos: Sicco Rood).
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A few of the clouds lit up beautifully at sunset after the rains this afternoon. The official Anza-Borrego Desert State Park weather station storm total was 0.81" for today (Photos: Sicco Rood).
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"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...
'This all must end now.' NASA lab closures at Goddard Space Flight Center under Congressional scrutiny
A congressional letter is putting NASA on blast.
www.space.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"According to project scientists working on NASA's next generation Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.. they were given only four days to empty a mission-critical laboratory." www.space.com/space-explor...
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Happy Wuthering Heights Day, the joint birthday of Emily Brontë (207) and Kate Bush (67). This is the ruin of Top Withins, said to be Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights.
July 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Happy Wuthering Heights Day, the joint birthday of Emily Brontë (207) and Kate Bush (67). This is the ruin of Top Withins, said to be Emily Brontë’s inspiration for the location of Wuthering Heights.
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
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Cloverdale, a tiny town in Sonoma County, California, is being invaded by secretive investors who want to build a new "town."
Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel.
My notes:
www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...
Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel.
My notes:
www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...
Esmeralda: Network State comes for Cloverdale
The questions no one is asking about strange new California ‘town’
www.thenerdreich.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Cloverdale, a tiny town in Sonoma County, California, is being invaded by secretive investors who want to build a new "town."
Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel.
My notes:
www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...
Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel.
My notes:
www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...
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Oh look, the Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has arrived in waters near Latin America.
There is already a nuclear submarine, eight warships, and F-35 jets.
It's the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989.
Happy Veteran's Day!
There is already a nuclear submarine, eight warships, and F-35 jets.
It's the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989.
Happy Veteran's Day!
Aircraft Carrier Moves Into the Caribbean as U.S. Confronts Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Oh look, the Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has arrived in waters near Latin America.
There is already a nuclear submarine, eight warships, and F-35 jets.
It's the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989.
Happy Veteran's Day!
There is already a nuclear submarine, eight warships, and F-35 jets.
It's the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989.
Happy Veteran's Day!
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Northern Lights in Denver right now
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Northern Lights in Denver right now
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This is true.
It's the far-left radical DSA who is trashing Chuck Schumer. The same people who were trashing Biden and Harris in 2024, Urging voters to vote against them and voter for Trump and Jill Stein.
It's the far-left radical DSA who is trashing Chuck Schumer. The same people who were trashing Biden and Harris in 2024, Urging voters to vote against them and voter for Trump and Jill Stein.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This is true.
It's the far-left radical DSA who is trashing Chuck Schumer. The same people who were trashing Biden and Harris in 2024, Urging voters to vote against them and voter for Trump and Jill Stein.
It's the far-left radical DSA who is trashing Chuck Schumer. The same people who were trashing Biden and Harris in 2024, Urging voters to vote against them and voter for Trump and Jill Stein.
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Teachers are selflessly showing up every day to educate our service-members’ children on military bases without pay during this Republican shutdown.
Now, the Trump regime is sending them letters claiming they were overpaid and owe the government money they never received.
Now, the Trump regime is sending them letters claiming they were overpaid and owe the government money they never received.
Teachers working without pay in US military schools during shutdown received debt letters | CNN Politics
Teachers in US military schools abroad who have been working without pay during the government shutdown received letters this week telling them they owed money to the government, CNN has learned.
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Teachers are selflessly showing up every day to educate our service-members’ children on military bases without pay during this Republican shutdown.
Now, the Trump regime is sending them letters claiming they were overpaid and owe the government money they never received.
Now, the Trump regime is sending them letters claiming they were overpaid and owe the government money they never received.
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Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy Claude Rains's birthday!
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Hairy sand verbena and Spanish needle yesterday morning in profile (Photo: Sicco Rood).
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Hairy sand verbena and Spanish needle yesterday morning in profile (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Tomorrow on Edmund Fitzgerald Day, I’m just going to do the same thing over and over for six minutes and twenty nine seconds.
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Tomorrow on Edmund Fitzgerald Day, I’m just going to do the same thing over and over for six minutes and twenty nine seconds.
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This is why Elon Musk needed Trump to win the election and to create DOGE: to shut down investigations into all of the people Musk has killed with his failed self-driving Teslas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ap...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ap...
Serious safety concerns over Tesla’s self-driving cars after fatal crashes | 60 Minutes Australia
YouTube video by 60 Minutes Australia
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is why Elon Musk needed Trump to win the election and to create DOGE: to shut down investigations into all of the people Musk has killed with his failed self-driving Teslas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ap...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ap...
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One of the most important provisions of the ACA was eliminating pre-existing conditions exclusions from insurance plans.
Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
One of the most important provisions of the ACA was eliminating pre-existing conditions exclusions from insurance plans.
Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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It is the responsibility of all of us to return the nation to a path that is morally sustainable.
Trump is threatening the basic needs of poor Americans. How low he has sunk | Robert Reich
The president has put Snap benefits in jeopardy amid a fight over Medicaid. The nation has lost its moral authority
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It is the responsibility of all of us to return the nation to a path that is morally sustainable.
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art: Lucy Almey Bird
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
art: Lucy Almey Bird
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This is lovely
wow, it turns out there are three other Bob Ross paintings being sold right now, too, donations from the company, to benefit American Public Television. Two are from episodes of the show, and one was made to illustrate a book
Happy trees ain't cheap! www.bonhams.com/auction/3094...
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
This is lovely
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Going to be crazy if we get an epic storm on the 50th anniversary to the day of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Going to be crazy if we get an epic storm on the 50th anniversary to the day of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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A beautiful day on the San Mateo Coast
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A beautiful day on the San Mateo Coast
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Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. 🇺🇸
@feedingamerica.org
give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate
@feedingamerica.org
give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. 🇺🇸
@feedingamerica.org
give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate
@feedingamerica.org
give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate
