EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
Why?
We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us
Graduating from CEU just in time, I guess
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
“One of the many ways philosophers are like toddlers: the never ending stream of why questions.” - Bernie Kobes
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
gotta identify all the traffic lights in a picture to get into heaven; call that the raptcha
Grindr was apparently having issues with staying up due to overwhelming demand for its services in the Phoenix metropolitan area this last weekend.
Best advice for dissertation defenses? So far, best I’ve got is this.
A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say
*crab-walked
LinkedIn: It's a pleasure to announce what me and my mates are doing.
BlueSky: It's a displeasure to announce what politicians and my enemies are doing.
Oh no, it’s Martin and “Winds of Winter” all over again…
"The very first line of Open Socrates admonishes the reader, “There is a question you are avoiding.” For Callard, that question is: Why are you living this way? But this only points to a host of questions that Callard herself avoids..."
me for @thenation.com
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“We are LOSING this trade war with Santa Claus BIGLY!” -Baby Trump, probably
Genuinely interesting how deeply Trump does not believe in the idea of gains through trade. People accuse others of having a zero-sum worldview, but here that is made really really clear and explicit. He just flat out sees it as one side winning and another losing if they exchange goods or services!
Philosophers teaching 101: ok y’all, we’re looking for valid arguments!
Philosophers teaching Critique of Pure Reason: not a valid argument in sight, but damn compelling, yea?
The only comfort is following the Forbes live track of the wealth of billionaires. Could get interesting.
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Idea: Wittgenstein biopic with Tom Hardy in the lead, using his Ronnie Kray voice. "I come 'ere for a f***ing philosophical investigation."
ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities. As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries
President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.
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WAIT THIS IS AN ADHD THING?!
Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:
Finally reading Neumann's Behemoth (LSE social theorists represent) and struck once more by just how common it was to believe in late 19th/early 20th C. that capitalist economies invariably develop into a clique of monopolies and cartels - even among pro-capitalist, who simply thought this was good.
Doris Lessing, who wrote science fiction and was the Guest of Honor at the 1987 Worldcon, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007. When informed she had won the award, she famously said "Oh, Christ!"
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“I’m here to sound a warning bell for those who are now in the position I was several years ago.”
Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.
Saturn's outer moon system viewed from the north pole of Saturn. Moons orbiting in clockwise (retrograde) orbits have red-colored orbits while moons orbiting counterclockwise (prograde; in the direction of Saturn's spin) are colored blue. With so many irregular moons occupying the same region and intersecting each other, the irregular moon system looks like a donut-shaped vortex surrounding Saturn. Each of the 128 new moons is highlighted in the diagram with a white point representing their location, and a brighter-colored orbit. Previously-known moons of Saturn are included in the diagram, but are colored darker. The regular moons of Saturn are colored turquoise and the outermost regular moons (Titan, Hyperion, and Iapetus) labeled with their name. At the lower left corner are scale indicators to help visualize the scale of Saturn's irregular moon system. A small gray circle at the left left corner is shown to represent the diameter of the Earth-Moon orbital distance. A linear scale bar is labeled "10 million km" (6.2 million mi) to give a standard distance.
View of Saturn's irregular moon system, tilted at an angle to show the toroidal belt-like shape of the system. Each moon is labeled with their names in turquioise. Red orbits = retrograde direction, and blue orbits = prograde direction. Turquoise curves closer to the center are orbits of Saturn's regular moons.
Side view of Saturn's irregular moon system, tilted at an angle to show the toroidal belt-like shape of the system. Red orbits = retrograde direction, and blue orbits = prograde direction. Turquoise curves closer to the center are orbits of Saturn's regular moons. The irregular moons of Neptune (dark green) are also visible in the background to the right of Saturn. The horizontal red line protruding right of Saturn is the orbit path of Saturn.
I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization...
Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️
Trump's cruelty applies to children in the US as well as those abroad:
The Trump administration will cut $1.1 billion in funding for food banks and free school lunches, officials confirmed Monday.
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