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Charon (upper left) and Pluto (lower right)

Pluto and Charon from the approaching New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.

David Attenborough’s 100th birthday is in two months, how are we celebrating

A rough, rubbly looking terrain that looks like that weird lint crap that builds up in crawlspaces.

This photo was taken on the surface of an asteroid.

I co-taught a lesson on executive authority in China and the US with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Letter telling them to get on a commercial flight, which don't really exist at the moment

A friend reached out the State Department about departure assistance as Secretary Rubio suggested.

This is State's response.

"Thank you, and please stay safe.?"

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Roosevelt Institute President and CEO Elizabeth Wilkins.

On Thursday, CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social met with @mayor.nyc.gov to talk about what it takes to govern—investing in public capacity and building the talent pipeline to deliver for working people. That’s the Roosevelt tradition: pairing big ideas with the capacity to deliver lasting results.

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People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Summers in private: endlessly scheming with the world's most famous pervert to get a young female colleague whom he calls by a racist nickname to fuck him at conferences.

Summers in public: "I don't see that many women in my field, it must be because they're bad at math"

Yep, that's maybe the worst thing about Summers' behavior—the other young female economists who are not the subject of his lascivious attention seeing opportunity only comes to those with an admiring male "mentor" like Summers.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

Bike and scooter traffic in the uphill Pike St protected bike lane in February!

State Bills Bring Farmworkers to the Table Two bills in Olympia could create a collective bargaining structure for the hundreds of thousands of farmworkers in Washington to band together to negotiate for fair wages, workplace protections, and improved labor conditions.

We support WA SB 6045. Farmworkers deserve the right to a collective bargaining structure for fair wages, workplace protections, and improved labor conditions.

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Community - Remedial Chaos Theory

Walmart’s Monopolization of Local Grocery Markets | Independent Business In 203 markets, Walmart controls 50% or more of the grocery market. No other corporation has ever amassed this much control over the food system.

1. A reminder: Walmart's $1 trillion valuation is the product of decades of unchecked anticompetitive behavior. It's no coincidence that Walmart began its insane growth spurt after the 1980s decision to stop enforcing key antitrust laws. More than others, Walmart recognized what this meant.

WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

This is incredibly powerful testimony.

Ms. Rahman is very tough and clear and was treated horribly.

Warning: I can't watch it without tears of rage.

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We are proud of all the youth who have staged walkouts in Pierce County in protest of ICE!

California Poised to Introduce Nation's Strongest Antimonopoly Law With support from ILSR and other allies, California is now one step closer to enacting the strongest antimonopoly law in the country.

Big news out of California. After years of study, the CA Law Revision Commission recommended a major rewrite of state antitrust law — explicitly instructing judges to break with weak federal standards & restore meaningful limits on monopoly power. The legislature often follows the CLRC's guidance.

If you are worried how data will be used against ICE protesters.

Or how smart homes reveal your secrets.

Or smart cars or medical devices will become evidence in court.

Listen to this conversation.

There are risks, rewards, and even solutions…

I can't stand anyone who says things like "it's 300x cheaper". That's a meaningless phrase. If you really have seriously analyzed things you can say "it's 99% cheaper" and that is measurable.

Sorry, but this is bullshit.

Some of us have no choice but to be on the lookout for that creepy shit and cut ties as soon as the red flags start flying. Not doing so could result in significant harm to our personal safety and well-being.

Maybe folks not personally threatened should follow suit.

There's no disclosure of who's behind this on the site, so I need someone in SF to find out who filed for the permit.

Omg, it has to be a bit...right? Who would subject themselves to being so outnumbered by hecklers?!

I'd like billionaires to someday discover how unified we Americans are re: the desire to heckle billionaires all at once.

(Of course it starts in Pacific Heights. either very clever or ick tacky)

I'm going to use this map next year when we talk about gerrymandering in AP Government

Jury finds the city of Seattle liable for the death of Antonio Mays Jr., who was killed in CHOP in 2020.

Awards more than $25 million to his father, Antonio Mays Sr.

Mapping Food Deserts and Grocery Consolidation To help users explore how corporate concentration has reshaped food access across the United States, ILSR created an interactive map that shows food deserts alongside the location of different types…

1. We have a new tool for exploring how corporate concentration has hollowed out grocery access in your region: an interactive map that shows food deserts along with the location of every grocery store in the US by type — independent, small chain, large chain, or megachain like Walmart or Kroger.

Keeping Up With the Gould-Gessens This trio of celebrated Brooklyn writers continues to generate an endless supply of reality-TV-worthy melodrama.

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