@atoms99
Architect, runner, reader. Enjoying life in the Eastern Sierra. Pro equality, pro living in reality, pro science and scientific method, and pro (real) critical thinking. "These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine, December, 1776
First, the first 6 words of your post are beyond bad-ass, even when I already knew these facts about you. Second, Hegseth's renaming of the Department he currently leads showed the same misreading that informs his every action as it leads our once great country towards disaster.
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Joshua tree, taken near the location of a photo shoot for a famous album cover - which was not in Joshua Tree National Park
Your book showed a full range of black humanity…but what really stood out is just about every character was empowered (though there was a wide variety of morality underpinning the use of that power)…also, I once got to shake Rev. Jackson’s hand.
Bondi's contempt for the Rule of Law
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I feel like there is a mafia type attitude to things like this…drugs aren’t inherently bad…what’s bad is we’re not getting our cut
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Mount Hollywood sure is looking green!!
I'm just wondering what hockey ever did to China...
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Music is life...but less so for those dying to make it.
Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
Horrible news: "Maryland law change is making it harder to get compensation for wrongful convictions": www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
dare to be stupid is a protest song now
i keep coming back to this. when *weird al* is this mad...
Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.
I know it didn’t end the way you wanted…but, oh man…what a game!!!
Another player could pick it off his belly and “complete” or “intercept” the ball because it did not touch the ground. In this case, the receiver did not maintain possession enough to complete the pass, and it was “intercepted” because it never touched the ground. Looked weird, but right call.
Ok, while it looks and feels like you should be right, you’re not. Here’s why… if no other player was involved, and he had landed on his back and coughed the ball up, no one would argue that it was incomplete. If he was laying on his back, and the ball landed on him and didn’t touch the ground…
The Al Gore of 2000 was very competent, but rarely this passionate. Had he this passion then, he may have won decisively
Never doubt!!
Coming back…..
?.. I just looked back and most everything lines up (and the things that don't are thing I just can't see). That said, I see nothing here that exonerates the ICE agent...just the opposite. I do question who leaked and/or released this and what were their motivations. Can you point out what is wrong?
I don't know how many bands and music artists are here but I am thinking that if you are a popular artist or have a good foothold, can we immortalize Renee's poetry in our music? Any and all proceeds from that song can go to her family.
While none of the videos I've seen showed this directly, I heard multiple interviewees, in the moments after it happened, saying they were just telling her to move...
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says amandascgorman Minneapolis, Minnesota For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love * better angels of our nature.
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
You mean when Jack Smith is Attorney General?
Keep us posted!
