Mike B

Morning, core!

Donate to Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes, organized by Flavor Flav Flavor Flav, the legendary rapper and Hollywood personality, has long been… Flavor Flav needs your support for Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US

gofund.me/140322128

Good Day, c0re!

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The Bullshit Benchmark Explorer - models calling out ridiculous requests. Go Claudes! petergpt.github.io/bullshit-ben...

Why can't we have recaps like this in the United States

So it sounds as if Starbucks is changing its policy and they can now kick you out if you're not a customer, which is inevitably reigniting public discourse about the need for third spaces, and you guys...libraries. Libraries. Patronize your library. Support your library. Tell your legislators to fund your library. This is one of many, many, many reasons libraries are crucial to a thriving community.

Support your local library

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.

I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.

I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

Thank you so much!

12 Me! Those are gorgeous!

“Calling it a night she’ll never forget, Brandi Carlile said her Feb. 21 concert at Target Center raised more than $600,000 with its livestream benefiting families affected by ICE operations in Minnesota.”

Swedes blame bad wax day for biathlon mass start meltdown Sweden's biathletes have struggled to deliver medals at the Winter Games and on Friday they finally ran out of patience with their waxing team, blaming a bad job on their skis for an embarrassingly poor performance in the men's mass start.

Swedes blame bad wax day for biathlon mass start meltdown reut.rs/471W5ee

Which Winter Olympics sport draws 19,000 fans? Hockey? Figure skating?

Nope, it’s biathlon! With 200,000 tickets sold, the event makes up 20% of the Milan Cortina total.

Our income taxes are being used to pay the salaries of pedophiles and those who are paid to protect pedophiles from accountability.

We’re not mad enough. #FDT

Civil-rights hero John Lewis' birthday: February 21st, 1940
#USDemocracy #MomSky

MAGA Senator Appears Not to Have Read the SAVE Act Mike Rounds said a marriage certificate is a valid form of ID. It is not.

Republican lawmakers pretending that the SAVE Act isn’t a huge problem for married women are either lying or haven’t actually read the bill.

Mike Rounds said a marriage certificate is a valid form of ID. It is not. trib.al/8Ks1nuh

LFG @chriswarcraft.bsky.social

White House, Minnesota Supreme Court chief justice quietly negotiated deal over ICE enforcement in courts Four days later, chaos unfolded inside the Hennepin County Government Center.

This is disturbing. The Chief Justice of the MN Supreme Ct met with Homan, worked out an agreement, and never announced it publicly. ICE appeared to violate it days later by violently tackling a person in the Gov Center w/out a judicial warrant. We need transparency.

Me taking a selfie next to Captain America issue one, where Cap is punching Hitler on the cover

So much for the tolerant left!

(If you’re in the LA area you should check out the Jack Kirby exhibit at the Skirball Center - it’s really well put together and has some fantastic materials, as well as going into Kirby’s strong antifascist stance)

He's basically Taika Waititi's psychotic tech CEO from FREE GUY, if he had also done enough drugs to kill a bull elephant

In less than 24 hours, Colbert's interview with Talarico is at more than 3.8 million YouTube views.

The video is already one of the two most watched videos on the Late Show's YouTube page this year.

Minnesota yarn store's 'melt ICE' red hat takes off around the world YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

A crafting store in Minnesota protests ICE by selling patterns they designed similar to red hats worn by Norwegians in the 40s to protest occupation by the Nazis. The proceeds go towards helping immigrants that can’t leave their home, already raising $650K.

#ProudBlue

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heroic school kid punching ice troll

from popydo at the /illinois subreddit

higher res versions:

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Study of Buddhist Monks Finds Meditation Alters Brain Activity Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Meditation isn’t thinking about nothing. New research reinforces that it’s a mind-altering, dynamic state that promotes focus, learning, and well-being.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Anyone have files for these? Asking for a friend with a new multicolor printer

How ICE Will Spy On Protesters, And How You Can Protect Your Privacy Jake Laperruque explains how ICE’s expanding surveillance tools can track protesters through phones, faces, and vehicles.

New: Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque discusses the privacy risks ICE observers and protesters now face, given the agency’s surveillance practices and tools. Although there are steps the public can take to protect itself, lawmakers ultimately need to enact meaningful policy reforms.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.