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The first time I saw a fully loaded cargo ship sitting in Halifax harbor, I was just astonished at its immensity. The cranes and gear onshore to unload them was pretty impressive too. Some (most? many?) folks have no idea how ludicrous this proposal is.

Jennifer Weiner 8h • Hey everyone! The owner of @blythebooks_pgh in Pittsburgh gave an interview to local media about her activism (which includes raising money for Pittsburgh's PBS station and Minneapolis immigrant aid, handing out free whistles, to alert people to ICE's presence, and urging people to check in their neighbors). Fox News picked up the story, and the store's now getting hate-mailed and review bombed. I thought we could show them some support. Put your name in the comments, and we'll pick 20 winners and cover their tab for up to $25 worth of whatever books, stickers, pins or classes they'd like to buy. Good luck! LET'S SUPPORT THIS BOOKSTORE! THE OWNER IS BEING TARGETED FOR ANTI-ICE ACTIVISM

nice—this is how to use your platform if you’ve got one!

i haven’t read jennifer’s latest stuff, but really enjoyed some of her books in my 20’s 😊 📚

Definitely going to try to get to Pittsburgh’s Blythe Books this weekend 💜 @blythebookspgh.bsky.social

Two big white gulls standing beside each other on shiny ice sheet next to open river water. One has its head completely upside down as it preens and one looks headless as its head is hidden from view.

Sometimes the first California Gulls I see are a bit borked from their long migration 😂 #birds 🌿

[This is last spring (March 7). Are they back? I’ll find out and report back]

John Fetterman Brags That Brain Damage Made Him Abandon Progressives The Pennyslvania senator sat down with Bill Maher of all people to chat about leaving progressives behind.

For all of those who keep asking, "was it the stroke, or is this who he's always really been?", the answer is, "yes".

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Your art is a palate cleanser in these dark times. We need to share all of the art and music and beauty that we can! It's what really makes the world go 'round.

Scoop: Trump claimed in G7 call that Iran is "about to surrender" 24 hours later, Iran's new supreme leader vowed to keep fighting.

As soon as one leader of a former US ally speaks out about Trump's clear cognitive impairment it will trigger a real countdown to his removal.
The economic devastation he's inflicted in just over a year is exhauring international patience
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​Don't Just Tax the Uber Rich, Reform the Corporate Structure That Creates Them The real engine of inequality is structural: corporate and financial practices that concentrate wealth among shareholders while shortchanging other stakeholders who should be benefiting from corporate profits

A one-time California wealth tax might dent the personal fortunes of the Zuckerbergs and Cooks, but it does nothing to slow the corporate machinery that grinds on to produce still more of them.

The US May Have to Answer for the Iranian School Bombing In the early hours of the Iran war, as Israel and the US began dropping their awe-inspiring ordnance, one barrage of American Tomahawk missiles apparently struck an elementary school, killing about 17...

Article below is paywalled, I'm just too lazy to create a banner for it right now. Use this:
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It’s Science Friday!

Our full show is on your local public radio station, 2-4 pm ET.

Tune in and learn about the vagus nerve, giant tortoises, AI music, and squeaky basketball shoes.

Just look at this happy little guy!

She did this to us! Well, her, and Hedy Lamar.

genAI slop thumpers making craft "process videos" that not only use AI footage of someone making a leather bag or stain glass piece, but use stolen footage from actual artisans is probably the most pathetic thing I've learned

Pirates and bandits.

Hungary returns Ukrainian bank vehicles but keeps $82M in gold, cash Hungary returned two seized armored vehicles to Ukraine's Oschadbank on March 12 but is withholding cash and gold worth about $82 million amid an ongoing dispute between Budapest and Kyiv.

⚡️Hungary returns Ukrainian bank vehicles but keeps $82M in gold, cash.

Hungary returned two seized armored vehicles to Ukraine's Oschadbank on March 12 but is withholding cash and gold worth about $82 million amid an ongoing dispute between Budapest and Kyiv.

The Most Divorced Men in History

Is there a link between hyper-divorced men and everything wrong in the country today?

Andrea Pitzer on what new research into "Protest Masculinity" tells us about the Trump Regime and risk-taking—and why losing makes losers escalate.

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The Decline and Fall of American Sea Power (ft/American Prestige) Hard truths about naval sustainment and the Iran War. In podcast form

I guested on @amprestigepod.bsky.social and examined the Iran War from the perspective of naval sustainment. If you're the kind of person who quotes from Master & Commander, this is for you.

Atrocious, no matter who did it. Nobody should get away with that in any nation or in any military.

Such big teef!

This gal. 😂

US responsible for killing Iranian schoolchildren. Trump previously blamed Iran. New reporting confirms American Tomahawk missiles destroyed Shajarah Tayyebeh school on the last day of February. The president earlier said he “just doesn’t know enough about it.”

The United States is responsible for killing at least 175 people, many of them children, in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school on the last day of February.

Donald Trump has previously suggested, without evidence, that Iran was responsible for the strike.

Fetterman has kids, but I guess he can't imagine what it must be like for Iranian parents to lose their children for no reason. Must be easy when you have privilege.

How I imagine the war updates are going at the White House

Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth, with Trump and Rubio

Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth with Trump

Luckily, there are enough unflattering photos of Pete Hegseth on Getty Images to last a lifetime

Republicans plan marathon debate for SAVE America Act But don’t call it a “talking filibuster.”

A talking filibuster is when you make the OTHER PARTY talk and talk. Republicans are so dumb, they are now planning a filibuster of their own bill! www.politico.com/live-updates...

Human artists, use only one piece of art to convince people to follow you 💚✨

A digital illustration of a baby velociraptor sat in a nest of dry branches. The dinosaur has a covering of fuzzy white feathers, except for its head and snout.

Baby Velociraptor.
#SciArt

They're up! come grab a couple shrews. I promise they look better in person than my crappy photos.
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Chile turns right: Kast inaugurated as nation's most conservative leader since Pinochet Chile has sworn in its most right-wing president in decades — and his rise, and ideology, are rooted in a small town beneath the Andes.

Chile has sworn in its most right-wing president in decades — and his rise, and ideology, are rooted in a small town beneath the Andes. n.pr/4sbbaCY

Once again, no one in publishing ever fucking tells me anything. So, imagine my surprise today when I found out that the IN THE DEVIL WIND cover had already been released. Being a writer is like being told on a daily basis that you don't matter. Anyway, here's the cover. I like it a lot.