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Demand for Pokémon is exploding. Here’s how a local game shop is weathering the storm.

To me, the parable of the Good Samaritan is about loving and being kind to people that aren't in the groups that you're in. That's what Jesus said we should do. It's so important.

The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant The press’s pathological need to normalize autocratic misrule is paving the road to ruin. newrepublic.com/post/193002/...

I wanted to put, in one place, a documented list of all of the ways that speech is being threatened. The list is admittedly incomplete. It is also overwhelming. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/real-chill...

DO IT!!! Breaking it will be the only thing to fix it. Finance bros in the exec suite will only respond to pocketbook hits. L

When MAGA watches Saving Private Ryan, are they rooting for the Germans?

Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’

We the People are pissed! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

Well oiled machine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz slammed US Vice President JD Vance’s combative comments on European policy, adding to escalating friction between Europe’s largest economy and one of its most important allies.

America's new plan for AI safety is "let's see what happens." I wrote about JD Vance in Paris www.platformer.news/paris-ai-act...

Middle East crisis live: ICC ‘condemns’ US sanctions and pledges to ‘continue providing justice’

A Honduran child asked why my daughter is blind. I told her because we could not come up with the tens of thousands of $ fast enough to have the operation. she went blind at 32. She said we are 3rd world and in Honduras we would have saved her sight. I said really? which nation is 3rd world?

As a casual non-white observer, it’s so bizarre to see folks work so hard to try to prove their superiority over someone like me when they could spend that time actually bettering their own lives and…I don’t know, be happy instead of miserable fucks.

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

The Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in U.S. History Is Happening Right Now in Kansas And the news comes as the Trump administration has “paused” all public messaging by the CDC. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

This was not an accident or "blunder". Anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been paying attention.

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.? In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Now that lots of folks are angry about US censorship, let’s take this outrage and protest the lack of an omnibus privacy law that would prevent companies like X and Meta from selling our data, incl to Chinese co’s (which they have). Since it’s all about national security & certainly not censorship…

Food for thought.

live your life in such a way that the entire world doesn't burst out laughing when your rocket blows up