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It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

Unbelievable www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...

I've made it 3 paragraphs in and already need a neck brace from involuntarily violent head nodding syndrome. I'm in vehement agreement and already have expanded my perspective too. Anyone know a good central valley chiropractor? Oh yeah, and read the actual post from @hazelweakly.me Just do it.

When you have to say it….

I could do worse. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

Also not beating the “CEOs are the jobs most replaceable by AI” allegations

Eliminating a famous program that cost just $32 million but delivers an estimated $40 billion in annual savings on utility bills just as our nation faces increasing costs & soaring demands has to be one of the dumbest public policy choices on a very competitive list. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

Your daily reminder that the U.S. Postal SERVICE is a service that is designed to benefit taxpayers and not a business that should be expected to turn a profit.

Let it sink in that a student with a legal visa was detained for six weeks just for writing an editorial. In America.

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

Two weeks

APOLLO: The Dallas Fed survey last week “shows that the breakeven price for WTI is between $61 and $70 .. “.. WTI is now trading at $56, which increases the risks of layoffs in the energy sector.” www.dallasfed.org/research/ene...

“maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls”

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

@worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com Hey, we're going to cancel those upcoming Mistweaver changes, yeah?

But I was told Trump would be great for the economy?

Honestly, I don't even know what to say. This is literally perfect.

Today this is happening in our country, right now

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

@urbanviewradio.bsky.social @claycane.bsky.social

"This bodes absolutely terribly for the industry. It's an admission from one of the biggest and most powerful law firms in the nation that fighting a likely unconstitutional Executive Order in court just isn't worth it."

It's dangerously wrong, not to mention pathetically weak, for the *senate opposition leader* to imply that constitutional crises only reach actionable levels once SCOTUS's authority is violated. What if SCOTUS is in on the constitutional coup?! Congress is its own branch, not a dependent variable.

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

Graber’s shirt — which directly copies the style of a shirt that Zuckerberg wore onstage recently — says Mundus sine caesaribus. Or, “a world without Caesars.”

How bad is this? Let me count the ways Also, and related, short of firing Powell (or trying, anyway) screwing with economic data would be just about the dumbest (and worst) thing to do apnews.com/article/trum...

Government workers could never be this productive

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

Zed has been doing incredible work on the fundamentals of what make an editor feel great.

I’m proud of my work alongside my colleagues to lower prescription drug costs for seniors. But now Trump is rolling back the progress we made and seniors are left to foot the bill. www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-...

Orange juice from Florida. Whiskey from Tennessee. Peanut butter from Kentucky. If Trump imposes a 25% tariff on Canada, Canada has plans to retaliate -- and just like last time, the retaliation would focus on goods made in Republican or swing states. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/w...

Trump reportedly got advance town hall questions from a Fox insider He called for for government retribution against ABC based on a similar — though baseless — claim www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

My favorite use case for LLMs is debugging React tests. Not because they’re good at writing them, but because both of us just try random crap until we get them working.

This is deeply unsettling.

Everybody thinks dogs are better than people but I’ve never had a human roommate who greeted a visitor by just fucking yelling at them.

In this house, we play Vince Guaraldi year round, but ESPECIALLY today.

It's so nice to have an alternative to the bot-infested hellhole that is X.

Trying this new thing out! 👋 I'm a software engineer based out of Richmond, VA. My hobbies include gaming, reading, tinkering, and cooking. I love exploring the world with my little family of four 👨👩🧒🐶.