TrishMilburn 🌻🍪📚

Writer of books. Geek girl. Believer in truth and justice. Huge fan of Asian dramas and K-pop. Prefer Marvel but Wonder Woman rocks. She/her.

[🔸️The.Angry.Ostrich. @DaAngryOstrich]

The Pulse Nightclub shooting happened 10 years ago. We remember the 49 lives that were taken. 😔🏳️‍🌈

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Every fact is “fake news”

Every protest is “paid agitators”

Everything they don’t like is a “hoax”

Every election they lose is “rigged”

Imagine being so fucking weak and pathetic that you have to invent an alternate reality because you’re incapable of dealing with the truth.

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

In Ancient Rome, stadiums were built
to host “bread and circuses” events
designed to distract the masses from
the problems of a decaying empire.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nashville Zoo has launched a public campaign to block construction of a proposed 69,000-square-foot AI data center that would sit directly adjacent to habitats for endangered animals, including vulnerable clouded leopards.

Zoo officials warn that the facility’s constant noise, bright artificial lighting, and electrical hum could seriously disrupt animal behavior, stress levels, and long-established breeding programs. The zoo is home to more than 3,700 animals representing over 350 species and maintains one of the most important collections of rare and endangered wildlife in the United States.

This conflict highlights a growing backlash against the rapid expansion of data centers driven by the AI boom. These facilities require massive amounts of electricity and operate 24 hours a day, prompting communities nationwide to raise concerns about energy consumption, water use, noise pollution, and environmental impacts. Wildlife conservation groups are now joining the resistance.

More than 180,000 people have already signed a petition opposing the project.

The developer behind the data center states that it will use waterless cooling systems, meet all local noise regulations, and comply with environmental standards. However, zoo leaders argue that the location itself, immediately next to sensitive animal habitats, makes the project unacceptable regardless of technical mitigations.

The dispute underscores a broader challenge of the AI era: how to build the vast digital infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence without placing undue pressure on local communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.

[Lisa Give Peace a Chance Tucker-Clemens @TuckerClemens]

This 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.

[Dad to the Bone @Dad_2_The_Bone]

Things for which he has cut funding
1. Cancer research
2. National Parks
3. Dept of Education
4. Public Broadcasting
5. Research grants
6. Centers for Disease Control
7. National Institute of Health
8. Housing and Urban Development
9. USAID
10. Medicare, Medicaid, SS
11. FEMA/EPA/NOAA
12. Everything that helps people

Things that cost more:
1. Everything

Things that are better:
1. Nothing

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

[TrishMilburn 🌻🍪📚 @TrishMilburn]

The fact that Woo Do Hwan isn't on this list is a crime.

[Data Of Statistics @DataOfStats]

Top 25 Most Handsome Korean Actors 🤩

1. 🇰🇷 Cha Eun-woo
2. 🇰🇷 Park Bo-gum
3. 🇰🇷 Hwang In-youp
4. 🇰🇷 Ji Chang-wook
5. 🇰🇷 Park Seo-joon
6. 🇰🇷 Kim Soo-hyun
7. 🇰🇷 Song Kang
8. 🇰🇷 Lee Min-ho
9. 🇰🇷 Park Hyung-sik
10. 🇰🇷 Byeon Woo-seok
11. 🇰🇷 Lee Jong-suk
12. 🇰🇷 Hyun Bin
13. 🇰🇷 Rowoon
14. 🇰🇷 Ahn Hyo-seop
15. 🇰🇷 Jung Hae-in
16. 🇰🇷 Lee Jun-ho
17. 🇰🇷 Kim Woo-bin
18. 🇰🇷 Song Joong-ki
19. 🇰🇷 Lee Dong-wook
20. 🇰🇷 Nam Joo-hyuk
21. 🇰🇷 Lee Do-hyun
22. 🇰🇷 Wi Ha-joon
23. 🇰🇷 Gong Yoo
24. 🇰🇷 Lee Joon-gi
25. 🇰🇷 Kim Seon-ho

📊 Compiled by Data of Statistics.

[✨🦋helene🦋✨ @hvayou925]

Good morning ☀️

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

Grandma knows whats up.

[Chris Original Black Navy Vet @Chris4Perkins2]

Whoever the next Democratic president is, they better not start talking about forgiveness and pardons to unify the country. This country will unify behind prosecutions and prison sentences. We're still fighting because the Confederacy was never properly punished. End the cycle.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

REMINDER: The full effects of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill don’t hit until after the 2026 midterms.

That’s by design. Republicans want the votes first and the consequences caused by your pain, AFTER the election.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Canada turning red is the geopolitical version of your golden retriever finally biting you.