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He/him photographer careering among community theater, Appalachia, trickle-up culture, gardening, journalism, historic preservation and restoration.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

⚠️ One more reason to dislike Flock:

“The Guardrail Guy” a dad who turned his daughter’s death into a national safety crusade is now documenting how many Flock cameras are installed illegally without required breakaway bases, meaning they can turn a crash into a lethal spear.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor_]

This is basically what philosophers and anthropologists mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

[Michael Krieger @LibertyBlitz]

The parasitic criminal class that really controls this country is obviously rushing in an almost panicked manner to install all the architecture for the surveillance prison state they have planned for everyone.

Massive data centers being pushed on communities left and right, military grade surveillance cameras popping up everywhere and the whole globally coordinated digital ID push. Nobody asked for any of this and nobody wants it, yet it’s all happening at lightning speed with zero public input.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Inconceivably evil.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Upwards of 90% of all the terrible scarcities making our lives worse could be solved by a smart allocation of $200 billion. But instead we're going to use that money to murder Iranian children.

Any Dem who supports this is an utter piece of shit who needs a primary.

[Alex Jacquez @AlexSJacquez]

Remember that 20 million people saw their health care premiums double because $30 billion was too expensive.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a picture of Tehran now. Covered in thick black toxic clouds of smoke, raining oil on 9 million people with cancerous polluted air entering every lung. People breathing this. Animals breathing this. Trees breathing this. A humanitarian and environmental catastrophe.

[Ibn Batista @ayesha4t]

this kid was someone’s whole world

when you think of each kid that was killed by america and israel, you have to imagine how many worlds they killed and the generations of trauma they created

if it happened to americans or israelis, they wouldn’t shut up about it for 100 years

[Kimberly @klr_reno]

Ship strikes are the number one killer of North Atlantic right whales. There are only 380 left in the world.

The policy implemented in 2020 has led to a 5%-7% increase in the population.

All that will be destroyed.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

A country that always finds money for bombs but won’t feed hungry children at home is spiritually broken.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Human rights are for all humans. If they’re only for some people, then they’re not human rights. What Miller is essentially saying, in other words, is that he doesn’t believe in the basic concept of human rights and intends to deliberately violate them for disfavored groups.

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

The point of calling a bombing campaign “not politically correct” is to make empathy itself illegitimate. Once mourning dead children is reframed as softness, there’s no floor. Anything can be justified as long as objecting to it can be painted as weakness.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

On top of the concentration camps, kidnapping, and murders, the news now reports ICE is buying microwave tech to kill the car engines of first amendment legal observers. And Democrats are still not even asking to claw back the 2025 budget increases.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.

Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.

Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.

And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.

Yes, this is oligarchy.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

speaking as glibly as Beavis & Butthead. does T***p even grasp the profound significance of what he has set in motion in the Middle East? this person whose most essential self is riding in a golf cart fatly, cheating at the profoundly insignificant game of leisure golf when he assumes no one is looking.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The top 1% in America now hoard $55.8 trillion — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined.