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a crowd of people are gathered around a table and a man is standing in the middle of it

Alt: Trump tossing paper towels in the aftermath of hurricane Maria in Puerto rico

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‘The Death Toll Is Going to Be Tremendous’

A former FEMA director describes the devastation in western North Carolina and what comes next.

New: Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll mounted.

Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel

Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll ...

5785 has been such a year! 🍎 🍯 Shana Tova 🍯 🍎

one thing I have learned from a year of Yiddish study: they were not afraid of talking about feelings. God alone knows how my great-grandparents dealt with arriving in England where this single Rosh Hashana card has enough emotion for an English person for six years.

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This turn-of-the-century Rosh HaShanah card goes hard. The Old Year struggles in the water while the New Year stands on the shore, and a Yiddish inscription urging the old year to "drown forever already"

There's a genre of comment, popular among some on the left, a la "yeah of course mass deportation sounds impossible if you assume they follow the law, but they'll just do mass roundups/concentration camps/etc." I promise you: that also costs money. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...

Mass Deportation: Devastating Costs to America, Its Budget and Economy

The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...

Six colourful fuck offs from around the world: 6. Go comb a monkey (Brazil) 5. Go ski into a spruce (Finland) 4. Go fry some asparagus (Colombia) 3. Go get fucked by a blind bear (Albania) 2. Go take it in your ass from a runaway donkey (Italy) 1. Go back home, your mother made you waffles (France)

Just finished The Future by @naomialderman.bsky.social and I just loved it. Exciting, funny, and above all hopeful. Just what I needed with everything that's going on in the world

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Paypal Opted You Into Sharing Data Without Your Knowledge

Here's how to opt out of sharing data for "Personalized shopping."

Members of Congress who voted to defund FEMA and the National Flood Insurance Program one day before Helene hit: Sen. Budd (R-NC) Sen. Blackburn (R-TN) Sen. Hagerty (R-TN) Reps. Bean, Bilirakis, Cammack, Donalds, Gaetz, Lee, Luna, Mills, Posey, Waltz, Webster (R-FL) Rep. Bishop (R-NC)