You have 43 days to leave comments on this proposed change and I can assure you that without a chorus of public support this won’t go anywhere. Tell your friends!

Going through a bunch of old papers and found this seasonally appropriate chestnut.

okay here’s the fish funeral story for everyone who missed it when it blew up six years ago

There is no Green Party anymore. There is only a con artist with ties to Russia running a conservative-backed psyop designed to siphon votes from actual progressives. www.salon.com/2024/09/23/j...

Jill Stein paid $100,000 to a Republican consulting firm led by a suspected January 6 rioter

The Green Party leader has hired a GOP consulting firm and worked with Trump-affiliated lawyers

Photographer Kristie Kohn says "While I was trying to photograph the Northern Lights in the wee hours of the morning, my cat decided to photobomb the picture. Since I had the camera’s shutter speed maxed out, it ended up leaving a sort of ghostly image of my cat in the photo."

this is the clearest evidence possible that there is no way for harris to satisfy either the call for more media hits or the call for more details. the political press has its narrative and it is not going to budge for it, even if it has to make up a reason to dismiss actual engagement with media

I love* how this is framed. It happened *during* the Covid pandemic**, but RSV is the cause. It's the dying with v dying from bs all over again. * hate ** the pandemic that is still ongoing

TWwashingtonpost.comOct 6, 2024 6:48pm

Rates of sudden infant deaths increased during the covid-19 pandemic, a new analysis suggests — and altered transmission of illnesses such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) might be linked to the rise.

Rates of sudden unexplained infant deaths increased during pandemic

Researchers noted a “pronounced epidemiologic shift” in the deaths between June and December 2021.

Politico’s hard right pivot to reflect its right wing billionaire owner’s politics is one (very bad, unethical) thing. But sneering that 60 Minutes is not a substantive news outlet and that Univision won’t ask her tough questions is just dishonest in the first case and racist as hell in the second.

Jjamellebouie.netOct 6, 2024 6:04pm

this is the clearest evidence possible that there is no way for harris to satisfy either the call for more media hits or the call for more details. the political press has its narrative and it is not going to budge for it, even if it has to make up a reason to dismiss actual engagement with media

A highly unusual and serious situation is evolving with Milton, a newly minted tropical storm that earned a name Saturday. It’s expected to rapidly intensify, probably into a major hurricane, and slam the west coast of Florida as a Category 2 or even 3 hurricane on Wednesday.

Threat grows that a dangerous hurricane could hit Florida’s west coast

Milton will probably make landfall Wednesday as a Category 2 or 3 hurricane, with the potential for a disastrous storm surge in the Tampa Bay area.

Three cats. Three of them. All cats. digitaltmuseum.org/021016813466...