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“In the classroom, [educator Ebony Webster] has noticed students asking for more food, or for leftovers of a friend’s meal. Sometimes the free school meals are the only ones students get, she said… With SNAP access decreasing, she has seen an increase in community need for food pantries.”

return!

As United Airlines celebrates their 100th anniversary and starts pumping out products to mark the occasion, it still amazes me that the shareholders traded in the tulip logo forever associated with United for the Continental globe in the merger.

RIP

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Encouraging news from the alma mater!

Many Latino voters will have evaded ICE by voting early

Just a stunner of an evening trundling slowly through the Okayama countryside from Tsuyama. Delightful Totoroesque rural inaka vibes, gorgeous light peeking through the clouds, and the diesel depot at Okayama to finish off. Chef’s kiss. #JohnDoesJapan

no amnesty

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

(1) Today I learned Vivek went to a Catholic high school, which leads to (2) This is an amazing and laudable bit of mobilization on the part of the alumni, and (3) This seemingly national story feels reclaimed for the Midwest again in seeing a Catholic school have this much clout in the community

in ohio this is basically like being shunned

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

That RFK clip is ghastly, but it's totally consistent with the Islamophobia that has been coming out of this administration, including Trump's rhetoric about Abdul El-Sayed. They are all in on the hatred of Muslims because it's a formula that has worked before.

“I dont know shout out to my teammates! I can’t hear anything!” - Kiah Stokes as she tries to talk over a loony Balhalla crowd

The Golden State Valkyries take Game 5, 64-55, and are one victory away from winning a WNBA championship in only their second season. Valks held Dream to a season-low 29.2% FG. Game 6 back in Atlanta Thursday afternoon with the Dream's season on the line.

Winning 64-55 tonight is peak Golden State Valkyries.

"The antivax guy with the brain worms who once staged a dead bear cub underneath a bicycle in Central Park and who also is the US secretary of health espouses a theory about the inferiority of Arabs" is a completely accurate summary of a news item today

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

I'm glad the Valkyries showed up tonight for Zendaya

stokes is finals mvp if they win the series and its not close lol

Love how a Brazilian posted yesterday that the country fought back against fascists in part by not amplifying anything that the fascists say. And tonight a bunch of Americans are literally just quote-reposting RFK Jr's vile words to call out his racism.

Suffice it to say that RFK Jr should live the rest of his life penniless, shunned, and outcast from common society for the shit I just saw him say, and that’s just for what he said on Monday of this week, not the balance of his entire preposterous and destructive career

It’s a huge problem that the most senior people in government routinely get in front of microphones and say things so mind-boggling racist and hateful that you don’t feel like you can repost it to scream about how much you hate it, because you don’t even want people to have to HEAR it

First half score: Valkyries <redacted>, Dream <redacted>

The Dream (22 points) and Valkyries (25 points) combined for 47 points in the 1st half, the lowest scoring 1st half of a Finals game in WNBA history.

Valks fans rockin’ during a timeout in the third quarter, being the energy just because.

Those giveaway shirts at Ballhalla are awesome

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

One of the headlines of all time

Natalie Nakase couldn't be happier with how attritional this game has become

Zendaya in the seats for the WNBA Finals (via WNBA)

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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Happy sports equinox day! Today is the only day this year that you can (try to) watch an NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL and WNBA game at the exact same time, or as I call it: The Sickos Challenge.

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

The speed with which so many execs cozied up to this authoritarian says more about their revealed preferences than long term strategic thinking. They saw a chance for what they saw as a "business friendly" autocrat and oligarchic consolidation and jumped at it.

There's no ACIP in the US right now -- and there won't be for the foreseeable future because RFK Jr isn't reconstituting the group. That is already having consequences for new vaccines, which don't have ACIP recommendations. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

I cannot believe that Eric Bauza has passed away, at age 46. We’d just talked about his life and his voices and his son. A shattering loss

So, this is still going on. If you can evade being caught on-the-scene, it is perfectly legal in New York City to ram someone with a car. The police will treat you, the victim, like you're a pain in the ass.

Truly love watching local news and seeing reporters fight the elements -- delayed construction work that the reporters' story is about -- as the volume of construction noise in the background increases and forces the reporters to almost shout on air.