Tootfinder

Source: LT Jones back to Bears on 1-year deal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48157407/left-tackle-braxton-jones-chicago-bears-agree-1-year-deal

The Left is Good Governing Itself into Obscurity (Brian Tyler Cohen)
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/the-left-is-good-governing-itself
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p40#a260509p40

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fred again..:
🎵 Last 1s Left
#Fredagain
https://fredagainagain.bandcamp.com/track/last-1s-left-feat-skepta

Religion and the Right to Be Left Alone - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/opinion/religion-and-the-right-to-be-left-alone-7cc4b803?st=2eV3uS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran,
Senator Blumenthal says after classified briefing
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he is "dissatisfied and angry" after a classified briefing Tuesday.
"I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war," Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee

WATCH: U.S. seems 'on a path' to deploying ground troops in Iran, Blumenthal says after classified briefing
“I am left with more questions than answers, especially about the cost of the war,” Blumenthal told reporters after the briefing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

David Ellison made his first public appearance before WBD execs; sources: he called the deal process "turbulent", downplayed layoffs, and left some unsatisfied (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

David Ellison Visits Warner Bros., Concedes “Turbulent” Start In Meeting With Execs (Exclusive)
The CEO talked to the Warners' executive leaders but left some feeling unsatisfied. "We were hoping for more," says one insider.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Avalanches:
🎵 Since I Left You
#NowPlaying #TheAvalanches
https://telephonemaison.bandcamp.com/track/the-avalanches-since-i-left-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DgFCys3XMrWZDngu1CrRy

#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874

This is probably the worst joke I've seen, and I am crying.
#memes #funny #comic

Trump Officials Push Allies to Pursue Antifa and Far Left as Terrorist Threats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/politics/trump-administration-far-left-terrorism-groups.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.qFVy.SYiCDA5Ee-Wi&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p64#a260410p64

There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.

• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…

xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3d4a9683-b70a-4953-b21b-b3ea07d693a3

Cowboys’ 1st-Round Pick Gets Concerning New Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-guyton-left-tackle/

You can’t train a cat…

😢
#USpol

If you’re at #CSUNATC this week then I have a few stickers left. They look great on laptops, water bottles, clients, …

from my link log —
Async Rust never left the MVP state.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state
saved 2026-05-04

Async Rust never left the MVP state - Blog - Tweede golf
I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...

A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex
where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food,
with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals.
Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day.
South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of #Dilley a few dozen miles from …

“I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico, detains an estimated 3,500 people, more than half of them children. “I have never …

I'm glad I've got another year left on my fixed energy tariff; assuming that is I don't run another provider into bankruptcy. Still this gulf war has got to be good for solar/wind installers somewhere!

Trump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/03/trumps-cisa-nominee-said-he-left-coast-guard-address-gop-hold/411894/

Trump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold
Sean Plankey confirmed the intent to Nextgov/FCW and said he’s “prepared to lead the nation’s cyber defense agency to protect the federal civilian networks and our nation’s critical infrastructure from physical and cyber attacks.”

Bad news from Kerala.
But it's happened before and the left will be back.
India loses its last left-wing government after five decades | Politics News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/4/in…

India loses its last left-wing government after five decades
Kerala in India, which gave the world its first democratically elected communist government, has voted the left out.

One fascinating film trivia I learned recently is that Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze’s marriage from 1999 to 2003 partially inspired Coppola’s 2003 film Lost In Translation and Jonze’s 2013 film Her.
Coincidentally, both films star Scarlett Johansson as the main female protagonist, both films were nominated for the Oscar Best Picture, and both films won the Oscar Best Original Screenplay for Coppola and Jonze.

🆔 DC4EU final report proposes pluralistic trust model to realise EUDI Wallet vision
A key message in the report: no single trust model fits Europe’s diversity. Instead, DC4EU proposes a pluralistic approach, weaving together three complementary trust infrastructures.
⏳ With less than a year left to achieve Europe’s 2026 digital identity mandate, the report calls for coordinated action to move from feasibility to real-world deployment at European scale.
Read more:

I just got a marketing email with this line:
> Hi Philip, It's been 1891 days since you left - we miss you!
And all I can say is, I envy the confidence of someone who thinks this email would be welcome.
Or they vibe coded the script and never considered setting an upper bound on who to contact.
Maybe it’s that one.

One of my favorite features in my primary Mastodon client (Mona) - that it has a counter showing me how many posts are left until I get caught up (also, ofc that it remembers where I was)

Who should be responsible when law enforcement damages private property in pursuit of a criminal?
https://reason.com/2026/04/07/police-destroyed-innocent-peoples-property-and-left-them-with-the-bill-will-the…

Police destroyed innocent people's property—and left them with the bill. Will the Supreme Court step in?
The Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause promises "just compensation" when private property is taken for public use.

Abstract image of twisty stems with more in the background and a few flakes in the air
#photo #photography #plants

i had coffee with dick haight this week. (he wrote find(1) !)

Try The vOICe for Android's AI depth view feature, toggled via the menu Options | AI depth view https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe and locate a chair without eyesight, using "louder = nearer";

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
With the safe return of NASA's Artemis II, it is time to talk about plankton space #science 🛰. PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) is the latest advanced observing satellite launched Feb 2024 which carries the OCI Ocean Colour Instrument measuring hyp…

Just finished "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich. It's a beautiful and entrancing novel in many ways, but I couldn't bring myself to like the ending. I think in one of my most recent book posts I complained about a deus ex machina, so it's ironic that in this case as the pages dwindled I was fully prepared to accept and even welcome one, especially with all of the deus-related stuff going on already. I am left profoundly unsure as to whether Erdrich imagines a positive future beyond our current oppressions, or just futility, when for most of the book it seemed like the former, which is something I seek out in earnest these days. It is of course impressive that a book about innocents being hunted through the streets of Minneapolis & Saint Paul, while a volunteer citizens network organizes to keep them safe, could be published in 2017. There are strong echoes of Octavia Butler here, and in both cases I think it's a marginalized position which allows authors to see with clarity that most mainstream authors miss or don't even attempt.
I think I will seek out more of Erdrich's writing, but only after a bit of a break.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Putin left alone! Death of Iran's leader destroys Kremlin's last hope: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/04/putin-left-alone-death-of.html

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Why do we allow a major utility - #PGE - that uses fires and explosions and major outages as its maintenance indicators continue to operate?
And why has California's regulatory authority - #CPUC - allowed that to continue?
And why are ratepayers on the hook for the costs of PGE's bad managemen…

PG&E failed to act on substation damage before crippling December blackout
An independent probe found that high humidity levels inside the Mission substation sparked an outage that left 120,000 customers without power.

WTF...
Wife listening in to the city council meeting's public comments while we're eating dinner, and I've never, ever heard such a bunch of pretend-left Nazis.
Fuck.

Interesting how many right AND left leaning posts I’m seeing about prepping for nuclear fallout. Wondering if this really was the past MAGA wanted to return to.
Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60

Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?

At this rate there won’t be any weapons left for invading Greenland

Some Places with Snow II ❄️
一些有雪的地方 II ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

@… @… great podcast episode! I believe this is the first time I've heard Brett’s voice… which sounds strange for how long I followed your work.
The episode made me realize that I don't really know how I could create key chords to group together subset of shortcuts. Or even if it's possible at all; which might actually be the case.
For example, let's assume we'd want to have all Moom shortcuts under Hyper W. Then Move left would become `Hyper W Left Arrow`.
What do you think?

Sonnet 005 - V
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
And that unfair which fairly doth excel;
For never-resting time leads summer on
To hideous winter, and confounds him there;
Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pen…

Well worth watching the video. Not what I expected, but I suspect well worth paying attention to what they say.
https://powerlabs.io/what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-about-the-right-daniel-martinez-hosang-micah-white

What the Left Is Getting Wrong About the Right — PowerLabs
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Micah English examine how right-wing actors are making inroads into new constituencies and issues—and what this means for organizers today.

Woke up this morning with a HIDEOUSLY bad kink in my back just to the left of my neck. Still kind of there but much lessened by now. I mean, maybe it’s age. Whatever. Iced it a bit at times during the day.

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

"Mining in Oklahoma Left Toxic Wasteland Until Indigenous Tribe Brought it Back to Life"
#Oklahoma #Environment #Conservation

Mining in Oklahoma Left Toxic Wasteland Until Indigenous Tribe Brought it Back to Life
There is now enough good grassland in the Quapaw Nation to run a herd of 400 cattle on a rotational basis, as well as bison.

Last week, while debugging a SwiftUI performance issue, I was running instruments and found that my profiles were plagued with noise.
Godot while idling was using so much CPU time that it was skipping entire frames while rendering.
I set out to fix those, 0.5% here, 0.5 there, and the Godot Editor (and Xogot) no longer skip frames.
People had been complaining that Godot would burn your battery in an hour if you left it idling, it no longer does.
Details:

Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-stargate-leaders-depart-…

OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart in Latest Shakeup to Data Center Strategy
Three senior OpenAI executives who helped launch the company’s original Stargate data center initiative have left or are preparing to depart the ChatGPT maker in the coming days, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. Peter Hoeschele, an OpenAI executive who played a ...

> A pitch deck can look polished before anyone has done the hard work of deciding what the company actually believes
https://rajnandan.com/posts/taste-in-the-age-of-ai-and-llms/

Raiders Have ‘No Recourse’ Amid Maxx Crosby, Trey Hendrickson Backlash Says Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-no-recourse-crosby-hendrickson/

The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…

Vote Left Transfer Left.
Having a cup of tea and a chat together to see how we can continue collaboration for the Galway West By-election like we did on Catherine Connolly's presidential election.
The momentum built during Catherine's campaign will live on. We must keep this as a left seat. And with a Vote Left Transfer Left campaign, we think that can be a reality.

If public libraries didn't exist
current centrists — everyone right of Mamdani and left of McCain — would be telling us that they're "unrealistic"
and the rest of the right would scream about "socialism!"
And the rightists would be correct

Seven seats left to be distributed from the list votes. All from Highland.
The end result could be beautiful, or a total disaster. I feel ill.

Transit first city.
(Yup, we missed the entire green cycle)

USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/business/media/usa-today-…

USA Today Names Jamie Stockwell as Next Top Editor
Ms. Stockwell, who recently left The Washington Post, is the third person named to the job in the past three years.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NowPlaying #NatalieJaneHill
https://nataliejanehill.bandcamp.com/track/never-left-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI

'Mild panic will set in soon': GOP donors left to wonder about Trump's $300 million war chest (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/09/mild-panic-will-set-in-soon-gop-donors-left-to-wonder-about-trumps-300-million-war-chest-00913096
http://www.memeorandum.com/260509/p16#a260509p16

That beard is getting greyer
(2013ish vs 2026)

Giants signing DT D.J. Reader to help fill vacancy left by Dexter Lawrence https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-signing-dt-d-j-reader-to-help-fill-vacancy-left-by-dexter-lawrence

I'm wrapping my head around how to capture rebounds in basketball -- this is last Saturday's game of the Big Red women against the Columbia Lions which the Lions won 80-55 in fan-friendly Newman Arena -- next time I am heading back with my Zeiss 55mm/1.8 because I see people shooting basketball successfully with pretty wide lenses
#photo

Unison general secretary Andrea Egan:
“The Greens under Zack Polanski have gained so much support because they are defending the progressive values Starmer has abandoned.
“But as things stand, we must be clear that the most probable consequence of Labour’s collapse is likely to be a Reform government. One that will seek to reduce union and worker rights while deporting our friends and neighbours.”
Stop Streeting, left MPs urge | Morning Star

The Duality of Man
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Canada’s left-leaning
New Democratic Party (NDP)
has elected a new leader,
someone whose campaign drew comparisons to the politics and style of U.S. figures like
Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani.
On March 29, the NDP elected
Avi Lewis on the first round of balloting
with 55 percent of the vote in his first successful political campaign.
The NDP was decimated in the April 2025 federal election.
Former leader Jag…

In Echoes of Corbyn, Insurgent Candidate Wins Canadian Party Leadership
Avi Lewis now leads the New Democratic Party after a campaign reminiscent of left-leaning politicians in the US and UK.

Happy hair snap clip cat is happy. 😽
#photography #everydayobjects

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Natalie Jane Hill:
🎵 Never Left Me
#NatalieJaneHill
https://open.spotify.com/track/5mYV6uf5S0ChjFoLJWUJHI

i'm playing records that don't spark joy tonight, thanking them for their service before i trade them in at the record store down the street
#vinyl #jazz #harryjames

Any vexillologists around? What’s the flag on the left? (We’re in Pima county, Arizona)

Well worth watching the video. Not what I expected, but I suspect well worth paying attention to what they say.
https://powerlabs.io/what-the-left-is-getting-wrong-about-the-right-daniel-martinez-hosang-micah-white

What the Left Is Getting Wrong About the Right — PowerLabs
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Micah English examine how right-wing actors are making inroads into new constituencies and issues—and what this means for organizers today.

For this week’s #WWBC, I’m sharing some of my favorite song lyrics—the ones that have stuck with me through the years. Buffett, Seger, and Steinman each left their mark on my personal soundtrack.
What lyrics have stayed with you?

When the Lyrics Hit Home: Songs I’ll Never Forget – Bob Mueller
This week for WWBC: A nostalgic look at the song lyrics from Buffett, Seger, and Steinman that shaped my memories and soundtrack.

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

The Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab
The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Angles Angles 📐
角度角度 📐
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kentmere 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography

Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern

🤩 My son Elliot standing on a fence post and making the hand gesture from 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟
#photo #photography #elliot #portrait

Maxx Crosby Trade Reaction: From What Might Happen Next to Fans Shaving Heads https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/maxx-crosby-nixed-trade-reaction-from-what-might-happen-next-shaved-heads

In Trump's Washington, Congress has little power left (Liz Goodwin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/congress-trump-power-rules-war-spending/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p21#a260310p21

Commanders signing LT Laremy Tunsil to two-year, $60.2 million extension https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-signing-lt-laremy-tunsil-extension

Gooood moooorning, lovely people in the #Fediverse. 🌤️
Treat yourself well, stay hydrated, and don't forget to breathe properly. 🌿

Donald Trump said that the US-Israel war in Iran will end “soon” because there is “practically nothing left to target” in a phone interview with Axios.
“Any time I want it to end, it will end,” the president told the outlet.
“The war is going great. We are way ahead of the timetable.
We have done more damage than we thought possible, even in the original six-week period.”
It’s the latest update in a series of inconsistent messages from the administration on the estima…

Stablecoin payments company KAST raised $80M led by QED and Left Lane; sources say the fundraise is at a $600M valuation, and KAST expects $100M ARR in 2026 (Bloomberg)

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 4936 nodes and 27149 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

✊🏿 Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left
#politics

Jesse Jackson Paved the Way for a New US Left
With his two unabashedly left-populist campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988, Jesse Jackson opened the door to Bernie Sanders’s presidential runs — and a reborn American socialist movement.

Joe Rogan, the influential podcast host, said on his show Tuesday that
the war in Iran was “crazy”
and had left Americans feeling “betrayed” by Trump,
describing the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies that the president had campaigned on.
“It just seems so insane,”
said Mr. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in 2024 and said he still texted with him on occasion.
“He ran on no more wars:
End these stupid, senseless wars.
And then we have one …

Joe Rogan Says Trump’s Supporters Feel ‘Betrayed’ by Iran War
The influential podcast host described the conflict as a sharp reversal from the policies the president had campaigned on.

The Los Angeles fires are just the latest example of left-wing violence (Zachary Faria/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4557757/los-angeles-fires-latest-example-left-wing-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p40#a260508p40

Mailbag: Has left tackle been a concern? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-has-left-tackle-been-a-concern

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Piers Morgan's Uncensored names Rashida Jones, who left MSNBC in 2025, as CEO, and raises capital; the YouTube-based media company was reportedly seeking ~$30M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Piers Morgan Hires Former MSNBC Chief Rashida Jones to Lead Media Company
Morgan's company, Uncensored, also raised cash from Antenna Group, Raine Ventures, and Reuben Brothers.

Source: Pack to cut OL Jenkins, open up $19.5M https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48156082/source-packers-cut-ol-elgton-jenkins-open-195m

The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power. 

I just gave to Fair Fight Action! Lead with Stacey Abrams
Together we are leading the fight for fair elections. But the only way we will win on this issue is with your support.

‘Dark money’ casts a shadow over
Los Angeles elections,
with mystery group pumping out attack mail
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-09/dark-money-casts-shadow-over-la-election…

'Dark money' casts a shadow over L.A. elections, with mystery group pumping out attack mail
Neighbors First' is targeting left-wing candidates in the L.A. City Council race. As a nonprofit, it doesn't have to reveal the source of its funding.

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The Left Is Baffled--but Still Repulsed--by the White Working Class (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/07/the-left-is-baffled-but-still-repulsed-by-the-white-working-class/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p42#a260407p42

A North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…

US Citizen Sues ICE After Agents Allegedly Left Him Bleeding From Head
A man who says federal immigration agents left him “bleeding and in pain” has filed a $1.25 million damages claim.

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
The prosecutor displayed photos on a courtroom television of evidence seized from the garage of defendants on trial for alleged involvement in a radical left-wing conspiracy:

Photocopiers, a bookbinding machine and leaflets called “zines.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Smith asked the FBI agent on the witness stand to identify the evidence.
Special Agent Morris Boatner said he had found the…

Government argues ICE facility protest was actually left-wing terrorist plot
A first-ever trial against an alleged ‘antifa cell’ in Texas could be a playbook for cracking down on administration critics.

Small business owners
-- and consumers
-- doubt they’ll see refunds
after the supreme court invalidates Trump’s tariffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/small-businesses-trump-tariffs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that Donald Trump’s three appointees remade
is the first since at least the 1950s to
reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein,
who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the …

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights
The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows.