“New scientific evidence has revealed people lived in the shelter during the last ice age 20,000 years ago, when the high country was treeless, frozen and – until now – believed to be too hostile for human habitation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/17/dargan-cave-shelter-ice-age-site

“No local or federal officials have confirmed to KTLA whether the masked men were federal officers.”
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/masked-men-in-u-s-border-patrol-vests-brutally-beat-take-santa-ana-father/

“The aspects of “SKY Castle” that Western viewers might assume are most hyperbolic are the ones most firmly based in reality.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/k-drama-birthrate-crisis.html

All the people who said we’d end up in a foreign wars if I voted for Harris were right!
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/21/world/iran-israel-trump

The waste is the point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/21/trump-usps-trucks-taxes/

Taking care of the warning light by putting tape over it, only for people’s retirements:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/20/social-security-wait-times-cuts/

“Three months ago, a Canadian woman was disappeared into the system for nearly two weeks. I did not know then whether I would be out in one hour, one day, or one month. When I was brought into the room, I encountered a young woman, in tears, begging the guard for information. He told her he had no information to give her and that none would be forthcoming. ‘That woman,’ he said, pointing to a bundle of blankets in the corner, ‘has been here for four days.’”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

It’s weird with the boy clamoring to go to this playground and remembering that Russell Vaught was offended by its existence.

#Train nerds: the B&O railroad museum is asking for #Juneteenth donations for their exhibits on the role the physical railroad played in the Underground Railroad. https://theborailroadmuseuminc.donation.veevartapp.com/donation/view/home/history-is-in-your-hands

New York City’s #CongestionPricing’s benefits apply regionally, with an 11% reduction in traffic in surrounding boroughs and New Jersey to go with the 28% drop in Manhattan. https://rpa.org/news/lab/congestion-pricing-getting-around-faster-all-around

#BikeTooter #bikeDC what are the current tastes for clip systems for non-racing city /non-downhill MTB? I used to use SPDs but am looking to upgrade the non-cargo bike.

“That the Appeal to Heaven flag is being flown on a government building alongside the American flag should be shocking to anyone who doesn't wish to live in a theocracy,” says Jon Lewis, a research fellow at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University. “The contemporary usage of the Appeal to Heaven flag is synonymous with Christian nationalism, full stop.”

https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to-heaven-flag-sba-government-agency-dc/

“It’s important to step back and recognize that there is really, literally no one in the inner discussion of U.S. foreign policy today who has any level of foreign policy or military crisis experience at all.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoughts-on-israels-iran-campaign-and-donald-trump/sharetoken/7b8ddd45-893f-40a7-b3fa-699b62d68c28

So much for being a third rail:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-republicans-propose-gutting-medicaid-further-to-make-trump-tax-cuts-permanent

Congestion pricing is working and I’m surprisingly moved to see policy functioning as it should.

Folks, the billionaires have stopped pretending they actually give a shit about you in any way whatsoever. That's all. In a way, it's freeing.

"With help from his GOP enablers and voters who can’t seem to be bothered to give a damn, Trump has normalized White House corruption to an extent that would’ve been unthinkable in Carter's era."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jimmy-carter-trump-anti-corruption-legacy

There's a lot of wisdom and truth to be found in Sir Terry Pratchett's writing, and I think that this quote is so indicative of that, and so effective at getting the point across in the simplicity of what Granny Weatherwax is saying.

It's also characteristic of how, even at his wittiest and most caustic, and even when he was writing his most grumpy and no-nonsense characters, he never succumbed to cynicism and misanthropy. There are a lot of things making the Discworld books special, and the amount of heart that can be found in those stories and characters is probably at the top part of that list. #GNUTerryPratchett

#TerryPratchett #Discworld #books #Bookstodon #quote

You don't have to be racist to participate in systemic racism. US policing produces racist outcomes even from "not-racist" people. I'm going to explain (again):

* why I've probably been pulled over way more times than most people you know, even though most of the times I'm pulled over, I get no ticket (because I did nothing wrong)
* how I stopped getting pulled over so much (because I understand the system)
* And why lots of cops say that the average voter is more racist than the average cop

honestly we didn’t need an app for everything in 2010 and we don’t need AI for everything now. all we have ever needed was to tax the rich and take care of people