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One of my favorite hours of the week; happy retirement, Bill Kurtis 😊

Bill Kurtis to Leave NPR’s ‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’ (Gift Article) As the irreverent quiz show’s judge and scorekeeper, Kurtis, a former news anchor known for his rich voice, has helped find comedy in current events since 2014.

There are two days left to comment on the DOJ’s proposal to “self police” misconduct. If you believe DOJ lawyers should be held accountable when they break the law or act unethically, please submit a comment.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOJ-OAG-2026-0001-0001?fbclid=PARlRTSAQ9hm5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadNeehZ72x5tsRq9OAUH_HVW_nsOo6ZUHp5NEcxsI3Upukkb4BJa23uaJ9OJw_aem_99rFYEY0ILnXGF5Ag6Ks0A

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Bibi, *you* are making Israel unsafe.



https://www.facebook.com/100059610244841/posts/1310625217601141/?mibextid=wwXIfr

After Israel's invasion, many in southern Lebanon worry they'll never go home Israel says it's creating a "security zone" inside Lebanon, where homes will be demolished, and residents won't be allowed to return home until people in northern Israel feel safe.

Powerful piece:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVen-8rDZW9/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Doris Salcedo is known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that explore themes of trauma, loss, and memory, often in the context of political violence and social injustice. One of her most famous installations is ‘Shibboleth’ (2007), a crack measuring 548 feet (167 metres) in the floor of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The word ‘shibboleth’ refers back to an incident in the Bible, which describes how the Ephraimites, attempting to flee across the river Jordan, were stopped by their enemies, the Gileadites. As their dialect did not include a ‘sh’ sound, those who could not say the word ‘shibboleth’ were captured and executed. A shibboleth is therefore a token of power: the power to judge, reject and kill. For Salcedo, the work is about the violence of separation, borders, and gaps that infuse the contemporary world: between races, between rich and poor, between the global North and global South, between ourselves and the traumas of others, which we can often too easily forget. “I am a third-world artist.” “I wanted this crack to break the building and intrude.” “[I’m telling] stories that have not been told and there is a huge need to tell them.”

😡

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWRXmjEoOY4/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The Trump administration is building a border wall through critical jaguar habitat in Arizona’s San Rafael Valley. To make way for the wall, government contractors blew up part of the Coronado National Memorial in early December. The Department of Homeland Security issued a series of waivers earlier this summer to fast-track construction and sidestep over two dozen environmental protection laws. Customs and Border Protection have identified this corridor as an area where a barrier is most needed. However, environmental groups from Tucson who erected over 60 trail cameras throughout the valley dispute this claim, attributing most of the human activity in the San Rafael Valley to hunters and Border Patrol agents. RP • @postclimate

Dear GOP:

If you weren’t so quick to condemn others over their interests/needs (especially to the point of supporting legislation limiting rights), you wouldn’t have a need to hide your own interests / needs. In short, a world that supports all people is a better place to be (best).

Wear the chubbie and be nice to anyone else who might want one too, perhaps, then, you won’t be too embarrassed to pay for it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLeCTkeN2Mt/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

When we say #maga are #fascists this is what we mean. . Repost from @cnn • A bystander captured on video the moment immigration agents in street clothes chased a woman across the street trying to detain her outside of a Home Depot where she had been selling food in West Los Angeles just moments prior.

This feels like overreach and a violation of first amendment rights.

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

Pesky probono lawyers, please keep pesking ❤️

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHhVdSeOQbz/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

They’re coming for the lawyers. This latest Executive Order targets immigration attorneys and law firms, threatening sanctions, revoked security clearances, even canceled contracts, for doing what we’re ethically and constitutionally bound to do: represent our clients and challenge injustice. The government is now turning its power against the legal advocates who hold it accountable.

, the war on science is real, the war on healthcare is real, the war on women is real.

Just curious, how many ED studies have the doge-bros canceled ?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGl26ECyKcR/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Heartbroken for us all. 💔 Have the day you voted for. Editing to add: comments are turned off except for followers because I cannot handle the internet trolls right now. #breastcancer #cancer #clinicaltrials #science #tnbc #fundthefight #cancerresearch #trump #researchsaveslives #fdt #fyp

Constitution is gone and Spanish language (probably the second most widely used language in the USA) is gone. For a country that values free speech and has no official language, this is problematic to the say the least.

Of course, also, women’s health.

The second Trump term, so far, is .

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFME7KQA54k/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

The new administration didn’t waste a second telling us who matters…