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The Trump administration has been “secretly plotting” to give away a portion of America's public land in Yosemite National Park to a private developer with ties to Trump cronies. The developer wants to build a road into the park and develop two 40-acre parcels near the park...

Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living

Brett Terpstra’s new Marked Share is a

free online publishing service designed to give your Markdown a beautiful, permanent home on the web. And while it integrates seamlessly into Marked 3, it also works completely standalone in any browser.

It felt like something new and different. Something at least as different from watching on TV as watching on TV is different from merely listening on radio. It’s profound.

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Franz Marc, Three Animals (Drei Tiere), (1912) #museumarchive #museumofmodernart

Well, this is fun. 😂 Ottawa, Canada, is considering renaming Trump Avenue, and two of the top contenders are “Obama Avenue” and “Taco Avenue.” 🇨🇦

La Violoniste, 1955 #metzinger #cubism

As it happens, the FBI's new employee handbook has an "it's complicated" section. Kash Patel's bureau quietly rewrote its hiring standards in June, and the fine print reads less like a background check and more like a statute-of-limitations chart for bad behavior, as first ...

I lost count of how many times I looked—and photographed—Mount Krn over the past decade. It’s impossible to miss, standing right there in the background of almost all my walks around the valleys, with its 2245 meters and its characteristic gently sloping side. And yet, I ne...

Photos by Stacie Joy  To celebrate the release of their 13th studio album, There Near (released yesterday), Dinosaur Jr. have been playing a series of smaller venues and pop-up shows around the city.  After a Thursday evening appearance at Lucinda's on Avenue A, ...

As a practical example of Standard.site in Micro.blog, you can view my latest blog post in Standard Reader. It pulls the Markdown from the PDS, and also shows Bluesky replies if any.

In a research paper published in The Lancet HIV this week, experts found that generic lenacapavir could cost $35-$46 per person-year.

Make Claude stop talking like a Buzzfeed article, using this Claude Code skill. Claude “talks like it’s delivering a TED talk about its own pull request. You ask why a test is flaky and you get a “load-bearing assumption,” three numbered revelations, and a solemn note that t...

The numbers 666 and 13 don’t have the best of reputations in certain circles, but Chinese car brand Nio hopes its latest Firefly hatchback will have better luck with them – offering a limited run of 666 special edition EVs at a price that’s 13% higher than usual.

Radio Iowa News Director O. Kay Henderson called yesterday to report the network website now has 100,000 stories. More on the website but first a little background on Kay. Roger Gardner and I hired Kay right out of college (Iowa … Continue reading →

The monk at prayer, 1865 #realism #edouardmanet

“Six months into a conflict that President Donald Trump predicted would last ‘four to five weeks,’ Republican strategists worry there’s no way to keep the Iran war from hurting the party’s prospects in November’s midterm elections,” Bloomberg reports. “The continuing hostilities have demoralized GOP voters, who sent Trump to the White House in order to […]

Georgia Fort's latest filing in the Cities Church case provides evidence that HSI goons and lawyers working for Harmeet Dhillon knowingly violated both the Privacy Protection Act and the Stored Communications Act by using customs summonses to spy on Fort and others.

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Pete Hegseth is trying to punish a teenager for going crazy in an 8 month deployment.

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