caredwen

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Chemical policy. Occupational and consumer health. Knitting. Reading. Speaking my mind. Raising my child to be kind and brave.

What would you read into the poll where Al polls below ICE? People are scared for their jobs. You think people are just scared for their jobs? I think so. I think- Do you understand that that's extraction? You've taken the sum total of everyone's work on the internet and now you're going to use it to replace human beings and their jobs without any economic recompense.
A week into Trump’s misbegotten war on Iran, oil futures soared, starting Sunday night, as traders finally got spooked about the prospect of a severe and lengthy energy crisis. After U.S. markets closed Monday, they plummeted again, because Trump phoned up a reporter to claim “the war is very complete.” It is not complete. Moreover, the question of whether the energy supply chain comes back online isn’t entirely up to Trump. Israel and Iran each have a say in that question, and we just murdered the new ayatollah’s entire family. What is happening here?
He was my brother Born the same year as I He was my brother Thirty-seven years old the day he died Freedom fighters Recorded what they did and said ICE would threaten them “That’s why that lesbian bitch is dead.” Guarding his sister Shielding others all along They shot my brother dead Because he hated what was wrong He was my brother Tears can't bring him back to me He was my brother And he died so his brothers could be free He died so his brothers could be free
At 17, he was drafted into the South African Army. A stint of guard duty at the Lenz ammunition dump south of Johannesburg confirmed his suspicions that the government was building nuclear weapons. “From the age of 17, I was hunting the South African bomb,” he said at the conference. After attending the University of the Witwatersrand, he received a scholarship to Oxford, which enabled him to further his quest. For his doctoral dissertation, he chose to study South Africa’s history of electrification, “so I could get into the electricity supply commission’s library and archives, and work out how much electricity they were using to enrich uranium,” he told the BBC.
Screenshot of text from Rolling Stone article: The one-minute video — originally shared March 15 on TikTok — predates the president's tariff announcement on Wednesday. It claims that “Trump is crashing the stock market by 20 percent this month, but he's doing it on purpose. [...] Here's the secret game he's playing, and it could make you rich." The video proposes that Trump is attempting to “push cash into treasuries, which forces the Fed to slash interest rates in May, and those lower rates give the Fed the ability to refinance trillions of debt very inexpensively. It also weakens the dollar and drops mortgage rates. Now it's a wild chess move, but it's working." "What about his tariffs? I'll tell you, it's a genius play," the video adds. "It actually forces companies to build here to dodge them. It also forces farmers to sell more of their products here in the U.S., to bring grocery prices way down. We've already seen this with eggs. Now, remember, 94 percent of all stocks are owned only by 8 percent of Americans. So Trump, he's taking from the rich short term and handing it to the middle class through lower prices."
A screenshot from the Goldberg Atlantic piece about the Signal chat. This is the text (the last sentence is highlighted): “Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council, responded two hours later, confirming the veracity of the Signal group. ‘This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,’ Hughes wrote. ‘The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful poli y coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security!’”
“But her emails” is the only visible text on a nearly-submerged road sign on a deeply flooded street
Neville Chamberlain holds the Munich agreement aloft
A warning label from a tube of wrapping paper, reading “Caution: Keep out of reach of children and pets. Fragrance will transfer onto wrapped goods. Do not use in goods where fragrance is not desired. Avoid placing wrapped packages unfinished surfaces as this may cause damage.” The warning is repeated in French.