Qob

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BREAKING: UAW becomes largest Union to divest from Israel. UAW has long stood at the forefront of demanding justice, notably condemning Israel’s genocide on Gaza during the Biden administration.

This is a huge step to force Israel to stop its apartheid & genocidal actions—all unions should follow.

The reflecting pool really does reflect now

It reflects the corruption of the sitting President, and the lies he tells

#Trump #USpol #USApol

We just wanted to say thank you again. This administration has been a lot. We look at the MAGA movement and honestly just think… wtf? 😬 A movement fueled by hate, lies, division, and fear. Then we look at the Resistance. A movement built on hope and courage.
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We just wanted to say thank you again. This administration has been a lot. We look at the MAGA movement and honestly just think… wtf? 😬 A movement fueled by hate, lies, division, and fear. Then we look at the Resistance. A movement built on hope and courage.

Bluesky Social

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116825465041766357

Despite the headline, doesn't seem the VPs learned:

'“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering.'

Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried

"“This just feels like an attack on access to key government records,” said Kris Kasianovitz, library director at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library at UC Berkeley. “They are there in order to provide evidence for the historical record for the long-term.”"

https://www.kqed.org/news/12088904/exclusive-the-bay-areas-national-archives-office-is-closing-researchers-are-worried #USpol #Fascism

Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED

The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details about where the records would go.

Just as Ukraine is reaching a turning point, German Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz wants to freeze the front line.

I think the Bundeskanzler is forgetting that he lives in one of Europe's most successful democracies, not because we stopped World War 2 in the Ardennes, but because we continued all the way to Berlin where Hitler killed himself.

In Germany 1945 as in Ukraine 2026: Evil must lose completely.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article6a3cfee8afe845031b3adc04/ukraine-krieg-frontlinie-einfrieren-und-toeten-beenden-merz-ruft-zu-friedensverhandlungen-auf.html

Ukraine-Krieg: „Frontlinie einfrieren und Töten beenden“ – Merz ruft zu Friedensverhandlungen auf

Bei der Wiederaufbau-Konferenz in Danzig hat Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz Russland zu Verhandlungen aufgerufen. Der Kreml beharrt jedoch auf seinen Maximalforderungen. Die Ukraine erhält derweil die erste Zahlung des 90 Milliarden Euro schweren Unterstützungsdarlehens der EU.

WELT

Amen! https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/06/26/free-the-icons/

Squircle Jail is the worst design-related thing Apple has ever done to Mac developers, and probably the worst icon-related thing it has ever done, period. Incredibly developer-hostile.

If squircled icons are actually better, then let that design win in the market. That's how we transitioned from the classic Mac OS icon style to the more photorealistic Mac OS X icon style. Developers adopted it because they wanted to, and because users desired it.

Free The Icons

Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons

The climate crisis is also a crisis of wealth inequality.

If, instead of trashing the planet and destroying nature, the super-rich paid their fair share in taxes, there’d be enough money for a green and fair world for all.⁣

Time to #TaxTheSuperRich!

https://act.gp/4kFsaNr

Ireland’s is the world’s first permanent basic income program sending direct, unconditional cash payments to professional artists, and it enjoys overwhelming public support – of 17,000 public survey respondents, 97% supported the program becoming permanent... an independent study of the pilot found that artists didn't just get more work done – basic income reduced their levels of anxiety and alleviated depression, too. https://rgmii.org/blog/thousands-more-artists-join-irelands-basic-income-plan/
Thousands more artists join Ireland’s basic income plan

Thousands more artists will soon receive direct payments as part of Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts plan, made permanent this year after a three-year pilot program was hailed as a massive success. “This is a gigantic step forward that other countries are not doing,” Ireland’s Culture

Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative • RGMII
New high end cocktail: The Reflecting Pool.
1- line your glass with a blue fruit roll up.
Then you're going to need:
2 oz rum
4 oz juice that is kinda yellow (pineapple, mango, orange, lemonade, whatever you like)
1 oz blue curacao (you can adjust for color)
Garnish with lime zest
The yellow and blue liquids make a lovely shade of algae and the rum eventually melts the blue fruit roll up, which is, IMHO, the best part.
Enjoy!