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Vance suggests Iran could have used nuclear suicide vests: “You talk about people who walk into a crowded supermarket and have a vest on, and they blow up the vest and a couple of people get killed, and that's a terrible tragedy. What happens when what's on the vest is not something that can kill a couple of people, but can kill many, many tens of thousands of people?”

when i was doing an intake form for a homeless shelter, i knew i was different than the crowd there cause the intake lady said i was the only person who could actually read the form and fill it out on my own normally her job was to fill it in for other people, and she even struggled to read it herself i corrected her on a line item and she started threatening to kick me out, until her supervisor came over to see why she was yelling at me, and then demanded that she fix all the prior forms she messed up on—this totaled over 5k, so she was quite angry she refused to apologize to me, so her supervisor had to step in and do it on her behalf as a result, i thought this was a poorly run homeless shelter, but i was later told this was actually one of the best in SF ever it’s weird growing up and experiencing being so different than the people around you it was one of the most alienating experiences as a kid to be able to read a tier above your peers as you couldn’t share the latest tom clancy you read, or even the NYT article on the iraq war (back in the ‘oughts) getting kicked out of GATE because we were poor and asian in a white only town was a weird experience—the first i realized how gatekeeping worked (pun not intended) if you think it’s crazy someone else couldn’t possibly read below a elementary school level, then you haven’t been paying attention to how our current president is doing his 2nd term and definitely live in a bubble interacting with actual normal americans without disdain (like hilary’s surprised face at that kitchen) is absolutely key if you wish to bridge any gaps i see how many of you PMC (professional middle class) types treat our midwestern friends who come to SF or LA, i see how the PMC types think their the elite, and to their credit it’s true they are quite rare when you compare them to the rest of america hinge filters for example: if you mark that you don’t have a college degree, a good number of people filter you out; it’s a dealbreaker for most having no high school puts me in an awkward place because i straddle and experienced both the very top and bottom of the rung, which results in the horseshoe theory of the opposite sides think i’m lying because they can’t fathom the activities of how the other side lives i haven’t even gotten into how this varies across different countries—finding the low and highs in africa fundamentally changed how i view the world now, for better or for worse this isn’t the most coherent thing i’ve written, and i still don’t understand how to process eating gold flakes and unlimited caviar and earlier that week watching a mob physically rip and hack a teen apart with blades for theft and dump the body parts on the dirt road (except they kept the hand that stole the item) tl;dr: y’all in bubbles you can’t even imagine

Congress (1789-2025)

An Amazon data center in Oregon went online in 2011. It has since poisoned “the deepest reaches of the local aquifer,” & is causing cancer/rare diseases. “He noticed a rise in bizarre medical conditions among the county’s 45,000 residents, linked to toxins in the local water.”

EPA is expected to raise its mandate for crop-based biofuels tomorrow. But just because they're “natural” or "plant-based" doesn't make them better: these fuels are often more expensive and carbon-intensive than fossil fuels.

NEW: Republicans are handing precious public lands to foreign corporations and billionaires. We went to Superior National Forest, which is on the verge of being sacrificed to a Chilean mining company. Americans want public lands protected, but Trump and the GOP want profit.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Postal Service to impose 8% surcharge on packages to cover rising fuel costs.