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If the evil is baked into the fundamentals, then "no fundamental change" cannot be considered the lesser of two evils.

BREAKING: Cyberattack against American breathalyzer test company locks out drivers across 45 states.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

I’m always extremely reluctant to use the word evil but how else to describe what we are deliberating doing to millions of Cubans?

Israel wipes out village after village in South Lebanon. Centuries-old historic villages completely erased from the map. Then Israel builds illegal military bases on top of the homes it just destroyed. And the international community watches in silence.

BREAKING: The White House is out with a new National Policy framework for AI. The proposal says: "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development." It also says that states shouldn't be able to penalize AI companies when people break the law with their models.

It's all very abstract until you look at one. Just one. And imagine what she's going through after 7 years in this cage. This is why we had to break them out.

@ryangrim Official Israeli statement: Jesus failed because he wasn't evil.

Defining remark of our era.

"We need a trillion dollars a year to be prepared for a war." Starts a war "We need $200 billion to keep fighting this war which has only been going for three weeks."

@HeerJeet @lindsayballant Also this endorsement of a trad dem over the progressive. x.com/HumanistReport…

@lindsayballant Funnily enough this tweet is how I learned Warren endorsed Platner.

Might log into Bluesky for one (1) time this month just to see them lose their shit over Warren’s endorsement of Platner. The professional class wokescolds are her core base, this must be devastating for them

I was, unfortunately, in the right ballpark: Qatar Energy just announced they may have to declare Force Majeure on long-term contracts **FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS**. As I wrote, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

Let me explain exactly why your phone seems to read your thoughts, because the real answer is more invasive than telepathy. Every time you open a website or app, a real-time bidding auction fires in under 100 milliseconds. Your GPS coordinates, browsing history, device fingerprint, age, gender, income bracket, and hundreds of inferred interest categories get packaged into a “bid request” and broadcast to hundreds of companies simultaneously. One company wins the ad slot. All of them keep the data. This happens thousands of times per day per person. A 2018 New York Times investigation found 75 companies pulling precise location data from apps, with some users tracked up to 14,000 times in 24 hours. In 2012, a Target statistician identified 25 products that, purchased in combination, could predict a customer was pregnant and estimate her due date. A teenager’s father discovered she was pregnant because Target sent baby coupons to the house before she told anyone. That was one retailer. Store receipts only. Fourteen years ago. Now scale that. Your phone pings GPS while you sleep. Data brokers link your phone, laptop, and tablet through probabilistic matching of IP addresses, WiFi networks, and behavioral patterns without you ever logging in. The FTC caught two brokers in 2024 categorizing people by visits to reproductive health clinics, political protests, and religious services, then selling those profiles to law enforcement. The algorithm doesn’t hear your thoughts. It compares your behavioral fingerprint against millions of similar profiles and predicts your next interest before you’re consciously aware of it. It makes hundreds of predictions per day. You ignore the misses. The five hits feel like telepathy. You paid for the phone. You pay for the data plan. You generate the signal. And every time a page loads, your identity gets auctioned to the highest bidder before the content even renders. They called it “personalized advertising” because “real-time mass surveillance funded by the people being surveilled” doesn’t fit on a consent banner.

New poll shows voters overwhelmingly oppose using force on Cuba, just 8% of Trump voters and 7% of all support it

Imagine you’re a Palestinian, sitting outside your home, trying to find a moment of peace in a place your family has lived for generations. Suddenly, Israeli settlers appear, assaulting you, backed by the army. A scene that is hard to put into words.

West Bank settlers are completely out of control and using the cover of our illegal war with Iran to go on killing sprees and commit countless acts of sexual violence. CNN is reporting on it.

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter at all and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

Has the person who shot Alex Pretti in the back while he was facedown in the street been arrested yet.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It's just wrong to make Americans think that every single Palestinian in Gaza was a member of Hamas. That's just not true. There were tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians murdered by these bombs that were dropped on them. And now the same thing is happening in Lebanon."

This isn’t Democracy.

Cuba has restored electricity across all provinces as of a few hours ago. The country lives to fight another day - under total siege, but still survivng thanks to the efficient work of the government. granma.cu/cuba/2026-03-1…

The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.