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Via Sanho Tree:

“On Tuesday, the Commerce Department will announce that any semiconductor manufacturer seeking a slice of nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies will need to essentially guarantee affordable, high-quality child care for workers who build or operate a plant.”👍

nytimes.com/2023/02/27/us/poli

Belarus partisans say they blew up Russian plane near Minsk

Group says it used drones to hit early warning aircraft (AWACS) at Machulishchy airfield 12km from Minsk

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin

theguardian.com/world/2023/feb

Texas Judge could ban #Abortion pill across USA 

"In a practice known as “forum shopping,” conservative groups have zeroed in on the Amarillo division of the Northern District of #Texas as a go-to place...

Because Amarillo is a federal district with a single judge, plaintiffs know their arguments will be heard by Kacsmaryk — who, like any federal judge, is positioned to issue rulings with #nationwide implications."
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

#AbortionRights #WomensRights #Health #USA #USPolitics

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A snuggle of dragons, just painted it for fun. Watercolour on board #dragon #dragons #watercolor #watercolour #MastoArt my members have access to my originals before I put them in my shop. www.mysteriouscorner.art

Dead Kennedys, 1981. Pretty subversive, especially before the Sony #fairuse decision.
#copyright

The overlooked fungus "fomen fomentarius" has incredible properties that can be used to develop strong, ultralight materials.
vice.com/en/article/m7gm3a/tin
#tech-science #worldnews #Science #mushroom #fungus #materials #Abstract

The world is an infinitely better place when adults remember what it’s like to be children.

I thought this was HAD to be parody until I looked it up, and indeed, it’s being reported everywhere.

(Reposted with better screenshot.)

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If you want a small government, you need small corporations - need to block the anticompetitive mergers and predatory conduct that lets companies grow so large that they can fit their regulators into the little change pocket in their blue-jeans.

doctorow.medium.com/small-gove

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uspol, fox, media 

Maybe I’ve overlooked analysis on this, but it seems like media commentators and the center-left press are missing something critical about the revelations of Fox News’s duplicity, which is that a ton (most, I suspect) of GOP viewers already believe that this is how all mainstream media works.

They already believe that all big media orgs intentionally distort the truth. Nearly half of Republican viewers don’t even trust the Weather Channel.

today.yougov.com/topics/politi

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Nothing will make me close your website faster than finding I have to watch a fucking video to find something out

I made my first long form comic in years! It's not all that long, but it's more than one panel. cw:snake

birdandmoon.com/snake-story/

Click through to see Jacqui Heinrich's "crime" and you will see what I mean.

twitter.com/jacquiheinrich/sta

It is a very careful, limited statement. Mild pushback. But Tucker Carlson felt panic over it, and demanded her head.

This kind of behavior exposes a weakness for Fox.

Keepers of a resentment machine— for that is what Fox is — may suddenly find the resentment coming straight for them. 5/

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