What the hell is this obsession the NYT has with the word 'falsehoods'?
What the hell is this obsession the NYT has with the word 'falsehoods'?
I complain about media outlets all the time, so credit where it's due to @wsj.com for this chart which says more than a thousand words could. There's no dancing around it, no explaining it away, there's just the ugly truth. www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
She was arrested on the morning of Feb. 20 at her home in Charlotte while caring for her three younger siblings — the youngest of whom has autism — while her mother was at work.
Hope you didn't go to pee right after that. Learned this from a friend.
But its one of the main points of MAGA. 'My ignorance is as valid as your expertise.'
I like, but maybe the political realities make something like the German (SHI) model more realistic. Something like a network of tightly regulated insurance companies that offer mandated core benefits but compete on convenience and extras.
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
It just absolutely blows that RFK Jr. looked at this and said, no that’s not bad enough, we can do worse
Vaccines are truly one of the most incredible things in all of human history. We founds ways to literally defeat communicable deadly diseases at almost no cost and at no harm to ourselves. And grifters are working to undermine that and get people killed.
Trump doing this "bad Jew"="Palestinian" bit over and over again is a form of priming. It establishes a frame that draws on both antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism at the same time.. His audience can then start blending those antisemitic and anti-Arab narratives into a conspiracy smoothie
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
Thought she was going to talk Epstein. Something to be said for keeping that the focus of messaging. Many strong men were concerned that Trump was throwing off smoke to head that off. In that context, maybe could paint occupation forces and fed as distractions. For price of eggs? No.
This one - from Gov Bob Ferguson to Pam Bondi- equally worthy of praise.
One of the most immediate results of the printing press was a century or so of witch hunting, which killed 10s of thousand of people in Europe. An early effect of Facebook was the Myanmar genocide. Spread of info <> spread of truth or wisdom. (attribution: Nexus -- Yuval Harari)
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
You obviously have never worked as a reality show TV host. That wouldn't do anything for the brand.
Or they tell him and the TV huckster in him realizes that it doesn't matter as long as people are buying it.
Are we allowed to to say that word.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
"doesn't respect the land use patterns ..." The land use patterns are responsible for the housing problems.
same
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Sorting list by total violent crime rates, chicago is #92. (Memphis is #1, about 4 times Chicago's rate) At least the occupying forces would be fairly safe.
Per en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Chicago is #92 in terms of violent crimes / 100,000. About 1/4 rate of Memphis. Behind Baltimore, Cleveland, Houston, Kansas City Denver, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Seattle, Knoxville, Des Moines, Durham, and many more.
I live in Chicago burbs, and go into city frequently, and know several college students there. It's not a den of crime, students have been there for years with no issues beyond being yelled at by crazies, and no one feels safer having to walk by poorly trained armed occupation force every block.
So, we're socializing chip production?
Cause we're spending it on $50K ICE signing bonuses and $80K ICE student loan writeoffs.
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
Well, duh, they'll put some breathing holes or something in it to let the heliosphere out. Will be done before Tesla FSD cars hit the road.
There you go thinking small again. With thinking like that we'd never have, say, the boring tunnels in vegas.
Plenty of people need the signing bonus and/or the student loan forgiveness. Guess the silver lining is that there are not enough of the people you describe to fill the available slots.
Holy shit.
Life comes at you fast
These are the kids whose medical treatment in the US Loomer objects to: "Leyan is a 14-year-old who was burned and injured by shrapnel in an explosion at her school. Ghazal, 6, was also hurt in an explosion. Another child, 8-year-old Anas, was hurt in an explosion that killed his entire family."
This isn't even scheming viziers territory, this is the emperor's favored concubine calling the shots
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
Why?
Took a minute(!) but got there eventually
That’s not a berry good answer.
I was perfectly capable of googling those before ChatGPT was a thing.
I don’t know you and I don’t judge. You do you.
1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely. Here's why.
Holy shit, next it'll tell someone to take a horse deworming medicine for some reasonably deadly viral disease.
“Both of them.”
Just tested it out on my globe. It works. And now my desk is wet.
They took the machine off of his wife.
Cata Xotchil Santiago—a DACA recipient with a legal work permit—was detained by CBP at the El Paso airport while flying domestically. She was denied legal counsel and told she had “no choice” but to comply. This is an abduction. DACA = lawful presence. Domestic travel ≠ probable cause.
Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...
Epstein.
So they’ll claim treason.
Back in my broke college days I lived in worse.
Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says: - We are headed for a recession -The BLS data is totally reliable- for now -The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs -Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy 1/
Maybe Roberts will rethink his decision to end Voting Rights Act, allowing this stuff, because VRA is no longer needed. Maybe pigs will fly.
Suspect this is mostly an older person's reaction (which I share). The yutes are interested in getting through college and getting a job. To them that are acclimated, it's like water to a fish. Also, AI is used for compressing knowledge, but it need not be. openai.com/index/chatgp...
Would be great if this resulted in a public discovery process where Jack Smith will have a platform to discuss what he knows. Would also be great if this gets the coverage it deserves.
Nice research. Now the question is how long until they bring in the 100% tariffs and new (long....) regulatory reviews to install solar or wind on private land.
It’s sometimes hard to convince some people that a bad person makes a bad president. In this case you can draw a pretty straight line from cheats at golf to cheats where it really matters.
lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner
Maybe. But sounds like they moved her to a resort prison.
Her first sentence was fine. From then on up it was all downhill.
At least trump didn’t throw up on him. Looking at you GWB.
Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law. Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.
Oh great, a reason to avoid Hertz. Other than the prospect of getting arrested for stealing a car returned a last month.
a moral degenerate
If a source lies to you, you stop going to them
Haven’t looked into their methodology, but I do know that who pays for a poll very often suggests the outcome, especially at the headline level. Maybe if I read the fine print I’d be more concerned.
WSJ readers are not a random population sample.
Pulling up the ladder after yourself is nothing new.
They tried to hang him, FCS. Why should we be surprised they're going after him now?
Real quote from this fellow: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”
I'd like to cell him a solution to that problem.
This Ezra Klein piece is likely the best piece of writing I've read about Israel since Oct 7. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...
There is no righteousness in going from the victims of genocide to its perpetrators. There is no greater tragedy than for us to commit the same crimes which were committed against us. There is no God worth worshiping who would want this from, or for, his people.
I find the openAI models to be more annoying in this regard than the Claude and Gemini models. I put something similar in cursorrules, but it is sort of hit or miss whether the models pay attention.
YMMV. It can be great if the owner is great. It can be miserable if the owner is an asshat. Each job is its own thing. In a big company, your manager usually has more effect on your day to day work than the Grand Poobah does.
Depends what person and who's on the board.
I agree, but devil's advocate ... Does it make sense that the black child of two doctors gets preference over child of an immigrant Vietnamese fisherman? To me this is an outlier. To people on the other side, this is what DEI is about.
The clerks where I get my lunch said a man came in last week and asked them where the public entrance to 26 Federal Plaza was. He locked his bike outside, and it’s been there since.
Be curious to hear what the same prompt would do on Claude and Gemini. I tried Claude and it seemed reasonable (but I don't know the area). All trained on pretty much the same data, but the manners are after-the-fact special sauce.
I'm using it for some programming stuff lately, and I find myself wishing it would give me a lot more push back. Of course I'm brilliant, as it keeps telling me (protests too much), but I do come up with bad approaches every now and then, and I'd like a little honest feedback on those.
If they really were losing money they would have had him off the air yesterday. Sounds like a hedge. Make Trump happy now, let the Skydance/Paramount deal happen, then see which way the wind is blowing in 10 months.
When people are incented only to meet quotas, they're not too fastidious about where they look. ICE will not collect 3,000 people per day by going where people aren't. Suspect they heard that ship crews are largely foreign (true on ocean ships, not Chicago) and are going after them.
Justice Kagan cuts to the chase: "By means of [its repeated, unexplained grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration], this Court may facilitate the permanent transfer of authority, piece by piece by piece, from one branch of Government to another."
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
In fascist America, the drugs take YOU. What a country!
It’s interesting that Fox is doing this while trump is suing Murdoch for $10 billion.
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
If I didn't know better I'd think he was doing some gaslighting.
I'm impressed by the fact that they've even figured it out now. And I'm curious why. Has the content that a disinterested person comes across changed that much since the election?
🎧 What if you were forcibly taken from your sick child, knowing you would never see them again? Stories like this are so hard to hear, but please don't look away... Amplify them, talk about them, and never allow yourself to become desensitized. 😭 Evil thrives in silence. 🎥 @attorneykatelg (Insta)
just daily mass murder which Israel's defenders do not even bother to excuse or explain. slaughtering starving civilians goes literally without comment.