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Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
The most fun Bond movie was Casino Royale (1967).
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
For folks who are Hungary-dooming, (a) Orban was genuinely popular, and (b) very far from a done deal, but "was" has been the operative adjective for some while - www.reuters.com/world/hungar...
CHICAGO…
I want all establishment D's to read this thread and start supporting Mamdani and other left of center candidates to build a bigger tent.
This will shorten the life of a dear friend of my daughter's. I will do my damnedest to make sure Trump and his hateful, incompetent cabal will all be remembered as child-killers.
However people respond, they definitely shouldn't use surgical tubing, a toy bucket, balloons, balloon-inflator, and paint, because flinging paint balloons from 200 yards would also be illegal.
Jain: We have a U.S. Attorney’s Office that is also facing a vacancy crisis. And that is at least partially because the predecessor to the current U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, was Ed Martin. He fired more than 20 prosecutors whose only “crime” was prosecuting violent January 6 insurrectionists.
The Political Awakening of Graham Platner, the Maine Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins for a Seat in the Senate Ya had me at "oyster." newrepublic.com/article/1996...
I watched Altered States at an impressionable age, so I'd probably be wondering when I'd turn into a caveman in a carnivorous feeding frenzy. But I also watched Alan Arkin in Simon do a hilarious post-tank interpretation of evolution from plankton to human, so I might just giggle uncontrollably.
I saw a comment on a Facebook friend's post about today's school shooting that began: "It is terrible. We need prayer back in school." Ummm... THESE CHILDREN WERE LITERALLY SHOT WHILE PRAYING. Praying is NOT going to fix this.
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These shooters are egged on by some twisted online sociopaths who get a thrill out of manipulating sad, vulnerable people into doing great harm. Thinking of suicide? Please don't. You're worth far more alive than as a dead child-killer. Please call 988.
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Yeah, no. That’s exactly not how to respond to your product leading to suicides.
Not good. Bad, in fact.
To claim that gender—specifically masculinity—plays no role ignores a glaringly significant data point.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
Time to start calling the gun nuts what they are: bitches for white supremacist fascism.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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Wow
No, you're not ineligible for the vaccine. Let me introduce you to the concept of lying.
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They can issue JOINT health guidance, they can buy up supplies of needed vaccines, etc... [just on the health front]. Hire all of the excellent people who are resigning.
Already done.
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I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
The camouflage fatigues combined with the high-visibility vests is just *chef's kiss*. It screams "wtf am I doing here"???
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So, library land: You still feeling good about pushing tools like ChatGPT on your colleagues? On your patrons? Or are you ready to listen to those of us you've deemed 'naysayers?' 📚 www.bbc.com/news/article...
So let me get this straight. ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation. The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working." Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
Pretty solid turn out to oppose Collins in Searsport.
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Tampered Tylenol killed ONE person & the company recalled it all. The recurring story this decade is running from accountability.
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Clint’s timeline says either a delusional Trump reply-guy or a paid Russian reply-guy, you pick.
this is nefarious and probably illegal, but it's also stupid and embarrassing
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
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.
"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...
I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.
DOGE put at risk *every person with a Social Security Number* for identify theft. DOGE's treatment of these data is extraordinary-the level of protection that has long been applied to these data is rigid. But they just uploaded it all to the cloud! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Model collapse is gonna sound like the love-child of Trump & a 3am discord chat.
Really rather surreal watching the optimism of Americans who think they can wait until their 2026 midterms to try and save themselves when their neighbours are already being kidnapped off the streets in broad daylight and their cities are being captured by militarized forces.
If you're counting on the next election(s) to fix things, don't be so certain.
In addition to looking self-inflicted, that little boo-boo is less serious than any dozen I get every year just by being clumsily alive. Fainting violets, all of them.
When you google what? I just searched "Adam Raine" and I saw pages and pages.
Hard to convince younger generations, but for decades, Republicans went on and on about how two of the worst things imaginable were (1) state intervention in the market and (2) DC using federal troops against US states; both so bad the people should be ready for armed rebellion in case it happens.
Biological sex is a spectrum too, not just gender. That’s not postmodern nonsense, it’s reality as revealed by science. Sex is a cluster of phenotypical characteristics that tend to, but do not always, correlate. The spectrum follows a bimodal distribution, but that’s not the same thing as a binary!
These photos are absolutely haunting, and the detail afforded by using a view camera lets you sit with the chaos until you make out that there's a car nearly submerged in the swimming pool, a picket fence poking out of flotsam.
I missed in the early reporting on this lawsuit last week that it’s led by the Miccosukee Tribe
So much is beyond words! We’re all still in baby fog. Poets are trying to reach through that fog by getting back to the fundamental music of language.
Clowns out here simping for AI & ignoring obvious & rampant human suffering.
No. It’s not sentient, you clowns. Stop selling this garbage in “news” articles.
The answer is simple: no. The fact that you’re asking it is also simple: you’re another AI apologist.
The framers had NO idea that 6 super mega would equal 36 regular.
The people need IKEA-level instructions for Reconstruction 2.0 and I am not even kidding.
It sounds naive, I'm sure, but looking back over the last 20-odd years of discussions about what is wrong with academia and how or how not to fix it, the idea that scholars produce knowledge (not just jobs, tech, or texts), and that that is an important social good, is largely and strikingly absent.
Maybe my conception of the subjects of poetry is too narrow. Here's an 18th C. title I just encountered: On the manufactory of paper: a poem. Setting forth the great utility thereof, and the benefits derived therefrom to all mankind by this noble invention. By James Maxwell.
he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees
UGH, awful
I used to take the bus from the 'burbs into DC museums by myself at the age of 12 when the crime rate was FOUR TIMES AS HIGH in the late 70's & never had a single problem. These people are fear-mongering cowards.
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Does your campus IT have a process to submit 3rd party apps for reviewing/adding?
Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...
So much of recent history can be explained by the popularization of this idea that empathy and compassion are somehow gateways to evil. When our species dies out and this planet becomes a lifeless rock, it will be this ideology that got us there.
I needed this.
If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research
Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
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“Birthing person”: extremist, divisive “Poisoning the blood of our country”: normal, healthy
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it. If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
I guess I’m just confused because we just spent the whole summer being told by people who write the same three columns over and over that lefty purity tests were bad and now Third Way did a centrist purity test with a demand for censorship and those same people love it
It's telling that as Trump threatens a military takeover of cities, actively censors universities, imposes his politics on private companies, and weaponizes the DOJ against his critics, reactionary centrists who've made free expression their core issue . . . are still focused on wokeness.
Seeing people in the US of States glazing Newsom's dank memes and being all "Gavin slayyyy" is giving Starmer Fever 2024 and, American pals, it's equally embarrassing to witness.
Want less technical terms? OK “Privilege”: fucking oopsie racism “cultural appropriation”: fucking racist play-acting for fun “microaggression” casual fucking racism “the unhoused” rent’s too fucking high “patriarchy” fucking men’s club
Yes, Democrats, take advice about language from a Republican who’s been pounding the same drum for over a decade.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
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Is this fashy enough to call it fascism yet, or is it just sparkling corporate statism?
This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵
To me, seeing someone announce art or good news during terrible times isn't like trying to sell balloons at a funeral, it's like getting hugged at that funeral. When maybe you didn't know how much you needed that hug. From anyone. Or everyone. Folks need all the soul fuel they can get.
the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail
But that's what this court excels at: removing substantive rights cloaked in legal formalism. Roberts will go down with Tawney and Fuller as one of the worst chief justices in history.
It's still just astonishing to me that SCOTUS would brazenly approve abridging the freedom of speech.
At the command of the president, red states are sending armed troops to occupy a blue city based on a manufactured crisis, over the objections of that city's leadership and 80 percent of its residents. If this isn't authoritarianism, I'm not sure what is.
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
I'm absolutely horrified by @penamerica.bsky.social's silence on these deaths. The single deadliest place for journalists and they're ignoring it. Appalling.
And the third dumbest people alive writing news articles about how it's all happening like weather and there's nothing we can actually do.
This is self-parody. I love it.
Here's @gregsargent.bsky.social and guest Monica Potts on a complex interplay: Trump says he's fighting crime in the cities, journalists think this is a winner, the Democrats fear the journalists may be right, which leads to their own timidity, which becomes a story. newrepublic.com/article/1993...
ryan cooper 