"When someone claims Trump reduced the deficit, they're not just wrong about economic policy. They're wrong about reality. He added $7.8 trillion to it....This isn't a difference of perspective. It's a rejection of reality itself."
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"When someone claims Trump reduced the deficit, they're not just wrong about economic policy. They're wrong about reality. He added $7.8 trillion to it....This isn't a difference of perspective. It's a rejection of reality itself."
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The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.
Removed as it’s probably too valuable to destroy.
Sort of confirms everything you suspected about Kavanaugh.
Fifty-four years ago, the president of CBS risked going to jail for contempt of Congress in order to protect the news division from government interference.
A media team totally killing it.
Wise words!
It should not be up to John Oliver to be publicly making the argument that university presidents should be making loudly & collectively on the news & in front of the US Capitol every day.
My neighbor started doing this three months ago
David Ellison’s pick for CBS News ombudsman isn’t a journalist. He’s a Trump-supporting conservative donor and advocate who tried to scrub his digital past. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-o...
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
“a woman seated next to me clapped enthusiastically and gave a little shout. A supporter, I figured. I turned to look at her and she caught my eye, then with a big smile and heavily-accented English said to me, “We need to support him so he doesn’t take away my Visa.”
This is 100% going to be used to put ICE agents outside polling stations in areas where they want to suppress the vote.
Apparently LG is also pulling a lot of its staff out of the US. Great job! 🤦♂️
"65% of senior judges, 57% of the House of Lords, 59% of permanent secretaries and 52% of diplomats are drawn from the 7% of the population who are privately educated." New Quiz suggested she was rich enough to buy a flat but not rich enough to avoid paying taxes like Cameron.
"To our lawmakers and people in power: who the hell is going to do something? Are you courageous or are you a coward? Do you care about our kids? Don’t tell us the answer, show us. Prove it.” Pretty sure they are cowards. #GunControlNow
Every publisher and user of their search engine could confirm this.
We are at the "Show me your papers" portion of the fascist authoritarian takeover.
Ashanty Rosario noticed that their classmates were cheating by using #AI #ChatGPT to do a lot of the heavy lifting required in class. "These incidents were jarring—not just because of the cheating, but because they made me realize how normalized these shortcuts have become."
"The strategic role that [VC] has long played on its home turf will diminish as the flow of science-based transformational technologies dries up. It took three generations to build that supply chain. Reconstructing it [as Trump is cutting R&D at universities] will not be easy."
And he wonders why #SCOTUS's reputation has tanked? He really wants to be classed as the worst Chief Justice of all time.
"In 2023 over 60% of athletic department spending fell into just three categories: facilities, coaching salaries and pay for athletic department staff. Barely 10% went to scholarships." If its a business its should be taxed like a business.
Curious to know if the red states will take this on. And whether people will put the blame where it belongs: on the republicans.
Might require the democratic leadership to take a stand, so probably not going to happen.
Russia’s fleet of oil tankers operating outside normal regulations has continued to grow despite Western sanctions, according to Saad Rahim, an economist at ‘Trafigura’ trading house. He noted that while overall growth has slowed, blacklisted vessels are being replaced with new ones.
The US is on the verge of a mosquito-borne disease crisis www.vox.com/climate/4603...
Particularly when you have models like Deepseek which don't require so much processing power. Assuming you find good use cases for it of course.
Carrying all this additional camouflage must slow down the tanks, and make them more obvious to see? Still, bonkers that multimillion dollar tanks are effectively relying on chicken wire, canvas and wood to protect themselves.
27% of republicans report themselves “thrilled.”
Isn’t that also the median age of a New York Times reader?
As @cherylrofer.bsky.social succinctly captures in a quote “In the end, however, those who empower an autocrat often surrender not only their democracy but also the very influence they once hoped to preserve.” Something for the weak democratic leadership to think about.
Republicans are to blame for this runaway train but yes, Democrats can and should do so much more to stop it.
“In the era of TikTok, 24-hour news and same-day delivery, the asymmetry between the pace of our lives and the pace of our government is laughable,” argues Wes Moore. “It is causing more and more people to lose faith in politicians”
Basically describing every email I’ve received from LinkedIn in the last nine months….
Apparently this book is about two academic rivals who need a letter of recommendation from their boss, who unexpectedly dies, so they journey to hell to get it. Clearly the author is in academia 🙂
It’s wild. If a journalist accidentally said, e.g. the names of a minister‘s school age children on air, Downing Street would rightly lose it, yet death threats, conspiracies about the PM’s marriage, racism against ministers…all fine apparently!
Seems like it's the most basic assessment to do, unless of course you don't want to find out the answer....
I thought it was because he had a very nice paying gig at the NYTimes pretending to be the mythical conservative centrist so beloved by Democratic consultants?
And we all know who caused it, at least I hope they do.
I've been saying this for months now. Heck, I've lost count of the number of times I've emailed my representatives asking them to pressure Jeffries and Schumer to step down from their leadership positions.
"I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it, I'm about to lose control and I think I like it 🎵🎵
Yet more evidence that (a) they need to be investigated, prosecuted and (b) this is really going to help our Russian intelligence efforts if anyone we debrief now thinks they will be sent back to Russia. They won’t be coming here, but elsewhere. Painful. I feel for the dissidents
JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?
It’s going to take decades to fix this
After watching City of Women, pretty sure Fellini didn't understand women. It is realistic though that the 50-year-old man thinks a 20-something young women has the hots for him (she does not, but likes messing with his mind). Still, visually pretty interesting with echoes to his past films.
NEW: The anti-Trump protest happening right now on the streets of Washington DC is HUGE! It looks like tens of thousands have joined. This is the view from 16th Street - people stretching as far as the eye can see 👏
More people in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont. Coming up on Alaska and North Dakota. Per capita, we pay more federal income tax than any of the states. (Incl NY, CA, CT, etc.) Voice in Congress: Zero. Have never before felt as much DC-specific patriotism—across race and class—as now.
Has anyone told the Trump Administration that Colonel Kilgore's war in Vietnam ended in humiliating defeat?
Except this one.
The only way the war in Ukraine ends is with Russia losing. They have no interest in peace.
When you talk to people about the blitz or being in war, quite a few almost shamefully say that they have never felt more alive, and that they miss the adrenaline. It’s a natural reaction to stress, and quite a few Ukrainians are trying to figure out how to cope with it.
Built in Apple security. It automatically hides your ip address
Yes. I see a lot of pro fossil fuel/bad renewables ads, and how great Trump is as a leader because YouTube keeps thinking I'm either in Virginia or Ocean City.
Only thing that worries me about that are the ads.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. If it acts like a Russian asset, speaks like a Russian asset, then it’s a….
And you can negotiate too. I ended up with a $6k bill which came out of the blue months after a car accident, and after some negotiation, dropped to $1.1k. But I shouldn’t have to do that (and they should have submitted the bill earlier so the car insurance would pay it). Whole system is nuts.
‘The weapons contain toxic CS and CN gases. While their production is not formally banned, using them in combat violates international law. Russian forces employ the RG-Vo to flush Ukrainian soldiers from dugouts’
I wonder who told him it was there? As it’s not like he knows the area well.
The most common way war spreads from Ukraine to the rest of Europe is by accident. Although Russia will continue to probe defenses along the border all the time.
Who would want to stay there if you had a choice?
Remember in the first term when Trump planned to host the G7 at Doral, but walked it back after criticism? Second term, they’re not walking things back.
why does the NYT want us all get sick and die because if they didn't, the headline wouldn't contextualize this as a fucking "snub" so much as "trying to keep as many of their citizens alive as possible" jfc
Uhhh those helmets look familiar...
Vance is death. Just ask the Pope.
It’s reach the point I’m wondering about the causality of it! I mean, DC has always had an issue of not signaling when turning a corner but it’s like a factor of ten worse this year (or I’m seeing it more driving downtown).
Starting to think that the clearest indication that we're now living in a banana republic is not the fascism but the incredibly bad driving, with people jumping red lights all over the place
So conflicted
I suspected some of the "fundraising orgs for the Dems" were scams (and possibly right-wing-fomented scams). But I didn't know for sure. I was careful to make sure my donations were through her authorized website. More than 660 MILLION was stolen from Harris and Dems. This makes me very angry.
This is exactly the right approach and yet another reason why the democrats leadership in Congress sucks so bad. This is your campaign slogan in 30 words
Sounds like a lot but actually isn't.
For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:
This doesn't surprise me, a friend loves the Sound of Music and I had a 50% coupon for it playing at the Kennedy Center. She told me she wouldn't go as "they can suck it" I mean I feel for the artists who were booked before this shitshow, but I don't blame anyone voting with their feet.
Today's sci-fi in Nature is about #climatechange and the rich who fled Earth to live in orbitals. “You can’t force people to care.” Her smile was sad. “That’s why it’s even more important that you do, as lonely as it can be at times. Compassion is power, especially if you back that with action.”
"Donald Trump is an authoritarian leader who regularly violates the law and the constitution...And yet the #BrokenTimes, our national news source of record, routinely resorts to weasel words, euphemisms and third-party critiques to avoid saying so in its own institutional voice" #Media
Chemists have crammed a record nine metals into a type of 2D material called a MXene (pronounced ‘max-een’). There weird materials have high electrical conductivity and other characteristics, which might open the door to designing a multitude useful substances.
A more accurate headline would be "Trump continues to use political DOJ to pressurize federal reserve governor Lisa Cook to step down."
As it seems like people need it, here's Piper, the dog the size of a small horse that we occasionally dog sit.
Good for them!
Every time I see Barett (who is trying to remake her image into softer, better skilled than Kavanaugh, but still right wing judge) I keep having this visual in my head.
100% agree with this, the democrats should not bail out the republicans for the mess they made. Think of it this way, when have the GOP done the same thing for democrats?
How many nuclear weapons would it take to make the world dangerously radioactive for human life? This is a question scientists have pondered since at least 1947. Good news, quite a lot, bad news, civilization collapses at a way lower rate.
300 of them South Korean businessmen investing $26 bn in the US. Or at least they were. What's next? Arresting tourists who want to visit the country? Oh wait!
Great thread. Very smart to connect “deliverism” with Dem leaders‘ current hapless strategy on the funding battle. Common denominator: Congressional Dems cling to the outdated idea that their primary task is legislation. No! It’s all about the info battle. It’s all about the war for attention.
Mathematician and computer scientist Leslie Greengard lauds the #FourierTransform, upon which is built a mathematical edifice used for everything from compressing audio files to understanding the uncertainty principle. h/t Nature Briefing.
Oceania is the only continent to evade H5N1 avian influenza. But the virus’s arrival is only a matter of time. Particularly vulnerable are New Zealand’s critically endangered bird species, five of which number fewer than 500 individuals. So unlike kids in Florida, they are getting a vaccine.
However, the rise of AI means that publishers are seeing a significant decline in traffic from google, and it's only a matter ofd time before a different research model for investigating papers pops up. Question is, who will be running it? Digital Science is in a good position for that. 2/2
The rules regarding content in google scholar are all over the place (abstracts are supposed to be 500+ words but lots of journals don't follow that), but its been clear for a while that there's no real new investment but just keeping the lights on so that no one else can build a competitor. 1/2
"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow."
The easiest answer to this question is to look at how many people are involved in running it. It hasn't changed much and the only big platform upgrade was when they tried to steal publisher traffic. I have always thought the order to abandon it will come when a couple of staff retire.
Also worth remembering that Farage refuses to name who would leads Reform in Wales or England if they did well because nearly all his candidates are unqualified for public office or are dead (google it).
AI generated content is going to get better and better at mimicking existing artists but it's not going to be creative. Ironically the one group who will suffer the most to their reputation are the musicians whose work they steal. As people ask why their new album isn't that good.
I think her should decry the republican majority leader in the Senate, who helped create Trump's ability to win by not impeaching him after he urged followers to storm the capital. What was his name again?
This is like deciding to drive to Scotland from London via Ireland.
Looks like someone is trying to fail to make quota....
Have we had the ALL CAPS response yet? Or is Fox News not covering it and hence he won't know what's going on?
There's been a lot of chatter in the tech space about this article, but I think it overlooks one thing: how hard it is to get an interview nowadays. I was reading how someone was boasting that he uses AI to submit 30 job applications in an hour. That's just filling slop into the system.
"The gap between Western perception and Chinese reality is enormous, and it reveals something important: we're worried about a system that barely exists while ignoring the behavioral scoring systems we actually live with." "You already live in social credit."