Ok everyone agrees I get at least 48 hours to be obnoxious about this
I like #RSL and music and drumming. "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth"
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Ok everyone agrees I get at least 48 hours to be obnoxious about this
This administration already flaunts the law, so do we expect this ruling to change anything?
Laws only apply to people who follow them, so I don't expect this to change anything
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Need probably get at least 45% of the vote again if there were an election tomorrow. Americans deserve this.
Hey Ben, why didn't you push back against any of the political talking points, e.g. "Hey Cox, what do you say to the voters who passed a ballot initiative you helped overturn?"
What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
These polling results kinda argue the US doesn't deserve a representative democracy, don't they?
"regularly"
Paging @radiofreetom.bsky.social
Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous: newrepublic.com/article/1994...
No one would be confused about what's happening if you saw it in another country. No one.
Wow, you found one guy claiming to be a doctor. I guess that totally overrides what my own doctor says, what every doctor I'd randomly encounter in my area by throwing darts at a map, plus every professional organization of physisicans.
@timmiller.bsky.social I think you had a recent podcast guest confused on this one
Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)
I don't so much blame Powell for writing stupid things, but The Atlantic ostensibly has some sort of editorial process. I dropped my subscription during Covid after their process continued to reveal it wasn't up to the moment. Despite their vast array of qualified writers, they continue with this...
Cox always has been a member of the good ol' boys club
They've had several years to figure it out. If they haven't yet, they never will.
Good people don't think this way, folks.
Mark, if you want to be viewed as one of the non-evil billionaires, you have to not post stuff like this
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
we don't deserve a good government
I mean, I guess I'll take the little victories from Moore because they're so rare. But does he forget what his own state did?
At least his beard is graying so it looks slightly less like a wild rodent is strapped to his face. But nope. Never gonna click on that loser.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
Texas is changing. POC are driving the state’s explosive growth—so Republicans are rigging the maps to lock in power and erase voices. It’s cheating. Texas deserves maps that reflect the people, not protect the party. Redistricting should serve voters, not those clinging to power. #MessWithTexas
that's as obnoxious as his name
That was the first time I'd ever seen him in a movie. I was floored when years later I saw him in an interview. I couldn't believe how different he was. Terrifyingly good performance.
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I was going to say this country deserves a better class of reporters. But then I started to wonder if we really do...
That's really unfortunate. The good thing is her voice through writing will still remain.
What an absolute goon
John Johnson is a plague on North Ogden and Utah in general
It's an extremely complicated phenomenon with tons of variables. Anyone who cites one single cause is lying.
Do reporters ever ask follow up questions when politicians lazily spew talking points? You know, even the softest pushback?
No, this is kook-on-kook violence
I mean, throwing so much away for such horrible reasons... All is not lost, but a great deal is gone forever.
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
*sigh* I'm waiting for a post from someone in tech that doesn't just substitute "AI" for "magic black box that can do everything". - signed, a software dev who uses AI as a tool for automation
Mark buddy, I get the feeling you're not too attuned to what AI can and cannot do well...
I dunno, CECOT I guess? The pro-mass-deportation crowd hasn't exactly spent much time worrying about what happens to the deported people.
Sign seen on the 900 East overpass above I-215 in Murray, Utah, on Pioneer Day, a day that commemorates the arrival of the first Mormon settlers to Utah.
That incident and people's failure to respond boils so much of the noise down to its essence. This man openly bragged about grabbing women's private parts. My little kids understand how unconscionable that is.
I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim
The Venn diagram showing wannabe oligarchs and the very wealthy is quite nearly a circle, I suspect
I simply cannot figure out why Chris Cillizza has a writing job
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.
He was the last SS guard, about to be tried when he died at 100. Let this warn the ICE agents who think they are only guards, following orders. Your masked crimes against humans and humanity will mark you to the end of your days. The Last SS Guard @zeit.de www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
These are great leaders
I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg
Do the journos in charge of the first story ever get held accountable
I think the collective IQ of this group is unlikely to reach triple digits...
Hey Ben, do you have any videos on how to approach something like Ray Dalio's books, where he makes swelling claims about historical economic cycles?
Those poor, poor children. Can you imagine having parents like those?
"What happens when two terrible people have a falling out?" Part 357
Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp. Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.
I'm on Team IDGAF because I have zero expertise in virology. It's been stunning to me how others with no less knowledge than me have been so adamant on taking positions (I think almost exclusively lab-leak positions, weirdly).
How did the pandemic start? I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game. gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
This is CNN-like malpractice. Creating controversy where none existed then covering it.
Damir will always be one of my favorite RSL players
It's true. Musk is pretty much an unknown... a blank slate. It's hard to know what he thinks because he is also a very private person.
Wonder if it'd have been better for them not to respond at all, rather than just digging a deeper hole to bury their editorial credibility in
Blocking this unserious ball polishing
We need to have an old BuzzFeed quiz with stuff like this stripped of context and people have to answer "woke" or "based". Of course, the results would probably be pretty demoralizing.
the US doesn't deserve a birthday party
Nobody ever confused Blake Moore for a smart man
You guys earned this
Sadly, any increase in their changes isn't due to them doing good things, but instead Republicans doing bad things
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the end of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) as a new analysis found that its demolition could contribute to 14 million deaths in the next five years.
The reason I now believe ICE should be abolished is not that I don't think we need some kind of agency to deal with immigration and customs, but rather that this particular agency has so soiled its reputation and is operating so far out of bounds in a democracy that the only solution is to end it.
I'm getting the sense that these rich donors are bad people. Am I the only one?
Just wanted to say, Yes, you did vote for this. When you voted for chaos, corruption, and raw power grabs, you voted for this. You. Voted. For. This.
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.
again, more than 40% of Cuomo's 2025 endorsers called on him to resign four years ago and I think it's incredibly important to recognize the breadth of cowardice from the current political class and the depth of courage of the women who stood up to him, like @lindseyboylan.bsky.social.
My extreme joy at watching Cuomo bite the dust has very little to do with ideology, at least in the sense of which policies I support. The US hasn’t been brought to its knees by bad policy ideas. It’s been brought to its knees by BAD MEN, and our inability to get rid of them. But today we did!
Frum and sex predators, peas in a pod?
Listening to Blake Moore's Town Hall. He's definitely been practicing his talking points, but unfortunately they're all high-school level and completely disingenuous.
Two brothers, ages 8 and 10, stared nervously into news cameras on June 19, speaking with quiet determination to a group of onlookers much older than themselves. “We need our dad back home,” the 8-year-old said. ICE took custody of their father, Kerlin Moreno-Orellana, that morning.
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
Maybe we're not as nice as he thought after all. If we're tolerating Lee, are we really that nice?
I ran more than a mile today for the first time in years. Yeah, I walked part of it, and I used to be able to run several miles without stopping. But since my injury, I really fell of out practice. It feels good to take baby steps to getting back into shape again.
What an entirely useless, corrupt, selfish class of people
the future of the democratic party is this old guy who sucks
Got an email from a buddy this morning that brought me up short, asking if it was time for people to start hiding immigrants who risk deportation. My initial reaction was, No. We're not in Anne Frank territory. But the more I thought about it, I had questions . . .
As a former subscriber, I have mixed feelings about the collapse of a formerly important news publication
An MIT study of 54 participants found ChatGPT users had lower brain activity, weaker memory, and less creativity than Google or unaided writers. ChatGPT users brain activity declined over time, relied on copy-paste, and couldn’t recall what they wrote. The brain is a muscle, use it or lose it.
Coolest conversion story I've ever heard! 🤘😂
Second that.
This is a good example of journalism we're sorely lacking today. Investigation and fact checking gov't claims in critical matters. Thank you.
I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch