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The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato @deadder.bsky.social

This kind of sums it up.

Our society is governed by a reactionary's imagination of what an 18th century reactionary might have believed after he had a few beers

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Comic from 2023: Who would have won WWII if a racist American auto manufacturer had the power to control one side's access to technology?

This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

chef kiss

I want whatever the opposite is of what CoreCivic wants

“No one should be surprised that all the scrutiny from the mainstream press is focused squarely on the spotted hyena with its jaws dug into the right buttock of the president and not on our historically prosperous economy.” — Beni Rae Harmony, assistant press secretary

Kids are spending longer than ever in ORR custody, and attorneys have turned to habeas petitions to get them out. Jill Williams of Acacia and Becky Wolozin of the National Center for Youth Law explained the strategy to me. https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-child-should-need-a-habeas-petition

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Trump: "I'm in office one day and one of the fake news people looks me in the eyes and said…affordability…They hit me with affordability, and that's the first time I ever heard the word used."

DID YOU GO TO MIT?

folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*

The Emperor has AI psychosis.

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

John Kennedy before he adopted his Foghorn Leghorn MAGA character.

trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”

He just like me fr

"Whatever you do with your time, while you're here, every single day: give a shit ... Do it with purpose and gratitude, and surround yourself with people you love that also give a shit. I don't know, because I don't know anything. But that might be the key to life." www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhXQ...

correct. the drug trafficker/president of Colombia was put up at the Four Seasons awaiting trial, NOT a Holiday Inn

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

I think of this old comic book ad a lot nowadays.

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat.

I told ya she did it.

He ought to be asked about this when he’s presented as a Democratic strategist.

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

the Republican agenda since Reagan is working

ICYMI — Trump’s Department of Education clearly backed up Republican candidate Bo French’s blatantly racist tweet about the UT-Austin student body not being white enough, which even other Republicans condemned. When they show you who they are, believe them.

Dept of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) program to shrink the federal work force, by paying people not to work, increased administrative leave costs by 435%, costing taxpayers $9.5 billion “This was the most expensive way imaginable to make government worse" - Senator Patty @murray.senate.gov

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!!