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My wife was talking to a friend from Wyoming last night whose pastor (Unitarian) is among them. Only a matter of time until these religious leaders are described as “paid outside agitators”.

Minus the Baroness

“Massive spending on data centers is crowding out investment in everything else in the economy.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ai-versus-...

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Make a band edible: Mastodonut

Wake up to US tech as a weapon.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Accountant: We can allocate the fullness of the cup however you'd like as long as we are consistent in the way we allocate it.

Valkyries sure do a lot of flopping ...

Republicans are currently denouncing everyone in the Democratic Party as a “communist” and if you think Democrats firing at their left flank will make those attacks *less likely* and *less effective* you should try reading up on the history of McCarthyism

need to start using the dutch word for "party animal"

I'm sure I'm late to the party, but if you haven't read Between Two Fires, you really ought to.

The trans scapegoating is especially irritating to me from normie libs who say "well, people really care about high school sports." Only because you immediately ceded the issue and the framing to conservatives! You can craft the conversation instead of just react to it.

would be great if policymakers (yes, even the ones in legal states) were able to face up to the fact the sky didn't fall.

Dude, Ed Markey is still busting into ICE facilities unannounced and talking about a general strike if Feds show up at polling places. He's a young 80, like my dad. I do not want Captain Seth Moderation, thank you, who is an ancient and frail 47.

Accurate.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

The "defund the police" cost Democrats countless elections claim always sits awkwardly with the fact that peak "defund" activism was 2020, the year that Democrats won their first federal governing trifecta since 2008.

When the subject of a picture sees a “photojournalist as a protective shield, not an intrusive force.” How a Getty photo intern got this pic from a subway car crowded with white nationalists. And what that man you see at the left had to say about him. My piece via CJR www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

There are a lot of dem party cheerleaders jumping on this as a way to discredit the entire left, and that's just bullshit.

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

How you know someone doesn't know basketball:

You know, every time I use Umberto Eco's definition of fascism, I get a few folks super-upset that I haven't used some other (more poli-sci, I guess?) definition...and then these guys just keep vindicating Eco on the topic. You've got points 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14 right there.

"Never mind what you have personally experienced, we have some really dodgy data showing that the nation's failing mental health is caused by working from home and not everything else going wrong in the world."

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

It makes my head and heart hurt to read that Southern felt trapped by her own ideology: the feeling that she couldn’t go public because it would implicate her own hypocrisy. Every woman in the MAGA movement is in the same position. Just imagine how many more of them there are. Appalling. Grotesque.

Bret Stephens?

Trump administration buildings are now becoming infested with bed bugs. Employees are reportedly becoming sick from the infestations in the building that houses the agency responsible for mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the US. www.notus.org/policy/usda-...

The Man Who Knew Too Little

i have nothing but spitting contempt for people who look at this political movement and downplay or deny its open and explicit white nationalist

This is 14% of Lebanon's territory. Functionally indistinguishable from what Russia has done in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

Doesn’t flop, doesn’t get free throws, doesn’t hurt opponents when they are playing physical and the officials are letting it go, plays games when injured, gets snubbed from NBA awards. He is… ANTHONY EDWARDS 🐜🐜🐜

Stupid challenge by the Spurs. I love it!

Cool, cool. Spurs just got a five point turnaround because they fouled just in time. Great.

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

This is incredible. Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

Sometimes, a quesabirria taco is exactly what you need.

“We believe representing the voters will get in the way of our election by the voters to represent them.” DO YOU HEAR HOW YOU SOUND GUYS

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

The fact that nobody seriously believes there is an institution in this country that will check the president—that we’re all just sitting here hoping that he gets distracted and fails to follow through on his genocidal threats—is the most damning indictment of our political system I’ve seen yet.

At the very least someone (Jeffries) force an impeachment vote immediately and make the entire GOP support the clearcut threat of genocide