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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” -- Issac Asimov

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Far right manosphere hate influencer SNEAKO accidentally left in his chatgpt prompt before posting

ICE murdered two people in less than a week. Claimed they were “ramming their vehicle”. They said the same about Marimar Martinez who they shot FIVE times. She survived. Went to court to get the body cam footage released. Proved them wrong. Every shooting since they’ve left no survivors:

Texas AG Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years. w/ @texastribune.org

in case anyone needs to induce vomiting

This is an excellent explainer. Also yikes.

I need American people to understand that this speech was given by British Member of Parliament Glenda Jackson within 48 hours of Thatcher passing away. This is what I mean when I say that the cultural norm of "You must say nice things about the person that harmed your voters!🤡" is unique to the US

Amy Klobuchar’s eulogy for Lindsey Graham was 390 words long. This was 390 more words than she has said in support of trans people

New: Officials say intel confirms that Trump’s boat strikes aren’t achieving the purported goal of stopping the flow of drugs. Top WH & Pentagon officials know this. And that apparently hasn’t changed a thing — as sources say Trump is now exploring an *expansion* of operations. @swin24.bsky.social

Don’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...

This would be the man who yelled “you lie” at the President of the Inited States as the POTUS addressed a joint session of Congress. That President was Barack Obama.

Satan : welcome to hell Lindsay Graham : but why Satan : oh dont misunderstand here’s ur office and name plaque ur a vice president on day one Lindsay Graham : what Satan : can i just say im a fan im gushing listen to me

And yet we are being led back into the dark ages by sociopaths and true believers. Carl Sagan was right.

Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead batteries with 90% recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.

I’m glad you’re still here, brother. 🫶🏼

#ICYMI: We found that a recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

This guy needs to be impeached and removed ASAP

Candidate : so ur saying the people crave authenticity and to deliver that ur giving them an AI version of me Consultants : ye Candidate : who do i make the check out to

FUCK BIG TECH. FUCK THEM ALL IN THEIR FUCKING GOAT ASS. I HOPE THEY ALL ROT AND BURN IN HELL.

Mamdani is dramatically more aligned with Western civilization and traditions than like 99% of these panicky nationalist chuds who think Western just means White.

As Anthropic leapt into a leadership position on agentic workflows, it decided to raise token prices. Everyone else in the industry is now echoing the Jeff Bezos line, “your margin is my opportunity.” It looks like we’re about to see a price war in an industry that’s already unprofitable for many.

JFC I miss the fuck out of Chester. I could really use some fucking awesome new LP songs right now. RIP brother, I have the same hell between my ears that you did.

“At a cryptographic level, this tells us something very simple: the providers are probably using a single global key to encrypt and authenticate all reasoning data sent to the client.” Oh for fuck’s sake

“When voters scroll through their social media feeds after the hearing, Democrats should ensure they get clip after clip of Blanche squirming to justify his handling of Epstein…the sweetheart deal Blanche gave Maxwell and the discussions in the Situation Room.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I’m going to London for work in late August and as bad as things seem in the UK, compared to the US right now, it’s a fucking paradise. I may just not come back. 🇬🇧

As someone who grew up Catholic in 1980s Nashville, hooooo boy.

For more, read reporter @deldeib.bsky.social's investigation:

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81x more likely to develop a type of uncontrollable bleeding than those who do. But no federal or state agencies track refusal rates or subsequent bleeding. Following ProPublica’s report, two lawmakers are demanding CDC action.

Hey friends, just a gentle reminder that we can call out all the terrible things about McConnell without shitting on disabled people by making whatever medical stuff he has going on a punchline.

"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg

"At this point, we mostly just nod and wait for him to move on to renaming the Strait of Juan de Fuca the Super Strait of Lindsey Graham.”

Stocks at record highs can coexist with a pretty ordinary economy. Why? ⁣ ⁣ A handful of AI-linked firms are driving much of the market's gains. Strip them out, and the rally looks a lot less impressive.

Yes. Fucking yes. So over “the rock.” Have read he’s turned into quite the dickbag now anyway.

Mood: open.spotify.com/track/1pr9TZ...

I gotta get the fuck out of Texas. I just had to share that I was over 18 to open Bluesky. Fucking bullshit libertarians.

Oh cool, an Easter egg feature that traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you when it's decided you've misbehaved. Imagine what a hacker group or ICE can do with this. The fact that this is even functionally possible is horrifying.

I ate 338,000 scoville wings today at lunch at work. Was fine until about 8pm. Do not recommend.

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

#USMNT fans rn

Mitch McConnell had more life than USMNT