Sandra Newman

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

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Absolut sehenswert, spannender Politiker:

And then take the pieces and put them in sacks and smash them again, and then whatever is left should be ground into a paste and burned on an altar.

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

We strongly oppose the introduction of the international student levy. It suggests a lack of understanding of the financial pressure on higher education. It is estimated that a single cohort of international students provides up to £37 billion net contribution to the UK already

I guess we should be grateful that we aren't yet required to watch it and applaud.

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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When you get off the bus it's customary to say to the driver "You appeared to me in my dream as a shimmering resplendent tower of light and in that moment I knew that everything was going to be okay"

Today’s gonna be the day, The New Yorker!

From my series 100 Years Ago Today: Real People Tell Their Real Stories. #1: Doorman

“A unique voice, tone and heart.” Everything Will Swallow You has been chosen as one of the top ten paperback releases so far of 2026 by this week’s Bookseller Magazine. Free international delivery here in case you’ve not got yours yet: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Seems bad www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses.

"One must imagine Sisyphus naked." — Albert Camus, giving advice on how to overcome stage fright

So basically tech oligarchs keep announcing they've successfully built a paperclip maximiser and demanding we devote all our money to funding it and all our energy to passing laws to stop it.

Me every Thursday to my profession:

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

The driver’s behavior before and after the crash is sociopathic. But also, no car operated on public roads should be able to go 100 mph, much less 142 mph.

Honestly "cult" is probably generously downplaying the horror of an industry that has normalized the idea of boundary eroding sex parties attended by all the people who have control over your professional & financial future. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Man of the people stuff right here.

The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this

Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :

"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to put it into the mouth of a fictional character who is then immediately killed by orcs.

If the government gives everyone a $5k check, what they're really doing is requiring everyone to take out a $5k loan, which we will all have to repay, with no control over how or when we pay it, and no guarantee about the interest rate.

Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.

I've noticed politicians and pundits have stopped using the term "job creators" now that the bosses spend every waking minute scheming to end all jobs.

good morning mr president, we have that ai video of you playing quarterback in the super bowl that youve been demanding but we need to reiterate once again that we have 11 days of oil left

Our right to privacy does not come with an income requirement, period. That’s why we’re suing the Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority for installing surveillance devices, called Minut Monitors, in hundreds of public housing apartments units in New Hampshire. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

Once again, the implicit assumption of nearly every argument for “AI in the classroom” is that the real subject of every course must be (the benefits or shortcomings of) AI

Why do I have to check in for my flight? Wasn’t the paying $400 bucks for the ticket enough of a hint that I want to go

This is the newest. No pressure, but if we sell enough through Blackwell's (free international delivery) we are told more shops are likely to stock this little book published on zero budget by a new, tiny publisher: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Quite literally. These robots are funded by the $240 billion for immigration enforcement from Congress, which at the same time has done $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts.

Flew into London today, and I could see from the plane that the grass in parks all over the city was yellow and dead. Later I went out in a park and when I touched a flower it was so dry and brittle I could crumble it in my hand. We are really not prepared for how fast this is happening.