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Two smaller things I appreciate here: 1. Unless I’m mistaken, there are zero cuts or edits in this? It’s the whole conversation, start to finish. 2. The addition of “or not pray at all” every single time, which a lot of candidates tend to omit.

I have never flown BA, and after this nightmare scenario I will likely avoid it entirely

This is why people get cynical: We can see with our own eyes that there are in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Oh, it's getting good*. * = predictably awful

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.

HRRR-smoke near surface smoke forecast for 5pm EDT this afternoon. Things could get pretty gross!

Time for the regularly scheduled eastern US smoke event. See thread below and check out the latest here: www.airnow.gov/wildfires/

Trump, Erdogan, Modi, all of them are like this. Don’t mind being hated by many, even welcome it if from fear, but absolutely despise mockery. Putin went after a satirical puppet show. Xi went after Winnie the Pooh. Trump went after Jimmy Kimmel (and failed). They hate hate hate being laughed at.

Just used this to send a comment in, and it was really easy. You still have 6 hours to do so!

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ICE murdered another person.

every part of this story is absolutely wild including the cop telling OP to consider himself "lucky" after the wrongful surveillance ordeal bc "If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn” like hey we coulda killed you for no reason and didn't sooo good job us!

We have almost 34,000 cops. That is enough cops. Some might even say it's too many cops.

Not enough is said about the dire straits the British press has found itself in: Apart from TERFs taking over the domestic press and American right-wing oligarchs systematically importing British media execs to seize U.S. legacy media, the entire country simply looks like it has run out of cash

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

After that game I need a Xanax. An avalanche of Xanax.

This is fantastic. I love it. Congress should pass this bill. Thanks to @cmcnich.bsky.social and Matthew for their important analysis. Let me explain some of this a bit more: It takes an average of FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE days to bargain a first contract after a union is certified. Why? 1/

That’s really the most disturbing thing about AI: it makes people paranoid and encourages AI hunting by people who simply don’t have the know how Mentioned this many times but I was accused of posting AI because they didn’t think silent movies could do that

Fails as expected, and with this I’m gonna call it a night. The Senate is voting to provide $69 billion to ICE and Border Patrol with almost no oversight or accountability. Tough times lie ahead.

www.latimes.com/environment/... “A biologist discovered a decomposing bighorn sheep tangled in concertina wire recently strung in Imperial County, part of an effort to deter illegal immigration. Advocates had warned of danger to migrating animals.” 🧪🌎

Absolutely. As I've said before, FDR's court-packing plan failed because most Americans didn't recognize the conservative majority there was acting in a partisan fashion. But the Roberts Six are deeply corrupt, nakedly partisan, and barely bothering to hide their contempt for precedent. Let's go.

The next time Roberts snivels about the court's legitimacy this pie should be thrown in his face

“I am not asking you to sit here through late nights to vote on these bills that we’re dragging out,” said state Sen. Megan Hunt as a GOP colleague complained about a missed family event. “I’m asking you to love your family more than you hate mine.” www.commondreams.org/news/nebrask...

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.

Been considering getting short sleeve button-up shirts. If a capybara can pull it off, so can I, right? ...right?

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

on a personal note, i am just so sick of this shit. prioritizing nebulous feeling of discomfort over elevating the voices of people explicitly advocating for the freedom and safety of palestinians is sick. it makes those voices *less* safe and it doesn't make jews safer. i am begging people to stop.

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

SCOTUS is basically a white supremacist organization

Unlike the Democratic leadership in Congress, which still suffers under the delusion that there's a rump of good Republicans who are better than this and really want to forge bipartisan solutions to get back to normal, former GOP allies like Bill Kristol know that it's time for major changes.

How much "loss" do fire departments report annually? Police? The armed forces? Roads? Schools? Solid waste collection? Wastewater treatment? Public health agencies?

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

However much John Roberts cloaks him in unaccountability, doing this remains a very serious federal crime and stories about it should say so.

Mullin is so clearly unqualified to run DHS that any senator who votes to put this man in charge of any federal agency, let alone DHS, is announcing their own disqualification for office.

Americans still eating Russian seafood despite bans... laundered through Chinese fish processing companies www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

Oh suddenly this Republican cares about “the truth”? Another exemplar of the Republican motto: I care not when it happens to thee, but I care greatly when it happens to me.