NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
A true horror story—one you should read if you’re planning to get behind the wheel of a car anywhere in the United States in the foreseeable future. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
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Hillary Clinton this morning on the US-Iran talks that fell apart:
“This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any results. And I don’t see this administration either wanting to do it or, frankly, being capable of doing it…”
The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic.
Boy, did they screw up.
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated. Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
After listening to @karaswisher.bsky.social talk with the parents of
Adam Raine, a teenager who was encouraged to commit suicide by OpenAi’s ChatGPT I had a revealing exchange with the bot. These are 2 of the most interesting answers. (The bit knew to read over my typo in the 1st question)
California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.
In Trump's first 100 days, he alienated us from our allies, crashed the stock market, decimated U.S. cancer research, expelled American toddlers, lost the Canadian election by proxy, and threatened your Social Security checks.
But at least he focused on the important stuff.
The Florida State University school mass shooter is 20 year old Bible quoting MAGA lunatic white male who is also the son of a Leon County Sheriff's deputy whose gun he used to do the shooting.
Still not a Drag Queen.
Still not an immigrant.
Still not a trans person.
MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.
The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster.
Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: He choked.
The market started to tank, and suddenly, he said, “Oh, didn’t you guys already have a plan to deal with the border back in December? I love that—I’ll take that.”
This is Mr. Art of the Deal.
Christian fundamentalist president forgets to place his hand in magic book while swearing oath of office. And thus domestic talibanism takes off with the wrong foot.
Cooper: Trump chose to attack you, blame you for this.
Newsom: People are literally fleeing. People have lost their lives.[Trump] wanted to politicize it… I stood next to Biden. And he had the backs of every single person in this community. He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.
This man and a small group of capitol police officers singlehandedly saved our democracy four years ago.
In November, 77 million Americans said "to hell with them" and voted for the insurrectionists.
Your "Back the Blue" flags are a pathetic disgrace and your patriotism is bullsh*t.
Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids.
Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?
I have met wonderful people in the automotive industry, but only a few made more sense or were kinder, and most definitely none made me laugh as hard, than the one and only #JeanJennings.
She was pure automotive royalty, brilliant and with a heart of gold.
I will miss you my #friend.
America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster.
We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here.
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