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I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Some good news: church grounds and graveyards across Ireland are becoming havens for birds, bees and bats as part of a biodiversity project inspired by Pope Francis. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Immediate follow-up: Senator, what specific tasks/ priorities have prevented you from reviewing critical national security/ foreign policy documentation for the past 24 hours it has been available?

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear lab coats.

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Bill Barr had the reporter who broke the Epstein story surveilled. Nothing to see here, folks.

A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

‘Altman was launching a full court press for loan guarantees when he got caught with hands in the cookie jar. And then Altman lied about the whole thing to the entire world.’ garymarcus.substack.com/p/sam-altman... by @garymarcus.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

📌Actual headline leading the NYT right now: PRESIDENT SAYS HE IS NOT DECLARING WAR ON CHICAGO What the fuck are we supposed to do with this?

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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"If SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act, the prospect of Republicans stealing only 5 seats in Texas will feel quaint. While California must counteract what the GOP is doing in Texas, we don’t have enough seats to counteract what they could do if the VRA if gutted. It cement permanent GOP rule."

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

BREAKING: Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.

People exploding this false messaging that I voted for a bill + funding that I quite literally voted NO on. The threat environment this morning is scary. Doesn’t help anyone. Drag me for the position if you disagree but don’t lie. It’s out of control. Saying I voted for this funding is false.

This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday. It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever. I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

The problem is this is a slow roll that people won’t necessarily put together. Defunding NPR and PBS and pulling all of the Trump truth tellers off the air is purposeful. 

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

If you wear womenswear, Austin-based shop Daughter's is donating 100% of the profits they earn today to Kerr County Relief Fund. The money will help those Texan families who have lost everything in the tragic July 4th flood. The video below is of Daughter's Kapital stock. www.shopdaughters.com

I've seen a lot in 20 years of politics. This Big Betrayal of a bill is about as bad as it gets. We're going to work together and do everything we can to preserve core services, including critical care from Planned Parenthood.

not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?

I encourage everyone to read this letter. Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.

in 1967, senators rfk and joseph clark took a tour of the mississippi delta. they were horrified by the sheer scale of poverty, malnutrition, and neglect. their report caused a national scandal. the scenes haunted kennedy; he considered it the worst thing he'd seen in his life.

We are pretty sure Bernoulli understands cats as well as humans do, which is not at all

Bernoulli reached a milestone in today’s episode!

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

As of June 15, 71.8% of the 56,397 people in ICE detention had no criminal conviction. It costs taxpayers ~$165/day for a bed in a detention facility. So we're now paying ~$6.7 million/day to keep people who haven't been convicted of a crime locked in prisons. Sources: TRAC Immigration, DHS

THE FATHER OF THREE MARINES. This is outrageous and un-American. Masked agents snatching and beating people. In America. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/v... There is no reason to treat him this way. And to continue to hold him in the way they are now.

The Roberts Court exists to give legal cover to bigots www.publicnotice.co/p/skrmetti-r...

💥 🍃 🏥 New Stem Cell Therapy Effective for Severe Diabetes (Type 1) 🧪 Single treatment led to reduced or no need for insulin in all 12 patients New England Journal of Medicine Report nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2506549 Gift Article NYT

This is my hometown. Trump’s armed thugs are disappearing our neighbors off the streets without due process. Hey ICE, take your masks off and identify ourselves, you fucking cowards.

Brutal.

tough tough tough decisions