Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

This is why I’m pushing for a state escrow account that holds federal funds before sending them on to Washington. If Trump wants to steal our tax dollars that were legally appropriated by Congress, then we should just be paying ourselves.

can't decide of IRB departments are asleep at the wheel with respect to this kind of AI research, or are simply being bamboozled by AI boosters into thinking this isn't actually human subjects research. But either way--bad!!

Fraud was the excuse: this is the real goal, revealed - reduce safety net funding, but only in blue states.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Absolutely true, and somehow not-discussed point: The US **ALREADY** has all the strategic advantages it could gain by "owning" Greenland. Through treaties and (until now) close NATO cooperation w Denmark The US has a naval base & 'space force' base there. You see USAF planes at Grndlnd airports

fwiw this is what I think too. @jtlg.bsky.social would know more than I do though!

hate it when my elite pedophilia related government cover up gets in the way of my domestic ethnic cleansing and starvation campaigns while I’m trying to invade other countries

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Grok is unique in that it is both the creator and the mass distributor of NCII and CSAM all in one. And there is no point in having regulations or guardrails to protect children if you don’t enforce them.

"the shark jumps at midnight" -- me, explaining to my grandkids why America threw its last scraps of credibility into the trash to secure oil reserves on the cusp of the clean energy transition

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.

Cartoonishly evil stuff here

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

that op-ed was so funny and wild. not even "the solution is to do my favorite thing" but the even dumber "the solution is to pay me". anyway hats off to Khan's publicist

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

Michael Scott bankruptcy meme but it's Trump yelling "I declare national security"

Agreed; the point of DOGE was never cost savings, that was just cynical cover for a different kind of efficiency grab, namely informational power

Marty Lederman to eat for free in Chicago for the rest of his life

1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

"No wonder AI backers today are fighting against regulation of any kind. They want us to help pay for it while they reap the profits." See also: oil and gas industry.

Either the abundance boys who embraced Bergum are also shills for fossil fuel, or they're just wayyy too easily duped...they did not cover themselves in valor with this one lol

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all of these people have to be made to pay

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

the child safety to generalized surveillance pipeline

can't miss wrap up of all things tech from the best in the biz!!

I work with several amazing climate researchers including @drshepherd2013.bsky.social and @docaharper.bsky.social along with others not on Bluesky. In addition to the loss to climate research, I've been struck by the stories of those whose careers were nurtured at NCAR. This would be a tough loss.

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

I do my utmost to minimize plastic exposure for my family, and the maddening thing is that so much of it is out of my control entirely given how food is packaged and produced in this country.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…   5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

I think every grandpa should be allowed to get on tv and yell for an hour

we only want to beat China in scams, we seem to be fine letting them beat us at the clean energy transition, robotics, and biotech

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

As I just wrote to my reps @slotkin.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov and @debbiedingell.house.gov, our country cannot afford to sacrifice the safety of ordinary people on the altar of Russ Vought's culture war against climate reality

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

dystopian ouroboros of great replacement theory shading into never let me go

This is not just anti-worker, but also a strategically disastrous decision that would tank the entire brand. many such cases!

seems the permitting reform bill might go down in Congress because Republican hardliners are mad it will enable some renewables projects heatmap.news/politics/all...

While huge swathes of the PNW are facing devastating floods too

Matthew Broderick in full sad sack mode would make a great Rubio.