NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

ok but also I will never not recommend canticle for liebowitz

This is — arguably — a bigger journalistic scandal than Bari pulling the 60 Minutes CECOT report.

Wow good thing MLB (and every league) hasn’t spent the last few years getting in bed with the gambling industry. That would be embarrassing.

I mean it's true, the military does use spreadsheets

PantsCoin

the "good" news here is that neither side is showing much sign of increasing the number of delivery systems (altho both are building new icbms to replace their old ones), but the less good news is the existing weapons will carry more warheads

very unrelated btw but will lewis looks a bit like dave matthews imo

[norman rockwell meme] stranger in a strange land is a terrible book

. @nickijhabvala.bsky.social: "Will Lewis was too busy to join the call to tell his staff he’s destroying the @washingtonpost.com sports department yesterday … but he did have time to walk the red carpet at NFL Honors here in San Francisco today. Amazing."

fox running outrage headlines for *the outcome they wanted*, which is "compete as your gender at birth." everything is so stupid

shut up and burn your dumpster, black

yes, this is a smart point too! you can see it in (for instance) the skull balaclavas, but I think to an almost ridiculous degree games like call of duty have had a direct impact on the attitudes and behaviors of cops, and certainly the ice/cbp/dhs types.

a lot of ex-mil people on here who served in the gwot have noted, correctly, that the stuff ice is doing would a) have gotten them killed and/or b) gotten them in a lot of trouble. war crimey stuff was correctly treated like war crimes etc

pulling out all the untruthful noise here, this is advocating for a treaty to replace the one the u.s. could easily have saved in the last 12 months by (checks notes) trying even a tiny bit

why are they doing this when mass effect is right there

I think minuteman iiis and tridents are target-agnostic tbh

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

The suburban observers, heavily women, say they share a personality type. “Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

amen

In November 2020, the (dumb, baseless) theory was that this involved Smartmatic. It’s useful to reiterate that no matter what lies the incessantly lying Gabbard offers, there’s no evidence that there was anything suspect about the election AT ALL, much less Involving some conspiracy linked to VZ.

Two children from Liam Ramos' school who were detained by ICE have been released and are back in MN with their mother. Their Columbia Heights principal, who had to deliver the kids to Whipple last week (as described below), picked them up from the airport. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

This is incredibly weird (and doesn't exactly look like strategic policy-making): In late December, the Trump administration decided to ban all imports of new models of foreign (read Chinese-made) drones. 👇 But then... 🧵

happy end of New START to all who celebrate. may all your mirvs be uploaded!

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Tesla was sued over a fiery crash in Massachusetts that killed the driver after he was unable to exit the vehicle, the latest lawsuit to allege defects with the company’s electrically powered door handles

I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.

Today is a great day to support journalism you trust.

These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

South Korea’s top diplomat met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio as Seoul scrambles to avoid a threatened US tariff hike to 25%

I can’t believe this is still going on

"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

As always, putting the new in newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."

I have never seen anything like this tbh on.wsj.com/4tuYacD

dan, an actual expert on chemical weapons, is a guy you should follow if for no other reason than repeated debunkings of protest operational theater

because intelligent, interrogative interviewing can get you shut out of access, most U.S. media - especially TV news - actively *discourages* it in political reporting. Contrast the UK, where the unavoidable status of the BBC paradoxically meant it could be much bolder, setting the norm for others.

wait a second I AM WRONG apparently I misremembered *reading* about the change with being there for the change. ku still used circus font while I was there. trajan was in the mid-2000s incredible

reader, you will never guess what thread led to this post (rock chalk) (also trajan was introduced *while I was at ku* so uh, ouch)

propublica is great

This is the business in Uptown that got randomly tear-gassed by ICE a few weeks ago. Guess they didn’t like it

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

there is zero serious legal scholarship that birthright citizenship is not real and like the 14th amendment is unambiguous, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

not great that one of the leaders of the opposition party has to go on tv and say this

another journalist arrested

"what if we just put a 10-meter antenna array in orbit"

watching the stancil-is-a-collaborator drama play out On Here is the most online I have ever felt (he is not a collaborator, or an idiot... this is stupid)