Once again, this is not an important question, nor does answering it tell you anything about any useful moral question

The better team won… thank goodness

What 'moderation' really means is adopting the views of a very small group of loud, centrist writers and their big business backers, and is increasingly out of step with (a) the big problems in the US and (b) the polling on what Americans say are the biggest problems they want government to fix.

This is so awful

If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

We need a wealth tax

things like this are especially funny when you remember that the @washingtonpost.com is owned by the 4th wealthiest man in the world and is now dedicated almost 24-7 to arguing that you should never tax a dollar of jeff bezo's over $246 billion dollars

A second ex-wife of the ICE agent who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine has come forward. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes."

the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking

Zero surprises here. The law needs to be changed so that the agent can be held civilly responsible, along with the people who hired him with a record like this.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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The aspect of propaganda that many don't realize affects them is amplification. OK, you don't fall for blatant lies, and sycophantic praise makes you cringe. But I bet many have a general impression of something that's based on anecdotes selected and repeated by propagandists more than you realize.

Robert Mugabe once “won” a lottery run by Zimbabwe’s state-owned bank while President. And somehow this is so much worse.

Elon Musk trying to sink a Christopher Nolan movie was honestly the funniest and dumbest course of action he could have taken. He’s one of the most popular filmmakers alive and now it proves Elon and his fanboys have no real cultural impact outside of X

After Trump said in April that the US would bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, including bridges and power plants, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said "deliberately attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure is a war crime". www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Why does nobody trust institutions anymore?"

And let’s be real, even when prosecution numbers were “high,” that’s just relative. White-collar crime enforcement has always been low. Now, it’s just abysmally so.

At this point I don't really think anyone is even bothering much with denying climate change, instead there's just this insidious loss of interest, and resignation, but the thing is as bad as it is and will get it could still get a LOT worse depending on what we do

So far this year we've had: the warmest winter on record in the mountain west, a record-shattering heat wave in Europe, once in a thousand year rainfall and flooding texas and forest fire smoke blanketing the mid west and the north east. Feels like something's going on with the climate!

The proper response is resilience not panic

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

“Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife lives there.”

Positively dystopian

one of my favorite lenses for looking at american history is “country shaped by successive generations of people experiencing religious psychosis”

A plainly unsustainable country, sustained by workers who can't afford to live in it.

the one thing you have to realize about the filibuster is it keeps both parties from basically taking hard votes on policy they profess but personally know would destroy them in the next election cycle removing it is a good thing, but there is a reason that Senators don't want to give it up

good time to point out that flocks ceo is pro facial recognition and the only reason the firm doesn't use it is to avoid bad press

And Amazon doesn’t care

‘It is a little sobering to see correlations plunge to an even greater extent than they did in the late stages of the dot-com bubble.‘ blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...

New: cops are using Flock to track people, not cars. We reviewed Flock search data and found many, many cases of cops searching for people based on their appearance, race, tattoos, etc. Some searches are so vague like "tall man" that innocent people likely swept up www.404media.co/how-cops-use...

Entirety of Chicago smells like you’re three feet from a bonfire.

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Parts of Ontario and northern Michigan are experiencing a truly awful combination of extreme heat and terrible air quality due to the ongoing heatwave and wildfires in the region. While satellite imagery looks dramatic, what matters for population exposure is smoke at the surface. 1/

Public money is fueling a huge growth in private schools. There's no real tracking or monitoring so @propublica.org embarked on a count, finding new schools in barns, addiction treatment centers, co-working spaces, churches & a family fun center. www.propublica.org/article/priv...

Front running the president’s deliberate market manipulation. Feels criminal.

Michigan right now has the worst air quality in the country as smoke from fires in Canada and northern Minnesota continue to get pulled down across the Great Lakes.

As private schools proliferate in Florida and across the country, fueled by taxpayer dollars, states are choosing not to closely regulate who is operating them or to oversee student safety and achievement, a ProPublica investigation found. Read this ⬇️⬇️ www.propublica.org/article/priv...

Qualified immunity is a sham. Government employees being shielded from civil liability (in most cases) is a sham. We deserve better. Primary anyone who doesn't commit to making government directly accountable to the people.

I really appreciate this stance. Too many people try to use "but it's useful" as a counterargument to what we say, for example, in The AI Con. Useful for whom and at what cost (to the user and especially others) should always be the immediate follow up.

The U.S. is #1 in healthcare spending. But it's also: • 62nd in life expectancy • 54th in infant mortality • #1 in medical debt • #1 in medical bankruptcies

Bernie's 'AI sovereign wealth fund' is absurd on its face because it takes seriously the claims of the AI companies and their cheerleaders of insane future returns. We're 4 years into this shit and these clowns can't even say what the ROI on AI tech is, let alone when they will become profitable.

“Trump had said the repairs would last a century.” apnews.com/article/refl...

Steaming ahead toward the dumbest possible future!

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this is why every major international team should have a guy on the sidelines who's just reading posts

a lot of us said they were wrong during the defeat (and while you were up 1-0!) if that helps

My social media feed was full of people screaming that your decisions were wrong during the match too.

Yeah, I know he’s won plenty and built a reputation, but he was hired explicitly to not do what he did in this game. He was an absolute loser today.