Imagine an invention that is worse at what it does than humans, threatens jobs and increases the potential for crime. You might think it would go nowhere fast. Yet the supermarket self-checkout is a good example of such technology

The House just decisively passed legislation that restores the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Over the objection of Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson. If you don’t know, now you know.

The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show.

Here are three examples and some tips for telling fake videos and images from real ones.

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

Inbox: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board has voted to dissolve the organization following Congress pulling its federal funding

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given surprising new insight into the online “America First” movement.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill. It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

I’ve read this proposed cave of a deal and it is WRONG FOR AMERICA. Repubs want Dems to vote for a bill without health care subsidies in exchange for a “promise” Repubs will bring them back up for a vote later. DO NOT TRUST THESE LIARS! NO DEAL!!!!!

GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : "I support independent redistricting, but you can't do it state by state with one arm tied behind your back. You can't unilaterally disarm as other people are not playing by the rules.”

Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of." One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

"Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say" gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.

This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4

While some Hurricane Katrina evacuees eventually returned to New Orleans to rebuild their lives, many of those who were displaced found not just refuge, but a new beginning in Houston. capitalbnews.org/houston-katr...

"To whom much is given, much is expected."

Breaking News: More children were killed by guns in states that loosened laws after the Supreme Court limited the ability to restrict ownership, a study found.

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians Texans 34% more likely to be raped earn 13% less and pay 3.8% more in taxes" (overall) "Fort Worth has the same population as San Francisco and 1.5x as many murders Republican mayor and governor Nobody ever writes about those places!"

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

Greetings from Houston. "It doesn’t make any sense. These are the people that were brought to the U.S. by the U.S. armed forces. They did not come to the U.S. illegally. They did not go across Mexico and then try to enter the United States. So, why attack this group? It's simply inexplicable."

Some of what I shared: Code isn't neutral—it reflects specific values and choices. I challenge you to question the code. Not just ask "can we do this?" but "should we do it?" Not just "how fast?" but "in what direction?" Not just "who benefits?" but "who gets to decide?"

Every word of this.

got so annoyed at seeing idiots on tiktok and youtube argue about 20th century american party politics that i made a nearly 30 minute video trying to sketch out the history in a nuanced way. the conceit of this video, however, is that it's all from the dome! no notes, just vibes.

how about we take tens of millions of dollars and fund a bunch of investigative reporters and local news stations across the country without the expectation that they will make a profit

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The great thing about journalism is all the gifted reporters and editors have lost the jobs they went into debt to train for and sacrificed their emotional health to do well, but half a dozen middle-aged moral disasters are now the face of the whole discipline because they suck up to billionaires

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

Your job is not to raise an obedient child. Your job is to raise a child who becomes a strong, confident adult. Remember that. Then parent accordingly.

Take the time to read this. Kindness matters.

Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

In case you want some sweet news today. I’m volunteering at the book fair at my kid’s school, and discovered Dav Pilkey paid for the whole thing. For the entire school. Every kid pre-k through fifth grade (the whole school) goes home with two free books.

Warnock: They are busy attacking ordinary people. They don’t understand what it’s like to ration your prescription drugs or what it’s like to try to figure out how to afford groceries. In the words of that prophet who just spoke at The Super Bowl: They not like us

Rodney Taylor is a beloved Georgia barber who came to the United States from Liberia with his mother when he was only two years old. He applied for citizenship but was denied. But this year, ICE arrested him, locked him up, and has scheduled him to be deported to a faraway country he's never known.

We need more Jon Ossoffs in the Democratic Party. This is just fantastic.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you? My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.

The Defense Dept has deleted references to Black, Hispanic & female service members as well as topics such as the Civil War from its website in order to remove all references to diversity, equity, & inclusion. Sgt William H. Carney, a former slave, is the first black man to get the Medal of Honor.