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WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

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It amuses/scares me to no end that the right wing take economy is run by several group chats made up of the world's richest men and the people they pay to pretend to be journalist.

Memo went out

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

the vast majority of agricultural labor in the USA is done by undocumented latinos in an illegal kafala system-type employment arrangement with millionaire plantation owners and a small force of overseers who LARP as rugged cowboys. if you do not understand this you are not a serious leftist.

My general metric for Matt Damon movies is that they’re best if he’s a) in Europe, b) having an identity crisis, and c) killing people. (Talented Mr. Ripley, Bourne Identity.) So The Odyssey should be pretty good?

The Age of Salads is over. The Time of the Stew has come.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

accelerationists tearing their hair out trying to think of what could possibly have an impact anymore as an elected official gets kidnapped and held at gunpoint and just sort of vacantly stares into the distance while thinking about their dinner reservations

Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?

Flintstones was 11/10

The weirdest kind of mainstream argument on here is that giving a country bombs does not make you complicit in how they are used

Instant Transmission

Pasadena (Texas) police sergeant resigns while under internal investigation; council member cites alleged misuse of Flock camera. The sergeant allegedly used the Flock system to track and stalk a female officer. www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

Even though we didn’t always see eye to eye, he wanted to kill ‘em all, for example, while I simply wanted to let the market determine who lives and dies, we nevertheless wanted people killed.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

speaking of people hilariously hurled into the air, Russian forces yoink a .50 cal Gatling gun off a helicopter to try to use it for anti-drone use

PLaID* Population Lowering and Improving Demographics *ᶠᵒʳᵐᵉʳˡʸ ᴹᵘʳᵈᵉʳⱽᵃⁿ

people online:"the founding fathers were evil because of slave-" Actual Democratic-Republicans in the 1790s: KILL GEORGE WASHINGTON

AI 2040

Chat, is it good when your ethnostate is drawing comparisons to Jonestown?

I wonder if Lyman Stone realizes his Chinese Twitter handle almost sounds like "slimy" when you say it fast

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

actual quote from a Tsinghua PhD student relayed to me this week by an American scholar on a visit: "I don't have the money or status to get a date, and I know that, so I have three AI girlfriends." The "AI girlfriend" phenomenon might be even more advanced in China than in the US, tbh. Not great.

I knew this because a hundred people have sent me this from tumblr. Congrats on your good grade Mattie :)

Finding out pangolins are bipedal

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

I...worked on this story for a year...and... @bencollins.bsky.social just...he tweeted it out. www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

This chart of how scores dropped when an econ prof. switched from take-home midterm to proctored in-person final sadly tracks with what I've seen. Why I've thought people (especially STEM profs) have had their head in the sand about LLMs and academia... www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

an admissions system for elite colleges like Brown that gives huge advantages to amoral cheaters who can learn to work the system also feels like relevant context here.

ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating

In Lebanon, IDF snipers “shoot so randomly that a lot of people just going out to the store or going to tend to their garden or their child was going somewhere would get shot and killed.” My interview with an aid worker just back from Lebanon & recently in Gaza:

me, demanding more of the daytime World Cup to which I’ve become accustomed

checking on Harvard Law professors

One of the most mundane truths in the world is that the biggest threat to any person comes from their own government, as a simple function of proximity and opportunity, and begging them to protect you from The Foreigners is a great way to increase your vulnerability.

I picked up a 1975 oscilloscope to make cool visuals with and holy shit it is so sick 😍

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

you know what? close enough. welcome back, chinese emperors swallowing mercury in a deranged quest to avoid death