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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

how are these transcripts even worse than the other major wrongful death suit transcripts

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This is so messed up. You cannot outsource this work to computers or AI. Sound craniometry requires actual measurement by experts using calipers. A computer cannot do this work accurately.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

One aspect of US political history that I think is underplayed is that on several measures—health care, housing, transportation, basic assistance—by the late 60s/early 70s, the nation was headed in a similar direction as European social democracies. Domestic policy was ambitious & liberal.

It's a really big a deal that the federal government assaulted a preschool WHILE CHILDREN WERE PRESENT Schoolteachers have been practicing live shooter drills for years in order to protect our students from harm Not a single teacher in the US has EVER prepared for our own government to attack us

i’m at damen/belle plaine in chicago’s north center neighborhood for an emergency anti-ice rally. around 7 a.m. this morning, masked federal agents chased a preschool teacher *into* nearby rayito del sol and abducted her—in front of traumatized children, parents, and coworkers.

I wrote a whole dissertation and Jamelle just...posts it.

Watching the #ClimateInfluence candidates (those who are seen living change #lesscar and transforming leadership social norms) win big tonight. Love this! Huge congrats, @mayorwu.boston.gov and supporters!

Looking forward to all the postmortems asking why the GOP is so out of touch with young men, and why their fascist propaganda is so alienating.

JUST IN: Democrats have swept the 3 supreme court elections in Pennsylvania. They beat back a concerted GOP effort to erase their majority; instead, they'll keep a 5-2 edge on this very important court.

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

as i've been saying for weeks, he has broken 50% and this is going to be important his ability to control the narrative after tonight

Everyone should pay careful attention to the Maine voter ID ballot measure (Prop 1). It is on track to lose -- thereby proving that the GOP claims that voter ID laws are overwhelmingly popular is a lie. Perhaps now the legacy media will stop repeating that nonsense.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

Pretty grateful to our featured sticker artist, Ida for her joyful mermaid!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Looks like they're about to nerf Teen Vogue www.vogue.com/article/teen...

at point blank range the right subway sandwich could give a guy high blood pressure!

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins: Baldwin (WI) Bennet (CO) Booker (NJ) Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gallego (AZ) Hassan (NH) Heinrich (NM) Hickenlooper (CO) Klobuchar (MN) Ossoff (GA) Peters (MI) Rosen (NV) Schiff (CA) Shaheen (NH) Slotkin (MI) Warnock (GA) Welch (VT)

BREAKING: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is illegally closing 13 campus buildings (including ~100 laboratories). Report coming from GESTA, the Goddard employee union

It would seem they're still flaring in the Bakken.

I teach a History of Conservatism class at a liberal arts college in Oregon. When I taught it in spring 2024 I asked the class how many people have someone close to them (friend or family member) who voted for Trump. Every hand went up.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

“based on expert analysis by AccuWeather, the preliminary damage and economic loss estimate for Jamaica is $22 billion.” The island’s GDP is under $20 Billion . In a different possible world, US would bail out Jamaica with 20 billion dollars, not MAGA Argentina www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane...

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall." These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

How can it be that the amount of cars sold through 2018 created a million barrels of oil demand destruction and then it took through 2024 to reach the second million? It would seem like the second million should have come much sooner? Anyone got thoughts on that?

We have this. "According to BloombergNEF’s...early EV adopters caused a saving of the first million barrels of oil per day back in 2018. Within six years, another million barrels of oil per day was displaced so that by 2024 the world had displaced two million barrels of oil per day." But look.

Link to Climate Central's rapid attribution page for Melissa (h/t @zacklabe.com):

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

And *even if* the magic AI machine figured out how to cure cancer, you will still have to spend literally billions on scientific research to prove it. So STOP CUTTING SCIENCE FUNDING

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

People with experience: please give food banks *money.* They can make it go much further than you can. Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma. Shopper 2: did you say canned beets? “Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like

Here in Chicago, there have been sweeps at Home Depots, and some visual profiling. But mostly they’ve grabbed undocumented people at worksites, while driving, standing outside. How do they know exactly where they are? chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

"...the university is paying OpenAI $16.9 million to provide ChatGPT Edu to more than half a million students and staff." CSU is paying a private company so that company can access the captive market of students and faculty. Meanwhile CSU faces funding shortfalls.

After a very interesting conversation last night, I'm wondering about films that have organizing as their main narrative topic. Do people have recommendations?

It takes 30 days to grow a radish. Also 2/3 of the country is already in or entering winter.

I can't articulate it well but I don't care what punctuation/ set of words is the current tell for Chatgpt. I'm not changing my voice or the way I write for this program, my writing will evolve the way it evolves. I am not panicking that it uses em dashes. They should panic and pay me.

It is an enduring mystery to me that in all this whirling, life-threatening maelstrom of horror I still have room in my heart to be mad about things like the East Wing of the White House.

"They're not just paint on steps, but a way to say that God's love will not be silenced."

New road safety messaging for the fall: "Wear bright clothing, walk single file, be at least 5'6" tall before leaving home"

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

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