Oh my god...

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

The discontinued KFC potato wedges. Absolute travesty that they switched to fries.

yeah I keep hearing stuff like "pretty much everyone who wants a job has one" and meanwhile the number of people I know who have been looking for anything at all for over a year just keeps growing.

sometimes headlines can give the wrong impression but this is exactly what it says on the tin. this is despicable. it took a phenomenal, expensive, coordinated effort to get from north carolina losing 400 million dollars & a gubernatorial race over a bathroom ban to this in 10 years.

In 2022, for example, Congress approved $46.5 billion specifically for IRS enforcement, so the agency could start forcing wealthy tax cheats to comply. By March 2025, Republicans had slashed that to just under $4 billion—a 91 percent decrease.

This is a big reason why I side-eye people who still defend the NYT and it has zippo to do with their sanewashing of Trump or love of misleading heds. They straight up steal other reporters hard work (reporters you follow!) and you should care about that. They do it all the time.

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

To the Epstein adjacent billionaire absolute freaks pushing this dogshit on all of us, chatbots sound normal. Chatbots just sound like literally every single person they have talked to for *years* as they go about their day living in a potemkin village of simpering sycophancy.

Jesus. Vote the whole lot of them out.

There are approximately 2.8 million trans people in the US. That means FOURTEEN PERCENT of American trans people have moved across state lines in the past 18 months.

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

quite an admission from douglas maclean, the sheriff tom dart's deputy chief information officer, during today's cook county board criminal justice committee hearing:

Sick of calling it "Fear Of Missing Out". Way more accurate to think of it as a compulsive "Always Be Doing Lots" mindset. Furry cons are crazy for this because SO many people get into an ABDL headspace

Makes sense

Our February FOIA request for records about USCIS’ “Vetting of Wedding-Based Schemes” (VOWS) platform came back with a “no records” response. We had requested basic information describing what the system is, how it works, and what safeguards govern its use.

to be fair that's pretty close to the original meaning, maybe they're just big etymology buffs

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

“What Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the city of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago." - Ken Griffin, worth $50.3 billion, triggered

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

Woot is confident that their target audience never gets laid

Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out.

The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it.

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

Ordinary Americans are facing soaring costs on groceries and gas and everything in between, while the most corrupt president in American history continues to line his own pockets with taxpayer money, and now he wants another billion for his golden ballroom. Please, Democrats, this is a lay up.

They suspended @cara.city for this!!! Dogshit website run by absolute babies. It is a Serious Violation to point out that the head of trust and safety’s pants fell down and everyone saw his little red ass and laughed

nothing could more accurately celebrate America's 250th anniversary than corrupt backroom dealing to enable harmful and unpopular corporate consolidation very on brand

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

I can’t help but recall that the semi-conductor industry was regarded as clean, low impact and safe. That opinion changes rapidly when the first few fires happen. Would you like to guess what their current emergency response plans completely fail to address?

Good/correct thread

The sense of entitlement for Israel to be immune from criticism reflected in the reaction to this speech is troubling, illegitimate, and worthy of being resisted forcefully.

It's not the kind of story Star Wars would or should tell, but if you really want to get Arthurian with it, Ben Solo/Kylo Renn being secretly Luke and Leia's child is an idea with some real juice

Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

don’t love what this would mean for a reasonable expectation of privacy!

We've written about how social media companies and other technology firms manipulate the scientific record in their favor. In our revisions, we will need to address how they have captured the state department to literally prevent researchers who criticize them FROM EVEN ENTERING THE COUNTRY.

I'm crying, this is so funny, he has absolutely no idea.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

Doing some @unraveledpress.com spring cleaning and noticed a folder named "Opinions." In it, one forgotten, untitled document from March 2025. It's still relevant, so here it is in it's entirety:

Comment after comment on Instagram yesterday from people who earnestly thought "ICE left Illinois." This is what happens when fascist violence intensifies, pulls back some, then leaves even more room for activity under the threshold of broadcast news media's barometer for "shocking scenes"

“In the future everyone loves and does art but they are incredibly bad” is lowkey an extremely hopeful utopian vision

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating. One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

In the US, it’s National Library Workers’ Day, and I would be remiss to let it pass without reminding you that the “library workers are magic” narrative leads bad places. Love, respect, and cherish them, but also pay them, staff libraries appropriately, and let them draw boundaries.

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my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does

i saw a tiktok about how doing 9/11 in childhood is a sign of nymphomania and i can't stop thinking about it