"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

The idea is old—spend to get your product integrated into the economy, then jack up prices—but AI products aren't ready for phase 2. They're too inefficient and too error-prone even at what should be simple tasks like document parsing. No business wants to pay $20 for each over-churned PDF.

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

If you really can't say "AOC is better than Tucker Carlson," you are on the right-wing. You see a basket of extreme right-wing views from one of Trump's friends and find it compelling. Nothing else you say about your political orientation makes the slightest difference, you're just a right-winger.

That's precisely what Third Way is meant to do, to undermine anyone left of Republicans and to help lock-in Republican dominance. It's a MAGA group through-and-through, the sole difference is that they bother to keep the veneer of not being Klan members.

As an extra f-u to the country, the official document, hosted by the Office of Government Ethics, is a low-quality scan with garbled OCR to inhibit quick analysis. His second listed trade is for the iShares Russell 1000 ETF, which is OCR'd as "laha,.,. Tr Russoll 1000 Elf"

Kid informs me the surname "Kennerly" now has a Wikipedia page. It has a delightful ending. 😆 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennerly

LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants. His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.

so, they serve for life, are the sole authority on the law, and substantially choose their successors. tip of my tongue

This is what you're missing out on by not being on X. Well, this and thousands of bots sending you threats. On the isolated island of Bluesky, you can merely have informed conversations and organize political resistance. Obviously you should go back to X, where you can't do anything but read this.

I can't understand the mindset of wanting to do this unless the *goal* was to desecrate it. It's a grave for 1,177 U.S. sailors who died in nightmarish ways from the exploding magazine and the sinking inferno that followed. It's hallowed ground to everyone except Trump and his lackeys.

It would be egregious if this was misguided cost-cutting, but it's not that at all. The Trump admin is not doing this to cut costs (and they've increased federal gov't costs), they are doing to punish academics & scientists, who they perceive as enemies, and to make more funds available for looting.

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

I worry the inspiration for doing it is Nolan wanting to prove he could fit the story in <3 hours with clever editing jumping back and forth in time. Maybe he pulls it off. 🤷‍♂️ But I am going to laugh when chuds realize that Lupita Nyong'o actually plays *two* characters, Helen and Clytemnestra.

This settlement violates the separation of powers under Article I and it is being contemplated in order to avoid an order from an Article III that a President cannot instruct a federal agency to give him money. I am not sure this could be more wildly unconstitutional.

On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

Racism is the primary factor, but a secondary factor is their envy of people who aren't as tedious and dull as them. They know there are people who see more in Homer's stories than a personal fantasy of being a hero and they're outraged, they know their tiny minds cannot reach that world.

pushing out diverse people to accommodate diverse views about those people's inferiority, be fucking serious

This guy is worth somewhere in the $1B range thanks to being President & COO of Goldman Sachs. He was Director of the National Economic Council in the first Trump admin. He has no idea about anything. You can't make $260k laying cement. If you're lucky, you can make a third of that. Most make less.

Apart from my thoughts about Justice Thomas's grossly partisan rulings, it just plain sucks to hear *anyone* talk about their 34.5 years at the zenith of power. Thomas was put on SCOTUS when I was younger than my kids are today. No one is fit to be an unaccountable multi-generational supreme leader.

Objectively correct. A weird bigot said something bigoted and ignorant but he's rich so we all have to hear it. That's no more a justification for asking the targets about it than if a journalist overheard some not-rich bigot mutter it at a bar. Is it a journalist's job to broadcast that too?

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

The whole GOP talks like this and it's cult-speak. It doesn't even work on its own logic: if hydrocarbons are so precious and lack replacements, we should minimize unnecessary use by implementing as many replacements as we can. Which means expanding solar/wind and battery use where possible.

Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and Bottom

"None of the individuals at the scene have provided sworn statements to CUPD, despite CUPD’s repeated attempts to collect sworn statements in the days following the incident." Good. Everyone gets an A. They would not use those statements to investigate fairly, they would use them to screw you over.

raskin explaining to his caucus why this bill is so bad and it not mattering at all to them makes it even more shameful

Every defense of our current "market" system runs smack into the reality of grossly overcapitalized financial markets that get *less* rational as the entity gets bigger. Trillions of dollars poured into greater-fool theory instead of productive economic activity.

This is depressing and shameful but I want to highlight @raskin.house.gov's dissenting vote in Committee. He gets it, and I'm glad he put in the time to fully assess this bill and put this on the record. His full dissent is here, at the bottom: www.congress.gov/committee-re...

I am really proud of the work that @rebouche.bsky.social @greerdonley.bsky.social and I did to conceive of and advocate for shield laws. They've made a huge and tangible difference for people in this country. But now we can add another thing to be proud of -- they piss off Sam Alito. Poor Sam.

The question is not whether or not tiny particles could cool the planet. The question is whether we know enough to accurately model the effects on weather patterns and the impacts of starting and stopping. The answer to that is no we don't. 🧵

🚨👀 @kamalaharris.com calls for expanding and rebalancing Roberts MAGA #SCOTUS "Let’s invite ideas, for example, that are about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court." h/t @paulblumenthal.bsky.social

found a new NOAA gallery that has terrible metadata but also this guy

IMHO, the sense of "running out of time" animates a lot of it, same as every Republican. It's not just Trump who doesn't care about the future; everyone of any stature in the GOP talks and behaves as if the apocalypse is nigh and so there's no point thinking beyond the next election.

"The change came after 'significant numbers' of undergrads and faculty requested it" I feel like the takeaway here is, students know it's detrimental to learning, they want to learn, but they also think they can't compete w/o AI if their peers use it. Classic collective action problem

Only 21% of Americans *ever* use X, and they skew male, Republican, and college-educated. X isn't some untapped portal to the masses, it's an audience with fixed political views on a site that aggressively demotes political content that isn't right-wing. www.pewresearch.org/internet/fac...

Neat how inflation is usually a complex interplay of economics and policy, making fault a complicated issue given trade-offs and uncontrollable factors, but currently the cause is "Republicans are stupid and made a really bad decision."

Impressive work by Friedman here, summarizing a handful of the countless reasons why Trump cannot be trusted as a partner, then demanding the rest of NATO trust him as a partner to reopen the Strait. Why would they, especially when Trump has said he wants to toll the Strait with Iran?

I wrote about the campaign to criminalize “organized retail theft” in this piece. It’s the only time I’ve written something where I felt like I was going crazy. Theft is already a crime! But retailers lied about the stats, the law, and the causes—they claim that MS-13 and Hezbollah are behind it.

People on the left should post on X more. It's the only site where you can be sure your content will never be seen by anyone except for Nazi pedophiles.

Among the extremely stupid yet widely accepted ideas in American law is that OLC can or should do anything except opine on inter-agency disputes. OLC has *always* been a bunch of hacks doing the President's bidding. There is no reason to grant their views any special weight.

From the people who brought you "young people are broke because of avocado toast" and "you'd be rich if you didn't buy lattes" comes the brand new hit, "it's still your fault, it's a luxury to buy groceries."

The shortened URL sums it up perfectly: "news.gallup.com/opinion/meth..."

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

The administration does appear to be doing a Sicario in Mexico. www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/p...

Perhaps, but: 1) Any pol/institution looking to X in 2026 as an indicator of public sentiment wants excuses to move right. None can sincerely claim they didn't realize the site is aggressively warped to suit MechaHitler's taste. 2) That same manipulation severely limits left influence on X anyway.