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AI fail du jour: In reality, NHDT is not chiral. Its dipole moment is zero. The classical ball-and-stick model is chiral, but the molecule doesn't care about that. It's up to you to make your models conform to reality; you can't bend reality to conform to your models.
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I also reported this to the White House media bias offender tip line. Probably not the bias they were looking for.
www.foxnews.com/video/639056...
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President Trump: We think the strike on an Iranian girls' school was done by Iran | Fox News Video
President Donald Trump fielded questions on civilian strikes, gasoline prices and the success of operations in Iran on Air Force One.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6390563012112
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The bogus coverage is *still* up on the Pox News site:
www.foxnews.com/video/639055...
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3 days ago
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GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk made a criminal referral of Hutchinson to the Justice Department in recent days, the sources said. He accused Hutchinson of lying to Congress in her summer 2022 testimony when she alleged Trump was aware of the potential for violence on January 6, 2021.
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Dirty Money Ciscomoney received more financial support than any House Republican from retiring Rep. Tony Gonzales, who faced crumbling support over an affair with a staffer who later set herself on fire.
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
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Arizona congressman top recipient of cash from embattled Texas lawmaker
Rep. Juan Ciscomani did not publicly call for Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign, even as GOP leaders turned against him over an affair with a staffer.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/03/06/juan-ciscomani-received-money-from-tony-gonzales-what-to-know/89005639007/
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AI fail du jour: Every word the bot said is wrong. For example, H.M.J. GrouÚs, during the many decades when he was called Abbé Pierre, did not dress as a monk, and was not the leader or even a member of any monastery. Abbot basically means father, and has been applied to non-monks and even laymen.
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1) Gonzales has "decided not to seek re-election". 2) But says he won't resign his current seat. (We shall see about that). 3) Gun-nut Brandon Herrera will become the nominee. 4) The Texas 23rd has a Cook PVI of R+7 so I reckon it's in play.
www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a news conference that her office is already looking into 17 cases, including one where Bovino threw a smoke canister at protesters on Jan. 21.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Minnesota launches probe that could bring charges against federal immigration officers
A Minnesota prosecutor announced an investigation Monday that may lead to charges against federal officers, including Border Patrol official Greg Bovino, for misconduct during an immigration enforceme...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/minnesota-launches-probe-that-could-bring-charges-against-federal-immigration-officers
7 days ago
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Somebody from CNN should ask Lindsay Graham, Markwayne Mullin, Brian Mast, and Anna Paulina Luna: Suppose North Korea dropped bombs on the US capitol and obliterated your workplace. Would you consider that an act of war? Reference:
xcancel.com/acyn/status/...
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7 days ago
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Silver lining: If we're going to have fascists, it's better to have incompetent fascists. I call them the 1/3rd Reich.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...
dropping the cases «drew the ire of Trump and his top aide Stephen Miller»
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Trump admin asked a court to drop lawsuits against law firms tied to Democrats. Now itâs changing its mind | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has told four large law firms targeted by President Donald Trump that its decision to withdraw lawsuits against them is being reversed, according to people familiar with the cha...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/trump-administration-reverses-drop-lawsuits
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I despise clickbait headlines. The body of the article doesn't support the headline; it argues that the bombing was either deliberate *OR* gross negligence and neglect of duty, i.e. failure to obtain reliable targeting information. (It's a war crime either way.)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
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Al Jazeera investigation: Iran girlsâ school targeting likely âdeliberateâ
Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement
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1) Innnteresting. 2) This makes the firms that settled look incompetent, craven, and foolish.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the presidentâs executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-administration-to-drop-defense-of-law-firm-sanctions-cb839c39?mod=hp_lead_pos1
9 days ago
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Another scoop for Bellingcat. Any of several governments could have put a stop to this eons ago. One wonders why they didn't.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...
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Shipwrecks, Sham Papers and False Flags: Tracking the Company Behind It All - bellingcat
A shipwreck in India, an ammunition seizure in Senegal, and a raid on an oil tanker in Malaysia - all involving one recurring figure: Captain Suniel Sharma.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02/19/shipwrecks-sham-papers-and-false-flags-tracking-the-company-behind-it-all/
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We were told Iran's nuclear facilities were "obliterated" many months ago. The announcement is still on the WH web site as of Feb 28.
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Eric Umansky
18 days ago
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
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George Conway âïžđșđž
16 days ago
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ICE In Tucson â Know your Rights On Wednesday, 2/25, at 6:30 pm, LD17 Democrats will host an expert panel discussion on the impact of ICE in Tucson and what you can do to protect yourself and your family. Register to attend on Zoom:
ld17azdemocrats.com/mTXgZc
16 days ago
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AI fail du jour: The chatbot says one thing, and then ten seconds later it contradicts itself. I've seen good AI. I've invented and developed good AI. Alas, this chatbot is not good. Really not. They're draining the planet's resources for this? For this?? Why????
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digby
19 days ago
He seems to be threatening the Court. But that's fine. As long as you don't say anything unkind about Charlie Kirk, you're fine.
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DHS successfullyâuntil nowâcovered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.
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Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek
While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-texas-dhs-records-11544225
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I have to recalibrate the "No Kings" slogan. Turns out it's better to have an honorable king than a dishonorble president.
20 days ago
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Tim Onion
20 days ago
look at my country man, weâre getting out-No Kingsâd by the fuckinâ british
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My first choice would be to have fewer bad guys ... but insofar as we are stuck with these bad guys, the silver lining is that they are stupid and incompetent. The original Colbert segment has 3.6 million youtube views. The Talarico interview has over 6 million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisa...
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21 days ago
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AI fail du jour: In reality, a graphite square drawn on paper is some number of kΩ â not "per square cm" or anything else. The edge-to-edge resistance is independent of the size of the square. This is well known, and should be obvious based on high-school notions of series-parallel circuits.
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Marco Rubio, born to immigrant parents, Doctor of Laws from Miami University, should know better. Either he's very stupid ... or he's just lying, and thinks we are too stupid to notice.
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I reported this to the white house "media bias" tip line. Probably not the sort of report the white house wants to get. But bias is bias and lies are lies. I call 'em like I see em.
mailchi.mp/mail.whiteho...
Watch out for those false herrings.....
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22 days ago
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Yikes. Unhinged fascist cancel culture. James Talarico is running for US senate from Texas. The
#pussygrabber
is panicking. For good reason. References:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7D...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
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22 days ago
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* Several days ago Homan announced that the Minneapolis operation would end soon. * I haven't seen any reports that calm has returned to the city. It might be too early to celebrate. Watch what they do, not what they say.
24 days ago
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OK, I'm confused. * FEC filings say Ciscomoney's "affiliated" PAC raised less than $38,000 in the 23-24 cycle.
www.fec.gov/data/committ...
*
Opensecrets.org
says that PAC raised more than 10 times that much.
www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
What am I doing wrong?
24 days ago
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Some teachers are worried that students will use AI to do the homework. I have to wonder: If AI can find the answers, maybe you're asking the wrong questions.
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AI fail du jour: 1) Here's a working incantation for defining symbols: \def\treble{{\begin{rawhtml}𝄞\end{rawhtml}}} which maps to đ (the treble clef symbol). 2) The AI code will obviously never work. 3) HeVeA has a built-in \rightarrow, so even if the AI code worked, it would be stupid.
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AI fail du jour. Did you know about the Wikimedia Foundation's navy? It's amazing what you can learn from the AI chatbot.
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DoD blacklisted 33 universities, including all but one of the 8 ivies, and all but one of the USNews top 10.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
I wonder why Dartmouth and University of Chicago didn't make the list. They don't strike me as less woke than the others.
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Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegsethâs crackdown on âbiasedâ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethâs campaign again...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/politics/us-military-top-universities-tuition-assistance
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«Working for the Justice Department used to be one of the most competitive, prestigious jobs you could get as a lawyer» Now you just DM some choad named Chad.
asharangappa.substack.com/p/excising-t...
Not sure she has the answers, but denazification is an important question, which is horrifying.
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Excising the Cancer in Our Institutions
We need to start thinking about how we are going to separate the sheep from the wolves in sheep's clothing.
https://asharangappa.substack.com/p/excising-the-cancer-in-our-institutions
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1) This is a remarkably careful, dispassionate article. 2) IMHO, if targeting Minnesota is not an impeachable offense, I don't know what is. 3) It mostly backfired.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trumpâs ICE crackdown?
The Democratic-leaning midwestern state where federal agents killed two citizens is in many ways anathema to the administration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/14/why-minnesota-ice-crackdown-trump
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emptywheel
27 days ago
Incidentally, the WSJ story IDing Jared has Trump whisperer Josh Dawsey bylined and NYT match has Tyler Pager. So this story is coming from the White House, possibly to get ahead of it.
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I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at
[email protected]
to let them know what you think of this.
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27 days ago
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
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A federal judge blocked the Pentagonâs effort to demote & censure Arizona Senator Mark Kelly over a video in which he urged service members to reject illegal orders, finding the militaryâs First Amendment limitation clearly does not extend to retired members.
www.courthousenews.com/pentagon-shr...
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Pentagon shredded over effort to censure Sen. Mark Kelly
âThis court has all it needs to conclude that defendants have trampled on Senator Kellyâs First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees,â U.S. D...
https://www.courthousenews.com/pentagon-shredded-over-effort-to-censure-sen-mark-kelly/
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Cravenly capitulating, and lying about it.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years
Public opinion polling agency says decision âsolely based on Gallupâs research goals and prioritiesâ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/gallup-stop-tracking-presidential-approval-ratings
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It's shocking that the goons got a magistrate to sign off on this piece of trash warrant application.
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Fulton County: What's In The Warrant?
Hint: Everything but probable cause
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/fulton-county-whats-in-the-warrant?r=5n3e&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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The poster child for unreasonable search and seizure.
www.npr.org/2026/02/10/n...
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The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims
An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5710649/fulton-county-2020-election-affidavit-fbi
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You-know-who is demanding that Penn Station and Dulles Airport be renamed after himself.
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"the judge ordered the affidavit to be unsealed by the close of business on Tuesday" which should be innnnnteresting.
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AI fail du jour: Hilarious writeup from Martin Rowson.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: theyâre all great â but Iâm not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/who-is-my-wife-martin-rowson-ai-technology
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#Naziferatu
... profiled by the BBC (Anthony Zurcher) today. His relentless, combative style at the policymaking helm of the White House has set the
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hardline immigration agenda in motion, and he has developed a growing influence in expanding US power...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
about 1 month ago
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