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A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

Here's how to turn off Bluesky's censorship settings, so you can see posts by people you follow, even if Bluesky thinks they're rude. You can customize the controls on quite a bit more than the Rude label, even.

In the near future economy, I bet the skill of “can type a prompt into ChatGPT and repeat whatever it says” will be less in demand than “understands things enough to catch when ChatGPT makes an error or hallucinates.”

I need to tell you about something that happened on my flight to St Louis today. At the end of the flight, our United flight attendant got on the PA to pitch us on the United credit card, as they are all required to do. After telling us about its benefits, she said the following:

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Huh, what a mystery, why is America losing jobs?

See, before today I didn't really want to burn an American flag. Now it's basically my duty as an American

Julie smacks Zach for not using his power. #BB27

On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters." On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident. Real macho stuff.

@cutfortime.bsky.social @benjaminahr.mobi Re: grape desserts! They don't exist anymore, but I once made a pie with Grapples... a brand of apples that were infused with diluted grape juice. It was decent! Also, y'all should try Moon Mist Ice cream! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_mist

Axios: House Dems have procedural tools to try to save PBS and NPR but refuse to use them. “House Democrats are largely shooing away the idea of trying to make Republicans miss their deadline to codify around $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid, Axios has learned...” 1/

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

Kinda a classic "I like waffles" "so you hate pancakes" moment here but my implication is not that those are the conditions in which we should house people, just that the gov can mobilize and build structures when they want to and no one asks about costs or red tape if it's a prison camp

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

I really don’t care about the Sean Combs trial, and I don’t need to know the verdict in real time. The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.

This is why they refused to codify abortion. It's why they refuse to codify gay marriage. We are the bargaining chips to convince voters to vote for them, ready to be discarded or used at their bidding.

If you say that America is poised to institutionalize a police state - that the reality of concentration camps and regularized disappearances will become an ongoing facet of life - you'll still receive eye-rolls and clucked tongues. But that is not a possibility of this budget, it is the purpose.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Wikipedia wanted to use AI summaries at the top of article pages. Editors said please please don't www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

the average canadian can also go to the hospital without starting a gofundme campaign

NYT editorial board: You get that headline for the president's $50M birthday military parade? NYT editor: Sure did boss, real fuckin inscrutable just like you asked NYT editorial board: First of all, we love it

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wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

Quite a lot of grumbling about NIMBYism etc in the replies to this, but I think it’s pretty exclusionary that some London councils now fence off large areas of public parks for several of the best weeks of summer so that private companies can hold expensive ticketed events.

Did some nostalgic fanart for Chrono Trigger! One of the best to ever do it.

Forcibly removed off of an OUTGOING flight is a good sign that there's more going on here than usual.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

“Should die.” “Should die” “Should die.” Completely unnecessarily, from a preventable disease. (Also, some of the “healthy” survivors will wind up sick or disabled, and I suppose falling into Kennedy’s basket of disposable people).

Think about what he's saying. "kids should die." Forget the descriptor in front of it, sick or not, they're still kids. This is like. The bar is underground for this morality test. "don't hurt kids" is the most basic shit. But RFK Jr is just openly tripping over it. No cares.

Poker Face season 2 launches TODAY on Peacock! It’s a case-of-the-week episodic show, an ode to stuff like Columbo, Rockford… fun guest stars each week, truly episodic so you can pretty much drop into any episode. No heavy lifting, just a good time every time. Share & enjoy!

I realize it's a very low bar, but we should have a president who knows.

This gets papered over as old man yelling at clouds but this is impeachable by itself. Greenland is our ally which has allowed a continual U.S. military presence since WWII, including a vital part of our missile defense and space surveillance. Threatening them is unacceptable.

You know that if the New York Times is reporting this, then the situation is extremely dire. Palestinians have been saying for months that famine is happening due to Israel’s siege. That is a war crime, Israel is the agent, the US is the sponsor, and American taxpayers are rendered complicit.

height: 1/8" because i guess that matters 🙄

if you're under six feet tall girls won't even help you fashion a spear from a safety pin that you can use to defend your matchbox house from bugs

Elon Musk works 180 hours a week (a week has 168 hours) Trump’s BMI is exactly the same as some NFL draft picks Over 2/3 of Americans would’ve died in the last few months if not for Trump The absurd obviousness of the lie shows it’s a middle finger, an attack on truth, not an effort to convince.

IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event. The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

Nothing to be scared of here in political terms. One of the least popular presidents is now even less popular than he was in his first term. People need to come out from under rocks.

The existence of sacred geometry implies the existence of profane geometry blasphemous geometry heretic geometry whoreful geometry we should look into that

Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.

These guys took their famous catchphrase from my comic but ok www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

lol Every single "healthcare" worker in your group that supports this decision should lose their ability to practice medicine.

This your guy?

NEW: In a SCATHING decision, Judge Briones of the Western District of Texas absolutely SAVAGED the government over this case, tearing to shreds ICE’s hearsay “evidence” that this husband and wife were in Tren de Aragua as “completely and wholly unsubstantiated” — and ordered their immediate release!