Via @charlotteobserver.com: Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

what rosalia thought she was doing with lux lol

For many people, journalism is still a public service and a calling, not just a way to work your way into elite circles. Many of those people have been pushed out of the industry for caring about ethical reporting instead if Google rankings and clicks. Find THOSE people and support them.

carol keeps me cackling on pluribus

"would you... like an atom bomb?"

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

you know what would really bring the country back together is a yankin ass disney soundtrack by a middle aged heavyweight songwriter see the issue is the people can't feel the love tonight

NEW — Rashida Tlaib and 20 other members of Congress have introduced a resolution to officially recognize Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. It notes that between 10/23 and 11/25, the US sent $21,700,000,000 in military aid to Israel and authorized $30,000,000,000+ in new weapons deals.

it's never 'i can't believe you don't like ___' for me and almost always 'there is a mystical correct pitch i can find to sell this'

My favorite not is “Absolutely”.

a LOT but i agree. people pick stuff up faster without someone hovering looking flabbergasted they don't already love it.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

'you don't understand journalism, but i do' levels were off the charts online this week

💀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R78Q...

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

How did they not call them Oroboreos?

Re: Epstein’s emails

day two presidential executive order: WHEREAS, fall drops are custom, your best track suits shall be front-loaded so they don't hit just as it gets too cold for all that

very preposterous time bc some people are and really aren't realizing there is a political future after the present and they're gonna be alive the rest of their lives with what all they've said and done

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

automated music recs don't hold a candle to spelunking and word of mouth for me but every now and then youtube throws me the badbad + sam herring song when i didn't ask and that's nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpSW...

A big idea that commercials tried to give to me growing up was that there were brands of gum with so much flavor that if my grandpa ate it he would just die

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

people are focusing on the scary part ("AI-generated") but why, why on Earth, would I want content "from users"

pluribus is a comedy btw

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma governor spares life of death row inmate Tremane Wood just before scheduled lethal injection.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Do y'all remember when Google was like, "Our motto is 'do no evil.'" Well... www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Yall ever think about how crazy college was?? You was broke with $11 in your account and you still found a way to get to the club

the 'animals believe in the great replacement' guy broke containment twice in a month here with different animals and i need it wrapped up

I spent many memorable days with Lady Gaga in 2009 and 2011 for two RS cover stories. In between, “a lifetime of stuff” happened, as she puts it – and we finally got a chance to talk about all of it. Here’s my new Rolling Stone cover story, featuring Lady Gaga. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

ICYMI, read one of my favorite things I’ve ever written :)

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

these are the same people that want to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals btw

the emails are giving scoob villain

lot of people got the functional walking pneumonia version of the same social media brain rot they look down on and seem most activated by hate-sharing and dogpiling to this day lol

in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...

A fav Neil Young cover youtu.be/vpFfjWdhROU

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

Am I wrong or is Michael Wolff advising Epstein to blackmail Trump?

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Today is Neil Young’s 80th birthday! Stereogum asked 80 musicians to discuss a favorite song of his, and here’s Tom Morello on “My My, Hey Hey.” Check out everyone’s picks at stereogum.com/neil

GENA is the duo of Liv.e and Karriem Riggins, and "Circlesz" is their debut single

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

i wrote a lil thing about Rosalía's Lux and Catholicism, finally putting the 17 years i spent in CCD to good use. my mom is still mad i don't go to Mass anymore tho

the bond franchise has already encountered and solved this problem