Attorney General Pam Bondi has ended restrictions that barred political appointees at the Justice Department from participating in political activities, according to a memo seen by NBC. The rules were originally put in place to avoid even the appearance of political influence, prohibiting those

Well, if this isn’t corruption in plain sight. If you don’t want consequences for breaking the law, then don’t break the law. The Justice Department is now attempting to step into disciplinary cases being handled by state bar associations against its own attorneys.

Meta has a history of torturing their moderators and providing NOTHING in the way of mental health care. How do I know? Because I used to be a moderator for Meta and I got a $3,500 settlement for the PTSD they gave me. When we tried to unionize, they moved their moderation to the Philippines.

This is the letter US senators sent requesting an official investigation into DOJ leadership blocking a civil-rights probe into the killing of Renee Good. The letter asks the Justice Department’s IG and Office of Professional Responsibility to determine who ordered the investigation stopped and why.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

A win! Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw by a 20-point margin in the Arkansas House District 70 special election.

and you're just saying that out loud, huh

Publicly, Sam Altman claimed OpenAI is amending its agreement with the Department of Defense(lies). Behind closed doors, however, he told employees during a Tuesday all-hands meeting that the company doesn’t “get to make operational decisions” about how its AI technology is used by the DoD. #QuitGPT

I was wondering what the Star Trek equivalent Baby Bjorn is, and then it struck me: a Baby Bajoran! 😁

Gregory Kent Bovino is now under criminal investigation by the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for his conduct during Operation Metro Surge.

In a new filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the U.S. Department of Justice formally pulled back its request to walk away from the legal battle involving four firms. The court hasn’t said how it will respond, and another government brief is due Friday.

Noem just defended referring to Pretti and Good as domestic terrorists. Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, “You believe calling the victims of violence ‘domestic terorrists’ is a way to calm the scene?”

Scenes from a personalist regime

A coworker and I realized last night that the name of any sword also sounds like a fancy cheese. "Can you pick up a half-pound of rapier, a quarter-pound each of cinquedea and flamberge, some nice sharp scimitar, and a good stinky grossmesser?" ⚔️🧀

Q-bleet with your skull art.

Look at this chart

The NYT style guide

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason

ChatGPT is shedding users fast. Since yesterday alone, estimates suggest more than a million accounts have been deleted and the boycott continues to gain momentum. Incredible work, everyone!

The EPA issued reduction-in-force notices to 22 employees working on environmental justice efforts to address pollution in overburdened and underserved communities.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

Boycott OpenAI! OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, announced Friday that the company reached an agreement with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models on a classified network just hours after Trump ordered federal agencies to phase out rival Anthropic.

"It's a little saltier than some people prefer, but... if you don't like a firm handshake why're you drinking gin?" —re. the dirty martini 🍸

*thinking about dietary salt and hypertension* "Do you have a family history of kidney failure?" "Umm, pets count, right?" #Cats #Caturday

Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

November 2024

When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.

I feel bad for Sophonisba, because I forgot her name and was trying to describe her to the search engine, but it kept returning results for Queen Dido and Cleopatra (also Lady Jane Grey and Sylvia Plath, FWIW). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophoni...

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

It's not state-run media, guys. If it was state-run media it would switch to supporting Democrats when they were in power. It's right-wing media.

almost every american ive ever met who has moved here is simply floored by the difference. It's in the places you expect--like healthcare--but also countless ones you don't, like the quality of roads, transport and maybe most important of all, public spaces.

Tonight's aesthetic is... that gun.

I see only a problem a wealth tax could solve

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

very different. Families report nonstop noise, sleepless nights, and concerns about air quality. Property values are suddenly in question. Long-time residents say they weren’t prepared for heavy industrial activity operating around the clock in what had been a rural area.

This is a scandal for ICE, but also an indication of just how much they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. They've had multiple applicants with outstanding warrants for their own arrest walking in looking to play cop. That's apparently how dumb some of these goons are.

Aliyah Rahman, a Minnesota resident invited by Rep. Ilhan Omar to attend Tuesday’s State of the Union address, was later hospitalized following her arrest during the speech, according to statements from both Rahman and Omar.

Many news outlets are reporting that some trans Kansans received letters warning that their licenses were being invalidated overnight. This morning, Evan Urquhart spoke with a trans woman who found out on Bluesky that it would be illegal to drive her car. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

In a quiet stretch of rural Mississippi, life has changed almost overnight. Residents who once enjoyed still mornings and open skies now describe a constant roar like jet engines running day and night. The source isn’t an airport or a highway.

JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

Patel has fired 10 FBI employees who were involved in the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and related probes.

The Interior Department has rescinded more than 80% of its prior rules under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA, one of the country’s foundational environmental laws, requires federal agencies to conduct detailed reviews of how proposed projects could impact surrounding communities,

Another year, another plea for help from someone whose work is the basis for a $200m blockbuster movie.

Big Brother just keeps getting bigger. The Trump administration is weighing an executive order or another form of executive action that would require banks to begin collecting citizenship information from their customers.