Great question, great answer, and the correct usage of “defusing” washes over me like the waters of Lourdes

Interview by @infinitejaz.bsky.social of 8 people who witnessed the lynching of Philadelphia teenager, Nasrallah Abu Siyam, by a settler mob in the West Bank on Wednesday, a murder that went without comment by Nasrallah’s Governor Josh Shapiro. www.infinitejaz.com/p/an-america...

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

Absolute failure of journalism everywhere that not one reporter has put on a sincere concerned face and asked him “Mr President, for Americans out there who don’t understand how great your policy is, can you explain how tariffs work?”

His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today. Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.

is it good that everyone i know being made to find a use for AI at work is just having to manage the politics of the fact that they're expected to use it whilst fixing all of its mistakes? it seems to have the same impact on the workplace as a bad intern who's only there cause hes the CEOs son

to piggyback off this correct point they do not see their children as full people they see them as props snd extensions of the parents!!!!

this type of thinking is hard to fathom but the thing you have to remember is that these people want to be martyrs more than they want to have alive children

the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought

This is what everyone who played up the "campus speech crisis of the illiberal student left" was fighting for all along, whether witting or not. Also most of it was extremely witting.

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

I would like to see more ads like this, not just because it’s a winning message but because it’s very healing to listen to

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

I'd prefer it not have taken decades but personally I like blows being struck against elite impunity and would like that for us in the US very much

Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

"is there a technology the left is excited about?"

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

For those curious about that last sentence but too lazy to count: Yes, it is.

Sorry did you guys have driving classes in SCHOOL? Like in public school? I learned from my dad

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RIP to Jesse Jackson, who in this debate w/David Duke in 1977 delivered (until the host cut him off) a message of unity and against "national isolationism" that's important to hear today. He also ended the show w/one of the sickest burns ever directed at Duke: "You're not even a legitimate Klansman"

Last night I mentioned only 8% of hearing parents learn enough sign to have a 2-way conversation with their deaf child. Many reasons, but a lot of stems from misinfo. Here's a letter of mine where I busted some of the biggest ASL/ language acquisition myths: buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

More info, from the instagram account that posted the video

Year hell, I give more by percentage in a single MONTH and I bet a lot of you do too

If you are getting heterosexual married consider this for a wedding reading

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

I think they consider this advertising

I see a few people saying “I’m surprised previous mayors haven’t done this,” but come on, Rudy Giuliani shows up at your wedding? That feels like a threat

ICE conducts daylight executions of civilians and uses children as bait, they are decades beyond reformable.

Can’t wait for the tribunal.

Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

Project 2026

talking about epstein with my uber driver and she was like "you know what i would do if i had all that money? id invite all the pedophiles and child abusers to my island and then do Saw on them"

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

This raid didn’t get much press at the time because it’s Idaho. But it’s truly shocking. And it shows that these policies work like we’ve alleged in Alabama. The scale just makes it so much harder to minimize the harm of a show-me-your papers regime. These people weren’t let go “promptly.”

I truly don’t understand how anyone can stand the repulsive sycophantic way LLMs are programmed to talk. Who knew so many people had been waiting all their lives for a personal toady?

And it’s her birthday

How does this behavior make sense given that a home and a chicken cost exactly the same

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

It does not matter if you take the child you use as bait and then kidnap to McDonald’s!!!!!

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