Let’s add that Iranians did arrive in Islamabad and stated they are there to meet only with Pakistan.m Aside from that, do Kushner and Witkoff have the mandate to make any decisions aside from delivering messages, that yes, can be delivered via phone?

Wisconsin in 2023 exempted data centers from the sales tax. A new estimate finds that means the state is missing out on more than $2 billion in revenue from massive data centers under construction.

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Incredibly strong endorsement of Tom Steyer for CA Gov here:

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

I don't know how you're all still thinking state surveillance ever turns out well for us.

I'll write all of this up to show my work, but based on the new ICE data through March, I find that more than 450,000 people experienced ICE detention over the first ~14 months of the Trump administration. This includes initial book ins and transfers between facilities.

I'm yelling at people on the HB community forum for posting photos of people who piss them off and telling them to be grown ups and tell them to their face lol.

They're doing the detransition thing but with autism now.

Californians will decide in November whether to impose new identification requirements for voting in person or by mail in the state, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber confirmed Friday.

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

i know i yell a lot about how backwards north dakota is. but it’s not a lie. its just facts. numbers don’t lie. “Most national polls in the past few weeks have Trump’s approval ranking somewhere between 32-45% and disapproval between 53-67%.”

I would like to ask these guys what they thought class war was going to look like.

We murdered two more people in a boat today.

Hey look what I found on IG:

New this morning: U.S. District Judge April Perry has asked prosecutors to bring "fully un-redacted" grand jury transcripts to a Wednesday hearing in the "Broadview 6" case. Defense attorneys have said they want to see how the conspiracy charge was explained to grand jurors.

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says aviation is “going to probably get worse over the next few weeks” because of a jet fuel supply crunch that's also pushed up ticket prices driven by America's war in Iran. He said the effects could last through the summer.-CBS News

“A celebration conducted in secret, or at least in silence, is not really a celebration. It is a favor done for a diminishing constituency that the issuer would prefer the broader public not notice. This is the political logic of a cause in retreat,” wrote historian Kevin M. Levin. buff.ly/1JqEwko

Breaking News: Gov. Janet Mills of Maine vetoed legislation that would have blocked new data centers in the state until November 2027. It would have been the first state moratorium on data centers as the A.I. industry booms.

Marceline has been adopted ✨🙏

The ADL permanently sacrificed its reputation to get in good with a massively dangerous antisemite and white nationalist. They defended him and stood up for him even after his Nazi salute. Here's how he repays them. This is what happens when you think you're using bigots. They're always using you.

Right-wing media are trying to pressure Republicans to move even further right on immigration.

when we say "bari weiss is not good at her job" we mean that, literally, she does not know how to do extremely basic shit at her job because she is wildly unqualified to run a television network and doesn't know how anything works

Michael Bloomberg, @leilza.bsky.social and @bencollins.bsky.social on the top floor of a pension in Athens plotting the takeover of Infowars, the curfew is at midnight, they are all drinking terrible retsina

It is really this easy. Take any *cognitive capacity* X. For instance, X = reasoning, learning, communicating, summarizing, reading, writing, etc. If any one asks: Can an LLM do X? You can answer: “No, LLMs cannot do X, because X is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none” LLMs are decoys.

I'm not sure why the idea of an Indian-American large animal vet tickles me so much.

There’s a new rumor spreading about discarded mail-in ballots found in WA w/ insinuations that mail-in voting is insecure & allegations of fraud. It sounds alarming at first glance. But a deeper look reveals the rumor to be misleading in old, familiar ways. katestarbird.substack.com/p/here-we-go...

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

breaking: 80-student encampment up at Occidental College in California, demanding the Board of Trustees commit to divest from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Maersk, and Caterpillar amid the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine at an upcoming meeting on Monday.

State Sen. Catherine Miranda said thousands of residents have submitted formal comments in opposition to the facility. Sen. Analise Ortiz said ICE facilities are "incompatible with human rights standards" and criticized Surprise Mayor Sartor for saying the concentration camp is "unstoppable."

Jonathan Haidt, for example, talks with so much self-possession and certainty even though what he says is mostly his opinion without a lot of facts behind it.

It is only now dawning on me that a lot of "experts" are just saying stuff without hesitation or qualification with a definitive tone of voice. But the stuff is sometimes...kind of made up.

Here you have a man who has never been to Utah.

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

This should sink him imo.

Remember when Elon did the Nazi salute and the ADL defended him?

The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit court of appeals is considering the fate of telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone. New briefs argue reinstating in-person appointments would harm: *domestic violence survivors *disabled people *military readiniess Almost as if abortion is essential

"The elites make all the rules. You can tell I'm not elite because if I was making all the rules you'd be a lot better off. Therefore please make me elite instead of them."

One of the most politically salient trends of our time is people who are by any objective standard extremely elite constructing an image of “the elites” that conveniently excludes them.

He won an election less than 18 months ago.

I think the risk of populism is that we personalize the possession of wealth and start to hate the people who are wealthy instead of the fact of inequality. Then we just risk keeping inequality but making different people into elites and solving nothing.

Completely separate from Israel and Zionism, Julian Casablancas wants a populist politics of “the people” vs. “the elite,” but his own family background means he can’t define “elites” on strictly economic grounds. That makes antisemitism a tempting place to go.

A warm congratulations to Wärtsilä, whose brand new fossil fuelled data centre gas turbine deal will pump out the same emissions each year as the entire power grid of Alaska, or New Hampshire www.wartsila.com/media/news/2...

Several white supremacists were convicted of crimes related to Charlottesville, including Heather Heyer's murderer. A dozen were held civilly liable. To call this a "hoax" because an anti-hate watchdog had eyes on the organizers is delusional racist propaganda from the White House.

“Florida law enforcement agencies have used AI-powered license plate readers to track drivers tied to political protests and rallies throughout the state, police records show.”

Casey Wasserman dangling a bunch of 1984 medals in front of him is one thing, but "Presented to President Donald Trump from the City of Los Angeles" you guys what the fuck are we trying to do here

The Minnesota Senate is considering reversing a ban on seclusion rooms for children in grade three and under until 2036. The solitary rooms were used in Minnesota for decades as a last-resort response to student behavioral issues in the classroom.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Anyone who believes Donald Trump's corrupt scheme to take over the Fed is over is fooling themselves. The Senate should not proceed with the nomination of Kevin Warsh."

I am begging someone, anyone, to answer Steve's question: Where did Baude get the idea that the government only faces "irreparable injury" when a lower court blocks its action, and not when the Supreme Court blocks it? Was this idea pulled out of thin air to defend Roberts' memos? It's mystifying.