Look man, I want to live in a society where even if you don’t hold virtue in your heart, society is constructed in such a way that pretending you’re virtuous is coterminous with getting ahead, and demonstrating that you lack it leaves you behind. That’s better than where we are.

“Guzmán’s daughter was still in the NICU, unable to eat or breathe independently. The doctors had planned a meeting to review the baby’s prognosis and care plans… As Guzmán went to buckle her seatbelt, she looked out the window and noticed they were surrounded.”

breaking: the negotiated NDAA to authority military spending would ban trans women from competing in sports at military academies it would likely be the first sports ban in federal statute, and would codify a definition of sex as solely defined at birth unless something changes it is set to be law

Companies aren’t buying Microsoft’s agentic AI applications at nearly the rate they hoped, causing MS to severely lower targets.

A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage. Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word. A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

from a state party director

Or put another way only 11% of the nation even tried to affect the outcome in the democratic primaries. I’m sure they all hated the eventual choices though.

Only 37 million voted in the 2020 democratic primaries. Way less than voted in the general election. I wonder how many millions of people didn’t even realize they had a choice beyond the general election. But ended up complaining about the nominees.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

"Bradley told lawmakers that the orders he received from Hegseth were to kill the individuals on the approved target list, which included everyone on the boat, then destroy the drugs and sink the boat, those sources said." They were civilians.

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

Here is my rant for the year and The Era: We need to stop confusing the words “normal” and “common.” It may seem trivial, but the differences between them are the differences between using stigmatizing language and descriptive language, they’re the whole piñata of difference.

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A remarkable threat from the Deputy AG: DOJ’s No. 2 official suggested Thursday that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they’ve publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Exactly. Newsom translated is “we need to treat a lot of you as abnormal and we need you to be a lot less judgmental about it.”

Feds gassed and tackled people in Elgin today, the same day Kristi Noem was in Chicago for a Christmas photo op, after a few weeks of relative quiet. I'm remembering that old story about groundskeepers at Versailles who would only turn the palace fountains on when the king came by.

This is in fact the material point: “The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

The thing about being an US born person of immigrant extraction who has also lived in a couple of other countries and traveled to a bunch more is... I can be both very clear eyed in the way the US sucks while also being aware of how other countries use the USA's failings to distract from their own.

French Revolution. Look it up

plenty of women stepping up to the challenge here, who are the men who fail to answer the call

The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation. The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit. Read the text👇

“The Big Tech AI industry is only interested in one thing: zero laws, zero accountability. The American people do not agree with their agenda, and that’s why Big Tech CEOs are putting big money behind efforts to repeal and neuter laws at the federal, state, and international levels.”

In honor of the unjustly banned Link, I invite folks to post their mutual aid below this thread. I will repost need as long as I am able. As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important. Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.

It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.

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such a classic scene

The sheriff in this is an absolute monster. Drop the population by 140 a day? Is he innumerate? What is he going to do, deport everyone? There are only 84K people in the whole county.

Welp hit the end of my ability to contact anyone for help with being displaced, so... Dont suppose anyone would send us funds or a grubhub gift card to order from the restaurant below us that we cant afford...?

Watch this video for remarkable bravery and wisdom from Christina Nguyen and Naomi Rathke, and sloppy journalism from @kare11.bsky.social which repeated uncritically ICE's claim to the numbers arrested and charges without seeking evidence of crimes or asking how many were U.S. citizens.

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

Let’s be clear here, the panel did not consider any new evidence. There is no new trial that showed this change was needed or beneficial. This is not gold standard science and is based off the opinions of the new panel, not science

people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

😓 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

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We writers should not be insulting our brothers and sisters in the visual arts by using AI slop for our covers or in our presentations. We already had access to photo depositories and stock art and it's easy enough to ask artists if you can reuse their work for a promotional credit.

Protesters rallied near the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport on Wednesday, calling out Trump's targeting of Minnesota's Somali community.

Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.

I don’t know how this will go in the birthright citizenship case. But if the Court pulls that particular trigger, it will simply be the case that the entire United States government is constitutionally illegitimate

Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.