looking forward to Oh No The National Debt becoming the single most pressing issue for the national media the second a Democrat takes office again, as is tradition

"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit. But what we should all be afraid of is silence." www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

somebody outside of the library is absolutely blasting the goo goo dolls' 1998 hit "iris"

Trump’s border wall construction has now damaged a 200-foot-long Indigenous etching in Arizona believed to be at least 1,000 years old.

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

If you count the first calendar we did as the beginning of ORB, which we do, then today is our one-year anniversary of being An Actual Thing! One full ORBIT around the sun!

Can't read this? When I click it, I just see a blinding curtain of red and my heart is filled with an ocean of rage?

Live your life in a way that makes it possible to locate 12 people who don't hate you.

much like corn Oakland rec league softball is back and lmao my teammate made sets of trading cards

everything is terrible but I’m having corn on the cob for breakfast and hoo boy is it sweet

Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have announced that they now plan to spend $725 billion on infrastructure this year — mostly AI data centers. With that money America could end homelessness, alleviate hunger, make public colleges free, and more.

"Why are all the journalists laid off now" this is why. Pretty simple.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

American Black women now have fewer voting rights and reproductive rights than their mothers did at the same age. Progress isn’t a straight line, indeed.

Oh my god NO not the norms

I see that Congress is focused on the important things right now, like... uh... introducing a bill to condemn Hasan Piker? newrepublic.com/post/209678/...

not sure what’s going on but I would absolutely love a smoke rn

is there any better metaphor for the democratic party than an old man on his deathbed trying to impede progress

Millions of 18-year-olds are signing up every year for a lifetime of debt so that ChatGPT can get a college education.

USAID 2024 budget: $21.4 billion.

has the new york times ever thought about doing a focus group with someone who has read a book

So Democrats will fight against Americans getting better and more affordable cars but they won’t fight against literal fascists usurping Congressional powers, looting the federal government, and executing American citizens on the street in broad daylight. Got it. Primary them all.

wow hard to believe someone with zero experience in tv who is also a big dumb idiot whose career advancement has come solely from flattering rich assholes would suck at one of the hardest and most demanding jobs in tv news.

I have seen no coverage of this in the Anglophone news media.

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

The Palestinian Authority held the first municipal-level elections in years in occupied territory and in response the Israeli army kidnapped one of the victors and held him hostage and released him only on the condition that he step down from his seat.

you're gonna have to be more specific

man im so pissed about the vaillancourt fountain

what time is the warriors game on

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

politicians were a mistake

Disqualifying thehill.com/homenews/hou...

AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake

Israel uses bulldozers our tax dollars pay for to destroy civilian infrastructure in Palestine and Lebanon. Trump just gave another $295 million worth of bulldozers to Israel last year, and 59 Senators voted against blocking their delivery earlier this month.

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

in awe of one of the nation's biggest media reporters, in the midst of the biggest story happening on the biggest night of the year for his beat, posting about how he went to a bar to watch other people do his job

the 2 permissible things: 1. work at the new york times 2. go to nazi gala the 2 impermissible things: 1. say america kinda stinks 2. take a apple from kroger

there's lots of changes but one of the major differences between the new internet and the old internet is that on the old internet when someone linked to an article that generally meant you would actually be able to read it

This is a crime against all living beings in the world.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

That US journalists are shaming anyone online for not being sufficiently somber about the nerd prom while they’ve been silent about the actual assassination of hundreds of journalists is a bigger disgrace than the WHCD itself

While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.

this is a scary and overwhelming moment we're all living through together and in the interests of national unity I think what we need is to hear a LOT more about this dude with Kash Patel's girlfriend

*Spins wheel* ex Mormon... *shakes magic 8 ball* pornstar doula *throws dart* former Tulsi staffer Motivated by *spins larger wheel* his Qatari data center getting bombed

Sticking around to eat wedding food after someone took a shot at the president is sociopath behavior

Wait what

how is this real life

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place