Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.

Pussie Kaizer United States, Census, 1910

The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.

“Kiffin is so diabolical, he’s even attempting to whisk away assistants to LSU immediately, leaving Ole Miss to prepare for a Playoff game with the kind of Frankenstein staff you might expect from a team in the Birmingham Bowl.”

Internet in the house is busted, so all live service games are unplayable FORTUNATELY, I got Silent Hill f and a bunch of physical games to tide me over until the technician arrives tomorrow So, remember, kids! Physical copies of games is STILL BETTER!

Funniest part of an NFL football game is when the defense gets a turnover and very briefly the football team turns into the theatre club and they do their little performance they rehearsed that week.

Because lead being in tampons wasn’t enough, the FDA shot down testing talc in cosmetics for asbestos thehill.com/policy/energ...

A leaked 115 page report by current & former FBI personnel describes the bureau under Kash Patel as a “rudderless ship” & says he is “in over his head,” lacking the experience & bearing needed to be an effective FBI director—

Cheese Bologna United States, Census, 1920

Reminder: if you’re in a club and the music is bumping and the bartender has ear plugs in.. trying to start a convo when they openly tell you over and over again that they can hardly understand what you are saying… Maybe you should stop and visit another time when it’s not a club night.

'Cyber Monday' brings forth images of a lost internet, before we signed away our souls so they could be sold back to us. Also gives you real "Dot Com Bubble" vibes--which I suppose is pretty apropos for the current moment Anyway fuck Amazon, support local biz, and sub to your fave indie media ;]

The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, biscuits and gravy at Bob Evans, and then down to the old marina to shoot a bunch of fishermen and claim they were running drugs. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

The Texas Quote of the Day: "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any. " ----- former Texas governor Ann Richards, known (partly) for her immaculate silver locks

In the first few issues of batman he was constantly punching dudes who'd fall down stairs and break their neck and then there'd be an ironic twist that a simple treatment would've unveiled them, Or he'd go "there's only one way to stop this truck" and then unload a 1000 machine gun rounds into it

Don't fuck around with first dozen issues batman though he will whoopsie kill you

Beating golden age batman would've been so easy just leave a series of puzzle clues leading him on a fuckin geocashing adventure instead of directly to your crimes

FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THIS

We bought a Lego video game for the kids for Christmas. We heard this intermittent shrieking and came flying in from the kitchen, and one of the levels was little Lego weeping angels, and every time the lights came on in the room, they would have moved, and the girls would scream.

My cat... might hate me...

just spitballing here: a good slogan for dems in 2026 or 2028 might be BAN SCAMS

Trump just Throwing the whole military line of command into prosecution territory after this is all done in a massive way with this. Amazing stuff

I just don’t get these people: we don’t won’t let AI stilt our creativity we’ll just have it draw the pictures and make up the songs for us. Why is that the kind of task or labor you’d ever want to outsource to a machine?

“I will buy heroin for my kids and their friends to do heroin in the basement but I’ll show them fentanyl test strips and really warn them to be careful and make sure they watch Trainspotting all the way to the end first”.

TBF, there are so many ethical issues that no one op-ed can address them all. Once you've covered the data privacy, surveillance, propaganda and social control, economic and social inequality, investment bubble, labor abuses, risks to livelihoods, health and environment damage you've run out of spac

I want to go back to this excerpt. What students learn when we talk about ethics but don’t act on them is that we are hypocrites who actually don’t give a damn— and that they shouldn’t give a damn either but should pretend that they do.

And as reasonable as this writer seems and as much as he understands that essential skills can be inhibited by AI use, does this sound like someone very concerned about the labor or environmental impacts of AI? The ethics are just to be nodded to.

This is a piece that calls for regulation, but it also is a we-can-have-it-all piece that presumes a different nation than the one in which we now live: one that responds to citizens and regulates.

So many of these nods to ethics in the AI discourse and AI policies and training in schools and corporations treat ethics like something simply to be mentioned, not to be acted on. Mention it and move on doing whatever you want.

Laughing in high school teacher. “I will allow my son to use ChatGPT and similar tools at some point. But when I do, I plan to show him how to fact-check the sources the A.I. has provided, and make sure he understands that computers often ‘learn‘ the wrong thing from online sources.” #GiftArticle

Just once, I would like to hear a reporter respond, “you are a fake president!”!

Has anyone read any mea culpa's from the people who insisted that using the term WHITE SUPREMACY was not "productive" when addressing this regime? There is ZERO way to ever the U.S. without actually addressing RACISM and WHITE SUPREMACY. These are facts.

some folks will do anything to sound well read except for reading any books

6) Rosa Parks wasn't meek. A lifelong believer in self defense, her politics were expansive. She loved Martin & Malcolm & Stokely, Ella Baker & Queen Mother Moore, fought for reparations, Black history in every curriculum, prisoner defense, welfare rights—"any move to show we are dissatisfied."

5) The Parks weren't middle class. They were living in the Cleveland Court projects when she was arrested. Both she and her husband lost their jobs because of her bus stand. Forced to leave Montgomery 8 months after the boycott's end, they moved to Detroit—"the Northern promised land that wasn't."

4) Rosa Parks wasn't quiet at key moments. In fact when the police asked her why she didn't move, she spoke back "Why do you push us around?" In jail, she met a woman wrongfully imprisoned for defending herself against an abusive boyfriend; Parks smuggled out her brother's number to let him know

3) There wasn't anything to suggest this was a history-changing event. You know that mugshot photo. It's NOT from this arrest but from one 2 months later when she was arrested as a 'boycott leader.' It's often misattributed because we like the version where the right act is obvious when it happens.

2) There was nothing to suggest that making a stand that day would do anything. She'd made stands before. Other had too. It was lonely. No one joined her on the bus—worried she would be hurt, that it wouldn't do anything. That is Rosa Parks' courage—the ability to persist amid fear and uncertainty.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) speaks on the legality, and military and moral aspects of the September 2 boat strikes. @markhertling.bsky.social

The whole "strong floor, no ceilings" thing doesn't really matter in the sense that it's not actually going to be the Democratic Party slogan. It matters because it shows how stupid and out of touch Hakeem Jeffries is and what that portends for the future of the party.

It's wild that in my lifetime things went from you just had to know I guess intuitively where to go on the web to a categorised index of sites to a pretty good search with useful summaries to one filled with blathering nonsense for clicks to a lying robot that makes shit up while burning the Amazon.

Mark Kelly: “Pete Hegseth is not a serious person. He’s unqualified for this job. I think he is the least qualified Secretary of Defense in the history of our country by far. & this President thinks he can bully & intimidate people? He’s not gonna stop me from speaking out & holding him accountable”

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this

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