Oh my. Saying the quiet part outloud.

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

"It's less harmful to me to make sure that they can do the things without the AI than to try and push the AI into my classroom knowing that, at least for some of them, it's going to mean that they don't get to acquire the skills that they need." This this this this this this this this this this 🙏

Funny how when it's aligned with what they want, it's great, and when it's not...

They expect sympathy?! They knew what they were signing up for.

Yes.

I think the way to get rid of Miller is for Trump to find out that everyone thinks that Miller is the real president. No way Trump can handle that ego blow. And it’s pretty clear that someone, or more than one, inside the White House is no longer working with him

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

Uh....uh...uh....

These seven should be ashamed of themselves. Absolutely ashamed. They should resign immediately.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

They really like the tactic of trying to embarrass others into doing what they want. Problem is, they’re really bad at it.

And they wonder how they keep losing. Sheesh.

The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation..."

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

I was at MANY of these stops. Here’s what would happen: the agents would stand guard at the cars, Bovino would literally pose out front while people yelled at him. It was a pathetic, obvious attempt to antagonize neighbors - they transited three gas stations and did the exact same thing thrice.

Can anyone explain to me why MicroSoft is bound and determined that I'm too stupid to know what I want my computer to actually do?

i honestly don’t care what the polls say, if you’re still falling for the dems’ whole “we would love to oppose trump/the right and fight culture war stuff but it’s just not popular, we simply must follow the polls this time” song and dance, you’re a mark, sorry.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

On what fucking planet does everyone's parents just randomly buy multiple homes? Jesus. And a banana is $10...no biggie.

I don't want Mamdani or Schumer voting for funding for the people currently brutalizing my fellow Minnesotans. Now ... which one actually gets to vote for or against that and is it the mayor of NYC?

Is it just me, or is Microsoft 365 getting WORSE with every iteration?!

Rep. Lieu: “Greg Bovino last night made a post that essentially called protesters, ‘cannon fodder.’ He needs to delete that post, or he needs to resign…If Greg Bovino and the administration doesn't turn down the rhetoric, it's going to cause more people to get killed.”

So excited! One of my mentees came to talk about their capstone, and they're doing the early AIDS crisis, the government response, and the response to that. NOW...where did all those government websites that were, uh, 'redacted' get housed? Anyone know?

Remember when the thought was the TSA was taking people who couldn’t pass the background or psych test to be a cop? Pretty sure ICE is taking the folks even the TSA won’t hire.

I guess Skynet is one step closer.

Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?

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@markhamillofficial.bsky.social would agree, I think.

Why am I utterly unsurprised.

Wow

So….we’ve replaced Afghanistan with Venezuela, seems like. Huh. Can’t imagine what those two countries have in common… My eyes hurt from rolling out of my head.

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So, we're gonna invade Greenland because his ego got hurt? Jesus wept.

Why am I completely not surprised at this? Also, UGH.

Is my History of Gender syllabus and Canvas course done? Yes. Is it the class I'm teaching tomorrow? Nope. Ah well. Better than writing quizzes.

If the will to overthrow Maduro existed within Venezuela, it would have happened years ago. The far right opposition there has to rile up support from outside Venezuela and tonight they finally succeeded. What a fucking nightmare.

Oh, there’s nothing suspicious going on here. (Also, WTAF)

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax. Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians. www.state.gov/releases/off...

This is the most nakedly oligarch-serving administration in history. It exists solely to benefit the billionaire class and major corporations. That’s it.

It’s 64F outside at nearly 11 pm. That’s both all sorts of wrong and yet slightly right up my alley.

DOGE was premised on one of the deepest lies of American politics: that the federal government doesn't work well & is wasteful. Since the federal government at least was actually quite well run at the level of ordinary bureaucracy & has intense rules for constraining waste, it could never succeed

At what point do you stop cooking for a family that's way too f'ing picky, hates most veggies, and won't eat if they don't absolutely love it? Because UGH.

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

People, if you ain't worried...you're not paying attention.

Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.” Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.” Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.” Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.” The pattern is ... not subtle.