The GOP cannot retain power if it loses even a few percentage points of the 65+ demographic. These people may not vote Democratic but not showing up to vote will accomplish much. We need Dems running for every position in states like OK.

I've been an Apple fanboi for almost 42 years. Where is Apple on the non-consensual/CSAM material posted on Twitter/Grok in apparent violation of its App Store standards? Are they willing to allow women and underage girls to be harmed in order to keep Trump/Musk happy? I want to know.

This was one of my first thoughts, once my anger and frustration decreased so I could think rationally again. We need to respond in ways that effectively push back.

You should not ever just measure a disease by deaths. Pediatric ICU is very expensive. Regular hospitalization is expensive. The economic burden placed on people for getting the flu is tremendous.

So anyone who has ever played Risk knows that Greenland is vital to attack Europe or Canada/North America. And Venezuela is the key to controlling access to South America and Africa. I think out foreign policy is based on Risk. Likely something Miller or Rubio played when they were young. Awesome.

No principles is a requirement for these grifters. They will hurt millions to sustain their grift.

Some memes never die. This is so correct for today's world.

When he is right, he is right.

So when did the Onion start reporting factual news? ;-)

So what will happen when China or the EU step in to help Cuba? Nothing good I am afraid.

Less than 24 hours and it looks like little Marco isn't going to be running Venezuela.

Propaganda rag (paper) doing its propaganda rag (dance) [See what I did there?] Gotta prop up the fascists to make it seem like they are geniuses rather than the war criminals as history will see them.

JFC. Talk about collaboratorating with fascists. All passive voice as if no one has any agency in what is happening -- not Trump, not Hegseth, not the military generals, not the Venezuelan politicians, the Venezuelan people or even the Democrats.

The next No Kings Marches will be massive. Bet they happen soon.

Wonder if they're going to talk to plutocrats about the stock markets highs as evidence the economy is great? Or talk about how so much of America's wealth went to the plutocrats, like the one that owns CBS? Or why Tyson's is shutting down meat processing plants? Not holding my breath.

Discovery will be a lot of fun in this case. Which is why I do not expect it to go anywhere, even if it is filed. Purley performance.

Absolutely right I always thought Mary knew the correct path. That George kept trying to find ways off the path, often whining about being stuck. The revelation for him is that the path is what Mary knew all along. He realized she chose him and now he for the first time really chose her.

This is what the good males of the world do. Waiting in the parking lot at a Taylor Swift concert hoping to get tickets for their daughter. Then they do!

COVID is not the flu and you can get both at the same time.

Perhaps the phrase, "short route" home, might refer to a pardon or a Maxwell deal, rather than suicide? Trump was President at the time. Just a thought.

I have not checked them all but most centrist Dems are beholden to big money donors and PACs. Not small donors. It tells you why they do not want primaries. It becomes obvious the plutocrats want them.

They do have to apologize for being assholes.

They had a bad week last week (Reiner, Wiles, Grandad yelling, pre-empting the finale of Survivor, Epstein files). Each by itself would've gotten notice. Together maybe a fair percentage of those who haven't been looking are now seeing how stupid the Admin is. The frequency illusion may doom them.

Still keeping him close to DC. less than 240 miles away. Want to make sure he is near a properly staffed ER (ie one that will cover anything up)?

I'm sure he will fix this soon.

If this is how they figure out tariffs or inflation levels, we are truly and royally fucked. Besides, 7-fold down wuld be over $14 not $13.

Damn. Who'da thought Popular Science would have stood up so strongly when so many others have fallen away?

You know he will not keep on track. He will be awful. As usual.

Why do we lose so many great people while the shitstains live on? The best thing is he lived a life which generates widespread sorrow when he is gone. That is the best any of us can hope for, I think.

I have to wonder what X will do, when it can be sued directly over ANY content published there? Or Facebook? Ad revenue will plummet, because the advertisers would likely be part of the lawsuits. Are these people idiots?

Hate that so much art is now under the control of men with no soul.

So many colleges are making it easy to ignore them as a choice. No education here

Loss of trust is a hallmark of this Administration. Health. Economics. Military. Taxes. Development.

Those in charge want poor Americans to die. They will make sure they and theirs are all vaccinated.

They were classic hors de combat. Killing them has been recognized as a crime for well over 100 years, when 2 German officers were sentenced to prison for firing on the surviviors of a ship their U-boat had sunk in WW1.

40% of white men and 47% of white women voted aginst Trump in the last election. That is a substantial number that should not be tarred with white supremacy.

Looks like Musk is entering his late Howard Hughes phase. When will he start living in a Trump hotel room?

Just a continuing reminder that Republicans are pretty much anti-American principle, anti-Democratic principles and pro-war crimes.

No LLM would ever had done this. It does not understand art or the light bulb moment.

Gonna be interesting. Apple's Foundation is really only Asimov's Foundation adjacent but it has been an engrossing series as it goes along. Many of thedifferences in bringing it to streaming make sense for the medium.

Hope Joe lives long enough to see Trump led, penniless, to his jail cell.

The DoD law of war manual explicitly states that firing on shipwrecked people is not only an illegal order but something every Navy personnel knows is illegal. It is the example of an order that should not be complied with. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Are all the Navy personnel carrying out the orders complicit or only the officers? The DoD Law of War Manual explicitly says firing on the shipwrecked is clearly an illegal order that ANY Navy personnel at any level would know was illegal and should refuse to comply with. I'd say all are complicit.

The DoD Law of War manual explicitly says that firing on the shipwrecked is so obviously an illegal order that any Navy personnel would know is illegal, based on a case over 100 years old. It is well known in the Navy that you do not fire on anyone who is simply trying to survive in the ocean.

The DoD Law of War Manual has an example of an illegal order that ANY member of the Navy would know is illegal. On page 1088, we find: "For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal." They broke the explicit example used in the manual. Everyone involved is guilty..

It will be ironic if he falls due to the very thing he was hired for — the belief that committing crimes against humanity was the way to run the military.

I will not be surprised if he is one of the anonymous sources. His testimony in front of Congress will be interesting.

This. I used to sit down and read journals with no specific purpose. I got several novel research projects by running across a paper by accident.

Vaccination is not perfect but saves more lives than the disease.