In the months since a Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez five times, she has watched the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. “I was there in their shoes, and I have a voice,” she said. “Something that they don’t have.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/d-q77m

Diane Arbus Woman at a counter smoking, New York, 1962

I mean why wouldn’t they

you too can be part of the future. just drop out of school - -who needs that anyway when the machine god will make all knowledge work irrelevant. don't waste your time on books -- blog posts and LLM summaries are all you really need, anyway. find the man who has the most agency and 'velocity'

some of the people taking the position that some of the synagogues being attacked probably deserved it because of alignment with Israel have not thought through the ramifications of their position re: their own alignments

It's like watching an adhd ten-year-old play a strategy game. Just pushing the "blow stuff up" button over and over and getting frustrated it doesn't work. Amazing.

Raise my taxes in return for more and better services please

Also I'm really sick of these people spreading this conspiracy theory that Biden was directing how local PDs & campus administrators responded to disruptive protests.

The Senate GOP posted an AI deepfake of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. Using this tech isn't just a profound threat to our democracy - it's a disgraceful attempt to intentionally deceive voters. Congress must swiftly pass federal AI protections.

Punishing student protestors only to get mad at them for not protesting anymore reminds me of how survivors are sued and harassed for coming forward only to then be blamed for not wanting to name and report their perpetrators anymore

It’s one of those awful feedback loops. Israeli politics feeds antisemitism which makes Jewish safety a problem at home which increases Zionist sentiment amongst American Jews

btw if you were wondering why it seems like more than the usual number of American Jews have developed brainworms in the last ~decade this has a lot to do with it. In addition to the other things security does, one of which saved lives today, it is a constant message that you need to have security

This is a very popular take that merely restates the problem it purports to solve. Which is largely one of perception that gives enormous credit to right-wingers and little to anyone on their left. A lot of Democrats *do* talk about these things and have gotten more overt about it lately.

This comes to mind. Words used as shibboleths where their users take umbrage at being asked to defend them. www.cnn.com/videos/besto...

Attributing all these things to an effort by Biden to suppress protests shows that “Biden” is serving as a synecdoche for “anyone in the government or college administrations who took any action against the protesters,” which explicitly includes Trump!

here’s a crazy fact: more Americans have been killed in disputes over parking spots than on the NYC subway this year

“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.” “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?” “You ask a glass of water.”

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

girl are you the Straight of Hormuz because I see a lot of men greatly overestimating their chances of getting their ship into your channel

Can this be a solution?

can this be a solution

Cops

It’s not just that Biden on 🇦🇫 is being compared to Trump on 🇮🇷. It’s that the former was shamefully treated as evidence of gross incompetence & a failing presidency, while the latter - like everything else Trump does - is getting excused, normalized, & graded on a totally different scale.

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

How unpopular would Trump have to get to put impeachment on the table?

Genuinely: who are all these pro-Newsom people? I’ve never seen one and I live in California.

Push-polling your own employees, incredible

probably the best examination of current-day Pixar I’ve read, very good stuff thebaffler.com/latest/probl...

It's also an accident of Democrats not having a leader, & their closest substitutes being two New York guys who are purely in the positions that they are because of their strengths as legislators & fundraisers rather than from any ability to provide political leadership.

This is because hating the Democrats is a way to build social currency with other Democrats in a way that the Republicans don't do

My job would make any of my ancestors jealous.

Also, yeah, I've noticed this and it's mad disrespectful to Palestinians? They are a specific people suffering from specific atrocities and oppression, not a generic shibboleth for "suffering"

I would like my leisure time and the food I eat at a price I can afford to come at the expense of unfeeling machines rather than 11-year old undocumented Guatemalan refugees press-ganged by poverty and legal status into picking tomatoes, actually.

🔴 BREAKING: Secret documents obtained by Ukraine reveal Russian military losses have now topped 1.3 million soldiers.

Algorithmic social media was a mistake

A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested. Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%! yle.fi/a/74-20214134

Chat, are we in hell?

This is so fcking racist. In multiple ways!

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store. GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

That’s a hell of a poem gd

holy shit

People imagined Joe Biden/Kamala Harris The Warmonger in their heads and ran from there. As said, nothing to do with objective reality. However much you hate Democrats, the possibility they would've just willy-nilly bombed Iran and murdered millions by destroying USAID is infinitesimal.

The American electorate is so uninformed, self-centered and nihilistic that we’re forcing the entire world to touch the stove before we learn to stop doing it ourselves

Beyond the avoidable tragedy, I wonder whether repeated deaths at the same intersection despite demand for change will lead to increased liability for cities and traffic engineers. Will we ever have a lawsuit and landmark court case that will change street design toward safety?

But your anchor is the median household income is around 83,000. If you are both this number, you are 'doing well' and should think about ways to give back. And your taxes should probably go up. I know it doesn't feel that way, but there it is.

In conclusion I believe that everyone is human and deserving of freedom from war, even if they have bad opinions

People I think have a deep belief in the necessity of the death penalty. But wrt to this case I have to wonder: is their priority justice, or retribution?

A. This is awful and no one, wherever you stand on the death penalty, should be okay with it B. This is a good headline that refuses to equivocate www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...