Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Just saw this in LinkedIn for anyone interested in looking into Grok's production of CSAM and non-consensual sexualised imagery. www.linkedin.com/posts/mtechl...

Ex-NATO General Michel Yakovleff: "Europe needs to prepare for a divorce from the US in NATO, kick them out of Ramstein if necessary, relocate headquarters to Brussels or Paris."

Five years ago.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

'Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good will require a return to not-for-profit models and sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility and integrity need to be put ahead of profit.'

Today the Pentagon censured Senator Mark Kelly and moved to strip part of his earned military retirement benefits for stating the truth. This administration is trying to convince Americans that truth is whatever it says it is—even when the evidence is plainly in front of us.

This is Ollie. He found a perfectly placed carrot snack on his walk. Simply can't believe his luck. 13/10 best day ever (TT: maxime_aries)

TODAY'S OBSCURE GRAMMATICAL CHALLENGE Make a band subjunctive Would That They Were Giants

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply. I want to make sure this is very clear.

President Donald Trump is moving to block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports, reversing consumer protections and keeping millions burdened by bills they can’t afford. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

President no new wars is threatening to seize Greenland again. A day after raiding Venezuela and a week after bombing Nigeria. And MAGA is still talking about how he’s the peace president 🤦‍♂️ fucking idiots

JFC — is he just threatening everyone he can name at this point?

Look, Bluesky is a Twitter byproduct that exists as a community because Musk bought Twitter and killed it and now has X wear it as a skinsuit. No one is here really because they believe in the fediverse, we're here because of what happened to Twitter. This is twitter for opting out of Musk-Twitter.

*queue class action defamation lawsuits*

Trump doesn’t understand the laws and policies that govern police misconduct. But the people around him do. And sure enough, his administration has made clear that they will provide zero oversight and will conduct no civil rights investigations into police abuse.

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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public

If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

#BookHistory Help needed! I have trouble identifying this incunable page (back pastedown in a 1491 Cologne legal treatise, ISTC is00496000). Starting at "Non solum" seems to be a paraphrase and commentary on Decret., Lib. II, Tit. XV, cap. VII. Early provenance: Italy, c.1500. Sharing=😘, solving=😍

Trump pardons major drug traffickers www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry said www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

the reason they don’t bother to manufacture the consent beforehand is that everyone just sort of does it for them post-facto now

finally, we're living through precedented times

We are the rogue nation people have been warning about

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich | Creators

from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.

A lot of people have screamed "twitter isn't real life" at us for over a decade but the admin is currently being run by content creators seeking the approval of twitter users to the extent that their "situation room" had twitter feeds up on the projectors

Question: If we're running Venezuela, does that mean it is our territory now? And if so, does that mean Venezuelas have U.S. citizenship rights like Filipinos prior to independence from the U.S.? Asking for future scholarly impact. #Satire

He watched it from his house. Not from the seat of government. And experienced it as a TV show. He is a non-president.

Who's going to store and power all this biometric data? Who will they sell it to?

Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.

Hi! Have you stretched today? Gone outside for a walk? Backed up your phone or computer recently? I know the news is stressful, but you still deserve time to take care of yourself. Try to focus on the things in your control. One thing at a time.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

I think the key to this version of US imperialism is the interaction of 1 and 2 here

French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.

The problem is they told Trump if he kidnaps 5 world leaders he can trade them in for a Bic Mac

Go do something nice for a friend or neighbor today. Nothing you tweet or do will have any impact on the mess, but that will make you feel better. Build community.