Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

DEMOCRATS: How can we make Russ Vought infamous? He's a fairly obscure bureaucrat unless you live in the beltway. People can't even pronounce his name right. TRUMP: Check out this epic bacon meme about my supervillain friend Russ Vought spelled V-O-U-G-H-T

Remembering how alien and ominous "homeland" sounded when Bush first started using it, along with the premonition that it would become normalized once codified in a Department.

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then. A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

A lot of the current beef between this website's power users and the devs stems from the fact the two groups are approaching the utility of this platform from completely different directions.

I'm in the paper today discussing why deploying the national guard to New Orleans is an unnecessary step that will hurt local businesses. I don't mention in the piece, but it will also be expensive and polling shows it's already very unpopular.

Absolutely insane push notification lol

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days. He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

all of this is being directed by a woman who shot a puppy just because he was annoying her, and then she included the story in her memoir because she thought it made her look GOOD. from the top down, all these people have a void where normal human empathy is supposed to be.

Under the radar from a consumer perspective, perhaps… but the specific date was announced in 2023. Microsoft has been fairly consistent in ending support 10 years after a version of Windows is released, from Vista onwards. Home users can upgrade from 10 to 11 for free: www.pcmag.com/how-to/3-way...

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire.

My own personal experience is that they are mostly full of kids who *get good grades in school*, which is a specialized skill as opposed to a measure of intelligence.

we're gonna radicalize the troops against private equity but not before we price gouge their families

It's endlessly maddening that Dems would never dream of doing shit like this when they regain power and they are right not to. It's just a blatant asymmetry that flows from the information environment and the GOP knows they can get away with it without fear of retribution.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently. We see it over and over.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

it’d be really funny if an aneurysm caused by getting mad about an animated robot’s non gendered pronouns during her netflix rage posting is what ends up doing it

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

This ransom memo should be as big a deal as the Kimmel suspension. It probably won't be but the stakes are higher for higher ed.

Trump: "I have a meeting today with Russ Vought, he of PROJECT 2025 Fame, to determine which of the many Democrat Agencies, most of which are a political SCAM, he recommends to be cut ... I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity."

Remember Trump told the news that he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and that alot of it seemed crazy to him and the media was like ok sounds good

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

Maybe he really believes that hazing recruits harder in basic will produce good results, but what he's going to get is worse leaders, poor morale and discipline, and lower readiness - and the flag officers whose time he wasted today have already thought about this a lot

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

All this seems pretty bad.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

Oh for fucks sake

I’m preemptively excited for the first person to try to explain a multimillion dollar budget variance with “vibe working”

One of the deadlier single massacres in American history. There's a reason Black and labor history are so thoroughly erased.

still happy I left twitter, exhibit 57,432

....i didn't realize this sort of thing was going on..... i recommend *not* wearing a titanium ring with a lithium battery in it ?? and if it starts to swell while you're wearing it to absolutely not get on a plane ???

This passage nearly broke me.

it seems really good that the entire american government right now is these two dumb bitches and 1000 evil viziers

This whole section really.

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'out of the three mass shootings today'

Voting for whatever candidate promises to congressionally mandate traumatizing all third graders by forcing them to watch Old Yeller, for the sake of public health.

War ravaged Portland

Meek Mill is in for a treat

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

Sounds pretty authoritarian: