The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

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The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

Today I learned that one should ask a hospital where a loved one is being treated in an *ICU* if they will be monitored and treated by on-site care providers or through remote telehealth. This fatal dystopian story is about Yale New Haven Health. lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/no-o...

Believe it or not, this was peak AI summarization. This is basically AGI

NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi — which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales — cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts." But it didn't. More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning... futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Hey did everyone see Clavicular get his ass beat after he challenged a cancer survivor leftist to a jujitsu match, who said as he was choking him out ‘this is for all the bullshit I gotta watch on my fucking feed’… we need more of this not more podcasts

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...

THREAD. An important report was just released, putting another nail in the coffin of Obama-era "police reform" copaganda. After a study of 13 years of "police reform" in Puerto Rico, police violence *got worse.* The "reform" itself has a budget of $20 million per year.

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tiny thread of tips for anyone freaked out by the reports of multiple fatal rattlesnake bites in SoCal lately: 1. not a comment on these particular bites at all, but statistically most bites occur when trying to interact with a snake (killing it, filming it, handling it to show off)

Alright. Let’s stop all this now.

When I disabled all the notifications on my smart phone, I felt such an enormous sense of relief. It took me a while to figure out why. It was because I wasn't being constantly interrupted New psychology research reveals the cognitive cost of smartphone notifications www.psypost.org/new-psycholo...

Official Trailer for "Dorohedoro" Season 2. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQSz...

not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists

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Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

STRAWBERRY POP TART PEEPS

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

LMFAO I LITERALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS HAPPENED AND I CAN CONFIRM TO YOU IT'S ENTIRELY 100% ON THE PART OF WHOMEVER PROGRAMMED THEIR PHONE SYSTEM THIS WAY 👇🏽🧵

Hey @axios.com, it’s actually nine jets, four of them luxury, with another luxury jet on the way. You’re only counting two luxury jets and the one on the way. Please credit me when you confirm and update your story, thank you! gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Brilliant and very accurate.

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

🧵🚨🧵 MEGATHREAD WARNING 🧵🚨🧵 Brace yourselves for a thread of some of the bigger threads I've posted on here. These are all impossibly niche and littered with an embarrassing amount of typos. You have been warned. 1. My magnum opus is certainly this thread about the fonts of Star Trek

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Every time Mueller she wrote does something I get a shit ton of notifications. Being told the web archive link has been "excluded". I'm guessing she asked for it to be taken down. Anyway, here. archive.ph/x62do

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

I'm a reporter and editor with Task & Purpose. I want to talk to VA employees, better yet Minneapolis VA ones. What has the VA said to you after Alex Pretti's death? Has there been any message? Any asks not to discuss? What? Will protect sources, use 1st names only, etc. Signal handle is nslayton.12

for the weekend crowd: I dug into a new podcast that pins a bunch of notorious murders on a long-dead Jewish man from San Diego. It's the ugliest true crime property in recent memory. [gift link] defector.com/michael-conn...

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

@fritschner.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social I am *begging* you guys to realize how many of our problems are downstream of the mainstream media hating your guts and how many problems you've caused for yourself by refusing to act like it

Dolphins have names for one another, and call out to each other by name. However, all of them are named “Hey, Motherfucker.”

"As the White Walkers marched inexorably south, nearly 90 percent of the Realm insisted on calling them monsters, abominations, and evil incarnate. The Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms cautioned against such language." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

ICYMI: WaPo, on why ICE always has phones in their hands: to feed the social media beast. @drewharwell.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.