The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

They will regret this before the end

This is pretty scummy even by Republican fundraising standards.

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

As I wrote back in 2020, "A society that ignores or downplays a technological threat so long as it is used to 'only' sexually exploit women will be woefully unprepared to respond when that technology is weaponized against other people and for other causes." www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/12/o...

I for one agree that we should no longer allow people to vote wearing identity-shielding masks and otherwise refusing to say who they are at polling places.

They want us to follow the norms of American law when it comes to ICE identification **and** they want us to follow the norms of American law when it comes to voter ID? I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent if, like Tom Emmer, you were repeatedly kicked in the head by a mule.

Shame on you, @nytimes.com.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

the fundamental divide in the democratic party isn't between "moderates" and "socialists" but between fight and don't fight. the new crop of dems understands that fight is the only option. we can disagree about policy later, as among friends--but we have to crush these people now

We fought a revolution over this stuff, supposedly.

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

the point of this seems to be to get across the point that AOC is dumb which she clearly isn’t. It’s like arguing that John Thune is stupid; u can disagree with either of them and a normal, fair person is not gonna think they are dumb as a rock Quoting Clay Higgins like this, that would make sense

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

Rhetorical question of the moment: "Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write? futurism.com/artificial-i...

I already didn't really care about the Olympics, but now I super duper pooper scooper don't care about the Olympics and I'm pretty sure I'll never watch again, even casually.

After Marco Rubio said countries shouldn’t rely on the US Ottawa said: don’t worry we won’t. Leaked Defence Industrial Strategy: • 5% of GDP on defence • 70% built at home • 125,000 Canadian jobs • Billions staying north of the border #Elbowsup #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

I'm so sick and tired of hearing, "Aha, he really is a pedo, after all, when it's been known for FUCKING DECADES. Here he is with his favorite victim. Not only does he not deny it, he's boasted about this plus walking through teen girls' dressing rooms, among other creepo things. WTFU!

At its heart, much of AI is a machinery that replaces human agency and decision-making, and with it, human ability.

I fully agree, and I would argue further that in a lot of cases (not all, certainly), coding is also thinking. And in those cases, skipping it won't make result better, it will make it worse.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

Canada is playing a lead role in building a new trade alliance between the EU and Asia. Leaving the US on the sidelines. www.politico.eu/article/eu-a...

WWIII is going to be decided by the question "who has done the more hamfisted job of purging their military leadership of expertise and staffing it with career sycophants: these guys or Xi Jinping." (In related news - we're all gonna be vaporized, huh)

the challenging thing about a genuine education is not the part where you boldly tell your teacher she's wrong and everyone claps. the challenging thing is when you tell her that and then realize that you're the one who's bullshitting. humility in the face of reality is the point.

“It is not easy being transgressive in an era when there are few norms remaining to transgress,” Will wrote of the climate Vance inhabits. “Undaunted, he tries.” -- George Will, quoted by Frank Bruni bsky.app/profile/keen...

As your lawyer, Mr. Karp, I advise you to keep saying this stuff, especially when testifying before Congress. They’ll love you.

Anyone who argues that AI is a tool of enhancing our cognition really needs to sit with this example.

A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.

Guest Opinion | We at the Gallup Poll are ending our 80+ year tradition of polling presidential approval so we can focus on our core mission, such as ranking the top 10 Trump golf courses and the best meme coins from World Liberty Financial.

I wonder if we can learn anything from the increasing resemblance between reality and comic books around supervillains being two-dimensional avatars of malevolence while going unpunished by The Law

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC... I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

A Washington Post columnist whose beat is food and science was whining on here yesterday about how scientists fleeing to Bluesky meant science was "hard left" - the truth is that if science has a leftward bias, it's because the right has decided to destroy science.

Whether it’s Barack Obama, putting Dijon mustard on a hotdog or Vladimir Putin poisoning a political rival with frog toxins, both leaders have a colorful history of using strange substances.

Yeah, those who want Ru to win in Ukraine or at least don’t want to do anything to contain its expansionism in Europe always use this sophism.

But we didn't have economic stagnation for the working class. We had a period of unusually *high* wage growth for low income workers.

While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

It's very simple. If two candidates are competing against each other and both are imperfect, but one is manifestly less imperfect than the other, you vote for the one who's less imperfect.

Marco Rubio didn't mention Russia or the Ukraine war in his speech on European security. Not once in his prepared remarks. But he did push a racial/religious supremacist version of Western civilization and chastise them for immigration. Basically the same speech as Hegseth, less boorishly phrased.

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.

If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.

This is so spot on

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Rural people are a sort of Noble Savage. Distant and pure, incapable of agency, they can’t be judged or helped.

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying