"The human brain is simply not wired to treat AI like any other technology," Webb Wright writes. "For some users, the system is alive."

With TikTok’s potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, “we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,” David Karpf argues.

The selective prosecution of Trump’s political opponents could lead to a “dysfunctional cycle of revenge,” Conor Friedersdorf argues.

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Jeff Daniels speaks out.. He's everything that's wrong. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.

Six months into his second term, personal gain and petty retribution seem to be Donald Trump’s only goals for his presidency, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily. https://theatln.tc/qBWIHDke

whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives. (gift link, no paywall) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “One reason the pandemic so damaged America’s collective sanity is that it forced us to live on the internet,” our columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “‘Eddington’ is about a world where the borders between online and off have collapsed.”

Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

"I’m sorry if I’m not adequately sympathetic to Lisa Murkowski’s plight, but she understands the consequences of her actions. She says the vote was difficult– she voted for it! That’s not difficult. You don’t get credit for doing the hard thing when you don’t actually DO the hard thing."

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."

Is it just the ones who are inside someone’s womb? Asking for a friend. FFS.

“Now would be a very good time for Washington to bring back its debt obsession,” Rogé Karma writes:

Gee wonder who that would benefit!

40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.

If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos #booksky

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right?

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ~ Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Senator Cory Booker -- nearly 23 hrs into this -- is more coherent than your average elected official speaking (while seated) at an average legislative hearing. Even if you haven't been watching all along, dip in for a moment -- he is making considerable sense: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

Carl Sagan was one of those brilliant people enlightening us and broadening our thoughts growing up.

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A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the U.S. with immigrants under the law needed to return.

America has tried to annex Canada before. It didn't go well then, @eliotacohen.bsky.social writes, and it probably won't go well now.

Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Dozens of fires across Oklahoma have destroyed nearly 300 structures and burned close to 200,000 acres, Gov. Kevin Stitt said Saturday morning, as dangerous fire conditions persisted from Texas to Nebraska.

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

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Five years after New York State banned the distribution of single-use plastic bags in an effort to curb litter and minimize greenhouse emissions, the muse of "American Beauty," Katy Perry and bathroom trash cans everywhere just won't go away. nyti.ms/4h6MUf5

HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Breaking News: A federal judge declined to block Elon Musk and his team from gaining access to data at seven federal agencies and carrying out mass firings.

"Trump has seized on his reelection as an opportunity to rewrite the story of January 6," writes Quinta Jurecic. "But in the long term, the truth of what happened will prove difficult to bury":

Claiming that DOGE will improve America’s debt crisis is a convenient way to frame the project as a service to the American people, @lorakelley.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. But DOGE’s current efforts aren‘t likely to make a dent in the deficit.

He "got stuck" watching Seth Meyers? I guess Musk wouldn't let him have the remote.

America’s allies should be deeply concerned about Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic Daily. “America’s enemies, meanwhile, are almost certainly laughing in amazement at their unexpected good fortune.”

"He was the Republicans' star witness. Sean Hannity’s Fox News show ran with his claims in at least 85 separate segments last year. The Republicans’ entire Biden conspiracy theory was based on his claims..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

If RFK Jr. is confirmed. @donttreadonkids.bsky.social

"On the substance, Biden’s economic agenda has registered some meaningful successes ... As a political strategy, however, post-neoliberalism has clearly failed," Jonathan Chait writes:

In 1979, Jimmy Carter had 32 solar panels installed on the roof of the White House. They were removed seven years later under Ronald Reagan. But they found new homes at a college in Maine, where they continued to generate power for years, and eventually ended up scattered around the U.S. and China.