Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Almost funny

Absolutely. Early childhood or disability are the only reasons that justify dubbing films.

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Very possible that these posts were prompted by a direct payment from someone in the fossil fuel industry. Like, that's not idle speculation or grumbling from a political opponent. We KNOW Trump takes bribes. It's on record. The only question is what exactly is for sale.

The Republicans tried to stir up pogroms against Haitian communities during the 2024 campaign, and they’re setting the stage to do the same thing to Somalis as we head into 2026. It’s the new migrant caravans, but potentially far more deadly.

Keep grinding, #TeslaTakedown. It's working. apnews.com/article/tesl...

Murcs Law 2.0 Not only do Republicans have no agency, neither do voters. There is NO charge that would've prevented Trump from running, because any conviction would've been appealed through 2024. And the only people who let him go free are the people who didn't vote against him. Twice.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

Katelin Provost is a 37 year old single mom & social worker Because of MAGA/MAHA policies (“Make America Healthy Again”), her monthly premium payment is increasing from $85/month to nearly $750 This is immoral & will sicken & kill people—it’s a huge barrier to care www.wlwt.com/article/aca-...

🎉 A win is a win, even if it’s temporary.

Speaking as someone who just wrote a book on the Manhattan Project, I can assure you that refugee immigrants were the *entire* reason the US mastered the atom first. The most chilling part of writing my book was reading about them fleeing fascism … abroad. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...

Oh look. Another of the wars Trump claims to have stopped. Ish.

In any other reality, this statement would cause a major uproar, investigations, a demand for trump's resignation. Here? It's just Tuesday.

I’ve been a Cardinale stan for decades, but good advice for anyone.

I had no idea! This is awesome.

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

There were more involved: Enrico Fermi (Italy), Leo Szilard (Hungary), Edward Teller (Hungary), Eugene Wigner (Hungary), Hans Bethe (Germany), John von Neumann (Hungary), Niels Bohr (Denmark), Rudolf Peierls (Germany), Klaus Fuchs (Germany).

The computer telling your children to kill themselves is an entirely predictable outcome www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

the very last person who should be prattling on about the dangers of inexperience is the grifting troglodyte who killed millions when he was put in charge of “efficiency”

Usually I can’t wait for a sequel but…

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

*Excellent* placement of the editor's note 🫡

How is this country hosting TWO large international tournaments???

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

I would say he has declined 600 or 700 percent. Some people say 1400 percent. No one has ever seen such declines. They say it took George Washington almost 250 years to decline as much. Huge decline.

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

#HappyFestivus everyone! Time to air grievances.

Will anybody ever be held accountable for this stuff?

uh www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Speaking of illegal stuff

So Weiss failed to 1) protect her newsroom and reporters 2) understand public perception 3) comprehend the impact of her own actions 4) REALIZE THEY ALREADY SENT THE EPISODE TO CANADA WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE INTERNET AND CAN BROADCAST IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD

Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access." GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Physics not physicking 🙄

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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

He wouldn’t be impeached if there wasn’t a HUGE list of impeachable offenses to work with.

Apart from the fact that they are taking his name out of documents after already releasing the documents, and how absolutely crazy that is, they had so many months to redact this stuff! There were stories about hundreds of FBI agents being put to work redacting. How are they still redacting???

Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.

Safe assumption

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Yes, AND Bill Clinton is a creep who should have no place in the Democratic Party or any position of power and influence.

So far this season, there have been at least 4.6 million illnesses from the flu in the U.S., causing more than 49,000 hospitalizations and 1,900 deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: I'm feeling strangely validated. Because in plain sight, and with even with an act of Congress, we're seeing the exact same delays, negligence, corruption, incompetence that we've seen consistently and have been advocating about. They've actually proved our point.