Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

NOT A VIOLENT CRIMINAL Heidy Sánchez was deported from Florida to Cuba—without her 17-month-old American daughter. She followed a routine ICE check-in. Trump’s agents detained her, gave her no option to take her baby, and ripped their family apart. She’s heartbroken.

This hits hard—and says everything about where we are right now. A Yale professor says he’s relocating to Canada to continue his democracy work. When asked why not stay in the U.S. and fight, he says he has two Black sons and he’s the son of a Holocaust survivor—and this is an “anti-Black moment”.

bring them back. now.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Wishing my sister @repjasmine.bsky.social an amazing and happy birthday!♥️ Can’t wait to celebrate with you! 🎉

I could write up why there’s no constitutional problem with the President using an auto-pen to sign official documents—or I could just post the 30-page 2005 opinion by George W. Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel that explains why in lots of detail. I choose the latter: www.justice.gov/file/494411/...

“She describes [Zuckerberg] as a cross between a truculent teen and a toddler: he doesn’t like to get up before midday, even to meet prime ministers, and his obsequious colleagues feel obliged to let him beat them at board games.” Sigh. The tech bros are all the same.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

this is such an obvious game of bullshit and it makes me insane that anyone falls for it. weird how schools are no longer "meritocratic" when they are trying to attract more black and hispanic students, but are perfectly meritocratic when they're not.

Media really need to start putting g “DEI” in quotes; it’s a coded epithet for this crowd. Purging history of these heroes is straight-up racism. Name it.

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Props to a fellow Houstonian Al Green, we can’t just sit back and do nothing while Trump and Musk slash our healthcare, jack up prices, and bring us to a literal trade war. KEEP FIGHTING!

here’s the thing: why wouldn’t you treat every dumbass idea as potentially worthwhile when a month later you can just go “oopsies” and no one holds you accountable for giving credence to stupid shit?

love this @rokhanna.bsky.social We need more proposals like this that co-opt the chaos Please share off line as well !!!

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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." -- George Washington, born #OTD 1732 Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

When Rupert Murdoch’s rags turn on you …

Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library

U.S., Ukraine near deal to grant mineral rights to Washington - The Washington Post search.app/XnWv3UQC5uVD...

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

(Techcrunch) - AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday. @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...

In her speech accepting the award for best new artist at the 2025 Grammys, Chappell Roan called for record labels to "treat their artists as valuable employees."

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Excellent post

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The bishop who pleaded at the inaugural prayer service for President Trump to “have mercy” defends her sermon.

One way to reduce drug spend is to have the FDA do an analysis of how long medicine retains it's potency. It can do it one drug at a time. No one should throw away medicine they shouldn't have to. Whether pharmacy or patient. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

Trump shut down biomedical research in America, this will decimate blue states MA (28K jobs $7.5 Billion economic activity) NY (29K jobs $8 billion) but also red states: FL 14K jobs $2.8B, Tx 29K jobs $5.8B. It's absolutely impossible to asses the disaster coming for Universities and industry.

Now that TikTok has officially gone dark, I’m re-upping my post from a few days ago to remind folks that this praise for Trump is wrong.

How Mark Zuckerberg Undid Years of Work in a Single Week His emulation of Elon Musk and Twitter is alienating the very users Threads was built to attract.

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I’m not sure we will survive the next 4 years of America under that thing as president.

Excellent speech President Biden. I will miss you!!

Here’s the deal: All Americans should have the same healthcare as the welfare queens in Congress.

It’s crazy that this thing is being offered as Sec Def! We are so screwed!! Lol

There is so much in here I didn’t know. I’m still in shock. Thanks to the reporter for doing the work www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

That input image was the ultimate robustness test for computer vision and ML in 1989. Imagine trying some structural pattern recognition on this, which was popular at that time. But, @yann-lecun.bsky.social's convnets solved it 😍 He posted the video on LinkedIn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0oE...

Good morning. Is it another holiday yet?

sometimes, you have to take accountability for your own actions and make a decision to do better if you really want better for yourself.

Kendrick Lamar just dropped the music video for "Squabble Up"