Shouting it from the rooftops until my voice is ruined

The idea of “visibility” isn’t something neutral that society gets an opinion on. It’s a person living as they actually are, something no one else gets to define for them. Calling it a mistake isn’t contrarian, it’s depraved

Those who are under their mid-40s may not remember that Slate was originally conceived as a contrarian endeavor. Setting aside whether that was ever useful, this is a really disgusting example of that genre.

Rashida Tlaib said something about these yesterday, but I haven’t heard any other politicians talking about this. It’s such a straightforward miscarriage of justice - the charges are bogus and the sentences intended to stifle opposition to the govt - that if they don’t call this out, what will they?

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

it took decades of cultivated belligerence and stupidity to get to this point—a fox new hosts and a millionaire contractor who now runs the domestic security state, agreeing that loyalist mobs terrorizing belfast just want to be irish

The rioters hate the notion of a free and independent Ireland. They are happy to kill, and many are even willing to die, to prevent a free and united Ireland from existing. The rioters consider themselves as British first, not Irish.

"Unionist paramilitaries want to be Irish and want Ireland back" might be perhaps the stupidest take on this situation possible.

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all claims barred by statute of limitations, the jury finds

They came up to him with tears in their eyes and said “Sir, you’ve just passed our dementia screening test, the only person ever to do so. You are the only person in the world who doesn’t have dementia”

Imagine a doctor acting like this in real life toward you. Just locking eyes and saying "You are the healthiest and smartest person I've ever seen. I truly can't believe it. I've never seen it both in the same person like this before," in the most serious doctor voice imaginable without blinking.

How bleak is it that the *best case scenario* is that he is just engaging in his most ambitious bit of market manipulation yet and will call it off ("we have reached a great deal, a tremendous deal, to save Iran") at 4:30 pm after shorting everything and watching the market tank

Has he made the batshit claim that he wrote about Osama Bin Laden attacking the WTC a year prior to it happening previously? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that one before

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment - dont believe anything the govt says about progress - no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war - the war needs to be ended - the media is not your ally and they love war

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Doesn't matter how they enter the right wing ecosystem - whether it's through red pills or worrying about "gender ideology" - eventually they're raving about race and IQ and how they have to kill inferior cultures to save the west

As it happens, Alex Pretti apparently had a carry permit. THAT DOESN'T MATTER, because he *didn't draw a gun.* Even had he possessed an illegal gun, this would still be murder. His alleged gun is a DHS red herring; it doesn't matter. We do not need to debate it one way or other.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

Trump & Vance’s agents saw tens of thousands of people — of all ages & races — come out *in below zero temperatures* to protest their tax-funded violence, their murder of their neighbor. And the very next day, they executed another one. What can Americans conclude from this?

If you are talking about training today, you are a mark.

so what you're saying is they're murdering people in these concentration camps and covering it up

That's a photo of someone being tortured

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

I’ve hated the word hallucination for these kinds of errors since I first heard it. It isn’t hallucinating because it doesn’t have a brain, and the errors themselves are less like hallucinations and more like confabulations - plausible-sounding answers made up on the spot to fill in gaps.

An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

As I was saying earlier - Grok is not a person, and it can never make any kind statement about anything

Grok doesn’t *say* anything, it produces a string of statistically likely words in response to a prompt. In this case, the prompt came from a user, not the company. This isn’t an official statement, it’s just an LLM writing a post in response to a request. Why are you treating it like it’s real?

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

Look, I get it. You want to speed, everyone speeds. The problem is saying “This dangerous thing isn’t really that dangerous” because you don’t want to *feel bad* about it. You’re not a bad person! You’re just in a hurry, and you’re a better than average driver (just like ~80% of people on the road)!

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

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Sanders: The wealthiest people on earth are pouring hundreds of billions into research and development for AI and robotics. You think they’re doing that because they’re thinking, “Oh man, this is going to be something that will improve life for working people, for low-income people.”?

What in the absolute fuck is wrong with the bsky team? They aren’t serious if they count this as “wishing harm on someone” but changed the rules to let Jesse Singal off the hook. Add in the Rude label debacle and I question if they’re competent to do the job. Burning every bit of goodwill users have

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

“Learning the native language of this country, the near-extinction of which was part of the brutal suppression of English colonialism, is basically like joining the Taliban” is quite the take.

america is a country with mandatory holocaust education in 26 states and whose media is saturated in wwii dramas and documentaries. the internet likewise is overflowing with nazi memes ongoing the last 20+ years. imo anyone claiming they don't know the totenkopf is a nazi symbol is full of shit.

If he said “I made a mistake and got a Nazi tattoo” that would be one thing. As it is, he lied abt knowing it was a Nazi tattoo and acted offended that anyone might question why he left a Nazi tattoo on his chest for twenty years. Where is your evidence he ever changed his mind? His belated coverup?

This is such a load of horseshit. The problem with Platner isn’t what he did or said 20 yrs ago, it’s that he didn’t cover up a literal Nazi symbol until it became a political problem for him. If he’d changed or grown he’dve covered it up long ago and not acted shocked when someone brought it up

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

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Bari Weiss and the Free Press published rank covid disinformation and nothing else. These are the people purging and censoring science today. She’s not just a fraud, she’s utterly malignant and contemptible, as she lies under the guise of “free thinking.”

Judge: you’re here because you booped the cop on the nose Me: your honor, may I approach the bench? Judge covering his nose: absolutely not

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.