An immigration officer in southwest Colorado who was caught on video grabbing a protester by the hair and hurling her down an embankment last October was charged with assault and criminal mischief on Tuesday, the local district attorney said. nyti.ms/4cYcXpF

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

"Virginia is under hostile occupation from the majority of its residents"

One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic

A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

Wow it’s so weird that northern Virginia would be virulently anti-Trump after a whole bunch of them lost their jobs to his clownshow

Seems relevant #StarTrek

For attention.

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TFW Sullivan & Cromwell charges you $1200 an hour for a Yale graduate to ask grok “is this argument sus”

Florida’s attorney general opened an investigation into OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT advised the man accused of killing two people in a shooting at Florida State University last year which ammunition to use and where and when to strike.

Duh, no. It’s a wind instrument.

WE DON'T LIKE HIM EITHER DUDES POINT THAT SHIT AT X OKAY

Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

It's official, I'm the "Internet's FAVORITE lawyer" (emphasis mine). Can't be argued. It's just science. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t. You dumb chucklefuck.

This is why Vought didn't want to tell Congress how much the war is costing us last week. We're going bomb broke.

Of course US-Iran negotiations have gone nowhere. The Iranians are prioritizing national interests. The Americans are prioritizing presidential image management. My latest in @foreignpolicy.com:

Right: [reviles academia for generations, celebrates deportations for writing op-eds and protesting, dismantles departments it doesn’t like, enacts de jure speech codes] Left: [is sometimes annoying and unserious] Some Academics:

Everytime I see "Presidential Message on National Sexual Assault Awareness Month" in my email, I'm like "Aren't we already aware of many of his many SAs?"

President urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X

He’s a nimrod who is ruining the force because he is nothing more than a TV propagandist. The end.

Putting strict limits on the definition of treason and significant requirements for its proof was one of the smartest things the Founders did.

What a time to be alive

"Oh you hate the cops, but when your life is in danger--" we'll call them and then they will let us bleed out for 30 minutes!!

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

The much-vaunted DOJ "Weaponization Working Group" released its very first report last week on supposed DOJ abuses under the Biden administration. The report shows ... not very much.

Important PSA from @scalzi.com and his hype man (me): EMPATHY IS COOL, ACTUALLY

Good Night y’all. Always remember ball security.

I'm pretty sure this is how Stoicism works, just more douchey. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dreams-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Weird how they never do this in areas where Trump won! DOJ Office of Civil Rights seem very focused on districts with a lot of Black voters.

I have heard exactly one person in my entire life use that phrase, and it was, guess who, Andy Beshear

This is such a nauseating stew of simmering pathologies and resentments of subnormal techbros.

Once again, Trump is threatening war crimes against the Iranian people.    All this could be avoided if Republicans in Congress joined us in voting to end this illegal and costly war.    We will give them another chance this week. They must all be held accountable.

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Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I’ve seen code written by devs using Claude, I’ve used it to write code myself, and this is my concern: that the code you generate becomes increasingly badly designed to the point that humans can’t process it

This is what defunding science in the federal government looks like. A good percentage of the people I went to grad school with participated in this. REU programs are the breeding grounds for the passion required to form the next generation of great scientists. What a horrific loss.

i wouldn’t be where i am today without this program. my heart breaks for the futures changed without getting to be a part of it this summer.

Here’s Trump bragging about making the U.S. a country that no one wants to come to and many want to leave.

Someone in the Admin has made *billions* off this war via Polymarket and the futures markets.

NOT EVERY CORRELATION COEFFICIENT DROP IS A DEBRIS SIGNATURE. Stop calling your CC product “debris tracker”. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Everyone: WHY DO SUCH TERRIBLE THINGS KEEP HAPPENING TO KENNEDYS Kennedys: [constantly invade Cuba, drive interns off bridges, cut penises off raccoons, etc.]

In which John Eastman blames the Jan. 6 riot on VP Pence and his lawyer for refusing to violate the Electoral Count Act DURING THE RIOT while VP Pence was being hustled away by Secret Service. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Read the text of this invite below. It is crazed. 'Ellison’s decision to spend time in Washington “honoring” a White House that has made demonizing the press central to its playbook has outraged staffers at CBS News.' www.status.news/p/david-elli...

You might or or might not (but I’m guessing might not) be surprised to learn that CBS News invited Stephen Miller to be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Hegseth, too. www.breakermedia.com/p/axel-s-tel...

Trumpist Law Professors: John Eastman advocates for you being disenfranchised if you voted for the wrong party and shot by the army if you protest it. If you disagree, you’re INTOLERANT