this is basically what I thought would happen with Bovino out and Homan in charge. Less in-your-face theatrics, but just the same amount of evil and harm. Possibly even more, because they’re more focused on the “mission” rather than just tear-gassing everything in sight.

🎶 You and I in a little toy shop / Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got... 🎶

ICE can spend $1 billion on a land for a concentration camp buying spree and DOJ tells a court they can’t buy hard drives?!?

So, this seems like a SOCOM problem, like no other element of the US military has been as cavalier about their responsibilities

I long for the days when Manchester United was run by greedy idiots instead of this asshole

Techbros can't be convinced that they can't buy love. I don't think the general public is going to give in to this rough wooing of AI, by way of techbros forcefully inserting it into every corner of our lives without consent. Oddly that has the opposite effect of making people want it.

Regular jobs report followers will already know this, but the most important news on a jobs day are always the revisions, not the headline numbers. And these revisions? They are quite bad.

Trump et al regime is an existential hazard to all of humanity. Global heating & global thermonuclear war varieties. Call Congress Work w/others Protest, defend, demonstrate A diversity of tactics. Together is the only way we build liveable todays and tomorrows.

There's two levels to this. The one that makes Trump look stupid for not knowing what the Pentagon will do with all that coal, but that is not the point. The point is for the money to go into coal company coffers. That is the only point. What happens to the coal after that doesn't matter.

imagine joining SpaceX to build an interplanetary spaceship to Mars, and then suddenly having to to sit through meetings about going to the moon in a decade maybe, and also how you need to help boost monthly active X users and ad clicks

"As the workers who provide the foundational labor in building this technology, we are horrified."

"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."

Trump’s impeachment trial could be exclusively his Truth Social posts and his appearances on Fox News and in normal times that would be enough to secure a conviction (we obviously do not live in normal times)

I introduced my parents to homemade pico de gallo sans cilantro and now we are going through a pound of Roma tomatoes every two days, what have I done

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

Hoo, boy after a fair piece hitting that V4 plateau, I’ve been steadily working the V4/V5s at MW Climbing and today, I got this crimpy V6/V7, which felt great!

This Lyons guy is very high on the list of people who need to go to prison for their role in ICE’s atrocities

Schumer’s focus-grouped “gentle reforms” message on ICE is going to age like milk as more horror stories from these camps come out.

The thing about bagpipes is, this is what they are for, to get you pumped and spook your enemy. Hot damn, dude

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

a friendly reminder that the economic impact of immigration (legal and illegal) is well studied and it is very clear that "even" illegal immigration is a net economic positive

Couple things, why is the jobs report coming out on a Wednesday? And also, it must be REALLY bad to come out swinging with a double decker fascist fantasy and racist lie like that

These people are just crazy. Trump gets up and says "MASS DEPORTATIONS MASS DEPORTATIONS MASS DEPORTATIONS" and they're like "he probably means a path to legal status for deserving immigrants"

It is very funny that Elon talks about building a city on Mars or a city on the Moon when we all know him building a city in Indiana would be an unmitigated disaster

I hear Hims ads all the time in my podcast rotation and the part where I get completely grossed out is the whole “compounded formulas are not evaluated by the FDA for safety or efficacy.” Uh, hard pass.

“Boy kibble” is a great example of why I don’t even glance at the NY Times food section anymore, there’s simply no coherent philosophy at work

There are very too many eager Adolf Eichmann types handling the logistics planning some crimes against humanity

It’s 72 in Lincoln as the sun goes down, am increasingly thinking Punxsutawney Phil is only predicting 6 more weeks of the same weather, which should be winter, but, uh, not in Eastern Nebraska

It’s 72 in Lincoln as the sun goes down, am increasingly thinking Punxsutawney Phil is only predicting 6 more weeks of the same weather, which should be winter, but, uh, not in Eastern Nebraska

Really was not expecting to hear Alanis Morissette’s Thank U in the grocery store today youtu.be/OOgpT5rEKIU?...

Very interesting

But before I go: We're about to see a generation of Democrats whose model for a candidate for municipal office is Zohran Mamdani, alongside a generation of Republicans who are spending their twenties being Nazi on main. These two developments also bode well.

Huge opportunity for an alternative that just lets folks chat with each other, it would seem.

My first thought at the end of that mad match was “I can’t wait for them to talk about this on the Ramble, holy shit” and now I can. Happy Monday!

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

its also a reminder that “intellectual conservatives” are bullshit artists, because there’s always one to write an “erudite” monologue about why elmo actually is a bastard

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Apart from anything else, the United States has no official language

relatedly, this is why the right's hatred of the humanities is reflected in their cultural arts—namely, that there is no similar capacity to engage with subtlety, nuance, and meaning in their performance

Wait, the 2022 Winter Olympics were in Beijing?! I simply have no memory of those games at all . . .

Nothing has made me feel older in the last year than Tiffani Amber-Thiessen becoming the spokesmodel for sensible salad kits

I didn’t even watch the half time show and this nearly brought me to tears

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

what these stories always miss is that its never companies making good EVs that are pulling back from the market, its legacy auto manufacturers whose electric cars have been dogshit and stellantis' have been some of the absolute worst.

YES

So is PeacockTV just playing the ads from the Free Skate and not the broadcast?

I imagine that quite a lot of people are going to have very strong feelings about this

Lots of folks dunking on this for meat and ferments, and fair enough, but I remain struck by how this carnivore's next snack is yogurt