Whatever we do, we CANNOT let “predictors” gain traction as a term. He doesn’t get to sanitize this. Meta wants gamblers. 100 million regular, 18-34 year old gamblers.

if I'm perfectly honest, I'm not sure any of the AI companies actually know why they're doing anything other than to exist and constantly expand into industries with no concern over whether they can actually serve them. It's a global test of how much executives know about how their companies work

The UN's top human rights official is demanding independent investigations into deaths inside US immigration detention, and says those responsible for breaking the law must be held to account. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

When a DC resident was handcuffed for playing the "Imperial March" from Star Wars while walking behind National Guard troops, @aclu-dc.bsky.social sued. The partial settlement in this case is a win for free speech. We get to mock the government however we want.

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

I commanded a moment of silence on the House floor to honor the women who have died because they were denied essential abortion care. Everyday I will continue to fight for reproductive freedom in their name. Abortion care is a human right.

after elon musk, mark zuckerberg has done more damage to society at large than any other single non-politician and his empire should be dismantled the same way

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

Further soft-confirmation of the endorsement strategy of Mamdani and AOC

literal inverse swag. A multi-billionaire loser desperately begging zynfused mid-20s psychopaths to partner with him on a quasi-legal gambling ring to prop up his brittle and declining data extraction and advertising operation. He has no contact with humanity outside of other rich weirdo losers

Did *all* of the Sub-Saharan African teams make the knock outs? I really… I might need to find some of those “too many teams, bad for competition” World Cup people and take an entire bath in their tears :)

Congrats to Cape Verde, the most powerful 0-3-0 World Cup team of all time

THE UNDEFEATED CAPE VERDEANS ADVANCE AHEAD OF URUGUAY

National Guard troops keeping an eye on the fenced-off reflecting pool in DC last night. Photos: @leahmillis / @reuters

What an image

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

AOC: These are two young, talented, intelligent women who got elected against all odds, against millions of dollars. Perhaps there is something we can learn from them.

Large chunks of the Mall are now effectively an armed encampment surrounded by tall fencing. In some areas, crowds are herded through security lines to get to features that used to be easily accessible in previous years.

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

NEW: A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states.

No, what happened was the religious right in the US, after losing on Obergefell v. Hodges, immediately changed tactics. They held huge conferences outlining their plans to roll back LGBT rights as whole by targeting trans people. They didn't skip a beat. We aren't to blame for our own oppression.

In 2018, a famous lawyer won a $289M verdict for a man who got cancer after using Monsanto's glyphosate weedkiller for years. Today, that same lawyer works for Trump, who signed an EO expanding glyphosate production and whose DOJ defended Monsanto in court. His name? RFK Jr.

Trump literally saying that establishment Dems and current Dem leadership is preferable for their Administration because they're easier to beat and bad at politics. That's what he's telling everyone. Schumer and Jeffries are easy to beat at the ballot box so we like them better. WILD to say out loud

Awful: After SCOTUS ruling, Trump is free to deport thousands of Haitians from deep red Clark County, Ohio. It may now take a big economic hit. Oh, well. If you vote for the guys that lied in your faces so viciously about immigrants, this is what you get. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2124...

President Donald Trump’s attempt to attack mail voting and build a national voter registration list took a major hit Thursday when a federal court ruled it was unconstitutional. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Random reminder that the GOP's tax cuts for their billionaire donors ballooned the deficit, so they're blaming the problem on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid — while making cuts to programs that millions of Americans rely on. It's socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for everyone else.

Centrists are so excited to punch left that they're missing that this is clearly a grift. It's run by a college sophomore whose only experience is seemingly driving his car a lot and sinecure at WelcomePAC, a job his dad (WelcomePAC's Director of Electoral Programs & Finance Chair) secured for him

this is correct except that the political crisis started back in 2000 when Bush stole the election and the "heads in the sand vs we should fight" dynamic has been the major split inside the Dem party since then

The Death of Stalin was funnier, but not by much.

Luckily, a dozen or so moderates are forming the Change Isn't Possible Caucus to fight him.

I am once again saying that the people who do this are evil but the facts that cops are a loaded gun any random person on the internet can pick up and fire is a far bigger problem

There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.

There’s nothing wrong with Haitians! I’m getting sick of this state enforced bigotry & violence against them just like I’ve long been sick of the US sabotaging them at every turn with its imperialism. This is the world’s first Black republic! A proud free people you’d be honored to know some of.

this is a terrific opening paragraph for a dystopian pulp novel released in 1997

GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”

Unless they give cusomters full refunds this should honestly be straight up illegal.

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

Ah look it's Friday late afternoon and the markets have closed.

(Bloomberg) - SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply. @bloomberg.com #$SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

you know sometimes i don't like having an active imagination

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

This is basically a Democratic campaign ad. Air it as is with no changes.

I’m specifically thinking of the Valdez vs Reynoso race. It was an open seat! To replace someone who’ll have been in the House for 34 years! Whether you prefer Valdez or Reynoso, the idea that it’d be ‘disrespectful’ to refuse the seat to any specific person, whoever that is, is baffling.

A lot of discourse since Tuesday hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s problematic to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting who’s owed & you can’t run?

"Trump's 13-Year-Old Accuser"

Idk, maybe it's just me slowly pupating into a beautiful old man butterfly, but when people say things feel "off" now, this is kinda what i'm talking about. this is just really shocking stuff, and if you said it even during the Bush II admin, you would be out of politics, out of a job, etc.