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How it started. How it’s going.

submitted 3 hours ago • 64 comments

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process is how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

submitted 22 hours ago • 65 comments

pedophiles have a welcome home on x, the everything app, which interestingly also remains a hub of professional media activity

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 7 hours ago • 221 comments

Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions. Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now? grist.org/energy/trump... #Disaster #Climate #Chemicals #Policy #Climate #Environment

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

To explains: the Trump-Nippon deal gives him a golden share. It’s what fascists use, historically, to co-opt unions. USW are a great union.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

submitted 16 hours ago • 36 comments

Roberts’ Supreme Court majority unmatched in summarily taking away Americans’ rights to fit the preferences of those donors who supply select Justices with free fishing trips.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

submitted 15 hours ago • 242 comments

What an excellent piece by Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net -- here's a gift link so you can read it without the paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

submitted 13 hours ago • 165 comments

"Just since April, Tesla has lost its head of software engineering, head of battery technology, and head of humanoid robotics." Good one by @patrickgeorge.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

"The USA today is not the USA I fought and came close to dying for," says 100-year-old Frank Hartzell, who helped liberate the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. His experience offers a warning about the dangers of political extremism: buff.ly/J59W0jQ

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The consequences of JCPOA withdrawal in graph form www.ft.com/content/193f...

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

WHY would a U.S. president gleefully decimate every one of these agencies? Agencies that we—through our elected officials—created and built up over the last 250 years to protect our people from public health, natural disaster, security, and financial threats? His loyalty is not to our country.

submitted 18 hours ago • 47 comments

From the NSC to FEMA to NOAA to CDC to the IC to counter-terrorism centers to agencies that are supposed to protect from financial meltdowns, every part of the US government designed to protect us from crises is weaker today than it was before Trump took over. newrepublic.com/article/1968...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

If random men in masks claiming to be ICE agents try to grab me, and they’re not really ICE, I have the legal right to defend myself against them, yes? And if they are ICE, I don’t? So how am I supposed to tell the difference? I’m supposed to give my masked kidnappers the benefit of the doubt??

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

Who needs the classic texts when we have podcasters who can explain them to us between vape rig ad reads?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 1 day ago • 540 comments

If I were an ICE agent, I’d be embarrassed as hell that they were filing assault charges against mild mannered politicians in their 50s. Just how fucking soft are these little man babies? They seem like they’d burst into tears at the sound of a slammed door.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

I shit you not, people

submitted 1 day ago • 400 comments

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

why isn't cuomo out there? oh right, it's because he likes fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is part of a multi state, multi year effort and a totally underappreciated undermining of direct democracy in the states. I appreciate @boltsmag.org's continued coverage of this important issue!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Hard to overstate the degree to which there appears to be literally no one in the president's current circle who has any experience, even at a low level, managing ANY kind of national security crisis or even situation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoug...

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

NEW statement from NY Attorney General Tish James on Brad Lander's arrest, calling it a "grotesque escalation of tensions."

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Absolutely right.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant. Guess the country.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

people ask “how did Germans standby and just let the Nazis do what they did” and the answer is that, day to day, this is what it looks like

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

submitted 2 days ago • 706 comments

Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

The accused assassin allegedly used data brokers to track down the Democratic lawmakers he murdered. Congress doesn't need any more proof that selling data to anyone with a credit card is deadly. Every American's safety is at risk until Congress cracks down on data brokers.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

NEW: We did a deep dive on new US attorney Jeanine Pirro who said - endorsed possible criminal charges for J6 prosecutors - NY is murdering fully alive babies after birth. - 2nd graders are taught how to give oral sex - undocumented immigrants vote 4 times each edition.cnn.com/2025/06/16/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

This is why Hegseth will only go on Fox.

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Mike Lee was "surprised" Tina Smith confronted him about his idiotic tweets—because these Republicans are used to Democrats not showing up ready to fight. If you stand tall and call them on their bullshit, they fold like paper tigers. They're weak men who pretend to be strong.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

When Rudi Giuliani implemented Broken Windows and arrested everyone that moved the press touted it as the “New York Miracle”. Contrast to the current crime drop in Baltimore, Philly, and elsewhere that the news media doesn’t address at all, and are more like to report on fake crime sprees instead

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

submitted 2 days ago • 183 comments

The same is true in how local elections work. —0 article in the New York Times this spring about the reelection of Philadelphia's reform DA (and arguably the most famous reform DA in the country), Larry Krasner. —Quite different last fall when LA's reform DA lost.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

"The plaintiffs did not accuse the NIH of racial discrimination, but Judge Young raised the issue. “I have never seen racial discrimination by the government like this,” in his 40 years on the bench he said, to which there was an audible gasp in the courtroom." www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The “anti-fraud” tools that DOGE installed for the Social Security Administration’s phone service slowed claim processing by 25% and ended up reporting a true fraud rate of less than 0.000018% Elon Musk and the President claimed it was 40% www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

submitted 3 days ago • 169 comments

So many of these events were crazy, but my brain is broken by this part. A cop shows up, sees another cop there, pulls up next to him, he refuses to even look at her, and she doesn't even clock it as suspicious. Truly insane.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

MAGA political violence claims more victims Trump’s movement relies on terror. www.publicnotice.co/p/hortman-ho...

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submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments