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submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 3 days ago • 557 comments

Education Education Education!

submitted 7 days ago • 116 comments

@minnesotareformer.com editor J. Patrick Coolican on rightwing influencer disinformation about the Minnesota assassination wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/14/a...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

To mobilize the National Guard, Trump cited 10 U.S.C. 12406, which authorizes the president to do so when the U.S. faces foreign invasion or rebellion or when he cannot otherwise execute the laws. This is NOT such an occasion. So today’s coup is manifestly illegal and must be stopped judicially.

submitted 8 days ago • 67 comments

REMINDER: Netanyahu convinced Trump in 2018 to withdraw US from Iran nuclear deal that Obama and allies had negotiated. That Deal would've prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The death and destruction we're seeing now is 100% bc of Trump & Netanyahu www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...

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submitted 9 days ago • 288 comments

Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.

submitted 9 days ago • 129 comments

Donald Trump deployed more than 700 active U.S. Marines — men and women trained in foreign combat, not domestic law enforcement. We honor their service and bravery. But we do not want our streets militarized by our own Armed Forces. Not in L.A. Not in California. Not anywhere.

submitted 12 days ago • 160 comments

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 13 days ago • 511 comments

As a Marine once stationed at 29 Palms, I can’t imagine being sent to do this in an American city. I figured we would be here if there was a second Trump admin, but I didn’t think it would be this soon. Sadly, it’s only going to get worse.

submitted 14 days ago • 143 comments

430 ppm: www.cbc.ca/news/science...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

submitted 15 days ago • 360 comments

Last year, Nike made $23 billion. Its founder is worth $35 billion. But Nike pays just dollars a day to the workers who make its products. Today I met Dinar, who sews 222 labels an hour onto Nike products. She is paid $202 a month. This is corporate greed at its worst.

submitted 17 days ago • 178 comments

When Mr. Musk, the wealthiest man alive & major campaign contributor, expresses strong distaste for Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, Republicans will listen & obey. That means more cuts to Medicaid, nutrition & education. The oligarchs want it ALL. We’re not going to let that happen.

submitted 19 days ago • 81 comments

Speaker Johnson says there's “a moral component” to Trump's "big, beautiful" bill. Really? Is it “moral” to cut nutrition assistance for hungry kids? Is it “moral” to eliminate health care for 13.7 million Americans so the 1% gets a $664 billion tax break? I don’t think so.

submitted 19 days ago • 111 comments

Share this far and wide. Peter Theil is the #1 back and mentor of JD Vance. There's a very good reason he was put in the VP spot. He will 100% finish the job the Tech bros have in motion. We are not safe

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

6/2/25 ✨ 🌻

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

For all the “Russia participates in the START treaty which is why the bombers we’re in the open” level of cope out there: No they don’t. They suspended their participation in 2023. They just thought the bombers we’re safe

submitted 20 days ago • 339 comments

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "The Christians in Congress should be feeding the hungry, but they're cutting food stamps. They should be healing the sick, but they are cutting Medicaid. They should be standing up to the billionaire class, but instead they're cutting their taxes."

submitted 21 days ago • 194 comments

submitted 100 days ago • 27 comments

Kamala: we’re going to stop grocery stores from price gouging MAGA: COMMUNISM!!! Trump: Walmart better not raise prices because of the stupid thing I did MAGA: MAGA!!

submitted 36 days ago • 229 comments

He’s got private golf resorts, personal jets, and towers with his name on them and yet he’s still begging oil despots for a luxury plane instead of helping people working two jobs who can’t make rent.

submitted 36 days ago • 555 comments

Honestly, me too.

submitted 64 days ago • 257 comments

Carney: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will

submitted 80 days ago • 402 comments

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service Sunday, agency banned key language, including words... #groundwater pollution, sediment remediation, #water collection, water treatment, rural water, clean water. @neorsd.org newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

submitted 80 days ago • 82 comments

California’s farmers and ranchers are the backbone of our economy, feeding the nation with hard work and innovation. Yet, during Ag Week, the very USDA staff who support them are facing sweeping cuts. We can’t abandon rural America now — or ever.

submitted 93 days ago • 54 comments

We are supposed to be a democracy. Elected officials are supposed to listen to the vast majority of the American people when they say: NO tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy NO cuts to Medicaid NO more billionaires buying elections

submitted 102 days ago • 187 comments

Three years ago today, Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine, and Russian aircraft began bombing the country. Trump is lying. Russia started the war, not Ukraine. Putin is a dictator, not Zelensky.

submitted 118 days ago • 275 comments

Holy smokes this is reckless and irrational to just fire all of the new employees of any government agency. No business would ever consider simply firing all of its recent hires. The Trump Project 2025 Goon Squad must be stopped.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 129 days ago • 157 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 127 days ago • 294 comments

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

submitted 132 days ago • 1228 comments

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

submitted 138 days ago • 72 comments

Catholic Relief Services, a wonderful charity helping the needy and poor across the planet, receives $4B a year of support through USAID. That's now in jeopardy if the illegal actions of Trump and Musk are permitted to occur.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's trade war sounds a warning of the decline of American greatness www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 141 days ago • 55 comments

Trump last night fired 17 inspectors-general. IGs were historically a nonpartisan position. Trump however takes the view, "You can get away with a lot more when nobody is watching." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

submitted 148 days ago • 91 comments

A thoughtful piece on truth and facts and their importance to a decent society, in the context of the past several years of mis- and dis-information. The article is much bigger than just Facebook's recent abdication. nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/01/20/f...

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments