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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

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I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

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submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride. So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels. They opened the drawbridge to block them. So they marched to a different bridge. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 244 comments

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

It’s not “superhuman intelligence”. It’s great at summarization and NLP, and those make it an amazing new tool. But it’s not “superhuman” and it’s not “intelligent”.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Business insider was on massive discount so I guess I’ll wake up and be angry about stupid shit in business insider every morning now

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Argggg what is this nonsense

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

submitted 12 days ago • 40 comments

After seeing how people use Grok on X, it’s actually worse out there than I thought.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Replace “Alexa” with “pocket calculator” in this paragraph to get the full effect of how bizarre this author’s view is.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This hellscape piece envisions that the only two options for modern infra are cloudfoundry and kubernetes and I beg people to understand what’s possible today with managed services and functions.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

motherfucker i will take every vaccine i can get if you dipshits open smallpox or polio up again I'll get it that. i love getting rabies shots. gimme all of it.

submitted 16 days ago • 190 comments

Burn it all down "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth led a Christian prayer service in the Pentagon’s auditorium on Wednesday morning, during working hours, in which President Trump was praised as a divinely appointed leader."

submitted 18 days ago • 430 comments

Why yes I would rather hire theoretical cheap robots than people but unfortunately they are only theoretical

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

How could anyone think that UATX is anything other than a high-concept reboot for conservative culture warriors? How has it leaders done anything that would support an alternative conclusion?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Wanna see something incredibly ... bad? Here's Alito quoting a source to suggest that you can't do habeas class actions: 1/

submitted 22 days ago • 72 comments

Then maybe they can do THE RUNNING MAN and then THE HUNGER GAMES.

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

submitted 25 days ago • 58 comments

Only a very stupid person wouldn’t let this beautiful wooden horse into the walls of the city

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how *clear* it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

submitted 27 days ago • 233 comments

Masked thugs kidnapping people off of the street are not heroes.

submitted 28 days ago • 96 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 138 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 30 days ago • 631 comments