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The top economics journal in the world nearly published an article that, to all appearances, is 100% bullshit. It claimed that AI accelerates scientific discovery. An MIT PhD student appears to have used generative AI to fabricate the whole thing, data and all.

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“You can’t make this up.” - Marsha, making it up

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That's the thing a lot of people still don't get; equity is for everyone.

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“Sinners,” the horror movie from the director Ryan Coogler, is on a pace to collect at least $330 million in worldwide ticket sales, a level reached by few original films in the genre.

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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If you're infuriated by what ICE & Worcester Police did to a Brazilian woman, her teenage daughter, and the school nurse they arrested for trying to protect them, there's a list of ways to speak out in this thread www.nbcboston.com/news/local/h...

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Well now I can’t get it out of my head.

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ok I swear I wasn’t planning on posting but I just realized “woke marxist pope” scans perfectly to Pink Pony Club and now I CANNOT get it out of my head.

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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

submitted 10 days ago • 460 comments

MURRAY: It was due last week. By law. PATEL: I understand. MURRAY: You're not gonna follow the law? ... And you have no timeline? PATEL: No MURRAY: Hmm. We're not having a budget hearing without a budget request. So where is it?

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I'm sorry, what the actual fsck? www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

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New: Helping to lay off 90% of the CFPB’s staff while holding $715K worth of stocks in companies that would benefit from a weakened CFPB “looks like a pretty clear-cut violation” of the federal criminal conflict-of-interest statute, one ethics expert said.

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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Really enjoying being governed by a magic 8 ball of stupid ideas

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"Make America Film Again" Not parody y'all

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“.. If they don’t change the tariffs, it’s going to be an extinction-level, asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs kind of event,” he told me. “Only these aren’t dinosaurs. These are dynamic, healthy businesses.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/tar...

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WSJ: After tech to manage air traffic failed several times in recent days, 20% of the FAA controllers at Newark Airport walked out. Now, United has canceled 35 daily RT flights from Newark. FAA staffing at Newark is too low to handle the planes scheduled, United's CEO said. Gift link!

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NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

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CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/c... via @statnews.com Big reason: fewer getting flu vaccine, which is "highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths." #VaccinesWork & misinformation kills.

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The support of David Ortiz means the world to me—not just as a fan, but as someone who believes deeply in the spirit of Boston. Big Papi has always represented the heart of our community, and I’m honored by his endorsement. This is our city—together, we’ll keep making Boston a home for everyone.

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Many of us are struggling with a desperate sense of urgency while it seems so many others are asleep. It was 2.5 years from the Boston Tea Party to the Declaration of Independence. We've had 3 months. That war was won because day after day, people chose to keep going Keep going friends. Goodnight💚

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Hey all, I know you're tired of 100 Days posts, but do you want to read a ludicrously long post on how DOGE and all have attacked various oversight entities within the executive branch? You do? Well...I guess these last few months have turned us all a little strange jacobharr.is/personal/ass...

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Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order which directs the attorney general to “maximize the use of federal resources,” including “military and national security assets” to “aggressively police crime.” Read a summary of the EO, from Caroline Cornett. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trum...

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This is the new military police state EO. Signed yesterday. Obviously under the radar. Welcome to the dictatorship. Fucking terrorists! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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BREAKING: Major new @prripoll.bsky.social survey on #Trump100. With favorability underwater, most Americans (52%), including 56% of independents, believe "Trump is a dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy." www.prri.org/research/dem...

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Schumer is totally useless. I would say he’s all talk no action but even his talk is weak and useless!!!! Change the Sen leader dems!

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“‘I’ll tell you what’s not going to happen is, people are not going to raise [money] to build manufacturing in America,’ [Ken Griffin] said, adding, ‘because with the policy volatility, you actually undermine the very goal you’re trying to achieve.’”

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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

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Our coalition has expanded, and a lot has been happening. A friendly reminder to all: the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.

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If I was a person involved in exiling a two year old child with cancer to another country I would simply walk into the ocean and never return

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If plainclothes policemen can’t grab random people off the street and deport them to a foreign death prison, do you even have a country anymore? This Federalist Society judge says no.

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Let’s use the words “kidnapped and exiled” for US citizens getting sent out of the country forcefully.

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MUCH EXCITE for NOT The White House Correspondents' Dinner! Going down TOMORROW! Check out the lineup! Tickets at meethook.live/not

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It looks like ICE is becoming Trump’s Gestapo. Nobody is safe. We must take the offensive. It will soon be too late. Even Trump-appointed judges are voicing alarm. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

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ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

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For anybody in or near Milwaukee, there was a rapid response action at the Federal Building this AM, and Voces De La Frontera have called for another rally THIS AFTERNOON at 3:00 PM!

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EMERGENCY ACTION Join us we’re actively working to get coalition members on the ground! Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI this morning after refusing to allow ICE agents into her courtroom. She was taken to the federal courthouse.

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No sh*t.

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This is going to get very, very bad and the people responsible are first going to deny it’s happening and then claim they couldn’t have predicted how bad it got

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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

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Social Security workers are being asked to use an AI chatbot. An animated video on how to do so failed to mention that the chatbot can’t be trusted with personally identifiable information. www.wired.com/story/social...

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The US Department of Transportation is significantly loosening crash reporting requirements, according to a new framework released today. It’s a boon for the automotive industry as a whole—and for Elon Musk’s Tesla in particular.

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As somebody said quite a long time ago - why should I bother to read something nobody's bothered to write?

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Holy crap. Here are 91 pages of letters that 14 House Democrats just sent to the nine law firms that have paid off Trump to not attack them. Lots of Qs aimed at sorting out if they violated federal bribery/anti-fraud/racketeering laws. min.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.

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