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Eye-opening follow-up story here: N.H. jury acquits consultant behind AI robocalls mimicking Biden on all charges www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...

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pop quiz for Trump: the american flag has how many stars? the american flag has how many stripes? c'mon dude, we learned this in first grade

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

A right-winger -- a registered Republican, a Trump voter, an evangelical anti-abortion activist -- assassinates a Democratic official. Republicans respond by blaming the left. Democrats respond by blaming ... no one.

submitted 19 hours ago • 70 comments

If you’re thinking “oh damn they made a good product, this bums me out” the answer is the same answer it is for every company that made a quality product

submitted 2 hours ago • 23 comments

"herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH" is absolutely insane shit that would be a month-long news cycle for literally any normal politician guy who literally thinks that Posting (on his own vanity social network!) just creates laws out of thin air

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

GET SALTMARSHED IDIOT 🧂

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

sadly this post Escaped Containment enough to have people completely missing the point and 'splaining metropolitan statistical areas to me. time to mute it

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

this is what patrol cops should look like in most cases. you can make exceptions for particular types of calls or whatever, i'm not the dress code police, but, generally speaking, it should be easy to identify who is police at a distance without trying to figure out if they're a spree shooter.

submitted 17 hours ago • 16 comments

(natural) earthquakes are common in Iran

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Want a depressing fact? Google announces they’ve purchased a property near Columbus Ohio for a new data center. That undeveloped business park is one of the only places around here that hosts Grasshopper Sparrows, a rapidly declining state-endangered bird.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

adventures in small-town advertising

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One highlight of the day was when Boston Mayoral candidate Josh Kraft went by and NOBODY made a sound. While she’s not perfect, we all know Michelle Wu is the better choice.

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The 3.5% rule comes from @chenoweth.bsky.social's incredible research. It's commonly misunderstood or misused in public discourse, but it's still a very helpful goal to aspire to. In my opinion, the biggest misconception is that you need to simply activate 3.5% of the public once.

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

has the exact same problem as Conservapedia, the right-wing Wikipedia fork. "we'll take all of collective human knowledge and then just selectively replace our personal culture-war beefs of the day" isn't something you can tractably "fix" at scale; it will always end in self-contradictory nonsense.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

submitted 2 days ago • 209 comments

a million people is 1.5x the entire population of Boston proper

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

submitted 1 day ago • 734 comments

If any people outside the U.S. still feel compelled to criticize Americans for not waking up fast enough (stop), we're fighting multiple fronts here, one of which is against the very media institution that is supposed to be on the side of truth and the people.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

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how it started / how it's going

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love this for them.

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it's the disneyland teacup ride but for truck

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I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

In honor of it being Pride in my borough tomorrow, I want you all to know that I know enough Irish to get this joke before I saw the explanation

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

submitted 1 day ago • 325 comments

mood

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