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Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

bob baffert gets so much blame for "doping" and "cheating" and "his horses dying," but nobody in the media ever asks: at what point is a horse responsible for knowing what it puts into its body?

Weird fucking article dude

Just wait until the moment podcasters realize that tariff-induced ecommerce bankruptcies are causing their ad money to dry up. That's when consumer sentiment is really going to drop like a lead balloon.

🚨 New Working People @therealnews.com, new "sacrifice zone" investigation: I speak w/ residents of Granbury, TX, who all started suffering ill health effects after a 300-megawatt bitcoin mine moved in next door. This is "environmental euthanasia," one resident said. therealnews.com/a-bitcoin-mi...

also as a reminder google forced its gemini into all gmail accounts without an opt-out option, so like, is google AI stealing all our state secrets now

Politics affects everyone.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

in slightly-early honour of St Patricks Day, I will once again remind the world of the time Amazon united Ireland (and apologized for the Troubles), still one of my favourite moments on twitter

every damn time

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

grappling with the implications of The Claims Adjuster turning out to be a hot Italian tech bro gym rat who went to Penn, seems to have had a pretty gnarly back injury, retweets anti-woke nonsense, and has read not one but two books by Steve-O

One of the NYPD brass said “this isn’t blue bloods” when explaining they can’t just immediately find the guy and I like that years of copaganda have set standards cops can’t meet and might be contributing to people’s correct perception that cops don’t effectively stop crime or find killers.

You can hate on “Baby it’s Cold Outside” all you want but my least favorite is “Rudolf.” It’s about an atypical being rejected by his peers until he is deemed a useful commodity by an authority figure and then lauded. Fuck you, reindeer.

"a computer can never be held accountable, so a computer must never make a management decision" was correct and we should go back to that