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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

submitted 9 hours ago • 661 comments

What impact is AI having on jobs in the tech industry? I've been collecting stories from tech workers—from engineers at giants like Google to content mods at TikTok to coders at small startups—to find out. Here, in their words, is how AI is transforming, degrading, and yes, replacing their jobs.

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

"Parties who have acted in bad faith are supposed to be barred from receiving equitable relief. And yet, SCOTUS's conservatives are now rewarding the DOJ and DHS for repeated defiance of a judge's order, allowing it to use the very chaos it created as justification to allow it to break the law more"

submitted 12 hours ago • 44 comments

After his military attack failed to destroy Iran's nuclear program, President Donald Trump tries verbally attacking the media for telling the truth

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

This is dark

submitted 1 day ago • 553 comments

There is no press outlet of any size, in any medium, that would offer this kind of coverage to a Democratic president, no matter the circumstances. There is a massive, explicit agitprop operation on the right, devoted to the power of the conservative faction, & there is no analogue on the left.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Laughing face emojis from a White House account quoting Trump about him “probably” meeting with Zelensky, whose country is being bombed every day by Russia and is in need of US help, which is meant to be its biggest backer. In the past 24 hours, two massive attacks killed 25 people and injured 100s.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

His mastery of the deep intricacies of international relations continues to boggle the mind.

submitted 1 day ago • 110 comments

The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private: That Trump is stupid, and nuts.

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

This is a recurring strategy with these assholes: -Break the thing that's been working -Wait until people forget about you breaking the thing that was working -Complain loudly about the thing being broken and how the Left never fixes anything and why isn't anything working

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The guy that was facing prison or white house time last November is now starting world war three. who would have guessed

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

submitted 3 days ago • 106 comments

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

submitted 3 days ago • 106 comments

US press and public usually judges war not on legality or strategy, but on: 1) Does it look cool on TV? 2) Is POTUS a Democrat? 3) Are we winning? If not, do I have to see the downsides on my screen? Remember, the only big public complaint about the 20-year war in Afghanistan was Biden ending it.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 3 days ago • 237 comments

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

submitted 3 days ago • 536 comments

Worse than I thought

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

A little entertainment, at least

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

2018 article but the point Stephen Miller’s uncle makes is still a good one to say to anyone who tries to pull the “but he’s Jewish himself” line: among many other things, his ideal immigration law is at least going back to the American law that made the Holocaust worse

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

probably going to regret asking, but is there even a plausible theory* under which the US could militarily engage Iran absent congressional consent, either domestically or internationally, or are we really now fully in the vacuum of the absence of law

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Nihilism.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

"The media continues to cover politics as if it is still the 1990s. 'Both parties are basically center-right or center-left parties.' The journalism infrastructure in our country wants to pretend that that’s the world that we live in. The instinct is to treat everything politicians say as valid."

submitted 4 days ago • 638 comments

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

"The study shows that such extreme events are becoming more frequent, longer-lasting and more severe, with last year’s figures reaching twice that of the 2003-2020 average. The steepness of the rise was not foreseen."

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Are we supposed to act like this is normal? Like he hasn't lost his fucking mind?

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

Holy cow, the contortions NY Times editors put themselves through to Both Sides political violence in the US, replete with false equivalence and passive voice. Political violence is "being reinforced." Dems and GOP both victims, left and right both say negative words. So it's everyone's fault, see?

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

No American outlet would hesitate to describe them as pro-regime paramilitaries or an irregular militia and similar terms if this was happening anywhere else.

submitted 6 days ago • 117 comments

Reporting relevant information that puts news in context would be Biased. To be Fair and Objective, media can’t call an illegal Trump policy illegal. That would give readers the factually accurate impression that today’s Republicans favor lawbreaking more than Democrats, which is Bad Journalism.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

submitted 7 days ago • 232 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 7 days ago • 876 comments

A lot of people are talking about whether Trump is going to go to war with Iran but not enough people are talking about the fact that Trump has no legal authority to do so without Congressional authorization

submitted 7 days ago • 149 comments

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

Fan vad trött jag är på er jävla Sluss

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I genuinely think the role of Meta specifically in driving loneliness is underrated. Facebook replaced existing ways of keeping up with friends with what was briefly a great product, then destroyed that product.

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

I've had a secret theory for a while that I guess I'll just throw out there: The right is inevitably going to turn on AI, not because LLMs hallucinate or get things wrong, but because they mostly get things right, and reality, as a great man once said, has a liberal bias.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments