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barrett stoking racist attacks against her colleague is maybe another sign that this court needs to be, uh, radically reimagined

RIP to Rebekah Del Rio She will justifiably be remembered for her performance in MULHOLLAND DR. But I will always cherish her most for her Spanglish performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in SOUTHLAND TALES It's the only version of the National Anthem that actually moves me 💔

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

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This is a really lucid nuts and bolts expert's explanation of what "AI agents" need to actually do "under the hood" of your phone or computer in order to perform the tasks they're promising. Basically: say goodbye to all separation between apps and OS, and any notion of privacy and security.

“Food has become extremely scarce in Gaza since a tight blockade on supplies was imposed... threatening many of the 2.3 million people with a ‘critical risk of famine’.” Please give to my friend Tasneem at the link, so she can feed her family. And help others. 🙏❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

Singing "trans sharia" to the tune of "My Sharona"

Phil Ochs lived and died before anyone had heard the name Rush Limbaugh

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying," Mukherjee said. "The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

I know the impulse is to say “how the fuck could you not see what they were going to do?” but if people are upset at what’s happening I think we have to place most of our anger at the institutions and news sources that misled them into thinking that all the deportees would be ms-13 members

Someone must have left a copy of The Great Gatsby in there.

this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

it’s Rachel Zegler you weirdos people know her name

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One theonion.com/every-t...

"People in prison are disciplined for refusing to work even when they are mentally or physically unable to perform the assigned task. ... [Forced prison labor] is not a job. That is coercion. That is slavery — rebranded for the 21st century."

The weaponization of denaturalization - literally stripping people of American citizenship - is a big step further down the slippery slope of ethnic cleansing.

Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.

"Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers." So what the fuck is it even for then?

Seems weird to lay down rules about what a word means to people without counting the people who use that word as people

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya posted on X: "No clinical trial has been delayed, nor has any participant been dropped from clinical trial. These are the facts." Malaria, tuberculosis, cancer trials abroad have all been on the chopping block, leaving participants stranded, I reported in this story.

the corollary of yelling at dems when they're bad is we should appreciate when they do good. this is great to see

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

This is it. This is why the alarm about AI mostly ought to be a much much deeper and more urgent alarm about the completely broken social and cultural environment many of us live in now.

Stock videos of people eating in reverse

This is *extremely* dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...

Liberals are not okay.

I know this makes me sound boomer as hell but I feel so bad for kids these days. This is evil

By the time you’ve reached your forties you will have lived to see the newspapers that insisted that the country you grew up in was on the verge of social collapse portray those very same years of your youth as a period of blissful social cohesion.

David Lammy, in so many words: Iran must surrender The message from the UK's chief diplomat is, the pretence of international law is over & we're returning to 'might is right'.

This is another one of those things that illuminates just how in the fucking tank so much of the mainstream media is, how jingoistic and servile. Slobbering over any president like this would be a bad idea, but to do it for Trump is malfeasance on a civilizational level.

there's a big chunk of the issue here that is really pre-ideological, a deep belief in the importance of Waiting Your Turn regardless

Look I am always here for a religion angle but "I want to thank everybody and in particular God, I want to just say we love you God" is a weird-ass thing to say at a briefing

Did you know Prime Day was literally created by a corporation just to sell more stuff

Is the world better off with Iran having a real life Jurassic Park or not

the 'hunger games' continue

This is the exact thing— these people are just going for broke and achieving personal hatred goals because yolo? They can fuck all kinds of shit up & walk away smiling because we don’t do consequences for government people here

I think it's so cool that we let this obviously deranged person both run a school and be granted a national platform to scream whatever far-right nonsense has infested her brain.

Truly do not fucking give a shit about this, that ship sailed 25 fucking years ago, so I'm choosing to read this as Chuck Schumer endorses attacking Iran.