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"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

I liked this guy better when he was just simping for his wife, Betty Boop.

thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

it's absolutely wild that the solicitor general is out here saying you'll likely never be able to have a universal rule of citizenship if they win, and they might nonetheless win

The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know. I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.

It's really funny how the recognized MLB hit king, Pete Rose, is an ugly goofus who spent his entire life being an unrepentant piece of shit, and the recognized actual hit king, Ichiro Suzuki, is at minimum a top 5 coolest person alive

Can't wait for the competition for Mushroom Kingdom's DH spot against a giant gorilla who swings the bat with one arm.

The Speaker here seems to want young American men to be desperate and vulnerable either to getting arrested or getting enlisted.

people have been trying to find an explanation for 'a camel through the eye of a needle' that lets rich people off the hook since at least the early 5th century, probably earlier

They're not scared of online leftists, they're scared of their right wing friends.

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

This is “breaking faith” in its most classic and cruel form—the government assuring servicemembers they were safe to be open and live as their authentic selves, then turning around and punishing them for their honesty. A massive abuse of trust.

Not to be too pro technocrat, but it is astounding how much this country depended on the selflessness of like a few hundred thousand highly educated public servants who, for peanuts, made sure our food and medicine and environment etc were safe. And in return these servants were demonized.

Right but this requires a sense of honesty on par with "Republicans by sneakers too" that Disney would rather not reckon with.

I have two sons, and I don't think I've ever seen messaging going "Don't be a boy" or "YOU'RE BAD." Sure looks like that's in "I heard someone say that they heard..." territory, rather than actual direct experience. Also worth noting, the main message from manosphere influencers is "YOU'RE BAD."

there are, in fact, a ton of positive role models for masculinity out there and if teenage boys choose the whiniest and most hate-filled versions that's at least somewhat on them

"Do the churches next" *Starts synagogues and mosques* "wait"

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten, starved, and sexualized—sparking fears of a new Elsagate wave. www.wired.com/story/dozens...

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Happy birthday to my exceptional friend, Sarah. open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Happy Hitler Shoots Himself In The Head day to all who celebrate. The 80th anniversary. May his ignominious end, with his body doused in petrol and burned by his last remaining loyalists, be a model for all tyrants.

I have in general become way less tolerant of ‘crunchy’ bullshit since ascension of people like RFK jr. to actual power. Sorry but the obnoxious Reddit science and logic guys were right, you should be scorned for believing objectively wrong things about consequential issues.

30 April 1945 | As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in Berlin Adolf Hitler shot himself. Hitler's Thousand Year Reich lasted twelve years, four months & eight days. We need to commemorate all the victims & remember where ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to.