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It made sense at the time.

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

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🔥 “Wake the hell up.” Former RNC chair @michaelsteele.bsky.social goes in on Elon’s infiltration into the federal government, accessing everyone’s personal info

China just gonna be completely running the world in 4 years. But we'll have the Panama Canal. Which wont' function because of climate change.

Pop quiz: People are saying the kid says “you’re not the president you need to go away” — do y’all hear it too?

Not a single reporter at the Superbowl asked any of the Eagles why they didn't fly the Fellowship to Mordor.

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

not sure how you can see this and not immediately call for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to step down from any leadership positions. he is absolutely useless

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

this is essentially, what's up

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The courts have once again ignored the demands of millions of Americans by thwarting sensible federal net neutrality regulations. That means Congress and the states must step in to preserve a free and open internet, EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in The Well News.

BREAKING: A medevac plane crashed in Philadelphia with a child and five others on board, the air ambulance company that operated it said, adding that it had not confirmed any survivors reut.rs/4gpP6xR

This is so goddamn funny. All AI is trained on nothing but widespread theft but apparently it is only bad when someone does the same thing to them.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Cruz has claimed distributing Wi-Fi hotspots to schoolchildren will lead to unsupervised Internet usage, endanger kids, and possibly restrict kids' exposure to conservative viewpoints.

someone who thinks AI companies should be able to scrape copyrighted data to remix for their output explain to me why what DeepSeek did here should be illegal

Penn researchers found that macrophages retain distinct memories of past stimuli, shaping future immune responses. Innate immune memory is not universal but tailored to the original trigger. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Why it's more important than ever to have decentralized social networks; the geolocation AI tool being marketed to cops; and Nokia's newly discovered archive of whacky ideas. 🔗 www.404media.co/podcast-tikt...

A team in Exeter has developed a finger-prick test to classify long Covid into three types: weak antibody response, excess immune response, and unclear patterns. Early results suggest it could guide tailored treatments, but larger trials are needed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

[Mexico City, Mexico] Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building. Via Ghost of Durruti

Today’s glimmer of hope brought to you by the creator of Watch Duty, LA’s nonprofit fire map that’s been such a lifeline for so many. More of this, please! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

NEW: When reporters set out to quantify the impact of a Connecticut law that allows companies to sell some cars they’ve towed after just 15 days, the DMV said records would cost $47,000. It has revised the estimate but hasn't given us the records. w/ @ctmirror.org

Disasters move on from the headlines, but the effects linger. 12,000 Western NC residents remain displaced after Hurricane Helene. This article tells of folks using pine needles as insulation under their camper carpets as winter cold set in. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

@distributeaid.org is still sending aid to WNC as part of our long term recovery efforts! Next shipment leaves on Friday. 😊 Support us for the long haul here: www.omprakash.org/global/distr...

This is like every NYT oped happening at once

One thing Newsom should do *right now* is a statewide rent freeze. They did it during lockdown, they can do it again. And yes, statewide, because every landlord within 200 miles of LA is eagerly waiting for fire refugees to move into their area.

The Mexican wildlands firefighters of Conafor (Mexico's forestry commission) are considered some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. They've helped us with large wildfires in the US including California, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, and they helped up in BC too

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 10,1953

Mark Zuckerberg's father gave him $100,000 to start Facebook, after putting him through Philips Exeter Academy. Y'all really need to calibrate your definition of "not rich"

This is all for oil execs to have more money than they will ever be able to spend.

As California burns and Trump comes up with wild conspiracies on why the oft-drought ridden area around Los Angeles is out of water... I recommend listening to this QAA Podcast about the billionaire family sucking up water for pistachios. soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...

Facebook deletes internal employee criticism of new board member Dana White 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-del...

Wondering whether you're among the more than 60K North Carolinians the Supreme Court is now considering removing from the vote count? Names of individuals impacted available here (compiled via NC Newsline)-->

It's very funny to run on the message that the existence of American democracy rests on the dems winning and then say this on the anniversary of a coup attempt after they lose to the coup attempt guy.

Another war crime by Israel. Using an ambulance to carry out an attack is known as "perfidy".