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The Los Angeles Times has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan

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"we thought marco rubio would stand up to donald trump" is the dumbest thing ive heard anyone say in my life and ive listened to over 30 joe rogan episodes

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Collins is free to live his life as he wants and he's certainly given enough in service already, but he would have made more of a difference on the way out if he had stood his ground and made the Trump admin fire him.

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the next time some journalists gets to talk to White House Crypto Czar David Sacks they better not let him say a word about anything but this and Trump’s other scam coins

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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.

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1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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This. We give elected Dems a lot of guff, but this one is not the Dems' fault. Dems in the House held the line and did all they could.

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i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy

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Generally there’s a long ramp before you get to real biting sanctions, and Trump lawyers know and exploit that. I’ve long thought that judges who lose their patience much more quickly could do a lot of good.

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When the FBI searched Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown's home, they discovered illegal grenades, a sawed-off shotgun and classified information he retained after leaving the army. Today, DOJ says Donald Trump's pardon for J6 issues covers all of that.

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Grimes should send Elon this same email about their baby.

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Interesting thing for the President to say about a person who, according the government’s lawyers, “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself” and “only has the ability to advise the President, or communicate the President’s directives.”

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Your outie refuses to respond to Elon’s emails.

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Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

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My only litmus test for a 2028 Democratic candidate is a willingness to ruthlessly extirpate every trace of the Musk financial empire, pour encourager les autres.

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The next step in the Russian autocratization playbook is to sell government holdings off to cronies

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A reminder that the Gay Liberation statue meant for Stonewall (pictured below) spent a couple of years in Madison's Orton Park before New York finally agreed to install it.

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incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

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This is so shameful and heartbreaking.

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Based on a study of one task in one policy setting, so important not to overgeneralize. However, it does counter the claims that work-from-office is clearly better in terms of productivity. When you also consider how work from home improves recruitment pools, should be cautious about removing it.

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This will be the transcript moment of the day.

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 15 days ago • 273 comments

"I wonder what this relatively small account that Elon Musk follows is?" "Oh I see, it just posts porn and Nazism only."

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There aren't a lot of big elections in Dane County today and turnout is probably going to be low, but I updated my elections results realtime map anyway so you can see how things go as they happen. I'm most interested in Madison Council D9 and D10 and hoping Figueroa Cole and Conklin win big.

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Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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Hyperloop, boring company, full self-driving, cpap machines when promising ventilators during covid, promising to clean Flint's water, promise to save the kids in a cave, promise to land on mars...

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scitechdaily.com/your-car-is-... This "fix" for energy recovery on combustion engines- a thermoelectric generator in the exhaust - would, by generating 56W, improve energy consumption by somewhere around 0.1%.

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Elon Musk personally reinstated and remonetized this guy's account after he posted watermarked screenshots from a piece of CSAM that is so horrific that the people who investigated it thought it was an impossible urban legend for years

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If you look at Elon’s Twitter from like 2019 he spent his time tweeting about, like, specific steel types used in SpaceX rockets. I originally attributed his mental decline to radicalizing over COVID closing the factory but “severe long term drug use” is pretty rapidly becoming my preferred theory.

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JD Vance will reply to sub-10K accounts that do not mention him that his main account does not follow. He clearly has an alt, and finding it strikes me as a useful project if you’re a very online person who knows the terrain in that part of Twitter. Both for Kremlinology and propaganda purposes.

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silently counting out fourteen-ish months

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Musk’s personal, private commodification of women’s bodies is coextensive with his political philosophy and its very creepy.

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

I’ve put together a page on my website for federal employees impacted by Trump's mass purges of our federal workforce. It’s my hope that these resources will address questions and concerns, and provide you with as much information as possible: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

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I know we’re just reinventing cable, but there should be a “pick a random episode” button on certain shows. I didn’t come here to pick an episode of Golden Girls—show me one.

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Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money Crypto in 2025:

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A council of eight impartial claims should be the standard Ph.D. thesis committee.

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Put these up in Wisconsin.

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This is really bad. For what it’s worth, the logic the government cites is that universities often accept lower rates for non-federal grants, however, at UW-Madison, federal and non-federal grants pay the same rate.

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If anyone whines that we "self-segregated ourselves from X" and "aren't in the conversation anymore," feel free to show them this screenshot of my "For You" tab.

submitted 26 days ago • 242 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 27 days ago • 82 comments

a thing you need to know about Greg Abbot is that he led the charge for tort reform that banned the sort of perpetual annuity reward for damages that he himself got as a result of the tree falling on him.

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if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

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