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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 hours ago • 391 comments

ethnonationalism is an expressive indulgence that heaps an unnecessary burden on the rest of us

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I basically agree 100% that, at this point, the VC/business obsession over genAI is because they feel it's an uploaded consciousness they can enslave and harass at will. Really not beating the "this is all a reaction to MeToo" accusations.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

One thing that’s cool is that like 99% of the “censored” right-wing people then joined or supported a government that immediately started killing millions of people.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the right take. I suspect that if Mitch McConnell had believed there was even a possibility that Trump would run again in 2024, he would have whipped together enough votes to convict. The Senate GOP was ready to be done with him. It was just a total failure to understand their own party.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

An international phenomena

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

this fwiw has always been my view, that the shallow incoherence of “antiwokeness” owes itself mostly to the fact that its more aesthetics and social positioning than anything else

submitted 15 hours ago • 63 comments

It’s a bleak but practical message as Dems seize on the moment to protest the Trump administration’s rejection of due process and judicial order. Up until this now, they've struggled to effectively raise hell over Trump’s lawless first few months back in the White House.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Disturbing shit "In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, which will be integrated into the data." Promises of state of the art confidentiality protections not exactly convincing.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

My first real interaction with Noah Smith was him telling me - just after I’d finished writing a book on the Reformation - that rulers picking their religion only happened after 1648, which he “proved” by linking to the Wikipedia page of the Peace of Westphalia. It’s who he’d always been.

submitted 9 hours ago • 35 comments

An underrated aspect of human colleagues is that they can tell you when you shouldn’t post something.

submitted 8 hours ago • 83 comments

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2046 comments

at T+15 seconds of creating an "AI journalist," her boss sexually harassed her

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

I’ve had my fair share of criticism of the Governor when she first paused congestion pricing but gotta give her props for refusing to back down vs. Trump

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Practically, what does this mean? The government is saying it will go back to garnishing wages, tax returns, social security payments, etc. in order to collect money from the >5 million people currently in default on student loans. I'll make this a lil mini thread that highlights the key points.

submitted 9 hours ago • 15 comments

These foul beasts beheld a genuine miracle that delivered us from a plague and declared it must be destroyed because they have completely inverted good and evil.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

There was a time in the recent past when being a 9/11 truther would've been seen as disqualifying for a U.S. senator. Ron Johnson appears to know that this time is apparently over, and he can expect to get away with peddling fringe 9/11 conspiracy theories. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

NEW: A Wyoming judge has granted a preliminary injunction against the targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law that forced the state's only procedural abortion clinic to close: chelseasfund.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Noah smith saw a mediocre white dude that everyone hates and was like "I identify with this"

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

A striking chart from @gelliottmorris.com: Trump's current unfavorable rating on the economy (orange line) is by far the lowest he's ever experience—and most of this polling came before the "Liberation Day" chaos www.gelliottmorris.com/p/chart-of-t...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Anyone who “instinctively likes” Hegseth needs a fucking lobotomy.

submitted 11 hours ago • 157 comments

I simply do not understand how a NEWS ORGANIZATION is basically existing in a stage of siege but very rarely conveys in its political coverage that we are in a state of emergency

submitted 11 hours ago • 31 comments

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

submitted 15 hours ago • 121 comments

#GoldenAgeOfAmerica 🥇

submitted 13 hours ago • 105 comments

smart thing to keep in mind about Tesla's reported earnings, whatever they are, is that the CEO of Tesla has personally gone into the SEC and verified that they aren't going to try to enforce any laws or regulations against him ever again, so the reported numbers MAY diverge slightly from reality

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

Are you a scientist or researcher with autism? Want to talk to me for an article?

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Just incredible that a sitting Senator can say something like this with every expectation that such comments will not be grounds for bipartisan calls for his immediate resignation or removal from office.

submitted 11 hours ago • 137 comments

A in the weeds good governance thing that should be done is the banning of ‘island’ cities (all of your borders are with one other municipality), because like 90% of the time they are a way for a rich area to parasitize a larger cities amenities/job markets, etc. without sharing it’s tax burden

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

right wing infrastructure bros: “TRUMP WILL REPEAL NEPA SO WE CAN BUILD AGAIN” reality: Trump uses NEPA to blackmail NY on congestion pricing

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

I don’t think we talk enough about the fact that Pete Hegseth doesn’t believe in the germ theory of disease and consequently doesn’t wash after he wipes www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

[guy who’s only seen the 2024 US Presidential election watching the 2025 papal conclave] “getting a lot of ‘2024 US Presidential election’ vibes from this”

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

"the coddling of the american conservative" would be such a good book

submitted 15 hours ago • 39 comments

“Trump weaponizes environmental approvals to threaten NYC congestion pricing” is a headline designed by a team of Ivy League scientists to cause as much psychic damage as possible to me personally

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

he killed more people in three months than IDF, Hamas, and the Russian Army combined did in eighteen

submitted 13 hours ago • 124 comments

There is a special place in hell for lawyers who facilitate men’s abuse of women through these lawsuits.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

There's some remarkable "I'm not mad" vocal work being done here, but I think it's high time Secretary Hegseth sits in front of Congress and explains why he has one really long sideburn and one normal-sized one. America demands answers.

submitted 15 hours ago • 299 comments

Just announced: University of Michigan Faculty Senate resoundingly votes to support Big Ten academic mutual defense compact. 92.8% of over 3,000 votes.

submitted 16 hours ago • 34 comments

this is about America but it has also been notable that a) the Chinese government have been trying really hard to raise the birth rate for the last few years, b) this has been accompanied by increasingly heavy handed patriarchy and anti-feminism, c) the project has completely failed.

submitted 16 hours ago • 30 comments

New: The Hill privately convinced the owners of Truth Social to drop it from a defamation lawsuit Trump's company filed against 20 news outlets that reported an erroneous earnings figure. As part of the settlement, the Hill's owner agreed to fire one of its own journalists..

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments