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WOW. 60 Minutes directly criticized its parent company after the resignation of executive producer Bill Owens: “Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways.”

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“The World Food Program said Friday it delivered its last food stocks to the kitchens it supports.” “Maybe we’ll eat sand,” said one mother

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It's a golden age for Ponzi schemes

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"think hard about whether you want to be responsible for enabling the descent of America into fascism" - a question that should be asked of everyone involved

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cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual - this really lays it out

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“Meta in a statement called the Journal’s testing manipulative and unrepresentative of how most users engage with AI companions. The company nonetheless made multiple alterations to its products after the Journal shared its findings.” Chatbots are just not for kids. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

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David French’s column today says Harvard is “remarkably intolerant,” the speech environment is “abysmal,” and left-wing bias is “overwhelming.” So I have a question: if they’re so biased against conservatives, how do they keep being a stepping stone for influential conservative lawyers and judges?

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I do genuinely wonder how many people think what happened with Wikipedia is that “society accepted it” rather than that they put a ton of work into making it reliable, something that is not going to make AI reliable because no technology to actually understand meaning has been or can be invented.

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A patriot

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“No matter what you have done before,” he wrote, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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👇👇

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In 1990 some white supremacists led a movement to take MLK’s name OFF of MLK Blvd. A poll conducted by The Oregonian found that 60% of Portland residents agreed.

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Ed Martin's latest target: Wikipedia. The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is "spreading propaganda." Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Last night, a federal judge in El Paso became the first to review ICE’s claim that someone was an “alien enemy.” It went SO BAD for ICE that not only did the judge order release for the people suing, without prompting he restricted the use of the Alien Enemies Act in west Texas.

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Denver is building so many new apartments that vacancy rates reached a 16-year high and the average rent has fallen below levels seen two years ago, according to the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. The average apartment rent in metro Denver fell to $1,819 in the first quarter.

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Big sequel villain energy

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If this was happening on a battlefield, he’d be at risk of being fragged www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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"...fundamentalist thinking does not come down to simply naming who is right and who is wrong...The difference is that fundamentalism and fascism draw their distinctions from a place of pride and fear: pride in one’s place among the 'righteous,' and fear of anything that might threaten that place."

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As someone who almost died from Salmonella 15 yrs ago and has suffered numerous autoimmune conditions since, I can tell you, this is devastating.

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When I was writing about these pronatalist people this week I came across this anecdote from the Guardian about the guy In the CNN clip.

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Sickening...👇 It is a lie to say that it hasn't been studied & scientists are afraid to ask the question. It HAS been studied. Often. Scientists ain't afraid But ya know what creates fear? YOUR administration's attack on science! Ya know what lowers life expectancy? Health misinformation.

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I had the immense pleasure of interviewing Kim Stanley Robinson for the Novel Dialogue podcast. Our conversation starts with The Ministry for the Future five years into the future, and extends out from there. I hope you'll give it a listen! @sns2025.bsky.social noveldialogue.org/2025/04/24/9...

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK was not harsh enough toward zuck

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There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.

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Joe Rogan told Jordan Peterson this week that Richard Nixon was the victim of a deep state coup. JD Vance ended his 2021 National Conservatism Speech by quoting Nixon, "the professors are the enemy," to applause. Why the right wants to use the Nixon playbook and whitewash his crimes 👇

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If you work for the FAA, and you were forced to sign an NDA that prohibits post-employment disclosures of anything other than classified information, please call a lawyer. NOW.

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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country. Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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"scooped up" really obscures how much damage deep sea mining would do to an extremely fragile ecosystem. Scientists simulated mining on the seafloor in 1989. When they went back to check on it 26 years later, the impacts were still visible

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This is what fascism looks like: Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”

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He's known as a former Secretary of Labor, but @rbreich.bsky.social considers teaching his true calling. Our new film, The Last Class, follows this lifelong educator wrestling with the realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.

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"What we are witnessing is not only a political crisis or a humanitarian catastrophe, but a collapse in moral and intellectual infrastructure. The tradition that once claimed to guide our judgments ... can no longer bear the weight of the present."

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"The challenge is that most employees don’t want another well-being workshop. They want something much harder to come by these days: principled, courageous leadership." 🎯

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WHOA-- in the last hours of this years legislative session, Indiana Governor & state legislature stripped the IU Faculty Senate of governing power 🧪 www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

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Have we considered whether this is all just a heist? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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What a profound tragedy to see the NOAA become the Trump PR company.

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Hey, guess what, a Trump billionaire just learned what FAFO means.

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JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump from ending union bargaining for many federal workers reut.rs/3GqjdZv

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That was partly SCOTUS's justification for absolute immunity for the president, that it would preserve the vigor and energy of the office. Because nothing says democracy like a vigorous and energetic, unchecked president.

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No one will believe this, but: When I was a kid, the top income tax bracket was MORE THAN 90%. Corporate tax rate was 450% of what it is now. That was under Dwight Eisenhower.

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As turmoil grows at 60 Minutes and CBS News, I wonder why some courts are doing a better job defending independent journalism than some media owners. As always, it comes down to profits. My Substack: loom.ly/QCAED2s

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Rick Scott made a lot of money with China-tied investments. Read my old scoop: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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There are only about 195 countries on earth

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Someone has taken control of the NOAA feed. And that person is the antithesis of everything NOAA has stood for. "Waiting to be scooped up and processed...." "Those bison are waiting to be slaughtered and processed..." "Same for those passenger pigeons."

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Ceding an issue has never been a successful strategy. Immigration is not only good for America, it’s essential. Now that the rule of law and the Bill of Rights are in play, this is no time for timidity. It’s time to beat Trumpism on its own turf.

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To read the Criminal Complaint and attached FBI Affidavit that gave rise to Wisconsin State Judge Hannah Dugan’s federal criminal arrest today for obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest

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“On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science,” the White House statement declared. ... Of an administration that has cut so much funding for science, 75% of 1,200 scientists responding to a survey said they were considering leaving the country.

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