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end the week with some dogs? lets end my first week back with some dogs and cats and maybe even a hedge hog and lizard or two if u feel like sharing

submitted 21 hours ago • 1509 comments

The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND getting prestigious pubs as incentive.😫 To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled on the possibility of a lab leak in the past. Horrid but true. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 24 comments

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 5 days ago • 137 comments

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 204 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 9 days ago • 1678 comments

On Tuesday I edited a story about the FTC firings. Readers took issue with our framing — not just us, but other publications as well. And you know what? Y'all were right. www.theverge.com/policy/63339...

submitted 9 days ago • 157 comments

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

submitted 9 days ago • 433 comments

Read this thread and beware

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

mr beast talking about the human lives he has trapped in simultaneous simulations with "cant wait to upload these" is why black mirror can never be as good as it used to be

submitted 9 days ago • 463 comments

‘We have failed to prevent genocide’ – Francesca Albanese – Channel 4 News www.channel4.com/news/we-have...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

A thread on true courage.

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Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 13 days ago • 80 comments

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

submitted 14 days ago • 2799 comments

real monkey's paw that we invented the ability to hold the sum of all human knowledge in the palm of your hand and then a few years later we're turning it into your stupid friend that pretends to know the answer to every question

submitted 39 days ago • 15 comments

holy shit this question at the Rep. Chuck Edwards town hall 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 16 days ago • 1381 comments

Thread. In hindsight, it's expected when you play the filthy, dirty, cheaters. But somehow you get used to calling them FDC, or whatever acronym, and you forget their nature.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I love how she’s like. Listen, to be clear, I’m racist. However this is too far

submitted 19 days ago • 27 comments

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

submitted 17 days ago • 172 comments

Another reason why I'm against the death penalty.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Challenge to murder mystery screenwriters: write a mixed gender duo without ANY underlying sexual tension.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

my doctor

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 31 days ago • 475 comments

This is a tough watch. It's so frustrating that the United States government and the corporate media have proven to be untrustworthy. They all cherry pick facts to fit their narrative and the American people are stuck fighting over partisan fairy tales.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 36 days ago • 2513 comments

They're irresistible

submitted 43 days ago • 83 comments

This is the most comprehensive document I have ever read on library censorship. Extensive, well-researched, and deeply important work. It will send chills up your spine.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 45 days ago • 54 comments

submitted 47 days ago • 91 comments

WSJ: A staffer for Elon Musk’s DOGE whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics He resigned Thursday after the WSJ asked about it. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

submitted 51 days ago • 71 comments

The almost explicit position of these groups is that anything more than a token number of black and Hispanic students in an elite institution is de facto evidence of anti-white racial discrimination.