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I wanted to try and figure out how Neil Gorsuch concluded that 'Pride Puppy', an ABCs book about a lost dog at a pride parade that he insists he read, exposes kids to "bondage" and "sex workers." The answers are somehow even dumber than you can imagine. A brief thread:

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APOLLO: * consumer sentiment collapsing * US tourism collapsing * new orders collapsing * cost pressures UP 🇺🇸

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Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

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"Asserting that 'it is illegal and unconstitutional to deport' a U.S. citizen, Judge Doughty set a hearing for May 16 to explore his 'strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.'” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

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President Trump says in a new interview that he was joking when he promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in the first 24 hours of his second term.

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Since RFK Jr wants to ban “petroleum-based” food dyes, does that mean he’s going to ban methylene blue, his favorite unregulated supplement? Because that’s…also derived from petroleum. Read today’s newsletter for facts about petroleum, food dyes, & health. ⬇️ news.immunologic.org/p/no-youre-n...

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Going after Wikipedia is something Elon Musk has tweeted about frequently. If Musk has written a shitty little tweet about it, they’re probably going to try it.

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Would've been nice

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BREAKING NEWS: Kennedy Center events scheduled for the World Pride celebration in Washington have been canceled, organizers say.

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Just "sitting there," while, ahem, also producing oxygen and serving as part of a vast deep ocean ecosystem that we don't yet understand www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The attorney general is making it easier for prosecutors to seize reporters' records. She says DOJ "will not tolerate unauthorized disclosures that undermine President Trump's policies," which she compares to treason.

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Reading a story on NBC and assuming at this point that all of the ads are featuring AI-generated images

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Trump has now officially tied his 2017 record for worst-ever approval rating for a POTUS 94 days into his term, at -8 net approval. If that wasn't bad enough for him, the trajectory is also terrible: Trump's decline in term 2 has been quicker than in term 1. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

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Nearly 100 days into Trump 2.0, the health industry's lobbyists and lawyers are fearing "existential" threats to their clients, rewriting their playbooks, and thinking about how they might align themselves with the MAHA agenda. www.statnews.com/2025/04/25/h...

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"For each probationary worker DOGE idled, the government lost thousands of dollars it spent on recruitment, hiring incentives, security clearances and training, an investment normally recouped over years of service." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."

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Page One in San Francisco: California ports are ground zero for worries about the lack of incoming Chinese imports — and the empty shelves to come. “This is going to be worse than during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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New poll finds that just 37% of Republicans (and 48% of Americans) are "very confident" that measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccines are safe.

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Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

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BREAKING FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted that federal agents had arrested Judge Hannah Dugan on charges of obstruction for allegedly aiding an undocumented immigrant in avoiding arrest by federal agents. Patel has since deleted the post, but a spokesperson for the US Marshals confirms the arrest.

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UMich: "Year-ahead inflation expectations surged from 5.0% last month to 6.5% this month, the highest reading since 1981... After the April 9 partial pause in tariff increases, inflation expectations ebbed but remained substantially elevated relative to March." www.sca.isr.umich.edu

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I cannot emphasize enough how much stories like this are a form of uncritical advertising for AI companies. I understand the impulse to take them at their word when they wonder aloud if their giant matrix multiplication engines are about to become sentient, but it should be resisted.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u... “There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone,” Mike Casey, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in an interview." I can't keep up with this!

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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APOLLO: “Trade Between China and the US Collapsing .. The consequence will be empty shelves in US stores in a few weeks and Covid-like shortages for consumers and for firms using Chinese products as intermediate goods.”

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“Hard to fathom.” “A path to perfect lawlessness.” A “brazen example of "retaliation.” Trampling the Constitution for “political or personal gain.” A “charlatan” who “doesn’t in my view really care about democracy." And that’s just the Republican-appointed judges, Aaron Blake reports bit.ly/3RyrQDO

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#Propaganda101: Propagandists frame arguments by redefining their terms to suit themselves — right there in the moment. Here, we have “<term>, which means <ridiculous exaggeration tapping MAGA victim complex>” It’s often some BS thought-terminating cliche- but it’s effective for their audience.

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President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations. It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Major stakeholders are in the dark about why certain products face tariffs and others don’t. Trump administration officials have given conflicting messages about the tariffs or have declined to answer questions at all. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

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"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

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New: We analyzed Trump's meme coin - At least 27 crypto wallets have picked up $100 million worth of $TRUMP coins since his team said the top holders would join him for an "intimate private dinner." Huge profit for Trump; "the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done" wapo.st/4iAatO1

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oh thank god this website is back

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a fun fact: this tweet from 2023 was written amid the discourse from the time Kevin Roose thought Microsoft Copilot was in love with him and trying to get him to leave his wife

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Was listening to a starling interview last night with a logistics expert who was comparing the current climate to early days of covid, similar uncertainty with companies slowing production and shipments. He was saying to expect empty shelves in 3-6 months

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if someone will lend me $50 billion the verge would also like to buy chrome

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Americans are now one-third less likely to die from cancer at the same ages as Americans in 1990

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Two STAT story about NIH and lost funding... www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

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really embarrassing column for Kevin tbh

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A developing political scandal in Florida has put Gov. Ron DeSantis on the defensive. Republican lawmakers are investigating how $10 million in state money was diverted for use in a campaign.

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