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👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally ripping up post office parking lots to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Having read for research purposes no fewer than four articles by opinion columnists about how dreadful Bluesky is, I think my conclusion is "kind of interesting except I notice that Financial Times and Bloomberg journalists seem to get on fine and have lots of mates here"

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Damning. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

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Ahead of the start of hurricane season, our reporters spent months investigating how much was lost in the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Listen to one survivor’s firsthand account of loss, devastation and hope that changes are made to protect the future of inland communities like his own.

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“I just find it fascinating that this student can write an article, a series of articles that are essentially manifestoes [of racist hate], and that’s free speech,” Ms. Chatman said, referring to Mr. Damsky, “but my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’”

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The reason Elon made Grok in the first place was because he assumed OpenAI was turning the secret “woke” dial up too high and small parameter tweaks could make it right-wing. Now he has realized the only way to get the AI to agree with him is to lobotomize it by rewriting the entire training set.

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wait what? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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As I've been saying www.readtpa.com/p/the-grok-w...

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Babe wake up, Elon is rewriting the entire corpus of human knowledge

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🤔🤔🤔

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Unironically the thing I love about this point, is that it's a great basis to start talking to y'all about the fact that most of the people in jail in the US are just as innocent as Khalil. Many are Black folk that have been arrested with absolutely no basis, but wait over a year to see a judge.

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“rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge”

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Musk is mad at his robot progeny again and has now taken to scolding it over something it wrote in response to Catturd. “Shame on you, @Grok”

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a lot of people who absolutely cannot post are blaming it on this platform, which I don't think is fair? Are the devs supposed to hand out a care package of good posts to get them started or something?

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I know we’re all numb to it but if any other president in my lifetime had said they should have gotten four or five noble prizes in such a rambling way it would have been a month long news story

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Palantir used to have affinity groups and DEI as late as 2022, and I had the logos saved on my phone because they pissed me off so much and of course they buried those pages. But I never forgot.

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BREAKING via AP Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.

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Jose Padilla was the name of the so-called “dirty bomber” www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/u...

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My guess is that he did this intentionally to try and reference a controversially-treated terrorist from the early Bush-era. But to be honest I think the reference is pretty obscure in 2025 and it’s more likely to come off as using a stereotypical hispanic name.

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STAT+: GLP-1 reduced migraine frequency by nearly half, in a pilot study www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/g...

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congratulations to @captainacab.airbud.website on the incredible posters milestone of being quoted in a federal indictment 🏆

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EXCLUSIVE: A judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one.

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A Constitutional law scholar & professor says…

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If someone made me attend a breakout session for their wedding I’d never speak to them again www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/s...

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Gwinnett Co. Sheriff's Office told me today that the initial incident report re: these charges has not yet been completed. This is curious as initial reports are generally available within 24 to 48 hours of an incident, and Guevara has been in custody since 6/14. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

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Asked if the Trump admin will comply with Judge Farbiarz’s order to release Mahmoud Khalil, a DHS spokeswoman says, “An immigration judge, not a district judge, has the authority to decide if Mr. Khalil should be released or detained.”

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A newly unsealed court filing states that Vance Boelter and his wife were “preppers” with a contingency plan in the chance of impending catastrophe.

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(New thread) Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: “Iran is ready to consider diplomacy once again.”

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BREAKING A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit close to Semnan, Iran, which is about 134 miles east of Tehran. The earthquake was reportedly felt in Tehran as well.

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ggplot2 version 4.0.0 is coming soon: github.com/tidyverse/gg... if you have packages that depend on ggplot2, you might get contacted with a fix by posit if the update breaks your package

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Nice use of a waffle chart to show probability. 📊

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Clever way to use horizontal text in a table. 📊

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Harry Enten: "I think we can say Donald Trump has lost the political battle when it comes to what has happened in Los Angeles. Trump's net approval rating on LA - way, way underwater at -15 points... this is happening on what should be on Donald Trump's best issue ... he's losing on his core issue"

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After appeals court ruling, Trump now promising to send troops wherever there are protests - ominous www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

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FOX: Israel reports that the iron dome was 90% effective in intercepting missiles and now it went down to 65% effectiveness.

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🥛 they've been saying whole milk is back. For real this time... From my fav, @sarah-todd.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/w...

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First opinion: SCOTUS blesses blatant forum-shopping by tobacco companies challenging FDA marketing denial orders. Now they'll all be filed in the Fifth Circuit, regardless of where the tobacco company is headquartered. SMH. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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