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Speaking of which — wtf but they are also saying it’s legal for unidentified, masked agents to kidnap people off the street without a warrant, accuse them of made-up crimes, stash them in a secret location, and give their lawyers (and local district attorneys!) the finger when they ask questions

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

What's happening is an abomination but also an established tactic that will take time, effort, and legislation to get rid of. The tweet below is 5 years old, and U.S. law enforcement has been at it a lot longer than that. Not trying to discourage anyone, just saying brace for the long struggle here.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

“What about the Wehrmacht soldiers who hugged their children and gave them piggyback rides and remembered to call their mothers to wish them a happy birthday every year without fail?”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

What is really alarming is that it is very, very clearly affecting the minds of major political figures still over there. Not just right-wingers, but pundits, journalists, large commentary accounts. They have become extraordinarily desensitized to bigotry, trolling and racism as normal politics.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

First garden-harvested meal of the summer!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 62 days ago • 91 comments

I know this isn’t the main thing but — is it Angeleno or Angelino? I’ve always thought it was Angelenos. Now I’m seeing Angelinos everywhere. What’s up with that. (Autocorrect doesn’t like it fwiw.)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Biden capped copays for insulin at $35 (for Medicare beneficiaries), and the policy was so popular Trump lied and pretended it was his during the campaign. Now we’re skipping ahead to “kill the diabetics and blame them for not knowing how to cook.”

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Illustrating this piece with a woman reclining on a sofa looking sultry in a dress that has definitely never seen infant spit is…an editorial choice, certainly.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Homoside Laws! Incredible

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Every accusation is a confession: autopen edition

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Journalists never ask these people why they don’t pull their kids out of school and stick them in front of an iPad all day long. The vastly superior option!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

If you don't have kids and you're a woman, this is bad for you too Its better for women to have more women in the workplace

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

A knowing lie or merely a timesesque falsehood?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The primary function of an LLM is to take human communication - actual attempts at conveying meaning - and digest it into a soup of probabilities that will regurgitate something that looks like human communication, but contains no actual attempt at conveying meaning. This is bad.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Is it a terrible idea to abandon my (monstrously gigantic, heavy, ridiculously numerous) tomato plants to the elements tonight? It’s still very warm now but it will be 10°C/49°F 😱

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

The Fed is different because conservatives understand that removing The Fed will be the end of the United States as we know it but they don't understand that removing the head of the US Institute of Peace and USAID is also the end of the US as we know it, which is kind of the root of the problem

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment