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Don’t obey in advance, he’s not even popular

The President is saying if you pay him directly, you get face time and special treatment. The corruption is staggering and completely without precedent. This President is a crook, no two ways about it.

"Our Cybertruck was considered a total loss."

the rage I am feeling after 25+ years of trying to explain outcomes like this to every anti-vaxxer I ever met, I really really have zero chill for it

A+ everyone

Sitting with the data that -- Black people are 3.23x as likely as white people to be killed during a police encounter Black women are 3x more likely to die of a pregnancy or postpartum-related cause than white women. Tripled violence, tripled harms.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

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This is not a headline that should exist. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note. Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards? Starbucks wants you infected. 👉 #Sickbucks 👈

“Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the request of Turkish governmental authorities, according to a recent report by the Freedom of Expression Association. As a result, people in Turkey can no longer see these accounts, and their reach is limited.”

UPDATES: Barnard turned over personal info to feds. Almost every prof got this text. “The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Barnard prof. Debbie Becher, who is Jewish & got the text. theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

Different countries have different ways of saying “papers please” and that’s okay

This is why we need many social platforms. The idea of one massive “public square” should be squarely over & dead by now -didn’t work, won’t work, can’t work. The whims of a billionaire shouldn’t be the rules. But on a centralized platform, they are. So here we are. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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New at The Watch: A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

How I arrived on Bluesky

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

perhaps we can also have them wear armbands or even get tattoos so theyre easily identifiable

You might not realize this, since reactionaries have totally dominated public discourse on the subject, but most of the public was & is supportive of the basic preventative measures taken during Covid. yougovamerica.substack.com/p/middling-a...

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Facts and myths about measles - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

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Is Henry Blodget ok

We used to call this a vacation

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Something has happened in the last three months that has led basically every economic forecaster to predict that inflation will be substantially higher than they previously thought.

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

Hey, just in case anyone else ever wants to pass himself off as a "really nice guy, really, this is all so bewildering to me" here's what not to do.

wild how "sell high quality products at a fair price" is like some revolutionary business genius wisdom these days

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

Art at Cave Hill Cemetery. The last one isn’t my photograph. The shot I got was from the side and didn’t capture what was going on very well. That said, my first reaction was to ask Lee, “What is going on there?”

absolutely bodied by luxembourgish