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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 2 days ago • 456 comments

English person: did you hear about the irishman who... Irish person: yeah, you were literally tricked by a bus

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Just the collapse of the Amazon able to crash the terrestrial carbon sink which will now fast turn into a source... One more warming jump needed... #climate #earth

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Inexplicably very on sale today, thanks @raygunsite.com.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Once we have robotic monks, we can stop worrying about transcendence and focus on productivity. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/matter PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

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Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

Lander is an eminently qualified candidate who could have seen the failure of his won campaign as a reason to be embittered against Mamdani (as, ahem, others did) but instead is pivoting to united the left-liberal vote and dampen Cuomo’s chances. Profoundly decent, stand up thing to do.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

submitted 33 days ago • 969 comments

“These men made our lives possible. They were impelled to risk all by a sense of obligation to the future. We possess a reciprocal obligation to the past. We must not squander what they bequeathed to us.”

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

“The COIN-operated Presidency” 🤡 @nytimes.com @karaswisher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 33 days ago • 264 comments

i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search. NO. WRONG. You have just forgotten how good search used to be. Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.

submitted 40 days ago • 104 comments

Spread the word!

submitted 40 days ago • 107 comments

Scoop: CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment that focused on job losses at the Internal Revenue Service hours before it was scheduled to air, replacing it with a feature story on Cajun music. Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

submitted 41 days ago • 322 comments

There are times when a decent person would quit rather than preside over a sick farce. This is one of those times.

submitted 67 days ago • 109 comments

Resistance is NOT futile

submitted 68 days ago • 597 comments

Happy Earth Day, friends. Our homeworld, seen by the crew of Apollo 8 in 1968.

submitted 68 days ago • 84 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 67 days ago • 822 comments

there is no plan(et) b.

submitted 68 days ago • 300 comments

Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

submitted 68 days ago • 872 comments

Earth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

submitted 68 days ago • 131 comments

I don't think it gets more Second Gilded Age than this.

submitted 68 days ago • 334 comments

This is the right thing to do, and it’s a profound shame that he had to do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

submitted 68 days ago • 185 comments

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

submitted 68 days ago • 1417 comments

Before I go into today's dystopian nightmare, let's take a minute to bring down your blood pressure. Here is one of my favorite creatures, the #RedPanda. Enjoy. #nature #animals

submitted 71 days ago • 477 comments

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

submitted 69 days ago • 839 comments

there's a blog post from 2005 from cryptologist Bruce Schneier that looks at the security measures built into the papal conclave and its resilience to subversion and the assessment is that the process is near-impossible to actually "hack" turns out a system developed over millennia is pretty robust