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"...it’s clear that Community Notes on Facebook and Instagram is not yet ready for prime time. While several notes helpfully flagged content that was misleading, only a handful provided truly valuable context. Some were inaccurate and potentially AI-generated." - @mantzarlis.com

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NEW: A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.

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Everyone: don't rank Cuomo, a serial groping disgraced grandmother killer New York Times: don't rank Mamdani, a visionary young man

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Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

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I sometimes wonder if we systematically overthink things and miss the fact that America is stacked to the gills with rubes www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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You want some good news? OK. Here's some good news. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

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America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

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On news OpenAI has signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, just reshaping this from Brian J. Chen, Tina M. Park, Alex Pasternack: www.techpolicy.press/booming-mili...

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BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

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Andrew Cuomo sexually abused more than a dozen women. If that alone is not enough to disqualify him from ever again holding elected office—if the conversation even continues past that—the speaker (outlet) is saying it's OK to sexually abuse women.

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Cuomo doesn’t just get to rehabilitate himself from sexual harassment because he’s rich and powerful. He gets to because he’s a man. It’s the same situation for everyday, ordinary men, while women from all walks of life are not just denied justice but punished for asking for it

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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If the United States is preparing to join a direct attack on Tehran, that is madness. If we aren’t, publicly signalling that we are likely to is also madness.

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At yesterday's protests in Atlanta, police arrested the respected journalist Mario Guevara—clearly ID'd as press and, crucially, known for tirelessly documenting ICE abuses—for livestreaming their crackdown. He was booked on charges of "obstruction" and "pedestrian walking on or along" a roadway.

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"This type of crime is now possible because ICE agents insist on going around like masked thugs."

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as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

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Everything that is happening and will happen with Iran is a direct consequence of Trump’s first-term decision to shit on American diplomatic credibility by impulsively shredding a hard-won nuclear agreement.

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It will forever anger me that so many NY State Democratic leaders are backing a known sexual predator to lead New York City just to protect Big Money and corporate greed — and then will continue saying they will “fight for women.” Don’t rank Cuomo.

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Why believe this?

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The same day political violence took lives, GOP candidate for governor Winsome Earle-Sears told a clergy luncheon: “We’ve got huge firepower… flak jackets… grenades. We’re gonna use them.” This isn’t leadership—it’s a threat. Virginians deserve better than this reckless, violent thinking.

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The sort of thing a decent president would say. Or any decent human being, for that matter.

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I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

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I get upset when I hear the Civil Rights movement characterized as “nonviolent”. It was violent. People were injured. Killed. There was violence. It just wasn’t perpetrated by the resistors.

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It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

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So Trump family says they're going to stand up a new mobile phone factory and have a new phone in production in three months and basically all the mainstream press is saying, yep, sounds legit. Can't wait to see it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/just-...

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AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say www.404media.co/ai-therapy-b...

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Great line here: "Considered individually, defendants’ legal arguments are meritless. Considered in the aggregate, they are terrifying."

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I had been wondering about this, that Boelter wanted to and was actively planning to kill a lot more D legislators. visited at least two other homes.

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This message clearly violates the Texas state law that forbids any activity that celebrates diversity.

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They can't even grift without making the most basic errors. Endless corruption.

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I like to imagine Sheriff Marge Gunderson capturing Vance Boelter.

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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority

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I keep turning Copilot off in the Outlook app and it keeps turning itself back on.

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never going to stop being pissed at the amount of time spent litigating “are the people who won’t stop talking about racism the real racists?” during the ten years leading up to an American president attempting to enact a program of domestic ethnic cleansing

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Re: Cuomo

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I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

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Five months ago, Evanston became a Welcoming City. Today, we've learned that the Evanston PD shared its network of license plate data with at least seven out-of-state agencies conducting immigration searches in Illinois cities.

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Almost $200 billion annual budget and can’t afford WD-40

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80 years ago this summer, Nazi scientists began arriving in the US, recruited to work in the US govt & eventually its space program as part of Operation Paperclip. But they weren’t the first nor the only American Nazis by any means, and this week on the blog I’ll AmericanStudy a handful of others.

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