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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ― Malcolm X, The greatest of all time Stares at the NYT

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

ILLEGAL INSIDER TRADING 101: 1) Trump tipped off insiders yesterday at 3:19 pm that he would announce a 50% tariff on the EU before the next day's opening. 2) Insiders buy triple-leveraged reverse ETFs at 3:20 pm. 3) Trump announces tariffs before market opening & insiders get rich.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Since the entire current administration sucks, this isn't surprising. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkGN...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

what could go wrong you should definitely use the hallucinatory slop machine that can call the authorities on you

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

submitted 26 days ago • 402 comments

“If they can be charged, we’ll charge them. But if they can’t be charged, we will name them...and in a culture that respects shame, they should be people that are ashamed. That’s the way things work.” That is, with good reason, not the way DOJ has worked, actually!! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 26 comments

Today’s bonus issue of “One First” takes a closer look at Judge Ho’s galling concurring opinion on remand in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemies Act case—which accused #SCOTUS of showing “disrespect” to the district judge and President Trump by … protecting due process: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-152-...

submitted 25 days ago • 60 comments

The persistent myth that Steve Jobs just had genius ideas emerge out of his genius brain without incrementally building on prior work or observing humans or learning from huge mistakes continues to make people stupid.

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

Gee, who could have seen this coming? /snark

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

After a Microsoft Build talk was disrupted by protesters, Microsoft’s head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, "accidentally switched to Microsoft Teams while sharing her screen, revealing confidential internal messages about Walmart’s upcoming use of Microsoft’s Entra and AI gateway services." Whoops.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 27 days ago • 165 comments

Get the #1 counter to #Project2025 and that is "Project 2026, It is the Constitution Stupid!" - It is the BLUEprint for getting back every seat and steering not just the U.S. but the global relationships to a better place and away from this #idiocracy #project2026 #free www.amazon.com/dp/B0D53QK6S4

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

They want disease tear through the population because they think it’d be an easy way to remove “weak genes.”

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 27 days ago • 690 comments

The sooner mainstream pundits, Dems, and journos accept that none of the reasons given by this administration for harming people are genuine and all the accusations they make against their opponents are confessions, the better

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“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

submitted 35 days ago • 64 comments

Police and federal agencies have a new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that tracks people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck RFK Jr! Also, fuck religious objections to vaccinations. Failure to vaccinate affects others as well, not just the objectors. Yes, I am a Christian. And yes, I swear when I feel it's appropriate, and believe me, it's appropriate.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The thing is: He didn’t just phrase this awkwardly - this guy’s view of the world is entirely shaped by eugenic ideas that he pairs with wild conspiracy theories. And then you have Oz talking about the “patriotic duty” to be healthy… Eugenics and aggressive nationalism - down that path lies evil.

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

We saw you from across the bar. Can we have your blood?

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL www.404media.co/well-well-we...

submitted 38 days ago • 25 comments

We are living in the dumbest timeline

submitted 39 days ago • 2649 comments

Trump's shipping migrants to prisons run by a Libyan warlord—where torture, rape & extortion are routine. It's not about safety. It's about profit, cruelty & deterrence by atrocity. This dehumanizes them—and corrodes us. Don't look away.

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

The last of the fully public loss datasets is gone.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Why older Americans are Trump's biggest nightmare www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

It's the, I voted for this to happen to OTHER people. Not yo MEEEE

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

War for Ukraine Day 1,164 update has posted.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

submitted 139 days ago • 46 comments

Worthy of a thorough read:

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 47 days ago • 779 comments

my reaction to this is not "oh Trump's losing it" it's "the entire point of fascism is that the leader declares reality and everyone else has to follow it".

submitted 48 days ago • 95 comments

Life in A Blue Bubble report (sorry): They just sent out what they're doing in 7th grade sex ed and the "everybody's got body parts" section includes a lesson on intersex people centering intersex voices and THIS IS THE US WE COULD HAVE EVERYWHERE DAMMIT

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

There’s a reason he was picked to succeed Pelosi. Large, “stable” organizations almost always prefer leaders who are risk-averse.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

We had actually very little to do with the existence of the Suez Canal.

submitted 51 days ago • 86 comments

Debate Pub; April 2025 - Dire Wolves. America vs The WORLD and ITSELF! www.youtube.com/live/QrLx-4r... via @chesh.bsky.social @dapper-dinosaur.bsky.social @landonnoll.bsky.social #America #WorldTrade

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s nominee to run NASA once kited checks at his Atlantic City casino, among others. www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-...

submitted 51 days ago • 55 comments

👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 51 days ago • 242 comments

President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only about 15% of what he originally pledged to save.

submitted 53 days ago • 151 comments

I think that Slotkin, Gallego, etc, think they’ve unlocked some cheat code for speaking to voters (winning while trump won the states) when it was entirely up to a bunch of random low-info voters that walked into the polling place, checked the box for trump, and left

submitted 53 days ago • 63 comments

SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

submitted 54 days ago • 62 comments

Goddammit

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Three users on X who feuded with Elon Musk in December saw their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight, The New York Times found, signaling that Musk or others at the company have the power to punish critics and that they may be willing to use it.

submitted 54 days ago • 119 comments

The most important thing for you to know as a software engineer is that if you destroy the computer with a hammer it cannot hurt you anymore

submitted 54 days ago • 27 comments

Judge James Boasberg said he would start contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for showing “a willful disregard” to his order to return a wrongfully deported Maryland man. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 58 days ago • 57 comments