“The US has provided no evidence that any of the vessels were involved in drug trafficking, and legal experts and rights groups say the attacks amount to extrajudicial killings as they apparently target civilians who do not pose any immediate threat.”
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So yes then
Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/four-horseme...
Secretary of War Pete Hegs... • © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.
General George Washington required Continental Army soldiers be inoculated for smallpox. We would not have won independence if he hadn’t.
You dumb chucklefuck.
Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
Good luck today, Virginia! Vote YES!
Awake, resentfully.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek), with the handle @magyarpeterMP. The post reads: "Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office." At the bottom, the timestamp reads "3:04 AM • Apr 21, 2026" alongside "19.9K Views".
Peter Magyar is not playing around at all. He's going to purge every single remnant of corrupt Orbanism. This is exactly how Dems need to be when they retake power.
When I campaigned for Congress, I often talked about the quiet collusion of companies to suppress wage increases.
We need an overhaul of anti-trust laws and a DOJ that will actually enforce them.
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi
My painting of Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show
Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men
for @theflytrapmedia.com today, I wrote about how the fascist fuckos want to us to be spectators to our own lives, isolated from each other and literally throwing money and time away
Look, I was excited as hell when 🙀 we were going to get for real, heartfelt Spider-Man movies. But the elevation of the must-watch multiverse cash machine has largely killed what I loved about superheroes, all these muscles and laser blasts with nothing real to say.
Whoever pays for the retconned Endgame is telling you they have a humiliation kink and love being financially dominated by Disney.
Cocaine Bear-verse expands
It’s very hard to take the AI bros’ sudden embrace of UBI seriously when they are simultaneously cheering Trump’s destruction of the welfare states, tbh
Me listening to a story about how one of the first dents in Orban's armor was the people finding out his regime embezzled 1.5 billion of their tax dollars through a central banking scheme: .............god I wish our president had only embezzled 1.5 billion
A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑
“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”
My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.
Black women were yelling from the rooftops. You should unlearn, confront, and dismantle misogynoir just because it's right to do so.
If not that, then at least do it to FINALLY save your own ass.
It was easier to blacklist and starve out the Black gender minorities who clocked this right wing fake account program over a decade ago, than it was for stakeholders to take us seriously and materially support our work accordingly. So here we are!
I'm just gonna put this here, and pour one out for Shafiqah. #YourSlipIsShowing
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Not gonna lie, I grew up in southern Indiana, and this sounds like home. Or at least, like it was when I still lived there. 🤣
A map of Lebanese territory being invaded by Israel
Israel now controls more of Lebanon than Russia does of Ukraine
Me seeing Dr. Strangelove on a streaming channel: ............honestly....hits a bit too close to home right now, I need something less realistic.
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
infrared camera still of two kakapo chicks, now with just a little fuzz left between their grownup-style feathers. One is resting their little fluffy cheek on the other's shoulder. The mother can only be seen as a large feathery lump to one side.
over-the-top cuteness on the kakapo cam as the two chicks fall asleep in a pile right in front of the camera, with their mother dozing nearby
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Dear bluesky
There is no more important thing ypu can be talking about/sharing right now
This redistricting fight can literally change the balance of power in DC and finally put a check on Donald Trump
Don't miss this opportunity
Do everything you can to help get out the vote tomorrow!