We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines

Fascism is a societal auto immune disease.

Why Did Humans Evolve Pattern Recognition Abilities? - Cognition Today Pattern recognition capacities sit at the helm of our basic cognitive architecture. Through evolution, humans developed cognitive abilities to spot patterns and use them to their advantage. Here is wh...

Human brains are amazing. It's not that we are stupid, it's that we needed this pattern recognition to get to where we are, and now it's like a border collie locked in a basement apartment trying to give itself a job. Conspiracy theories are the chewed couch.

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Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling.

Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning.

This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

A friend of mine who, sadly, is on Meta's Threads sent me these screenshots today. As if anyone needed additional reasons to dump all things Meta and Zuckerberg. #antifa #meta

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear

Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject

To state the obvious, petty street crime would likely be very rare in a totalitarian state where the military could execute you on suspicion of shoplifting; doesn’t mean this should be seriously discussed as an anti-crime stately. “Lowering crime” is not the only prerogative in a civilized society

Never forget what these people are stealing from us

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told The revelation contradicts the Trump administration’s longstanding claims that no classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the “Signalgate” scandal.

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Bondi also told president at the meeting that Justice decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims

These two stories broke within a half-hour of each other.

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible: the choice of individuals to master the sclerosis of the state, and the choice of individuals to craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space, make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier.

The White House has a serious drug epidemic.

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This credulity has been endlessly disappointing. Trump gets endless benefit of the doubt, without having ever earned it.

There are three key facts in the Holocaust Encyclopedia produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. This is the second key fact: What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

Democrats voting for the SAVE Act is the murder-suicide equivalent of governance

Boy did this tweet age poorly.

How is this real?

One way to think of what’s going on is that Trump & his gang are trust fund kids spending down the reservoir of U.S. power & influence without understanding or caring where the balance in that account came from. They treat it as just a fact of nature that there will always plenty there.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

honestly this stuff is insulting

The brain drain we are setting in motion on so many fronts is incredible

The news media gave more coverage to the idea Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 20 years was scandalous than to Trump's promise to destroy the department of education

Reality check.
Thank you, Financial Times.