Justice Dept. Moves to Vacate Jan. 6 Convictions for Far-Right Extremists Defending the convictions would likely have required administration officials to assert that far-right groups were acting on behalf of President Trump on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Justice Department on Tuesday took the opening step in erasing the guilty verdicts of the last few Jan. 6 rioters who were not granted total clemency by President Trump, moving to throw out the convictions of 12 members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia.

“I kind of yearn for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”

Which Australian Universities delivered the lowest revenue return relative to marketing spend (ROMER) in 2023? Analysis

Which Australian Universities delivered the lowest revenue return relative to marketing spend (ROMER) in 2023? UTAS coming in at #4 open.substack.com/pub/educator...

Perhaps help pay the salaries for the journalists producing the content

I read most of my news and there are plenty of options to do so. Clips I mostly avoid.

Guess you also think buying a spood makes someone a chef.

I was asking about the call center

Any more details? I am not surprised. There is a lot happening behind the screens to make the AI "magic" happen

Seth Rogen’s Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony this month, Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”

Seth Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science” while presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony — sometimes called the “Oscars of Science” — where Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg were in attendance. Rogen's comments were cut from the broadcast.

Reinstate Target's DEI Programs NOW! When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI prog...

When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...

Trump’s inaugural address centers on pledge to lift a country in ‘decline’ In his second Inaugural Address, the president reprised dark themes from his first and laid out an expansive policy agenda.

President Trump's inaugural address was a misleading assessment of the U.S. It has a growing economy, falling inflation, slowing illegal immigration, a record-breaking stock market, the lowest levels of violent crime in years and a military that has limited engagement in conflicts around the world.

Trump Grants Broad Clemency to Jan. 6 Rioters The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.

President Trump's move to pardon nearly all of the 1,600 rioters charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 would effectively undo years of efforts by federal investigators to seek accountability for the mob assault on the peaceful transfer of power after Trump's loss in the 2020 election.

He is literally shilling for modern day Nazis with the AfD in Germany. Y'all still pretending to be surprised???

Um. What did I just watch?

Orca That Carried Dead Calf for Weeks Is Mourning Again Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go.

A mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the carcass of her calf, just as she did in 2018 — when she spent 17 days carrying another dead calf. “It’s so much harder to see now that she has lost another one,” one scientist said.

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Musk post: In most cases, the word “homeless” is a lie. It’s usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness.

World’s richest man believes homelessness is a “propaganda”

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An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hoards of lies and gibberish.

A 1941 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges eerily foreshadowed today's internet challenges, imagining a vast library where truth is buried in an ocean of gibberish.

The parallels to our current online landscape are striking. https://buff.ly/3UZWKXA
(Roger J. Kreuz, U Memphis) #AI

There some sites that help with this but are they to be trusted? I'd need to delete 80k tweets.

It doesn't if one wants to prevent the handle from being reused

Voters without kids are in the political spotlight – but they’re not all the same Compared with voters who are trying to have kids or haven’t decided yet, those who definitely don’t want to have kids – known as the ‘child-free’ – have a different set of political priorities.

Politicians often lump nonparents together, but there are big differences between people who are childless because they currently don’t yet have them, and people who have decided they never want children.
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Any suggestions on how to #delete previous #twitter #x posts en masse? #help

That Message From Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I. Overwhelmed by queries, physicians are turning to artificial intelligence to correspond with patients. Many have no clue that the replies are software-generated.

Patients send hundreds of thousands of messages to their doctor through MyChart. But they have no clue those physicians, overwhelmed by queries, are increasingly using AI to respond.

‘Did You Tase Him in the Face!?’ Inside ‘Goon Squad’ Deputies’ Group Chat Years of messages from an encrypted WhatsApp text thread show conversations of sheriff’s deputies, including those who terrorized Mississippi residents.

A group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies joked about raping women, shooting people and shocking suspects in the genitals, years of messages from an encrypted WhatsApp group chat obtained by The New York Times and Mississippi Today show.

His License Suspended, a Man Appears in Court From Behind the Wheel A defendant charged with driving with a suspended license appeared via Zoom while driving. “I don’t know why he would do that,” a perplexed judge said.

A Michigan man charged with driving with a suspended license appeared in a pre-trial court hearing this month via Zoom while driving. “I don’t know why he would do that,” the perplexed judge said.

Leprosy cases are rising in the US – what is the ancient disease and why is it spreading now? People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.

Maybe we should just leave the armadillos alone. Don’t domesticate them, and don’t try to eat them.

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Piety and Profanity: The Raunchy Christians Are Here In the Trump era, a surprising number of evangelicals are rejecting modesty and turning toward the risqué.

In the Trump era, a surprising number of evangelicals are rejecting modesty and turning toward the risqué.

Yes. It’s never going to be the same level of safety though since men still don’t face the risk of pregnancy if their version of the pill fails.