“Presidents don’t have much of a role in how elections are run—and that’s a good thing…
The elections clause of the Constitution leaves election law in the hands of Congress and the states, and gives very little authority to the president.”
bipartisanpolicy.org/issue-brief/...
“…there is now growing alarm that as we offload even more of our thinking to LLMs and other forms of AI, the effects on our memories and ability to solve problems could get worse.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
“He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas…”
Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data. n.pr/4sLetjV
“Presidents don’t have much of a role in how elections are run—and that’s a good thing…
The elections clause of the Constitution leaves election law in the hands of Congress and the states, and gives very little authority to the president.”
bipartisanpolicy.org/issue-brief/...
You mean “whoah.”
It’s almost like a coordinated talking point went out on Red Cross doctor Jesus H. Trump.
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.
He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.
The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
Folks, the Hungarians just ousted Orban after he spent a decade and a half consolidating power. The odds the Hungarian resistance faced were far worse than what we’re facing in the US. Like abolitionists and civil rights activists have learned here, everything seems impossible until it isn’t.
This absolutely made my day. 😊
“As of midnight local time and with more than 98% of the vote counted, the results of the Hungarian election are clear: Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power have ended in a crushing defeat on Sunday.”
www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...
Photograph from the 1994 film production of David Mamet’s “Oleanna,” with Deborah Eisenstadt and William H. Macy.
Tonight I watched David Mamet’s 1994 film, “Oleanna,” for the first time in many yrs.
The first time I saw the play was around 1992 in a tiny 75-seat black box theater at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland.
The way I experience it today is very different from the way I did 35 yrs ago.
Nope, that doesn’t look like the Third Reich at all.
Important.
Thoughtful.
Appropriately alarmist.
Recommended reading.
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Photograph of very large full-size Ford pickup truck, with Texas license plate, parked very poorly, taking up a portion of a regular parking space, and also sloppily angled so as to also take up a portion of a parking space for persons with disabilities.
Photograph of very large full-size Ford pickup truck, with Texas license plate, parked very poorly, taking up a portion of a regular parking space, and also sloppily angled so as to also take up a portion of a parking space for persons with disabilities.
Texas.
Don’t be this person.
(And no, they don’t have a placard for having a disability; I checked. It appears that they just don’t care.)
Worker productivity has exploded over my lifetime, but that never translates into higher pay or shorter hours. The benefits are reaped by the investor class while workers wages have gone down relative to inflation and the wealth gap turned into a chasm. We need to tax a new reality into existence.
No, really?!
A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.
The Trump administration is targeting ICE tracking apps and their developers as security threats, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @newyorker.com. #FOIA www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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“One of the great ironies of the AI age, such as it is, is that it wound up looking like shit.”
With the country’s election less than two weeks away, authoritarians everywhere are betting on Budapest
The logos of Anthropic and the US Department of War. Text on image reads: (Breaking news) Anthropic wins court order blocking Pentagon’s security threat designation (Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
The Pentagon has been blocked by a US court from punishing Anthropic over its refusal to allow unrestricted use of its technology in warfare, in a blow to the Trump administration in its row with the AI start-up. ft.trib.al/GGObEQJ
They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.
Turns Out That Advertisers Not Wanting To Fund Neo-Nazi-Adjacent Content Isn’t An Antitrust Violation
Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to "go fuck" themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice — confirming…
Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...
Good.
