If there is one thing that strengthens any military it is falling victim to easily preventable diseases

Ah yes, the military, the place famously known for its members exhibiting personal freedom.

Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.

*they also want to persecute LGBTQ people, but when it comes to White politicians & academics it’s always about racism first.

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

This reads so Onion-esquely wrong that it sounds almost funny...and don't give me some "oral history" nonsense...this is part of normalizing total surveillance & possibly using every bit of real conversation as AI "training data"!

It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.

I think they really cooked when they turned Robert E. Lee's former land into a cemetery to honor the Army he tried to destroy in the failed rebellion he cowardly joined.

In that vein, we should turn that Florida golf course into low income housing.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

That’s because it’s not a thing unless you’re a weirdo who thinks “listening to consultants” is “listening to the people”

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

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God forbid a woman has a hobby 🙄

Uber ballot initiative sparks showdown with lawyers, doctors Lawyers and doctors oppose Uber’s proposed ballot initiative, which would cap contingency fees and limit recoveries for medical costs from car crashes.

CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...

Less than three hours after the polls closed, Viktor Orban conceded that he lost. Five years after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, he still falsely claims that he won.

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Roosevelt would have driven Trump and his gang out of Washington on horseback.

Janet Mills says she opposes attempts to stop funding Israel’s defenses Mills said at a campaign stop Friday that she would have issues with any effort to prevent the sale of defensive weapons for Israel's Iron Dome.

For all the talk that Graham Platner will be another John Fetterman, Mills said she would have opposed the resolution to block arms sales to Israel, which John Fetterman did.
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A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

I appreciate this model for being a researcher so much. It's why I don't care if someone thinks I spend too much time on the impacts of my work or listening to what students and activists tell me are problems with higher ed.

I consider them to be the worst court ever and think that the Brooks Brothers Rioters are straight up traitors. Tangentially, I hate that KBJ is stuck mostly writing dissents when there are glimpses that she might have otherwise been thought of as one of the best if circumstances were different.

I spent years advocating for people to read RobCt opinions as naked assertions of power, not legal reasoning.

Just because Roberts and his co-conspirators on the court and among the well-compensated SCOTUS-haruspices say there's something more there don't make it so.

However low your opinion of the Roberts Court, it should be lower.

And on the basis of this -- a pure policy disagreement about which he was demonstrably, wildly wrong -- Roberts dreamed up "major questions doctrine" & thereby rendered US law one big game of Calvinball.

You just can't exaggerate how low, how scummy, how dumb, how fraudulent it all was.

Another way of saying this is that the regulations would have had a cost of zero. They would not have required the power sector to do anything it wasn't going to do already.

Roberts said it would be the most expensive reg ever (because he heard that on Fox). But it cost nothing.

Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo.