They built this technology with this use case in mind.

For the second semester in a row, I am feeling this. Why ask me to critique an article when it's the first one I've ever read on the subject? 😭

Pretty clear from Secretary of Lying @karolineleavitt’s tweet they’re just gonna try to lie their way through it.

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"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!"

just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement

it's 95% now

you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

People make fun of the Arkansans begging for help that they won't get after voting for someone who never had any interest in helping them anyway but I need folk to also make the connection that they are employing the strategy advocated for when you say 'Get them into office & then move them left.'

There are so many humans making jazz music that puts you to sleep. And y'all boiled a lake for a 24/7 feed instead of making a playlist

Fell asleep with YouTube going and woke up horrified to realize it had autoplayed me onto a 24/7 feed of AI-generated "jazz music"

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care.

In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service.

Lavender scare.

Everyone who participates is responsible

Cain is the BEST! The original KFC Santería is pretty amazing too

or.... freeze rents

"Vibrant local economies" to me does not mean "billionaires and wall street investment," I say as real estate execs from NYC and Boston colonize my city, driving up rent and forcing all the small venues to close. I'd pick any of the run-down Rust Belt towns I've spent time in over NYC any day.

I never realized that the people making arguments and decisions about this stuff think these cities are vibrant and beloved because of their economies. When I think of the coolest cities in this country, I don't think of the wealthiest ones. I'm not sure most other people do, either.

“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” said then-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Oct. 9, 2023… This was not a secret. It was the proclaimed policy. And it has been followed as such, on and off, ever since.”

Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover Move comes as US and China hold trade talks and seek to stabilise relations

Donald Trump blocks Taiwan’s President Lai from New York stopover https://on.ft.com/4lTlOey

The You Know I Had to Do It To Em meme guy, standing in an awkward pose with hands clasped and an awkward smile

me when my friend is talking to their better friend at the function

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

Good thing the Democrats spent the last week melting down about Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral primary because otherwise more Americans might have known that the GOP was planning to fuck them to high hell and that wouldn't have been a good use of their time

oh wait

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

Truly horrified by this order in way that is deeper and darker than I have felt over many truly awful merits decisions.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening

historians: that thing is definitely happening

star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it

news outlets: these protesters are out of control

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

GODDD I wish I had time to be in a rock band again. I miss being in a rock band so bad

The state Kristi Noem is from gets 40x as much representation in the United States Senate as the state Los Angeles is in. They take billions of dollars of tax money from our state every year. And yet it's not enough. They won't stop until they occupy our territory and destroy our freedom.

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

I've been a casual fan, but I saw her live last night at World Pride and now this and... I don't look down on mainstream music, but you rarely see someone with this level of technical skill and personal integrity gain access to these stages. We're gonna be talking about Doechii for a long time.

a thing about plane travel these days is that the TSA policies are subtly different from airport to airport yet the TSA agents act uniformly incredulous that you do not know their specific, undisclosed-until-you-ask policies

EXACTLY

Stepping out the door tomorrow to kick off summer gigs at World Pride in DC! Y'all know where to go for more info. Hope to see you somewhere out there!