it’s not like people here weren’t aware

Verge headline: Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want by Elizabeth Lopatto Illustration of a brain melting in the sun

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich."

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Settee down everyone, it's not that funny

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

DOJ civil rights chief sends demand letter to Wayne County for 2024 ballots Michigan's attorney general and secretary of state have responded that they will not comply with DOJ's demands.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice is demanding that Wayne County, Michigan turn over its ballots from the 2024 election to investigate voter fraud claims. Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state have responded saying that’s not going to happen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Everyone should read this description of how the Roberts Court abused the Supreme Courts own rules and traditions to turn the previously rarely used "shadow docket" into a tool for legislating a right wing agenda from the bench.

These "interim rulings" aren't interim; they are policy. Gift article.

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

But the market behaved like it was programmed to

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”

www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

And Obama didn’t give them that money; he returned their money

The worst possible tactic you can use when negotiating a deal with a regime like Iran is to dunk on them in public during negotiations. Any knowledgeable seasoned diplomat knows this. But we have Mr. Art of the Deal who needs to feed his cult and the markets a steady diet of BS.

I put out a montage of him a while ago sniffling in nearly every podcast interview he did for two years, but maybe that wasn’t the only thing he had going on.

a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing with his mouth open

Stephen Colbert "dude, you can't compare yourself to Jesus, for one thing, Jesus' father loved him"

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father & finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”

Lillian Gish

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

Someone is dying in ICE custody EVERY WEEK.

And that doesn't even include the American citizens ICE has killed in the middle of our streets in broad daylight.

It could not be more clear, ICE needs guardrails, not a blank check from Congress.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

More Americans doubt vaccine safety than trust it, POLITICO Poll finds Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views are commonplace across the land.

The dumbest country.

We killed ourselves.

www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Sanders: The people have got to determine the future of what happens in our country and in the entire planet, not a handful of extraordinarily wealthy, arrogant, anti-democratic multibillionaires. That’s what they want. They have their goals. They are not our goals.

It is not a conspiracy anymore.

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Melanie said she met her husband at a NYC party in 1998.

Just to be clear, she met Marla Maples' husband at an NYC party in 1998.

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.

They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.

That energy is all around us.

And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

No rich, well connected person surrounded by power would be dumb enough to appear, out of the blue, for no admitted reason, on national TV to *pre-deny* through a well written lie that they were involved in a child-trafficking ring.

Oh, except for Lutnick.

Wait, and now Melania?!

Hello, beautiful Hungary!

Today is your best, and perhaps last, opportunity to get rid of Viktor Orbán and his corrupt regime.

Seize it!

With #Artemis2 still in our minds, we sat down this evening to finally watch Hidden Figures. What a fantastic movie and inspirational story, everyone should give it a watch.

I watched the video. That’s definitely what he said!

Why is she behind the Presidential podium?