It should be noted that Bovino is actually describing mass ethnic cleansing, not mass deportations.

Republican elites read the WSJ. Both parties have an elite/political class that lives in completely different world than their average voter.

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Spanish speakers learn strategies to pass English-only driving test in Florida A new English-only driving test rule in Florida is fueling a surge in strategy lessons for Spanish speakers where they learn to figure out the questions without having to take English language courses.

A new English-only driving test rule in Florida is fueling a surge in strategy lessons for Spanish speakers where they learn to figure out the questions without having to take English language courses. n.pr/42nKvr7

Add someone who's lived in Florida my entire life, the ambient bird sounds of Australia sound like the fake jungle noises they play in Avatar land in Disney's Animal Kingdom.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Can't wait for 30-40 years from now when the most popular funeral song is Good Riddance by Green Day played completely unironically

I bet if they put it on wheels it'd be faster

The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.

“A Supreme Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is not merely conservative. It is untethered from democratic reality.”

bodycam footage of flashing super mario with pupils dilated, loud hectic beeping music coming out of his torso. he touches cop and the cop evaporate into ash

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.

Widow's Plans for Her Final Years Upended as Proposed Data Center Leads to 28 Evictions in One Neighborhood (Exclusive) Residents of Meadowland Village Mobile Home Park in Kentucky, many of them elderly, disabled, retired, or on fixed incomes, are opening up to PEOPLE about being told they had roughly 90 days to vacate...

"“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”"

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Those books are cooked, though, because it's been forced into every online interaction and product whether consumers wanted it or not

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The framing of this piece is the clearest sign yet that the Peter Thiel-funded ratfucking campaign in Virginia is working.

It’s the classic media problem: Democrats are supposed to be moral and consistent, so doing a cynical move to counter Republican bullshit is grounds for a handwringing and somewhat complex story.

Republicans blatantly cheating with a mid-decade seat-stealing campaign is treated like the weather.

Park Circle became Park Oracle. Patterson Park became Pattereon Park. Alan Wright Park became something that cannot be pronounced by humans.

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

Mosquitoes reach Iceland for the first time as the Arctic heats up In what is possibly another sign of climate change, mosquitoes have landed in Iceland for the first time. For many years, the island was the only Arctic country that could claim to be mosquito-free. B...

Welp lol

This is what happens to people who stay on Twitter. They're frogs boiling in Nazi water.

We all have days like this

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

Every MSG security source who was knowledgeable about this surveillance campaign used the word "excessive" or some synonym for this level of scrutiny. The report listed no reason for including these details on her movements. But when Richards and her guest on that January night began to move to some of the best seats in the house, the document's background turns red. It catalogs Richards talking to a security guard at 9:06 pm; that same guard walking over to section 1, row 1 - right next to the Garden's famed "celebrity row" and Richards taking one of those seats 34 seconds after. That night, Richards posted photos to her Instagram account. The images were included in the MSG security report. "What a great night," she wrote in the captions. "I pray that this new year brings more peace, love and understanding to everyone." In three of the photos, she's standing on the court, presenting a striking figure in a glittery jacket and boots. The post got 13,501 likes.

People who make it courtside often take such pictures, or are caught on camera during TV broadcasts. According to Ingrasselino's lawsuit, Eversole claimed that if an "openly" trans woman were noticed, it could "damage MSG's reputation." The first former employee adds that they were told the very sight of Richards made the Garden brass uncomfortable. "This was harassment. This was not OK," the third former staffer said.

This is so gross and so sad. Genuinely, it's my personal nightmare and something that's taken a long time to get over: a fear that my mere presence in public is secretly met with disgust.

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."