Two Iranian Women in ICE Detention Are Not, In Fact, Related to Qasem Soleimani, Documents Show After Laura Loomer pointed to two women she claimed were connected to the late Iranian military commander, they were arrested and remain in immigration detention. One is now gravely ill.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani.

Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

Ah dang, I'll miss this. If you'd consider an event in Cedar Rapids, I hear Next Page Books is very friendly to authors

and Ben Bradlee had to fight hard for them to keep it! as soon as it became something that looked like something, the White House reporters wanted to take it over and use it to burnish their access credentials, but Bradlee and Graham cared more about getting the story right

choppelganger | noun | a less attractive version of someone or something

One of the things that floored me reading How to Hide an Empire was the sheer number of disease deaths from building the Panama Canal. And of course, the majority of those killed were Black.

Gutter racism

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

I know my kid is about to pull a fast one when I ask a straightforward question and get a meandering, technical answer.

Did you hit her?

Well she was moving across me and her leg went like *this* and then my arm went like *this* but I didn't know she was coming so fast and I blinked and and

Finished The Pitt S2...

-Dr Mohan deserved better
-Robby's depression is not an excuse for verbally abusing female staff
-Night Shift spinoff would kick ass, but only if it's 40% gayer and more socialist
-ICE & rape kit subplot were good but still too generous to cops
-Best medical drama on TV

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

Trump’s pardons are costing shooting survivors millions — The Trace A Trace analysis found that revenue once generated by fining and penalizing white-collar criminals is drying up — now that the president has pardoned so many of them.

Exactly. Life-life trade off. As ghoulish and sick as one can get.

I know I'm getting old because my kid introduced me to an 8-year-old meme popular with young people that I had no idea existed

Remarkable.

Lies, Damned Lies and Economic Vibes The continuing mystery of feel-bad economics

Good Krugman piece

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

Oregon got it right when they allowed Medicaid to buy AC units for people

www.oregon.gov/oha/hsd/ohp/...

It's absurd that you can't buy fans and air conditioners with HSA money. There are tons of wellness items with dubious health benefits that qualify, while something that could actually prevent heat-related sickness and hospital visits doesn't.

He became noted both for his large physical stature and for his expansive charisma, which bespoke an intellectual, cultured gentleman of diverse talents. Among his many interests were cooking, science fiction (he was active for some time in science fiction fandom, referring to it as "mind rot",[6] and contributed to fanzines), world history, and politics. During the 1960s he supported left-wing political causes and was, at various times, a member of the Libertarian League and the Young Socialist League, at that time the youth wing of the "Shachtmanite" Independent Socialist League.[7] In 1964, he was part of a group expelled from the Trotskyist Socialist

RIP Dave Van Ronk, you didn't live long enough to see the Internet popularize your idea of brainrot.

A damn shame what this country did to her.

Here’s a model of consumer sentiment that doesn’t suck On the question of why Americans are so glum, the answer is still (mostly) the prices, stupid. But you have to know where to look

I built a model of consumer sentiment that’s backed by new research showing consumers react more negatively to economic shocks in good times vs bad.

It tells us the same thing polls do: People are really upset about the high price of food, housing, etc.

Turns out DEI was a load-bearing pillar of providing sailors with edible food and working toilets

this is where I come down for a huge proportion of the vibecession debate. Bidenomics was superb on the traditional indicators, but he also oversaw a near total withdrawal of the most generous welfare state in US history. most of that wasn’t his fault, but still

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

This too shall pass

First day as an infrastructure engineer at Bluesky. They let me put a piece of bologna in the CD drive and nothing bad has happened so far

Schumer is out of step with his caucus and should step aside.

*something quick