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He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

on the one hand it flatters people literally to death, but on the other it also burns down the rainforest

I agree with the President on this: we should not allow nuclear weapons to be controlled by violent, lawless, unstable people. #25a

Being against the racist white guy is the minimum barrier to entry, not the standard we should be seeking.

Look at Mamdani. It isn't enough to just be against the sexually assaulting grandma-killer, you also need to have a plan for how to govern after you win that makes people want to join you

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED

EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

this is pretty fucked up

Is a candidate for Ohio attorney general suggesting that J.D. degrees be eliminated?

If you’re looking to donate just a little to a political candidate, Peltola is easily the best value per $ in the country

My wife is in child social services and I'm risk management at a school, so we had a LOT of discussions about this. Law where we live says 8, but "depends on the maturity of the child." Very true for us. One we left for trips to the grocery store at 8, the other we wouldn't trust until 10.

just last night my brother shared this amazing pic of Toyota executives studying the American dining room they had some consultants build them to understand our average sizes and expectations of space and comfort

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I'm not sure what this comment or this AI generated slop adds to the conversation.

Kind of buried the lede on the alt text, eh?

He had the scars to prove it, so I believed him. Or, believed enough. He had a dozen more stories about misspent youth, and he was a very dynamic storyteller. I had a great time. He gave me some tips on parallel parking, and we called it a day. I remember it very fondly.

And I passed my test!

He said he'd been a teenager and been into some substances, when he was riding in the back of a pickup truck. The police tried to pull the truck over, and his friend, the driver, ran instead. The truck crashed and my instructor went flying several hundred feet. He says he woke up in the morgue.

My instructor found out I had about 500 hours logged before my state-mandated 6 hour road course with him, and after 30 minutes he declared me "good enough." He had me drive him to a sandwich shop where he regaled me with stories to fill the time. My favorite was the one where he died.

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I'm white, and even I can't tell them apart.

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Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

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It's actually worse than that, because the money earns interest on investments, etc. while it is sitting there.

Bezos could set a BILLION dollars on fire every month, in perpetuity (less than 5% of his net worth per year), and never run out of money, ever.

"On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1 More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].

So says the official responsible for overseeing the TPS program. And one of those (her word) “damn” countries is Haiti. Relevant here, three days before making the above post, Secretary Noem announced she would terminate Haiti’s TPS designation as of February 3, 2026. See 90 Fed. Reg. 54733 (Nov. 28, 2025) (Termination). Plaintiffs are five Haitian TPS holders. They are not, it emerges, “killers, leeches, or entitlement junkies.” They are instead: Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer’s disease, Dkt. 90 (Second Am. Compl. (SAC)) ¶ 1; Rudolph Civil, a software engineer at a national bank, id. ¶ 2; Marlene Gail Noble, a laboratory assistant in a toxicology department, id. ¶ 3; Marica Merline Laguerre, a college economics major, id. ¶ 4; and Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a full-time registered nurse, id. ¶ 5. They claim that Secretary Noem’s decision violates the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. § 706(2), and the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The Government counters that the Court does not have jurisdiction, and, in any case, the Secretary did not violate the law. Plaintiffs seek to stay the Secretary’s decision under 5 U.S.C. § 705 pending the outcome of this litigation. See Dkt. 81 (§ 705 Mot.). To decide their motion, the Court considers first whether it has jurisdiction. It does. See Part II. It then considers: whether Plaintiffs have a substantial likelihood of success on the merits; whether they will be irreparably harmed absent a stay; and whether a merged balance of the equities and public interest analysis favors a stay. See Part III. Each element favors Plaintiffs. See Parts IV, V, and VI. Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely. Secretary Noem

has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up, twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8 U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all. See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id. The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes, the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary, Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A. As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]

Dkt. 100 (§ 705 Reply) at 20–21.4 “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason” does not exactly scream, as Secretary Noem concluded, suitable for return. And so, the Government studiously does not argue that Plaintiffs will suffer no harm if removed to Haiti. Instead, it argues Plaintiffs will not certainly suffer irreparable harm because DHS might not remove them. But this fails to take Secretary Noem at her word: “WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” See Section IV.B.2.b. Finally, the balance of equities and public interest favor a stay. The Government does not cite any reason termination must occur post haste. Secretary Noem complains of strains unlawful immigrants place on our immigration-enforcement system. Her answer? Turn 352,959 lawful immigrants into unlawful immigrants overnight. She complains of strains to our economy. Her answer? Turn employed lawful immigrants who contribute billions in taxes into the legally unemployable. She complains of strains to our healthcare system. Her answer? Turn the insured into the uninsured. This approach is many things—in the public interest is not one of them. For the reasons below, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’ Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705, Dkt. 81.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.

It's a tour de force:

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FUCK Nazi Greg Bovino. Pure evil.

A typewritten note that reads: ICE has murdered another person the video is horrific. you do not need to watch.

embassy sites. Mr. Trump and other officials have said that territory in Greenland could prove important for his plans to build a so-called Golden Dome missile defense system for the United States, which could include components stationed in Greenland. HIGHLIGHTED BULLET - Restrict non-NATO member countries, particularly Russia and China, from obtaining rights to mine the rare-earth minerals that lie deep under Greenland’s ice sheet. - END HIGHLIGHT All of those plans have been under discussion inside NATO over the last year, as a direct response to Mr. Trump’s stated ambitions. Since returning to the White House in 2025, Mr. Trump has described publicly, with increasing intensity, his desire to own Greenland. Denmark, with equal intensity, has insisted it would not sell, with Danish leaders saying that the island’s fate is up to Denmark, not NATO. Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik

Ahhhh, so *that's* why he's so focused on Greenland. Who's the donor that profits here?

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Couldn't disagree more. This is like banning ads in print media 100 years ago.

The issue is the content, not the medium. Look at @cpsc.gov, masters of the art, who have been doing God's work for years without issue.

Trump eliminated $2 billion worth of funding for mental health yesterday with the stroke of a pen.

You know, mental health care, the same stuff those guys say is the only solution for the epidemic of mass shootings in our country.

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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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Screencap of Grandpa Simpson telling a pointless story, the caption reads, "They didn't have white onions because of the Radchaai Civil War"

Just a reminder, my next novel, Radiant Star, is available for pre-order wherever fine books are, uh, pre-ordered!