As with declining trust in universities, you cannot explain the timing or this trend, or fix it, without first acknowledging the reality that the the primary driver of these is the Republican Party’s near-total collapse into far right authoritarianism in the last decade:
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the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
Good to see you are doing well, Frankie. I'm doing well too, though there is a big storm headed for my area of Wisconsin today and tonight.
It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.
If you don’t believe we are in a bubble you are in denial
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
i can't believe i'm only now finding out there's a nationwide 3d imax screening of werner herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams happening tomorrow. that's a beg, borrow or steal level of movie ticket
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
"Revive" is doing heroic work here for the NYT 🧐
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
This is like a preview of what it's gonna be like When It Happens
Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...
It is, of course, quite likely the GOP will accept the results in Nov, esp. if they're a landslide like last week in WI & 🇭🇺 tonight. But even so we'll still get more attempts at restricting suffrage, more lies about voter fraud, more litigation, etc. Normal pro-democracy parties don't do this stuff.
Again, the authoritarianism extremism of the American Republican Party far exceeds that of...Viktor Orban & Fidesz, who just immediately conceded an election without any of the shenanigans, coups, nonstop lies about nonexistent voter fraud, or endless litigation of the GOP after every US election.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said, fighting back tears. The Tucson Democrat described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “It is frightening in there,” Grijalva said. “It is disgusting.”
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
how much money does the marine corps lose
Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”
Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
In the book Dune (1965) by Frank Herbert, there are no computers despite other advanced tech. The reason for this is humanity was previously enslaved by AI. Humans rebelled and destroyed all thinking machines in a movement called the Butlerian Jihad.
Although given that LLMs seem unable to make anywhere near a profit, if we are just patient the situation may resolve itself
We need a Butlerian Jihad against LLMs
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
Moderately dysfunctional Shorewood Hills Trustee outcome. Utschig, Van Asten win two open seats; Barford keeps her seat. Utschig will be mean, Van Asten wacky, and Barford normal.
"let's drop the big one"
Ways to get there:
- 25A (by far hardest, useless)
- Straight impeachment (H. majority + 2/3 S.)
- Fund nothing until he's gone (fewest votes needed, just a willing majority in either house, but takes the longest)
- Congress declares him 14AS3 disqualified (simple majorities)
- uhh... [redacted]
Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office.
Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.
less moon base, more weather/climate satellites please
I'm tired of MoCs talking about the 25th. It is literally easier to impeach and remove. A handful of Republicans just have to find a moral compass and it could be done in days if not sooner. The 25th is not going to happen. bsky.app/profile/fore...
I'm tired of MoCs talking about the 25th. It is literally easier to impeach and remove. A handful of Republicans just have to find a moral compass and it could be done in days if not sooner. The 25th is not going to happen. bsky.app/profile/fore...