wordle word game solved in first guess for the first time. word was "inlet"

for posterity

Important to remember that 15 mins ago we were on the brink of World War III, global collapse and potential nuclear Armageddon and not a single person from either party in the federal government did a single fucking thing to stop it. He got cold feet of his own volition. They didn't lift a finger.

all the checks and balances, the guardrails, are a lie. one guy controls everything. no one can stop him.

I'm ashamed of my country

stay fucked so you don't have to get fucked

the headline makes it sound like the conservation police are looking to arrest ICE for trespassing on conservation areas

the deadline an hour and a half from now to destroy the cradle of civilization and hasten the end of the world is like the 5th story down on the Google News homepage. You literally have to scroll. For a few seconds I thought the end times were cancelled.

a propos of nothing I saw a new ghost bike today. it looked lonely & forgotten.

insane number of sirens. hadn’t heard that many since 2 cops were shot in their patrol car. it’s harder to get real-time info now that twitter’s eviscerated, but yeah, a cop was injured about 10 blocks away. helicopters, sirens.

The Eighth Station: Mothers weep for their children "imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps."

ICE Arrests Palestinian Activist Who Leads Wisconsin’s Largest Islamic Group Supporters of Salah Sarsour, who was brutalized by Israeli police as a teen, say his arrest is politically motivated.

Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, was detained by ICE on Monday. A green card holder and lawful permanent resident, Sarsour has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years.

the internet is out & I forgot what I used to do

Hasn't recent news tortoise anything?

Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

back on my bullshit
(watching old Air Crash Investigations)

It's tragic but useful to see that global stability depended not on U.S. might but on its decency.

Opinion, Bret Stephens: "The War Is Going Better Than You Think"

Feel like this is one worth saving.

I wrote about the false arrest in the Minnesota church protest

Any Data You Generate Can and Will Be Used Against You
cynar.medium.com/any-data-you...

The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chip makers The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people

Long, but worth a read. When the fall comes, it's going to be spectacular. I think we're talking Bankman-Fried level.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Kinda stuck on this.

ai boosters want to stuff their product into everything. The product they’ve used to steal people’s art, poison the environment, put people out of job, and convince folks to self-harm, and they are like:

“What if it could also personally insult you?”

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s “most powerful people-finder system,” which contains sensitive information on children and victims...

"Experts interviewed for this story expressed concern that abusers in the ranks of law enforcement would soon be able to see their victims’ case information and addresses, and that a manifest of vulnerable children would become widely available in the government." www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

They Came to Spy on America. They Stayed to Coach Little League. In the wake of the Cold War, some Soviet bloc spies decided their fake American lives weren’t so bad.

An incredible story, an absolute-must for anyone interested in intelligence history, espionage, and of course, #TheAmericansOnFX

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

thanks for doing this. it makes me feel good that people are stepping up.

thanks.

Whenever this happens, there's some clownfuckery going down and we're probably about to screw over partners:

The Associated Press reports President Donald Trump had a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Iran and other issues, according to the Kremlin.

is this a joke?

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

Gamergate is the Dreyfus Affair of the 21st Century and I don't even know if I'm kidding or not.