Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Immigrants are dying in ICE custody every week.
Just because mass deportation agents stopped executing Americans in the streets doesn’t mean the brutality is over.
Once again, the good neighbors of Minnesota are leading the way: Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty is the first to charge an ICE agent with criminal charges for breaking the law and recklessly endangering public safety.
This is the kind of accountability ICE’s crimes demand.
DOGE turbocharged the deficit.
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"While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." www.media.mit.edu/publications...
The former Chairman of Denmark’s Defence Committee Rasmus Jarlov makes a good point: “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea prohibits coastal states from charging tolls for passing through straits. If the USA and Iran now believe they should charge a toll in Hormuz, others might follow.”
They killed nearly 200 children on the first day of this war and no one of authority suffered a single consequence. That’s how we got here.
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby.
They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people.
In your name.
When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.
Here here.
"If you're watching, you are buying in. Harry Potter is now a byword for the industrial-scale erosion of the limited rights trans people had managed to win, and the equally galling mass indifference to that erosion. She has ruined it utterly. "
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
This looks like a countdown to massive war crimes given how President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have described the operations.
Have not curated my feed well enough to get immediate news of a LAST DAYS sequel. Huge news, and a real failure of the commons
This is so, so well-articulated.
if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships
A huge many legged monster towers over an indomitable OMAC, while huge talking overlook the conflict in a wasteland.
A satellite in orbit sends huge bolts of energy earthwards.
A parade of enslaved young, fit and beautiful people are paraded in front of a room full of old and decrepit super-rich body-thieves. They intend to have their minds implanted into these blameless victims.
In the ruins of an underground subway, OMAC is jumped by a gang of hideous monsters.
Four double-page spreads from 1974’s all-too-short series “OMAC” by Jack Kirby & D. Bruce Berry.
With every passing year OMAC reveals itself to be more & more prescient. The first few issues in particular spell out Kirby’s fears about a future controlled by the super-rich & their super-technology.
I don’t cede concept of “free speech” to fascist champions of 2+2=5. Conversion therapy isn’t speech. That therapist has the right to believe and say what she wants in her free time. But it’s not speech to apply practices proven harmful under cover of a state medical license.
There it is -- "The ICE data show, however, that less than one-quarter of those arrested during the operation had been convicted of a “crime” — the agency’s definition of a crime includes misdemeanors, such as unauthorized entry into the country or traffic violations." Appalling.
basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:
“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”
Tyranny. Intolerable. A theft of our own tax money, a denial of the protections that we paid for
Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all.
This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.
Holy shit, every single aspect of this story is so tremendously infuriating. How many of these kids are there, forced to suffer?
this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies
Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.
An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.
From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...
Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)
If you're a Democratic politician and you're paying a consultant to tell you that the way to beat the Republicans is to foreground their issues, adopt their framing and just promise to be 50% as ruthless on it, you should retire from politics immediately and take the consultant with you.