What Pete Hegseth’s Spiritual Mentor Wants for America Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.

Pastor-theologian Douglas Wilson advocates theocracy, the restriction of the franchise from women and nonbelievers, and much else—and he is closer than ever to real power.

Julie Ingersoll on Pete Hegseth's spiritual mentor:

With the new Firefox version, users can individually choose to use AI translations, alt texts in PDF files, AI-enhanced tap grouping, link previews and AI chatbots, including options such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Mistral. Plus, those who don’t want any AI features at all can block all AI enhancements.

There are so many AI features that are just 100% no-one-asked-for-this. This is meant to be economy-altering nearly-conscious human intelligence level stuff and it's just so comically mundane

The only things where it actually excels and "works" is just anything helping out fascism

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived

One idea that’s been discussed is possibly creating a video version of the PDB that’s made to look and feel like a Fox News broadcast, four of the people with direct knowledge of the discussions said.

HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL?
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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save any money.

"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows."

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“Transmission rates are now higher than at any point during 59.3% of the pandemic.”

My thought too!

Trump dresses ethnic cleansing as real estate opportunity Here’s the dire place we find ourselves three weeks into the second Trump administration.

The leader of the free world advocates ethnic cleansing and dresses it up as a golden real estate opportunity. Here’s the dire place we find ourselves just three weeks into the second Trump administration.

www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

UPDATE: starts at 930am today.

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