"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Not too far behind the average annual usaid budget if I’m not mistaken

Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead States get to decide how to spend Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds.

"More than $102 million from TANF went to unregulated anti-abortion centers in eight states between 2017 and 2023, including $22.5 million in Ohio, $11.75 million in Indiana and $12 million in Texas." Appalling.

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

Detention of journalist in Kuwait raises questions about crackdown on freedom of speech Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested after reporting on friendly fire incident during US conflict with Iran

Horrible news that journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been arrested in Kuwait. Journalism is not a crime! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

CTRL+ALT+DEL loss comic except JD Vance runs into the room to find two beds, with Viktor Orban and the Strait of Hormuz.

America would have been far better off if it diverted from the disastrous path in 2002-2003 on Iraq, embraced the Arab Peace Initiative and comprehensively clamped down on Israel to induce it into resolving the Palestinian question along international legal standards, and actually pivoted to Asia.

Counterpoint: Every year, "means-testing" across Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, etc entails a multi-billion dollar transfer of state and federal tax dollars to third party consultants who build and maintain these systems of administrative burden

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.

“military aged males” got normalized as a viable target for war and it’s pretty much a racialized fiction meant to justify indiscriminate murder.

You have lived through one of history's greatest crimes.

It was caused not by vast forces of history but one man's twisted racist imagination and malevolent disregard for the world's poorest people.

Some Marines graduate without their parents' presence amid ICE fears News that ICE would be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events upended family plans, elicited national reaction and drew out protesters, including Marine veterans.

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Hegseth has intervened in military promotions for more than a dozen senior officers The defense secretary’s efforts to block or delay promotions to general or admiral for some officers has raised concerns that he may be targeting them because of race, gender or affiliation with the B...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

Hegseth forces out Army’s top general, two other senior officers Gen. Randy George’s ouster is the latest clash between the Pentagon chief and the service’s senior leadership, and comes during the war in Iran.

In addition to purging the Army Chief of Staff Randy George, Hegseth also fired Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains who happens to be Black. I can’t even begin to count how many Black officers he’s sacked. You can bet his replacement will be a white Christian nationalist.

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

It’s arguably less a war than it is just a string of war crimes

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

Trump Orders War Crimes. Then What? For one thing, we’d learn a lot about America.

NEW: "Trump says he will order the U.S. military to commit war crimes against Iran if the strait is not reopened....If President Trump makes good on his threat, then we will find out whether the U.S. military operates under the rule of law, or if it too has been run on the honor system."

Feb 3 2025: Musk tweets about putting USAID "into the wood chipper" which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Later that day Zuckerberg texted Musk to say he would censor content threatening DOGE & "Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help." Actively helping destroy govt agencies.

They’re cutting your healthcare to pay for a war that’s raising your gas prices.

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.”
That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear
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Tyranny. Intolerable. A theft of our own tax money, a denial of the protections that we paid for

They probably only let him out to avoid having him die in ICE custody.

Really a 360-degree assault — decimate cancer research, send health insurance premiums skyrocketing, then detain thousands of people and deny them healthcare. Death cult.

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

It's great that the Grdn has picked this up.
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A heat map of left vs right Parisian voters put next to a heat map of number of cats in Paris for no particular reason

Oh, my god

"“The current campaign in Lebanon must end with a fundamental change,” Bezalel Smotrich, the hard-line Israeli finance minister behind much of his country’s recent expansions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, said this week. “The Litani must become our new border with the state of Lebanon.”"

I fail to see how this is different from Putin saying the Donbas must become part of Russia.

The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.

They set old metal sheds on fire then bombed them from helicopters. All recorded for social of course. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: