That *is* surprising! I will see if I can get my hands on it. Another time I saw a book about America's history of welcoming immigrants that was written by Callista Gingrich, which was terrible in a cosmic sense but also terrible on the level of the page. So much "rhyming" verse that doesn't scan!
Trump and the Coronavirus I wrote a lot about the coverage of Trump’s response to the pandemic, and here is what was clear all along: He had no real plan to restore the country to health other than to peddle false hope, predict a quick end, adopt fake deadlines and shift the blame to others. The most urgent need was to test, test, test, and either he didn’t get it or he didn’t want to know the results because they would “look bad”. The media blew its coverage by letting political reporters lead instead of health and science reporters. Political reporters paid way too much attention to whatever Trump said, such that whatever it was made headlines. They let Trump set the agenda instead of letting knowledgeable people do it. Political reporters also gave Trump way too much credit for trying. They covered up for his incoherence, ignorance, cluelessness, gaslighting, and yes, just plain stupidity. They failed to properly exploit their rare access to him by confronting him with facts and piercing his bubble. They remained complacent in the face of a massive death toll, instead of relentlessly demanding more forceful action.
History repeats itself. Remember how devastatingly incompetent Trump was during Covid? How he had no plan? And how news outlets didn’t call him on it? Let me refresh your memory: presswatchers.org/category/tru...
Thinking about the consequences of aggression is for WOKE NERDS not WARRIORS
You'll be tired of all the winning! Well... you'll be tired, anyway
A more serious media would be demanding Hegseth’s immediate sacking and then Trump’s resignation. They have destroyed alliances that took centuries, alienated nearly everyone in the world and murdered an entire school of girls? It’s criminal. I want to see that on the front page. We need hearings.
"Suh, ahh thays yer wurrds?"
"Yes and they are correct"
"Aha, GOTCHA!"
His colleagues must hate him so much.
It is so wild to watch this and see Kennedy behave like he's dunking on some wild, out-of-touch leftie when my actual reaction is "I gotta follow that guy on Blooski, he seems very sensible and correct"
Right! Straight up mainstream Republican messaging. I didn't read it, but if it says "Pluralism is a lie" inside, I'll eat my flag lapel pin
This morning I was volunteering with a local org that serves immigrants. I spotted this book (pub. 2002) on a shelf in the children's room. The "America is for everyone" vibe was popular for a reason. People LIKE seeing themselves as part of an inclusive community!
GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
“Pluralism is a lie”
That really captures the essence of MAGA: A movement at war with the reality of American life and a large portion of the population.
And it also points to one of the regime’s key weaknesses: They have fully bought into their own white nationalist propaganda.
It's sad how much The World Right Now has complicated college search. Like just for starters I don't think it's safe for my kid to live in a red state and even if they wanted to risk it, they'd be robbed of the companionship of other people for whom it's not safe. That's a lot of schools crossed off
I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
"We lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military." Louder for the Catholics in the administration, Your Eminence
"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening." This kind of plainspoken moral clarity is what we have bishops for, and I am grateful to Cardinal Cupich for stepping up to provide it.
The man was out here quoting "On Eagle's Wings" ffs
Job getting you down? Feeling a little picked on? Find a friendly crowd of deplorables and trot out the "ain't I a stinker?" act for an instant boost.
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
I don't much care how the president spends his leisure time, but it's worth remembering that a major promise of Trump's 2016 campaign was that, as president (and in contrast to Obama), he would *never* golf, because he would be so busy doing his job. No one, no one lies with impunity like Trump.
Maybe just a little dead-deer inspecting, for a treat
It feels right that Donald Trump is the one to bring AI into the mainstream of war-making. Trump is susceptible to all forms of sycophancy, for which chatbots are infamous. His administration deplores accountability, ethics, and transparency. AI is an out-of-control technological marvel, but not in the way that tech CEOs want the public to fear: we aren’t in The Matrix, and we are not in danger of HAL taking command of the ship. AI is something else: a loaded gun in the hands of children. The children holding the gun happen to be in charge of the most powerful military the world has ever seen. Welcome to the first AI war.
Thank you for this, @johnslatteryphd.bsky.social.
www.commonwealmagazine.org/slattery-ai-...
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
ending the war in iran will be a mutual decision with the man who keeps starting endless wars so that he can avoid going to jail
Leo XIV: Artificial Intelligence isn't *real*🙏
AI: Pope Leo isn't real 😈
People need to get over the idea that Karoline Leavitt is a source of actual information, someone asked her a question about ground troops, she didn't have an actual answer, so she made sounds that are statistically likely to sound tough and change the subject
Happy International Women’s Day to Ask Wendy columnist Wilbur Weston
The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
This is a terrific piece by Becca Rothfield about the toxic ideology of "looksmaxxing," and I am sorry to report that the name of Mother Teresa is misspelled twice in it. @newyorker.com, baby, what's wrong??
The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
