My mom watches this channel constantly and I think it’s rotting her brain. She’ll just casually say things like, if China invades Taiwan it’s really going to affect the chip market.
been working on this story for a (very) long time. there’s been a ton of change at sxsw, now owned out of california, over the past year. lot of people who left the company think it’s doomed. current staff insist it’s about to enter a renaissance. i tried to understand how they can both think that.
goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a press conference. PHOTO: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Ilhan Omar: “As someone who has survived the horrors of war, I know that bombs do not build peace or create stability—
Military strikes will not make us safer; they will inflame tensions & push the region further into chaos — every time we abandon diplomacy, we choose destruction”
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
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The widespread adoption of "forever war" seems to have created an opening for empty rhetoric.
Essentially, "I oppose this *if it goes badly*" ...
And all Trump has to say, as long as events allow, is this is a war of the non-forever sort
Wonderful color artist Tatjana Wood died 3 days shy of her 100th birthday… her work within the limited palette of four-color comics was always impressive and added mood. Important to remember as modern comics reprinting often relegates original coloring to the dustbin of history.
Brady Tkachuck learning what happens when you embrace a team of sociopathic assholes. And less sorry for him I could not be. Next time don't choose solidarity with Donald Trump over solidarity with your fellow Olympians on the US Women's National Hockey Team. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
My Asian mom, as I walk her through the steps of taking a home covid test:
You should have been a doctor.
Most UT alums don't realize the school is no longer run by academics but by a GOP lawyer who won't talk to the press and has launched a deranged purge of faculty and curricula. But once they're openly ousting faculty on the grounds of "ideological differences," the institution is pretty far gone.
Absurd for the Dems to show up last night if they weren't going to push back, visibly and vocally. Ilhan Omar is braver than most of that room put together and it makes me sick how little support or solidarity she seems to get from her party.
“The only passenger in the car when an American citizen was shot and killed by a federal officer in South Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting.”
He died on Saturday.
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Well, the 2 year statute of limitations isn't up on the campaign finance crimes he committed in Travis County in the Jose Garza race. I never understood why County Attorney Delia Garza never filed charges on that: $600K in never-reported spending documented by the @wsj.com, w/ no consequences.
An obviously unconstitutional Texas law can't be enforced after state declined to offer "any defense of their new policies." To me this says they knew it was unconstitutional and the arguments they'd have to make were so embarrassingly wrong and bigoted, they'd rather lose the law than defend it.
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
“Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an ICE Homeland Security Investigations officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident.”
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It is pretty telling that it comes as something of a surprise that the Supreme Court sided with the Constitution over Trump.
Yep she was great!
Travis County prosecutors and attorneys will ask a judge Thursday to declare the innocence of the four men initially linked to Austin's 1999 Yogurt Shop Murders www.kvue.com/video/news/l...
maybe the biggest difference between LLMs and every other computer you ever used is that other computers can A) do math and B) give you an error message if you try to get it to do something it can’t do
This fuckin piece of shit
Another state school in TX being awful
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Same. The Dems have all the leverage right now.
It felt this bad, but I hadn't seen it documented. Lotta journalists, some of whom had done good work on other topics, shamed themselves on this and behaved as right-wing stooges. And I don't want to hear "I didn't know I was doing PR for demagogic fascists" bc it was damn obvious at the time.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
I made my 87-yo mom get a Roku TV cos I could delete the superfluous apps & keep it simple. She has intense Samsung brand loyalty and was salty about the Roku, but I was concerned that she wouldn’t have been able to use a Samsung.
How many prosecutors have you heard of who let so many murderers and attempted murderers go uncharged, in shootings caught on video, no less, as Mary Moriarty in Minneapolis? The Good and Pretti killers are still at large, and even the federal prosecutor admits ICE lied about shooting this guy. WTF?
I’ll go with “Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip” when I was 11.
Fateful decision, if bird flu were ever to go human-to-human
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
