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This administration? Stop and consider? Ha.

Texas Republicans, 9 for 9 on the Texas Supreme Court, are testing how much they can disrupt elections.

This is only the tip of the iceberg

That’s MUSIC ⚡️ BAND, Mr. Sagal

Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group It's the latest effort by moderate Democrats to shape national politics and expand their influence.

Don't support any elected officials who take money from OpenAI. Their lobbyist Cheri Bustos, ex DCCC chair, is now President of Next America Era that is taking money from all these freaks to promote "pro growth" ads ahead of 2026 and 2028.

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So. How cooked are we?

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You’re being played, Jack. At least your mom had the sense to talk about unity and love of the game. But you’ll never understand the harm this causes towards women in the sport. You’re young, I get it. But do better. You are in a position to be a role model. Don’t make any more excuses for misogyny.

Not just any POTUS. A deeply unpopular, hateful, disgusting, fascist pig who doesn’t care about your medal and is only going to use you to curry favor. He gives no shits about you or your team; he is using your win to his advantage and would drop you like a rock if you didn’t serve him a purpose.

It is completely, absolutely legitimate to be upset about the men’s team not standing up and supporting the women’s team when they didn’t think they were being recorded. What YOU did, in that locker room, was turn your back on your Team USA kin – your ‘sisters’ in the sport – to laugh with POTUS.

No, Jack Hughes. People aren’t trying to bring you down. People overlooked its most hated NHLers to cheer this team on. We were about to overlook Kash Patel in the locker room because it would be easy to blame the Tkachuks and he seems like he forced himself in anyways.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Tough loss for the Canadian women but cringey to see just how upset they are to lose to the US. They won gold against the US in 2020. I get it’s tough to compete and lose – I never did much in sports past HS – but silver is still an amazing accomplishment. I am sorry to see them so visibly upset

a man with a beard is wearing a white sweater and flexing his arm . ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a white sweater and flexing his arm .

Mmmm. The best Chris

One of the things I enjoyed most in Ocean’s 11 was Brad Pitt eating in every (other?) scene

It’s wild to me when adults have even less awareness of danger than my toddler does!

Same with elk in Estes Park, CO. So many tourists put themselves at risk by getting way too close 😳

I have more observations, but they’re probably pretty obvious to fluent Spanish speakers. Happy to be torn apart as these are just my musings being very inadequate in Spanish. I think the differences are really fun, but more than that I love how Benito has piqued interest with the broader public.

I heard Bad Bunny say “ay, Santos” when I would’ve expected a Mexican Spanish speaker to say “ay dios mio.” I’ve heard that may just have different meanings, but I wonder if that one is regional.

I can’t help but feel PRs use the word “cabrón” differently than I’m used to hearing 😅

Holy moly do Puerto Ricans speak faster in my opinion. Beyond the fact that I have only beginner’s Spanish skills. Phew. It’s speedy but flows so beautifully.

What I’ve noticed so far: Puerto Rican Spanish is gorgeous. It’s like listening to a bouquet of flowers with sprinkles of perfume.

It sounds like they drop the D a lot. (13yo boys are snickering.) But I’ve heard a few instances where I expected a D and it wasn’t there, even surrounded by vowels.

…because in Nordic languages, I know the context and can understand the literal meanings fast enough. That, I can piece together on the fly.

Here are my uneducated but curious notes on what I’ve noticed trying to get a feel for PR Spanish.

I don’t speak good enough Spanish nor understand enough to pick up on everything Bad Bunny says. Often he says a word I recognize, but it takes me a minute to find the word, translate it, then give it a minute to understand the meaning. I’m sure Mexicans can do this the way I can with Norwegian…

I can pick up on a lot of Mexican Spanish, and often it’s words I know from Tagalog. Even then, that’s Tagalog spoken by people from Manila because they use Spanish-adapted words. Filipinos from my grandmother’s home of Batangas don’t always replace Tagalog words with Spanish like my mom would.

I am a bit of a fanatic for languages. I speak fluent Swedish, some decent French, and bits of pieces of German from my childhood. My mom is from the Philippines and I have some basic understanding of Tagalog. That also affords me some Spanish, but I also live in San Diego where Spanish is integral.

I really disliked that one. Ranked it low on the Ad Meter

And he was my first thought but then I thought maybe it’s meant to represent little Benito

It didn’t look like him to me but people are saying it is? Maybe an actor meant to represent him?

Bad Bunny closes out the halftime show holding a football in front of people holding the flags of the Americas

My new fav Super Bowl halftime #badbunny #sb60 #superbowl

A relative married someone like this. It was the first red flag. Now they’re a Trumper and they’ve sucked my relative into it too.

Following up on this

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