pedocon theory not so much a theory as an immutable law of physics
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pedocon theory not so much a theory as an immutable law of physics
That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them βweirdβ still has me miffed.
KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?
BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!
K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?
B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.
When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:
"The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
- Carl Sagan.
Only when their own fortune, power, and privilege are directly endangered.
And for some -- the ones that are either part of the Christofascist MAGA death cult or that are simply too cowardly -- not even then.
@davidjbier.bsky.social is so so good at this. He's my guest on next week's #WITHPod
A gold statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein re-enacting the Titanic ship bow stance in front of the US Capitol
The king of the world title plaque. Don and Jeff are built on luxurious travel and nude women, just like in Titanic
A Make America Safe Again banner featuring Donald Trump and Jeffrey Eostein
I love this city
4 days ago, NPR reported that the Trump administration is still withholding, in violation of the Epstein files statutes, 37 pages of documents that implicate him in the rape of a child. This should end his presidency. www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive βto his personal computer so that he could βsanitizeβ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.
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There are a lot of scientific illustrators and graphic designers who are building their portfolios and will take on work for less than you might imagine. It's not out of reach.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
"Financing income tax cuts tilted to the wealthy by cutting programs to help fams afford food & medicine ... is no way to address our fiscal imbalances." - @brendanvduke.bsky.social before the Senate Budget Cmte on how tax cuts increase the nationβs fiscal challenges: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Every single video she makes about lead on this popular brand of βpremiumβ glass baby bottle gets swarmed with paid bots (from the company) commenting βitβs not a big dealββ¦
dead internet theory but for lead poisoning is not something I had on my 2026 bingo card
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
As they spend billions on the Iran War, the Trump administration is moving to kick six million Americans off food assistance, including two million children.
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...
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βIn a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.β
2/2
Since this slipped through cracks ystrday: Trump said Iranians could have hit their own girls school, because they also have Tomahawk missiles
THEY DO NOT. These are not "generic." Used by US UK Japan Aussies Dutch. NOT Iran
Either: 1) Trump doesn't know this. Disqualifying.
2) He does. Liar.
The chaos across multiple airports is a totally unnecessary Republican-created problem. Dems have proposed funding for TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, yet Republicans β who hold a majority in both the House and Senate β continue to hold these agencies hostage in order to get more funding for ICE.
I don't believe they will.
Not because what they're writing isn't shameful. It most certainly is.
But because I don't believe they think it is.
This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same
In the late '80s / early '90s we discovered that feeding processed bovine meat and bone meal to cattle leads to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease").
What strange new wonders will come from artificial intelligences cannibalizing themselves?
Warren: "It is still the case that the Trump admin cannot explain the reasons we entered this war, the goals we're trying to accomplish. The only part that seems clear is that while there is no money for 15m Americans who lost their healthcare, there's a billion a day to spent on bombing Iran."
Me: βSo if itβs 11:15 but our bodies think itβs only 10:15, then why does it feel like 2?β
Husband: βSame reason itβs 2026 but it feels like 1939.β