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It continues to be deeply bizarre that according to the rest of the GOP, blatant and brazen corruption of the sort that had remained essentially taboo in American politics more or less forever is completely legal for this one guy
(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
@zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It continues to be deeply bizarre that according to the rest of the GOP, blatant and brazen corruption of the sort that had remained essentially taboo in American politics more or less forever is completely legal for this one guy
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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.
People with unpaid parking tickets don’t get raptured, Sherri
September 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
People with unpaid parking tickets don’t get raptured, Sherri
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
There is a short story (and twilight zone episode!) about an all-powerful toddler the townspeople must placate while dealing with the disaster he caused when he was born. They live in fear of him; every act centers around keeping him happy.
I’ve been thinking about that story a lot lately.
I’ve been thinking about that story a lot lately.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump suggests FCC should revoke TV licenses for negative coverage on him.
Trump suggested the extraordinary actions as he defended FCC chairman Brendan Carr for pressuring ABC to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show off the airwaves.
Trump suggested the extraordinary actions as he defended FCC chairman Brendan Carr for pressuring ABC to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show off the airwaves.
Trump suggests FCC should consider revoking TV licenses over negative coverage of him
President Trump said overwhelming negative coverage about him by TV networks should be grounds for the FCC to revoke their broadcast licenses.
bit.ly
September 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
There is a short story (and twilight zone episode!) about an all-powerful toddler the townspeople must placate while dealing with the disaster he caused when he was born. They live in fear of him; every act centers around keeping him happy.
I’ve been thinking about that story a lot lately.
I’ve been thinking about that story a lot lately.
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a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
January 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
Miami has multiple prisons that are much closer wartime concentration camps than Orange is the New Black. That they continue to exist is a crime against humanity and a stain on an already very problematic state.
The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Miami has multiple prisons that are much closer wartime concentration camps than Orange is the New Black. That they continue to exist is a crime against humanity and a stain on an already very problematic state.
Or they just have wildly egregious double standards.
"It's wrong to celebrate someone's death" is the kind of statement that can only ever proceed from a mind that has never honestly looked at evil
September 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Or they just have wildly egregious double standards.
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It's not even worth mentioning that these Korean workers are here legally, ICE is just torturing any non-white person they can get their hands on
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's not even worth mentioning that these Korean workers are here legally, ICE is just torturing any non-white person they can get their hands on
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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56% of Black kids are online *almost constantly*. Significantly more than white kids. If being online turned you fascist, Black kids would be leading the charge.
If economic anxiety from price of eggs turned you fascist, Black people would be the most fascist.
Stop making excuses for fascism.
If economic anxiety from price of eggs turned you fascist, Black people would be the most fascist.
Stop making excuses for fascism.
Relative to white kids, yes.
More than 50% of Black teens 13-17 say that they are online "almost constantly."🤯
The number for white kids is only 37%.
Black kids are online more. Hispanic is close.
(Reminder, Hispanic is not a race. Hispanic kids can be Black, white, mestizo, indigenous, etc. ♥️👍🏿)
More than 50% of Black teens 13-17 say that they are online "almost constantly."🤯
The number for white kids is only 37%.
Black kids are online more. Hispanic is close.
(Reminder, Hispanic is not a race. Hispanic kids can be Black, white, mestizo, indigenous, etc. ♥️👍🏿)
September 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
56% of Black kids are online *almost constantly*. Significantly more than white kids. If being online turned you fascist, Black kids would be leading the charge.
If economic anxiety from price of eggs turned you fascist, Black people would be the most fascist.
Stop making excuses for fascism.
If economic anxiety from price of eggs turned you fascist, Black people would be the most fascist.
Stop making excuses for fascism.
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the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
Nod, nod, nod
How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Nod, nod, nod
Happy ninth birthday to the purest, sweetest, most gentle little sweet pea in the universe 😭🥰
#lakelandterriers
#lakelandterriers
August 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Happy ninth birthday to the purest, sweetest, most gentle little sweet pea in the universe 😭🥰
#lakelandterriers
#lakelandterriers
I agree with Cate Blanchett: leaf blowers should be banned.
August 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I agree with Cate Blanchett: leaf blowers should be banned.
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apple's weirdest app has to be their Texas Holdem game that has human fmv actors in costumes and primitive prerendered backgrounds. it also has an awful ui. it feels like some 1997 mad dog mccree type shit but it's still on the app store right now
August 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
apple's weirdest app has to be their Texas Holdem game that has human fmv actors in costumes and primitive prerendered backgrounds. it also has an awful ui. it feels like some 1997 mad dog mccree type shit but it's still on the app store right now
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Epidemic abuse:
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement"
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement"
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
August 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Epidemic abuse:
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement"
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"
"White nationalists pervade law enforcement"
10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")
"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes
"NYPD Costs $10 Billion a Year
"50% of municipal budgets
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Oh my god, we're re-inventing Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Effect from first principles!
Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)
Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)
August 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Oh my god, we're re-inventing Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Effect from first principles!
Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)
Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)
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the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
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Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
August 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”
Conservatives: buT wOmeN's SPorTS!!!!
Also conservatives:
Also conservatives:
August 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Conservatives: buT wOmeN's SPorTS!!!!
Also conservatives:
Also conservatives:
McFayden, Laurie, Gomez. This really sucks.
Welp. That's Dr. House in the bin...
Harry Potter Audiobooks Reveals Cast Led By Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen, Riz Ahmed & Michelle Gomez; Cush Gumbo To Narrate; Release Dates Set
Pottermore Publishing and Audible are unveiling the star-studded cast lineup for Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.
deadline.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
McFayden, Laurie, Gomez. This really sucks.
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one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims
August 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims
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What the F are we doing, people????
August 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What the F are we doing, people????