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The information environment matters.

And consensus truth is a public good we can build democratic institutions to facilitate and protect.

Dang, a new shitty thing to learn about. If this is what's happening to the humans, I can't imagine the impacts have been great on the sea life.

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."

It's the weekend, baby

To disperse looters during 2020 unrest, Des Moines police officer, a “less-lethal munitions expert” who is in “fear for his life,” rides around in a Bearcat shooting people without warning or command. People like this plaintiff, who wasn’t rioting or looting and who suffered a broken finger. Eighth Circuit: Because the officer didn’t intend to arrest her, there’s no Fourth Amendment claim, and, because he didn’t intend to harm her, there is no Fourteenth Amendment claim.

i'm on top of @shortcircuitij.bsky.social right as it comes out this weeks and oh boy, just look at this shit

$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

That's a truck ton of cancer research

The White House is transforming the Iran strikes into a meme war The White House is using memes that make light of violent combat in Iran, mixing footage of real missile strikes with clips from action films and video games.

Less than a week after an airstrike killed dozens of children at an Iranian elementary school, the White House posted a video of bombing footage mixed with clips from movies and video games.

Many online were outraged by what they said was a callous joke.

$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...

ICE deports single dad of 6 American children after three decades in the US A single father of six children was deported last month after being in the U.S. for over 30 years, but his lawyer said they're trying to fight the case

The Trump-Vance administration grabbed a single father of 6 who’s been in the country for 34 years as he was dropping his children off at school & deported him.

‘They sowed chaos to no avail’: the lasting legacy of Elon Musk’s Doge The billionaire – who had no government experience – left various federal agencies in disarray while overseeing an ‘efficiency’ drive across Washington

When Musk says he's going to build colonies on Mars, remember he also said, “I think we can [save] at least $2tn” by cutting gov't costs.

He didn't know what he was talking about then.

And about Mars, he doesn't now. tinyurl.com/73y7bdmv
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Mary Sheffield is wearing a red blazer while sworn in

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center Sheldon Whitehouse, an ex officio member of the Kennedy Center board, remains undeterred and determined to press on with his investigation

Whitehouse: "They’re being given a benefit and those benefits seem only to be going towards groups that are affiliated with Trump and Maga. It’s basically a direct way to use this public facility to put money into the pockets of groups that are allied.”

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A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.

"He appears to want a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists." Excellent @victorerikray.bsky.social piece. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

I remember maybe three or four years ago someone introduced me to yarvin and said among other things that what makes him so dangerous is he’s really steeped in history and philosophy. Sophisticated stuff. So I read some stuff and well, no. This is the stuff you say after you read one thing …

He should give it a shot first bsky.app/profile/cnn....

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there.

A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes

It turns out that Dollar General and Family Dollar routinely overcharge people—their advertised price tags are fictions. These are the only stores in many small towns.

Scam culture. It's all scam culture. On this matter, Democrats should run on audits and serious fines for overcharging.

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Bill Cassidy specialized in treating liver diseases as a doctor

he set up nonprofits to vaccinate kids in Louisiana against hep B

he knows exactly what this disease does, he spent much of his life fighting against it, and he knew exactly what RFK was when he voted for him

he has no excuse at all

to the extent that there is any public health policy left, it’s “if you can afford to survive without and/or despite the federal government, go for it, and we’ll see you on the other side of mass death”

Congratulations!

The very first winner....Sksksksks
Bro, this is just pathetic and sad.

Trump Thanks Chief Justice Roberts Won'T Forget GIF ALT: Trump Thanks Chief Justice Roberts Won'T Forget GIF

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery.

John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

All Constitutional Law courses are hereby renamed WTF LOL 101

Great story

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

This is the way. Lower courts need to just start saying it, SCOTUS rulings are not correct, ignore them.

As the district court noted, the Trump admin and Texas Republican lawmakers _said_ that they were acting on the basis of race. They said so openly and plainly. Are fact-finders in the lower courts seriously supposed to plug their ears and say “I can’t hear you”?

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

The Republican Supreme Court justices believe that facts have a liberal bias

The CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, as well as senior executives from other auto manufacturers, standing beside him while Trump goes off on another vicious racist rant about African immigrants. Not one of them had the courage or the dignity to walk away.
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