Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.
“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Happy Women in science day. On this day I am thinking of all my women science mentors and Rita Levi-Montalcini who did experiments in her bedroom in defiance of Mussolini’s ban on Jews in academic and professional careers while WWII raged around her.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
I hate that podcasts are video now. They should be for funny and interesting little freaks who don’t have to be hot and dressed well
Good investigative work from ABC journos, but a gutless 'both-sides' headline and lead para.
The preliminary evidence from these three incidents seems clear:
police acted with excessive and brutal force.
And on the face of it, created a serious threat to public safety. #nswpol
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Strong content warning: Police assault of protester #auspol
From Jared Kimpton @jared_kimpton on Twitter
We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.
The footage out of Sydney overnight is abhorrent.
Peaceful protesters set upon by an army of police, punches thrown at people with raised hands, people praying ripped from their knees.
Is this violence the social cohesion that Labor wanted?
The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising.
It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.
Vale Jon Kudelka; not many better at summing up the issues of the day with great brevity and wit, but also with such vivid, arresting images. A true master of his art.
VERY good article. #Epstein
I have a question for the men who had no questions about Epstein
By Julia Baird
Is the problem that the abuse of women just doesn't … matter much? Or that it doesn't seem that abnormal?
Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn
- Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I think these mugshots really vibrantly depict what @adamserwer.bsky.social wrote here:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
“Some forms of speech generate days of outrage, wall-to-wall commentary and urgent demands for action. When Aboriginal peoples are targeted with an explosive device in a public square, the response barely registers. Lives are not valued on the same scale.”
Aboriginal people across the continent have been shouting out the hypocrisy of the media and govt for not talking about the explosive device thrown into a group of Invasion Day protesters in Boorloo/Perth. 1st I heard about it was from Tarneen Onus Browne. Politicians still haven’t brought it up.
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Cannot reccomend this strongly enough. For me personally so many elements of fascism whenever it emerges in the world seem to have a seed in the fossil fuel economy, the outrageous lies of climate denial.
Fighting against fossil fuels = fighting against the tools of fascism.
Night Nurse Omar Sakr I listen for the rustle and shuffle of their feet, Scrubbed and gloved, denied the dark and its stars, the night nurse is anything but, steward of the startling hallway bright, discordant dancer moving to the eerie orchestra of beeps, shrieks, and alarms. Every two hours they sweep in with careful hands to measure my son's blood pressure, to gauge the speed of his heart, put a number to the heat, the sacred fire that animates him but must be tempered; they check his fluids, administer drugs— ensure, in short, that he is well, and every two hours, I blink bleary at the blurred figure, who sometimes turns and smiles, whispering what might be a gospel truth or salutation, and vanishes again into the blinding beyond. Back home, miniature planets hang above our bed, a slow meander of cookie-cutter stars, and inside this shrinking universe, the quiet creeps in between us, a third body, deep as the void in space. I guess I must turn back now to the invisible watchers, or else hold to the memory of tender visitations.
For the nurses. Thank you to the sleepless guardians who keep watch on my son in the night. These past few months living with my son’s cancer have had a profound impact on me. Now, whether at the hospital or at home, at night, I think of them.
As tomorrow beckons in all its heat, anger and frustration. Remember we are charge of the course we chart. We know where we’re going, because we know where we’ve been. This from the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
🖤💛❤️
After the Bondi terror attack, people keep calling me a hero. There are so many people I could not help | Jessica Rozen
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden.
(After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
nice 😎
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"The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda."
