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The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
If Biden or Harris or Obama talked about golden drapes when we just lost 6 US soldiers, the @nytimes.com would have physically lynched them.
It’d have been raining articles & editorials, all requesting their resignation
For Trump? Not a word
My anger has morphed into pure hatred for the NYT.
And the pedantic facts are that in the US, cyclists kill 3 pedestrians a year. Drivers kill 7500.
That's 20 people out for a walk a day. Nearly one an hour. 20 people every day on sidewalks and crosswalks who don't make it home.
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NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)
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I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.
Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”
They pulled a Target.
US men’s hockey team wins in overtime against Canada.
What’s the tariff on gold medals?
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
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.
Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.
This is looting.
"We know that this can be done, because it has been done. In his famous Madison Garden speech..FDR declared war on 'Government by organized money,' and he won that war...To say that a comparable project is impossible today is to say that democracy can’t be saved. And I’m not willing to accept that."
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
Great skeet. Also what about the water?
In hindsight, maybe digitizing our entire economy (even its currency) and centralizing our most strategic points of vulnerability into unprotected private warehouses that need constant flows of gigawatts of electricity from a failing grid in order to function was not the wisest decision after all.
The open racism you guys have emboldened, megyn
#ResistanceEarth
The oil industry's preferred method of disposing of toxic wastewater is to inject it deep underground. A trove of new documents expose that the industry has known for decades that this isn't safe, putting drinking water and other resources at risk.
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“Abolishing those programs and the lessons about gender they have taught, will, Trump and his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies and practices they want to impose.” ⬇️
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Another way to phrase this is, “ICE shot someone and got caught lying about it.”
It's packed here! Yessssssss!!!
Trumps America. Cops wear masks but voters need birth certificates.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Save Austin Solar - Support the Improvement and Development of Innovative Solar Programs. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/save...
It's bad enough that everyone knows that Trump is a needy toddler who thirsts over meaningless participation trophies, but saying "clean coal" is like saying "fragrant raw sewage."
The people behind Project 2025, the 70 plus million who voted for this and the millions who stayed at home during the last election are directly responsible for the climate chaos that these decisions will unleash GLOBALLY.
