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Imagine the reaction in the US if ~175 schoolgirls had been killed by a targeted Iranian missile. (Or anyone's missile.)

This is an atrocity.

Is it possible to meltUP? I feel like that's what my baby did.

it's super effective

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

"Does a cat have to scratch it out though?"

This is the precise content, tone, and timing of an MSN messenger status update circa 2002

if this guy also moves around really fast, I'm not gonna make it

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

I fall back on being a smarmy asshole as a defensive mechanism, but I really did spend a good chunk of last night heaving over the toilet almost throwing up on the verge of tears after reading about this and then checking CNN and the front page story was about the six American soldiers killed.

it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square

One of the things I find remarkable about this era in politics is how extreme the benefit of the doubt the markets give the Trump administration.

Oil is $74.25 as I write this and while that's elevated from pre-war, it obviously reflects traders who think 'they've got this' when they very do not.

Out: Vote Blue No Matter Who

In: PRIMARY THAT FUCKER OR YOU'RE A SUCKER

My "we have unlimited middle and upper ammunition" shirt, etc.

Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies Our new poll finds question wording can swing opinion by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who use polls to tell politicians what voters want.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 3 StrengthInNumbers
New polling on strong “framing effect” of trans issues.

Should minors be able to get GAC?
Opposed 57-28% net -29%
Should minors be be able to get doctor-recommended GAC after diagnosis.
Supported 44-28%, net +16%

That's a 45% swing.

"the jedi (will be using lower case for a while based on a complete lack of respect!) won't tell you about real, honest AMERICAN HERO and a muun who Trump has made very popular and very rich, some say, DARTH PLAGUEIS THE WISE"

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Someone should write a book about this dynamic and call it Ergo

Taco Bell Court Supreme

When are they gonna do the We Were All Fired From Disney, Avengers-style team up?

Again: trans people are a very small minority. If your *KNEEJERK* reaction when you encounter these rare & beautiful butterflies is *ANYTHING* other than “What can I do to make your life a little brighter?” you need to interrogate yourself. Impede the life of trans ppl & you’re in danger, from me. ❤️

the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status...

all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will

such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy

I keep reminding people that admins hate English departments because they are popular (read: inefficient), not because they aren’t. AI is in a long line of technologies that promise to solve that problem for them.

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Lorelai and the Laser Eyes main player character. Light-skinned woman with an up-do wearing a coat buttoned to the neck. She wears glasses with bright, pink-red lenses, flaring as if alight.

me when the students have done the reading

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.

Some real "hell is empty, devils are here" shit

personally i am a lower decks liberal. boom