A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
Unhinged rant even by Trump standards
This story is guaranteed to trigger an “Oh, THIS is the Bad Place!” moment
Holy shit. The prosecutor who just resigned from the D Minn in revolt against orders to investigate Renee Good after her murder is local counsel for Don Lemon now in Minnesota. Wow.
Reminder to judges that you can order the clerk or parties to send a copy of your ruling about attorneys’ unethical conduct to the disciplinary committees of the bars where they’re admitted.
Absolute immunity doesn’t shield prosecutors from professional discipline.
I love learning about new Trump crypto scandals on my dad’s corporate finance blog. 🍿
Thanks for breaking down the news so I can understand it, @carltack.bsky.social!
The WLF Affair
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Cc @jonathanslaght.com — great story! Thanks for all your work to restore this owl species I just learned about from my middle schooler.
For Superb Owl day, my eldest told me about the massive Blakiston’s Fish Owl.
“The creature seemed almost too big and too comical to be a real bird, as if someone had hastily glued fistfuls of feathers to a small bear, then propped the dazed beast in the tree.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I love this. Just updated my leaderboard tag.
I am convinced that listening to Tracy Chapman’s music as an adolescent had a profound influence on my worldview and politics.
She is an incredible storyteller.
“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
Ice out
Lost of headlines on the arrest of Don Lemon: CBS News: Former CNN anchor Don Lemon taken into custody after protest at Minnesota church service The Washington Post: Don Lemkn arrested by federam officials in connection with church protest NBC News: Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at minnesota church service AP News: Journalist Don Lemon has beeb arrested after he covered a Minnesota church protest The New York Times: Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
Framing matters and news outlet word choices shape what people believe
Folks increasingly read headlines and nothing else. Implying that a prominent Black journalist was arrested for protesting is irresponsible at best
Only AP used "Covered"
It's just 1 word, but it completely changes the story
WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner:
“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.”
#ICEoffOurStreets
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning
I was sent this video of agents at her door:
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara
Stephen miller tweeted Only federal officers are upholding the law. Local and state police have been ordered to stand down and surrender.
I guess the GOP can retire “states rights” and “we have to accept school shootings because we need guns in case the federal government invades us” as talking points!
Map of apple production by pounds per state for 2025 showing like six small or medium dots in a few places and then one absolutely giant dot covering Washington State.
And we’ll keep all the apples.
As a fan of movies, I consider it my solemn duty to dance whenever I am in the house alone.
Omg same
Detach from material attachments, says Donald Trump.
I should hang out under ferry docks more often
Cool environmental job alert for Oregonians 🚨🌲🚨
Bark is dedicated to protecting the Mt. Hood National Forest and they’re looking for their next leader! (Office is in Portland.)
In these dark times, it feels good to have a job you feel good telling people about.
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That’s the one where I got arrested for wearing roller skates.
I had to report that to three state bar associations.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
