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$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-...

‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die

She added: “Last night they hit central Tehran with B-2s. This morning, for the second time, I really felt very close to death.”

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.

FDA vaccines chief Vinay Prasad to step down in April The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccines and biologics unit, Dr. Vinay Prasad, ​will leave the agency at the end of April, ‌a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Hum...

Hey, great news gang! Vinay Prasad is out at the FDA.

Again.

Let’s hope it sticks this time.

Photo of Andrea LaFlamme wearing a shirt with the Desmond Tutu quote, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Hi everyone! My name is Andrea LaFlamme and I'm running to unseat Susan Collins in the US Senate. I'm a feminist public health professor and the ONLY candidate in this race who has worked in education, municipal health, and as an elected union leader. (1/2)

This image captures so much about our current moment

Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.

I can only marvel at how this is even a THING.

Like... it's a DIRECT throughline that an American OSS operative getting bumped off by Chinese partisans results in a reactionary organization defending one of the most convoluted and overhyped video games of the 21st Century in his name.

Message to analysts: we're past the "are we the baddies" moment—the Gen Z right want to be bad guys and are open about admiring movie villains' lawlessness.

They love the dopamine hit of harming innocent people for fun, then openly taking credit as a naked threat to others. Miles beyond shame. >

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Lawsuits when.

People keep acting like Democrats need to tolerate a little dash of paranoid antisemitism if they want to reach the salt of the earth hoi polloi, but the reality is that paranoid antisemitism is more natively the politics of downwardly mobile scions of privilege, like Platner for example.

Basically all of the bad economic news this term is because the president deliberately decided to do something moronic. He is much more personally responsible for this than most presidents are for the downturns in their administration.

SZA Feels Like She’s ‘At War Because of AI,’ Slams ‘Weird, Stereotypical Struggle Music’ Being Generated By Artificial Intelligence SZA feels like she's 'at war because of AI,' specifically calling out the 'weird, stereotypical struggle music' generated by artificial intelligence.

“SZA lamented that the AI creep is happening ‘disproportionately with Black music…’”

For those wondering, Hotchkiss was explicitly founded as a feeder school for Yale which banned women until the 1970s.

Graham Platner is in every reasonable definition an elite cosplaying as a member of the working class, something Trump did to remarkable effect.

It's all vibes for y'all out there

Just want to note that this religious freedom victory did not come from the Satanic Temple, which has a 0% success rate in challenging abortion bans, including in Indiana

= Newsweek Subscribe Sign In News Church Texas Faith Child Abuse Law News Article Donald Trump's Ex- Spiritual Adviser Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse PUBLISHED OCT 02, 2025 AT 06:27 PM EDT UPDATED OCT 02, 2025 AT 06:59 PM EDT US President Donald Trump (C), flanked by Bishop Harry Jackson (R) and Pastor Ro... Read More

There is so much going on that we all collectively forgot Trump's actual "spiritual advisor" is ALSO a convicted peadophile lmao

And it does say quite a bit that Newsom's comments have mobilized more of a response than anything related to Platner.

Jennifer 🍄 @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18 PM

I can't help but think that decentralized, federated long-form content was solved before social media was invented. RSS was that.

And Platner's record on labor is what exactly?

costco is the closest thing the US has to a functional state apparatus

A properly functioning Congress would not allow the president to unilaterally start or threatening 3-4 offensive wars at a time, among other impeachable offenses

‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iran’s capital, with several saying they feared they would die * Middle East crisis – live updates Sleeplessness, fear and exhaustion gripped residents of Tehran as successive waves of strikes struck the Iranian capital, judging from messages sent by people in the city after the latest overnight onslaught, which several described as the worst bombardment in six days of war. With the Iran imposing a near-total internet blackout, information emerging from inside the country is fragmentary and difficult to verify. But in a series of accounts sent through proxy connections, and calls with friends abroad, Tehranis described a night of intense explosions. Continue reading...

‘If they don’t stop, Tehran will turn into Gaza’: Iranians describe night of terror

figure 5.1 U.S. Economic Growth, 1790–2012

it's funny you can see how much the New Deal fixed macroeconomic stability within the United States, and the elite hated FDR for it

I support our brave ICE agents and also President Trump. Only drafting our recently trained and armed ICE forces to take the mountains of Iran can guarantee our freedom.

Let’s get that ICE brigade on the ground as soon as possible!

I misread "Warhammer hotspots" as

"Warhammer hoteps"

I was flooded with visions of a different world.

Just in the last three days, Washington Post has run op-eds arguing that AI data center concerns are overblown, we shouldn't ban congressional stock trading, NATO should be expanded, and we should do regime change in Cuba.

I guess it's a blanket dismissal