Kristi Noem being fired, if that is in fact what happens, will not get to the root of the problem, and it’s putting all the blame on a woman.
That said it shows that Trump still cares about being embarrassed and humiliated. We do have power, even if it doesn’t feel like it all the time.
The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.
And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.
The screenshot that everyone is sharing about the targeting of the Iranian girls‘ school is not a news article. It’s Claud output. And the “source” cited for the most inflammatory part is an Armenian plagiarist site.
Kelly Wilkinson was being abused by her husband.
She tried to go to the police.
They told her to “cool off”.
They suggested she give her husband a “break”.
They accused her of cop shopping.
Her husband stabbed her over 20 times and set her on fire.
The cops were complicit in her murder:
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Everything I want to say in response to this is a spoiler 🫤
I am going to shed my human form and swallow Grammarly's HQ whole. (But maybe I'll wait until the class-action lawsuit brought by Dreyer et al. has concluded. I may well be one of the alia.)
I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.
A large block of sentient tofu
Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”
Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”
I assume you mean "UN Security Council" seat
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
The open antI-Semitism this has unleashed, visible in the horseshoe right and left over at the other site, is something to behold
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is why people should vote in EVERY election. I mean including the small local ones where you can see, very clearly, the effect of just one vote.
Unfortunately.
It was so fun living through Iraq with all the Nader voters saying it wasn’t their fault either.
A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.
it’s sort of like how all antisemites should have to join a bank in Israel so that they see what it’s like when Jews actually run a bank, which is: a fucking mess
Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
The word has become so neutered and the memory so distant, but Naziism wants me, personally, dead, and my people wiped off the face of the planet. If you’re down with voting for that we don’t have anything else to talk about.
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I think "really very super bummed" is an acceptable level. I'm sorry 😔
Ihkellett I'm so damn tired of the US cycle where Republicans kill our economy, move wealth to the richest 1%, and start a war and then Dems have to clean it up. Then once they get on the right path, Americans are impatient or fixate on some GOP created culture war, and think they should have fixed it all in less than 2 years and re-elect GOP liars who will start the cycle again. Absolutely exhausting.
I have no great love or respect for the national Democratic party leadership, but I can't help agreeing with this.
Fuck off no he has not
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Just amazing the number of people who can’t seem to simultaneously keep two thoughts in their head at the same time:
(1) the Iranian theocratic regime is bad and would not be missed
(2) there is a real problem in a world where the President of the US can attack random countries on a whim.
