My dad: you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose
Markwayne: Challenge accepted.
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My dad: you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose
Markwayne: Challenge accepted.
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
"Nobody questions the success of the military operations" is a profoundly idiotic thing to say. This fucking nightmare is obviously not a "success" to anyone with half a sense of strategic planning.
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
So obviously, ALL Democratic Senators must refuse confirmation votes for any replacement without enforceable guarantee that ICE will follow the law
If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
Reminder to start carving facts in tungsten
Read the whole thread, can’t believe I’d forgotten this
No authorization for the use of military force in Iran was passed by either chamber of Congress, and as a cosponsor of the Iran War Powers Resolution I call on the Speaker of the House to immediately call Congress back into session.
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Mark Oppenheimer’s story of how he had to retake his author photo because of his dog’s dick delights me on some fundamental level I cannot entirely comprehend.
open.substack.com/pub/markoppe...
@talkingpointsmemo.com
She is also using “informed consent” wrong
Al Green gonna get his ass thrown out again and god love him for it
"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."
AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.
Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.
This is great.
It would seem that this deserves more investigation.
Yes, I saw about 15% of my non-major undergrads turn in papers with clear indicators of undisclosed LLM use. The majority said they only used Grammarly (which Rutgers has a site license for) and did not realize it was doing the same thing as ChatGPT.
Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs
By Elizabeth Preston
On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction. Gift link!
A fantastic article from Yale’s student newspaper last October that I’ve required all my students to read at the beginning of this semester:
thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
This horrifying, the story is also from 2018.
“To the people of Froid, Roberto isn’t a statistic or a threat. He is the guy who fixes the diesel engine when it freezes in January. He is a father. He is a neighbor.
He’s as American as apple pie”
open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...
The absurdity and cruelty of mass deportation. Also how not to survive the zombie apocalypse.
The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
We don’t talk about this anymore. What flu season?
