Lmst

https://web.archive.org/web/20250502104709/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/john-fetterman-struggle-mental-health-clinical-depression.html Damn #USpol

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Trump cannot "rename Veterans Day," no matter how many times he says it. Only Congress can do that. It's law.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/6103

#AbuseOfPower

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-due-process-freedom-presidency-everyone-else-1235327264/ #USpol

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Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/hospitals-in-ruins

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The AI companies have been caught building AIs that only tell us what we want to hear. If we don't get a handle on it, that's gonna go really badly: https://www.platformer.news/meta-ai-chatgpt-glazing-sycophancy/

Well, some people ask chatbots for permission to do harm — to themselves or others. Some people ask it to validate their deranged conspiracy theories. Others ask it for confirmation that they are the messiah.

Many folks still look down on anyone who would engage a chatbot in this way. But it has always been clear that chatbots elicit surprisingly strong reactions from people. It has been almost three years since a Google engineer declared that an early language model at the company was already sentient, based on the conversations he had with it then. The models are much more realistic now, and the illusion is correspondingly more powerful.

I can’t use the bathroom without a dog at my feet and a cat on the sink. #cats #MastoCats

An elderly black cat is lying in loaf form on the side of the sink

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/ Jfc this is all fucking insane #USpol police in this country do not need any more *indemnification* from all prosecution

@britt sleep. That’s the only thing that reliably helps when I get migraines.

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I’m in.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/4/25/pedro-pascal-calls-for-boycott-of-maxs-upcoming-2-billion-harry-potter-series

#TransRights

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Judge Hannah Dugan, two-year-old V.L.M.

They are not outliers, exceptions, or aberrations. …

What we are witnessing is the Trump administration’s immigration plan in motion.

Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-plan-the-horrors-are-not-aberrations

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Words matter.

The Trump regime did not "deport" a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity—the Trump regime knowingly *Human Trafficked* a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity.

That isn't just a violation of US Constitutional rights, it's a violation of international human rights law. In a just society the people responsible for this crime would face criminal prosecution. That is what should happen here.

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Everything Macron does here is calculated. It's the difference between leaving no tip and leaving a nickel as a tip—the latter is a no-ambiguity message, "This wasn't oversight, it was a deliberate choice"

And it's not just that Macron doesn't shake Trump's hand, it's that his hand moves to Zelenskyy's back after letting Trump hang in midair

The contrast between his admiration for one man and contempt for the other couldn't be clearer

No 'fuck you' can compete with a French fuck you

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Buy books. But not from Amazon. Buy them from Bookshop.org, the independent site. This move by Amazon is shameful.

Here is a link to my book on Bookshop.org.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-ages-of-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-a-hope-for-the-future/18943639

Note from Bookshop.org say Amazon, which has already put half of all independent bookstores out of business, is trying to undercut them by having a "sale" on the exact day of Independent Bookstore Day. "The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless."

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There's only one reason for this massive deletion, discontinuation, and modification of national US climate, weather, ocean, and environmental data sets. And that is to silence and turn a blind eye to evidence of major threats to the country, to protect the fossil fuel industry. This is modern book burnings.

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes

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"Andrew Tate phenomenon surges in schools"

You mean misogyny. Just say misogyny, hatred of women, overt chauvinistic violence.

Happy #caturday from this ridiculous #tortie who thinks she’s hiding on the keyboard shelf. #cats

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Why is no one talking about the millions of Americans the House GOP wants to uninsure?

Thank Punchbowl.

https://www.thefarce.org/why-is-no-one-talking-about-the-millions-of-americans-the-house-gop-wants-to-uninsure/

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Nailed it with this one.

A post from Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma
) on X reads: "the left photo has a convicted criminal; the right one does not." Below, a quote from The White House (@WhiteHouse
), posted 17 hours ago, says: "We are not the same." The post includes two images: the left shows Donald Trump in a suit with a red tie, sitting at a desk with U.S. and presidential flags in the background, being handed an item by a woman in black; the right shows two men, one in a plaid shirt and white cap, sitting at an outdoor restaurant table with water glasses and a coffee cup, engaged in conversation.

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YES 👇🏼💯

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.

Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

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'Terrifying': Top Dem says DOGE is building a 'master database' of Americans’ private info https://twp.ai/4ileuK

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