Simple peace plan.

Step one: Russia withdraws to its 2021 boundaries.

Step two: There is no step two.

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

Stop talking, start litigating. Sue the pants off the bodgers. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

That's the kind of western conceit that blinded the west to the threat of Islamic terrorism in the years approaching 9/11. It's a sort of Bug Blatter Beast of Traal logic: "If I don't believe in a god, therefore no one else does either; if my invocations of religion are cynical, so are everyone's."

It sums up where I am pretty neatly insofar as I want nothing to do with either of them, the one a bland modern contrivance, the other an atavistic relic of a past I thought we'd outgrown as a species, and it's depressing, sometimes, seeing how popular they are.

Technically he's right: His administration is "the talk of the world." Just—not how he means.

The Young GOPer Behind “Alligator Alcatraz” Is the Dark Future of MAGA Sunshine State Attorney General James Uthmeier is the real brains behind this notorious migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The more barbarities that emerge, the brighter his star will no doubt ...

You can be a Catholic or you can be MAGA but you cannot be both.

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Sigh. Better buy that Band-Maid merch before August 1.

No, it doesn't. Rather, it comes down to whether people who *aren't* like us can be detached from the Trump coalition and persuaded to vote against him.

The next logical trend in the #hiring AI arms race will be companies offering applicants a "premium" option: Pay to put your application in front of the hiring manager, bypassing the AI filters. Soon thereafter, only paid applications will be considered seriously—and eventually, accepted.

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Trump threatens Iran's supreme leader, escalating his rhetoric about the conflict President Trump called Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei an "easy target" but said, "We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now."

What a revoltingly glib way to talk about killing a human being—even an enemy. Regardless of what the administration does on Iran (regardless even of what it should do), this is not how it should be speaking.

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Really? Anger is the thing of which we need most right now?

Calibrate your enthusiasm.

And to think these people don't think they're in a cult.

Federal health authorities should treat it as a public health issue. Other parts of the federal apparatus can treat it as a different kind of problem. We can do both. I have no problem with appropriate parts of the latter investigating how it started, and finding patient zero is valuable.

Or just repugnant.

Outrageous.

The judges in these cases should move as quickly as they would want judges to be moving if it was they themselves who had been extraordarily renditioned—because in the days to come, it very well might be them.

Move. Faster.

The Supreme Court said that, being equally divided, it didn't have a majority to reverse the decision below. Nothing more. It happens.

This is normal. This is literally the way all 4-4 cases are dismissed.

Arbitrary executive power wielded for personal enrichment and retribution.

State central planning imposed by ever-fluctuating whim.

Vast debt financing at rapidly rising interest rates.

Markets replaced by economic warfare against fellow democracies.

ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.

This is *bonkers*.

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Jesus Christ, it's Air America all over again. They've learned nothing.

I was a Metallica and Anthrax guy. I never understood Slayer, nor or its appeal. I understood why people liked Megadeth, but I never did.

YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal These New Chinese Ships Could Bring a D-Day-Style Invasion to Taiwan | WSJ Equipped

Welp. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtrG...

To use an Amos-ism, people are caught up in the churn. The rules have changed, and people soaked in the old ways can't adapt. Change or die.

Good. Don't install it, thanks. #AppleIntelligence

Uh, I think you mean *former* employee.

Democrats' line of attack on Trump should be that he and his cretinous creatures flunk the "merit" test with which he claims to be replacing DEI. Democrats should say loudly that they are really for merit, as against what Trump really stands for: A thumb on the scale for mediocre white men.

Gurman: Siri upgrades 'unlikely to be discussed much' at WWDC next month, more - 9to5Mac In a new, lengthy report regarding Apple’s AI strategy, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has detailed a number of strategic failures for...

Craig was right. AI is garbage. The problem is that the other execs were also right: AI is very popular, revolutionary even, and it has yielded a rising flood of garbage. How we turn off the garbage spigot is the next challenge.

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Remarkable that Fox News is now dragging him.