Mike Giambalvo

BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.

A man standing on what appears to be a balcony of his home.

The man's living room. There's a couch, coffee table, and foot stool, as well as some tall windows. Lots of wood.

Another living space with a fireplace and bookshelf. Possibly a compression hallway leading to this room.

The outside of the home.

Incredible.

Roland Reisley is 101 years old, the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright. He still lives in the 3,200 square foot home that Wright built for him in 1952.

The price? $40,000. Or a little less than half a million in today's money.

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."

appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality

They were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. For months, their families were left wondering whether they’d ever see their loved ones alive again.

Now that they’ve been released, three of the men and their families open up about their ordeal.

📽️ Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...

Democracy Defenders Fund wants to know who at DOJ determined that Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender, could be transferred to a minimum-security prison camp.
 
The group has filed a FOIA request for records about the transfer — including from Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche. tinyurl.com/4sj4uzyn

Texas Complaint Asks California to Arrest Democrats Blocking GOP Congressional Map Read more here.

🚨NEW: Republicans have issued civil arrest warrants, asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Democrats from office and requested the state of Illinois help Texas enforce arrest warrants. Now, Ken Paxton is asking California to do the same with a delegation of quorum-breaking lawmakers.

Please pay attention.

I hear both transphobes and normal folk talking about Testosterone as a performance enhancing drug and Estrogen as performance decreasing drug, and that's dude centric and not true. T and E are both performance enhancing drugs for sports. They just enhance different aspects.

Let's talk powerlifting

How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement Congress is pouring tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.

"90% of people who are in immigration detention are in a facility operated by a private detention corporation... We’ve heard from their earnings calls that they’re very excited about getting more money and to expand detention," says an immigration expert.

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'This is child trafficking' — Russia launches 'catalog' of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color "Parents of some of them were killed by occupation authorities, others were simply issued Russian identification documents to legitimize their abduction," said Mykola Kuleba, head of the Save Ukraine ...

From the beginning, war has been one of the most lucrative sources for child abduction and subsequent adoption. To see this happening to Ukrainian children is maddeningly heartbreaking. 🥚

kyivindependent.com/russia-launc...

Loomer, who has serious influence on this admin, is now arguing that the military is "disloyal" if they publicly praise past medal winners if they were Democrats.

Assume ownership?

That’s a thing?

Because I’ve got a list of stuff I’d like to assume ownership of.

Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladi...

The president of the United States has invited Putin, for whom the ICC has issued an arrest warrant, to United States soil.

Putin is accused of stealing children.

1/3

www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

The damage is generational.

He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared. Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

Calling from a Texas detention center, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas told his wife to hit record:

“They detained me simply because of my tattoos. I am not a criminal.”

“Just in case something happens to me, so you can be aware.”

A month later, he was gone.

In Dayton, Ohio, vacant positions for purchasing agents resulted in delays in acquiring hundreds of prosthetics, according to an internal VA report from May. Kasperowicz said the hospital has recently cut processing time for such orders by more than half.

Prez Trump has said, "We love our veterans. We're going to take good care of them."

We got internal docs showing VA cuts & chaos have doctors and others to flee.

In one hospital, lack of staff has led to delays in acquiring *hundreds of prosthetics.*

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Guided Learning in Gemini: From answers to understanding Guided Learning is a new mode in Gemini that helps you learn and study by building a deep understanding instead of just getting answers.

Google is also trying to lock in schools to a particular set of ideas that it claims to be based on "learning science" with its new LearnLM/Guided learning bot. It's a *theory lock-in* to a very attenuated version of learning theory. blog.google/outreach-ini...

Trump's handling of the Epstein files is one of the greatest scandals in American history.

A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

Putin agreed to meet Trump as a delaying tactic, WSJ reports. The Kremlin may offer to keep part of the occupied territories in exchange for withdrawing from others. A refusal from Kyiv and Europe would let Putin blame Ukraine for prolonging the war and allow Trump to shift responsibility onto it.

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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Jennings: I think the president is saying to the American people, why are we counting illegal aliens apportioning our political leadership?

Kasparian: Because it's in the constitution, the United States constitution, the supreme court ruled on this in 2019, and they ruled against Trump

A genuinely good part of the old Republican aesthetic is how it sought to play down wealth, an impulse born from Protestant values. You can see this in how Bush dressed and decorated his living spaces

That aesthetic now replaced by gilt detailing designed to remind you that the occupant is wealthy.

Senior adviser in the office of the deputy attorney general:

In general using the model to get an answer you have not directly provided it in the context is an antipattern. Retrieval, understanding, synthesis.

Using it as a big static database, as you demonstrated, leads to harmfully convincing guesses.

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.)
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Just like you should not be on Twitter, you should not be on Substack. There are viable alternatives that aren’t The Nazi Bar.

Once again, the way you know these tariffs are illegal under the very laws being used to justify them is that there is no such thing as a "national emergency" that magically flares up & then disappears & then flares up again & then disappears every 90 days.

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