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The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying

this is literally just Curtis Yarvin technofeudalist speak and it is malpractice that the New York Times isn’t pointing this out

Man who claims to want Western values back: “I hate Christianity and forgiveness.”

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

we are extremely fortunate that no CDC workers were shot yesterday in the attack targeting them. around a dozen floors in the headquarters buildings had windows pierced by bullets.

This is where Columbia, Brown, Penn have gotten us. If this isn't stopped, it's just one institution after another paying tributes to the crown. Either it stops or we're done for and the "we" isn't just higher ed, it's everybody.

The media needs to stop calling these “settlements.” They are extortion payments. UCLA did not do any damage to the federal government it doesn’t have to “settle” shit.

Truly one of Chicago's most hallowed days.

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

Honestly can't think of a more straightforward example of how men profit from the sexual degradation of women

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

OK, so this is objectively racist in the purest sense. The ONLY reason to do this is to penalize black and brown people for being black and brown. Replace "race" with any other measure of diversity on a college campus to see why. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

How the Twins went from winning their first playoff series in two decades to a trade deadline fire sale in 21 months (and why there's plenty of blame to go around): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oo7...

The great graphic by @kirabojackson.bsky.social explaining this is here:

This is the most infuriatingly witless talking point. No history is “erased” by the removal of a monument. What he means is “we want to celebrate and honor racism,” but that sounds bad, so we’re supposed to pretend this illiterate goon has some deep interest in the study of history.

"Last night I was informed that tomorrow will be my last day in the FBI. I understand that you may have a lot of questions regarding why, for which I currently have no answers," the FBI's former acting director, Brian Driscoll, wrote in a farewell message to colleagues.

I hope this helps universities see why it’s dumb to “make a deal.” As the EO shows, Trump wants to destroy successful American R1s and reprogram funds as he sees fit, regardless of the law. He is not a reliable counterparty. Fighting him is scary, but it’s the only path to secure funding. (5/5)

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Under director Jay Bhattacharya, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be repurposing a project that Congress shot down last year, the note says. That project, which NIH abandoned amid pressure from Congress, would have amassed huge amounts of personal data from Americans with little oversight. NIH had planned, through contractors, to vacuum up information from phone providers, wearable device companies, health insurers, medical records keepers, and government agencies in order to create a “real-world data platform” for monitoring Alzheimer’s disease. Though ambitious, the project was poorly managed, according to a 2024 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a legislative branch watchdog agency. It was at risk of failing to manage appropriately hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, per the report, and it raised a host of privacy concerns around the protection of government-collected data. In part because of the findings of that GAO report, Congress expressed “serious reservations” about the NIH effort, according to the Appropriations Committee document released last week. NIH would eventually shut down the project. In last week’s little-noticed note, which was buried 150 pages into a document laying out the health agencies’ funding for the coming fiscal year, Senate Appropriations Committee staffers expressed a fresh concern: NIH is reviving the same program under a different name, despite Congress’ earlier objections. This time, it’s to study autism, the report said.

Once you're accessing "information from phone providers, wearable device companies, health insurers, medical records keepers, and government agencies in order to create a 'real-world data platform'" you aren't tracking anonymized diagnostic data. You're tracking people.

anyone who throws something on a field/court that’s not a) throwing back a home run ball or b) a hat or octopus at a hockey game should be banned forever, period

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking.
*Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB.
*"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities."
*Cannot "promote anti-American values"
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary' Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.

Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As I said yesterday: I built A FREAKING PURDUE SITE into one of their top 10 college sites, ostly on talking about college basketball, and I always got a "We don't want to talk about college basketball as much."

they killed all their college sports podcasts on Feb 28th, 2023

nobody consumes college sports content in March, certainly not with any kind of madness

hey, spoiler here, the answer to what happened to Vox Media is pretty much what happened to everything: Shit leadership and an executive corps who could not find their ass with a GPS and an Atlas of Notable Asses (Ft. Your Own)

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump rants about ordering a new census excluding the undocumented population

A depressing number of news outlets are reporting this without mentioning the minor detail that it would be unconstitutional.