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£240m. With no tender. Palantir.

I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.

Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.

Palantir out.

This is so, so chilling

NC State *fired* an Assistant Director of its LGBTQ Pride Center for saying the university will continue to support LGBTQ students—as it should—even with Trump’s ban on DEI-related activities

A conservative activist group secretly recorded the Assistant Director saying it

Trump posts a picture showing Canada and Greenland as part of the US. As I note today, his rhetoric violates the U.N. Charter: It requires members to “refrain … from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” wapo.st/3MsWi3c

Maybe we should stop calling it the paper of record. It’s the former paper of record or paper of mis-record.

It would be nice if the paper of record knew the difference between the CDC and CMS.

If reading these letters doesn’t fill you with a deep and urgent need to burn these concentration camps to the ground after releasing their prisoners, you would’ve been on the wrong side in WWII.

I don’t know. Probably just an oversight or mistake. He missed Suriname as well and maybe one or two others I’ve seen people mention. I know there were Belize flags, so they were definitely included.

Anyway, I think it’s a bit funny but doesn’t detract from the overall great message.

The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.

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“A sitting US president stole $500 million in another country’s oil money and transferred it into an account in Qatar and it’s barely making headlines… Gee, I wonder why?!” @jerasikehorn.bsky.social

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This is true not just on the general point that he's an idiot but also specifically Starship is never going to work as advertised. The tyranny of the rocket equation doesn't let it pencil out, a launcher heavy enough to be 100% reusable is then too heavy to carry a useful payload.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

This is the thing which has always driven me nuts about this type of "voter fraud" paranoia.

It's INFINITELY easier to fuck with elections by doing things like, say, making it more difficult for certain demographics to register or vote in the first place.

This is open racial hatred and bigotry from Megyn Kelly. Why is Piers Morgan, Sirius, or anyone else broadcasting it?

Immigrants at ICE’s Adelanto detention center denounce lack of medical care and “inhumane” conditions A federal lawsuit by immigrants detained at the ICE facility alleges they’re treated like “dogs in cages” and denied food and water.

In ICE detention camps, “disease and illness are rampant, mold grows on the walls, and detained individuals are denied sufficient food, clean drinking water, proper medical care, and disability accommodations”.

ICE is a scourge of humanity, and also of public health.

Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people.

ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

The FBI actively threatening Republicans in Congress saying that it will criminalize their staffers seems like something that should be front page news.

lol

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Enten: "Trump's base with non-college voters is absolutely collapsing ... he's underwater by 9 points. That's a 23 point switcheroo."

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I think he missed saying Belize! I wonder if that was a mistake or if there’s any significant to it. But apparently there were Belize flags there.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

US agency investigating if ABC's 'The View' violated equal time rules for political candidates The Federal Communications Commission is opening an investigation into whether ABC's "The View" daytime talk show violated equal time rules for interviews with political candidates after an appearance...

This is also a fake FCC investigation of media outlets deemed insufficiently deferent to unpopular and radical right wing ideology, something Reuters downplays as normal policy:

It’s been just over a year of Trump’s return to power. MAGA and its senior envoys in the trump-Vance administration *actually* thought a year ago they were headed for new territory of breaking the back of liberal cultural hegemony, even if they had to use the FCC and WH to help force it

To say…

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵:

-The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.

Me in today’s “One First”:

MAGA senator's pro-Trump 'challenge' backfires as he's hit with proof he's wrong U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), known for being a fierce ally to President Donald Trump, was hit with an avalanche of evidence that he is wrong after "challenging anyone" to explain a Dem's statement about Trump hurting hospitals.Lee took to social media over the weekend to share a video of U.S. Sen. ...

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) , known for being a fierce ally to President Donald Trump, was hit with an avalanche of evidence that he is wrong after "challenging anyone" to explain a Dem's statement about Trump hurting hospitals.