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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

A grand jury has rejected federal prosecutors' attempts to indict Sean Dunn, the man accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a CBP officer. This comes after three OTHER failed attempts to indict another person accused of assaulting a federal agent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Scene from Being There, with the quote "I like to watch, Eve."

Comedians are a comfort and he can’t silence all of us. The ridicule must go deeper. Bruise and swell him from the inside. Thicken those ankles until they burst.

And Ann Richards was the Governor of Texas and Pete Wilson of California.

Party on, G.

I really wanted them to use those color changing crystals for the Papal Smoke Fire, but no such luck.

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

And LOTT

Or mine.

Imagine if Democratic lawmakers went and took photos of themselves in front of the insurrectionists in their prison cells. Except there had been no trials, and those people were being tortured and huddled together like animals at a slaughterhouse.

In the wake of the ongoing disasters with funding streams, I'm seeing lots of folks suggest that scientists turn to social media crowdfunding to fund their research.

For about a decade I held the record for the social media crowdfunded project that got the most funding. I received about $9,000.

"We don't have enough unity" is a key point. People can ratio me all they want with their "red lines",but purity politics are killing us. Do I think it's the "1 reason" we lost? I don't, because despite what everybody "knows", I don't think there is "1 reason". But we need to put this shit aside.

Y'all gonna be back this weekend?

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

“Of course one of the big risks is not underpayment or overpayment per se but [it’s also] not paying someone at all and not knowing about it. The invisible errors and omissions,” an SSA technologist tells WIRED.

Read the full scoop here:

Beaker as Janelle Monae on the cover of Allure Magazine.

just photoshopping muppets onto the cover of allure magazine: thread

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Schumer saying on Chris Hayes that the GOP could just eliminate employees and entire government programs unless Dems pass their bill lol. What do you think they’re doing already, Chuck?

Feel like today is the perfect day for @jewishwonk.bsky.social to bring back the bad Jewish food takes.

Donald Trump’s “yo-yo diplomacy” angers our allies, emboldens our enemies, and weakens the United States on the world stage. Chaos is not a workable foreign policy strategy.

"Taxation without representation"

Bruni: Nicole, a history question, sort of: In a sentence, how will history remember and judge Mitch McConnell? Hemmer: McConnell will be remembered as the man who enabled all of this, first in 2016 by blocking Merrick Garland and making the Supreme Court a key issue and then in 2021 by not holding Trump responsible for the insurrection.

I joined Frank Bruni and Tim Miller to talk about the chaotic, destructive first month of the Trump administration. I mostly avoided prognosticating, but I do feel like this prediction will hold up well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o... (🎁)

РУССКИЙ ВОЕННЫЙ КОРАБЛЬ, ИДИ НАХУЙ

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

"RFK Jr. Wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government wellness farms"

I keep seeing this story float around and I hate the framing.

I'm no more "addicted" to antidepressants than someone with a pacemaker is "addicted" to electronics.

They're lifesaving medicines that correct a chemical imbalance in your brain.

We are the archives now.
We are the historians & storytellers.

Pick a threatened topic dear to your heart.
Read what is left.
Learn.
Use VPNs to access material if that becomes necessary
Record information online & off.
Memorize the stories.
Tell others, especially the young.

Be the Bard.

Of course, but, as someone who was at the receiving end of other mentally ill extremists violent actions, this is a remarkably stupid statement to make. Mental health issues don't give a shit about party preference. And this will be someone's defense.

#teslatakeover NoHo was on the smaller side, but enthusiastic. Go drive by and if they're still there show them some love.

Holy lord.