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Well the last time multiple age cohorts were fucked up by a global pandemic was...immediately following World War I. Nothing bad happened in those 30 years, right?

Wall Street Journal: Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment Tech leaders at WSJ’s Technology Council Summit said it’s nearly impossible to measure the impact of AI on business productivity. And when we try, we’re measuring it wrong. By Belle Lin and Steven Rosenbush Sept. 16, 2025 9:33 pm ET

This is hilarious. These people have never run a real business. It is 100% a scam operated by skiled, dedicated grifters.
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btwn the state sponsored censorship hypocrisy and stuff like this it really feels like a theme of being alive right now is power feeling like it doesn’t even have to try - just treating everyone with obvious contempt

Friends, we need to appreciate the situation of the wilfully ignorant as an equity-deserving group. Long excluded from the corridors of power by their own ineptitude, banished from political influence to the sound of the cruel laughter of voters, marginalized and ultimately ejected from colleges...

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

NEW: Mexico could displace ALL US gas imports for power generation, with solar and batteries ☀️

The country’s abundant sunshine means it can become a global solar superpower and boost its energy security at the same time:)

It's hard to write about a complex visa program in a way that can resonate with everyone. But @maxblau.bsky.social and Zaydee Sanchez did it with the narrative of a single woman, told with such respect and care.

Read the thread and the story below:

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Mendoza forced her to live at his house and sign a marriage license. He threatened to have her deported. He repeatedly raped her. But then she escaped. She called the police, and Mendoza was arrested.

A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap. Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...

Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. But the farmworker visa that allowed her to come to the U.S. legally ended up being a trap. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...

Over the past few years, I’ve been fascinated with one of the largest federal investigations happening in Georgia, known as Operation Blooming Onion. So I partnered with Zaydee Sanchez to uncover the untold story of an unnamed victim at the heart of the case. 🧵

🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com:

“But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are?

The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].”

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/

Federal forces just tear gassed myself and the other peaceful protestors here at the Broadview ICE facility. This is a terrifying escalation, but we will not back down.

How Hungary's Orbán uses control of the media to escape scrutiny and keep the public in the dark | The Associated Press BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In the months leading up to elections for the European Parliament, Hungarians were warned that casting a ballot against Prime

Viktor Orban had his most loyal oligarchs buy up all of Hungary's major media outlets to establish a propaganda network. It's happening here now.

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Coming this fall.

"Five years after Canada first raced to secure COVID-19 vaccines, the country is preparing to pass a milestone this fall: the first made-in-Canada COVID-19 shots.

U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. is producing the mRNA vaccines at plants in Laval, Que., and Cambridge, Ont."

Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins

“Its hybrid warfare is not the strategy of a strong power but of a weak one trying to mask its fragility. We should see it for what it is: not the projection of strength but the confession of weakness.”

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing Comes As Feckless TV Networks Lobby Trump To Destroy Remaining Media Consolidation Limits As Mike just got done noting, our major media companies continue to respond to authoritarianism by being pathetic and feckless little shitweasels. First with the ABC and CBS bribery payments to our…

I wrote a little bit more about the Kimmel firing, and how the "big four" major networks are being extra feckless right now because they've been lobbying for years to eliminate the few remaining media consolidation limits we have (including one major rule preventing them from merging)

fun fact the government only very recently gave up on claiming I committed a felony in the creation of this Sinclair Broadcast Group video in 2018

THIS is the kind of order judges should be issuing against performative complaints.

Bill Would Give The State Dept. The Ability To Deny Passports To Citizens Who Criticize Israel

This isn't anything that actually needed to be done. The federal government has plenty of options at its disposal if it thinks someone is providing material support for terrorism. It's one of things that…

They’re kidnapping people off the street cartel-style I've become accustomed to being lied to every day by now. About Israel and immigrants and trans people to name but a few. But there has been a superlative concentration of lies this past week. A novel...

A deeply important read.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

The agents eventually do successfully transfer the vehicles. Meanwhile, the @abc7.bsky.social news van gets gassed.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois:

a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work.

a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

An ICE agent unholstered his gun at a protest this morning.

Please don't let yourself become numb to this.

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

This dude absolutely radiates a vibe of "if you do what you love for a living, you'll never work a day in your life" and what he loves is physically abusing women.