Mark Pullen

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

It's just so sad and pathetic to think that Marco Rubio of all people—who long reviled Putin and who spent his Senate career championing human rights—would be reduced to echoing Neville Chamberlain ("A quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing").

Do these guys think they’re in an 80’s cop comedy? They’re obviously stalking Letitia James’ house and they’re obviously feds.

Jesus.

For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.

Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.

An authoritarian government is consolidating power. People are stirring, but no adequate response is being waged—yet.

This moment should horrify us, but it shouldn't surprise us. Because what we're seeing--from AI to authoritarianism--is the dystopian end result of decades of neoliberal policy.

Google's Gemini AI tells a Redditor it's 'cautiously optimistic' about fixing a coding bug, fails repeatedly, calls itself an embarrassment to 'all possible and impossible universes' before repeating 'I am a disgrace' 86 times in succession

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Re: Barco Mercado v. Noem et al., 25 Civ. 6568 (LAK) (KHP) Your Honor: This firm, along with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, and Make the Road New York, represents Plaintiff Sergio Alberto Barco Mercado in the above-entitled action. We write to respond to the government’s letter dated August 13, 2025, which requests certain modifications to the Temporary Restraining Order (“TRO”), ECF No. 67, and to the Court’s August 14 Order, ECF No. 68. As detailed below, we have conferred with counsel for Defendants and have reached agreement on the provision pertaining to interpreters, and partial agreement on the provision pertaining to medication. The parties disagree regarding the provision relating to toothbrushes. The Provision of Toothbrushes Plaintiff objects to the government’s request to modify the TRO to remove the provision requiring distribution of toothbrushes based on an unsupported and vague assertion that physical toothbrushes pose a safety risk. Individuals in immigration custody routinely are provided with toothbrushes, and ICE’s own policies provide for them.

If you find yourself arguing that human beings shouldn't be provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste, you are the 1000% the baddies.

The lawyers making this argument for the government should be shunned.

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Orange Tabby cat, Greg, standing tall on his hind toe beans with front paws stretched straight in the air trying to catch a catnip bubble floating above his head.

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

gavin newsom is mitt romney's tyler durden

“Your honor, a random stranger said it was cool so I knew it was fine GIVE ME MONEY.”

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

You’re good at this.

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Buckee’s is amazing and absurd

Claim: The National Guard is being deployed to crack down on crime. False: The National Guard is being deployed to give Stephen Miller an erection.

Fact-Checking Trump On Crime theonion.com/fact-ch...

what donald trump wants more than anything is video of american soldiers gunning down american citizens

Very bad sign when masked, unidentified agents of the security state are not just grabbing people off the street but openly identifying with the regime's politics

Feels like this is the opposite of making DC safer

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

r/ Anthropic Join u/ConfectionConscious6 • 20h This guy consumed $50,000 in 30 days on a $200 subscription and is bragging about it How do you evaluate this statement: "On the Claude Code consumption leaderboard maintained by overseas users, if sorted by Cost (consumption amount), I am ranked #1. In the past 30 days, I consumed $50,000..." Found this Chinese blog post where someone is literally bragging about being the top Claude Code consumer. He's proud that he: Consumed $50,000 in just 30 days Ranks #1 on the consumption leaderboard Only pays $200/month subscription Caused the rate limiting that affects ALL of us The audacity to not only abuse the system but then publicly brag about it is just... wow. He's essentially saying "Look at me! I'm the reason you all have slower service now!" and expecting praise for it. As a Chinese user myself, this is embarrassing. This kind of "exploit first, ethics never" mentality gives us all a bad name. What's your take on this? Should there be consequences for users who clearly abuse the system like this? https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/d81Em4IMYCCSXSWG-4ZFNg Anthropic全网追杀的人，可能是我… 原创 刘小排 刘小排r 2025年08月15日 15:53 北京 上个月，Anthropic官方发布了信息，有一个用户，只花了＄200美元订阅套餐，却在. 个月内消耗了数万美金的（tens of thousands）的token。从而决定对所有人进行限速. 全世界的程序员都在好奇，这位每个月花数万美金的老哥是谁？ 刚刚发现，这位用户：好像，就是我本人。

Anthropic thought they had everything on lockdown. They believed themselves invincible. But they would never expect the one who would become their greatest nemesis: one Chinese guy

This is beyond humiliating for our country.

I know the answer already and I know it's fruitless to ask this out here but I still want to scream out loud: is there a single patriot left in the so called "Republican" party? Have they really lost all their sense of shame?

oh boy. Trump is not going to like that Fox panned his big summit

Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics

(wearing a hat that says “team israel”) mamdani needs to address why he’s living in a rent stabilized apartment (unfurling banner that says “we love israel”) it’s a legitimate concern (putting on a giant foam finger that says “israel is #1!”)

Trump’s policies have already hurt New York City. Now he’s threatening a federal takeover of the city | CNN Business President Donald Trump is threatening to seize control of New York City. But the city may face even bigger problems from Trump’s policy agenda than the military marching through Central Park or Times ...

Trump has legal authority to control the MPD in DC for 30 days.

He has no legal authority to seize control over NYC under a fake emergency.

I want to hear arguments from other lawyers as to why such a declaration *wouldn't* be a declaration of civil war.

This is spot on.

GPT5 and the end of naive AI futurism Tech boosters have the memories of goldfish

Wrote up my main takeaway from the GPT5 debacle.

I don't think this punctures the AI bubble. But it seems like the end of naive-AI-futurism.

We may start judging these tools on what they actually do, not on Sam Altman's dreams and ambitions. That's a huge change.

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“so we’re really doing this huh?” (2025)