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$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay - emptywheel After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000...

$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

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Publicity photo of Amelia Earhart in 1935.

The 4 story rounded stone building at 305 Saint Peter Street, looking like the prow of an ocean liner. Designed by St Paul Architect Magnus Jemme, an early and one of the finest examples of Streamline Moderne. Library of Congress

#OnThisDay Oct 7, 1935: Amelia Earhart returns to the city of her youth to speak at St Paul Women’s City Club about the opportunities for women in technological and scientific advancements. The Club building, built 1931 and a particularly fine example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne, still stands.

The thoughts of an economic depression are depressing

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.

Should've used this photo

This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

How sad.

Google search results for Turkmenistan where the AI overview reads "Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by the Caspian Sea to the west and several other Central Asian nations to the east and south. It is known for its vast natural gas reserves, which drive its economy, and its capital, Ashgabat." Turkmenistan however is not landlocked, as the next clause of the sentence says. Its entire western border is the Caspian Sea, actually.

The previous image, edited with labels on the Caspian Sea that read "literally water" and "not 'land'"

Google's "AI overview" continues to do its thing (be wrong). Meanwhile "AI" continues to be rammed down educators' and students' throats on a daily basis.

ATLANTIC: “Miller, like Trump, appears to believe his side stands for what is right and good, and his opponents stand for what is evil. Any methods used by Trump are ipso facto justified, and any methods used against him illegitimate.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

KI: Der Tod des Internets - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Das Internet wird überschwemmt von KI-generiertem Müll. Automatisierte Bots produzieren eine Flut aus KI-generierten Inhalten, der das Internet zu ersticken droht. Der Wissensraum wird mit Desinformat...

Ich empfehle dazu diese Dokumentation von @sixtus.net www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Will the masked ICE chuds move on to working meat processing plants? Highly unlikely.

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

I guess we’re at the “desegregation was bad” op-Ed’s in NYT stage of MAGA’s campaign to create Jim Crow II.

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

J.K. Rowling has to be thanked for this largely, no? As I recall this was her particular focus before attacking trans folks with her obscene wealth.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

"It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the [NYAG Letitia James]."
By my new @lawfaremedia.org colleague Molly L. Roberts (formerly of @washingtonpost.com )
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The irony is Burchett is saying this as Republicans are staying out of Congress to 🦆 duck a vote on the Epstein files — you aren’t protecting kids, Tim, you’re protecting child predators

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

As a globalist with a 10-year visa, am I blocked?

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the hardest part of living in Portland is having your house burn down every single night and then having to rebuild it during the day. the amount of money i spend just in drywall is insane.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

The real reason why Bluesky is failing so bad at moderation is simply because they're scared of congressional investigations by Republicans and having to spend millions on lawyers they they don't have to defend against it. It's all political and about self preservation.

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

The ice cream truck just went by our house. On October 6. In Massachusetts.