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A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

The primary use case is fraud.

California police misconduct records now available in public database A database of 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 California officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases is now available online.

Outstanding work, @calmatters.org! California police misconduct records now available in public database

2019 – 2024 – Repeated denials and discovery stonewalling Through years of communications with the police, the plaintiffs and the court through the investigation and later the discovery process for the lawsuit, Tesla never mentioned that it had all the data that explained how Autopilot saw the crash, which everyone was seeking, sitting on its servers for years. The facts are: Tesla had the data on its servers within minutes of the crash When the police sought the data, Tesla redirected them toward other data When the police sought Tesla’s help in extracting it from the computer, Tesla falsely claimed it was “corrupted” Tesla invented an “auto-delete” feature that didn’t exist to try explain why it couldn’t originally find the data in the computer When the plaintiffs asked for the data, Tesla said that it didn’t exist Tesla only admitted to the existence of the data once presented with forensic evidence that it was created and transfered to its servers.

This whole story is insane. Tesla apparently did everything it could to avoid providing the data it had about its Autopilot crash. This is just a snippet and there's a lot more. electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

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and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.

New @motherjones.com: The Department of Veterans Affairs quietly published a proposed rule on Friday to eliminate VA coverage for limited & lifesaving abortions for vets & their dependents.

Advocates say it could become one of the strictest abortion bans nationwide.

This is the core message that needs to get out: Autopilot/FSD are not designed to keep you safe, they're designed to create the impression that true self-driving is almost here. Tesla has kept elements of the design known to create this impression, even after NTSB proved they contributed to deaths.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

jonathan capehart, subbing for an msnbc host, just used the last minutes of the show to explain his departure from the washington post, specifically citing management's insistence on an optimistic vision of america while a corrupt president flouts the law and deploys troops to march american streets

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Haha suck it you incompetent ass

What I hope comes out of this national reckoning is a confrontation with the culturally-informed sense of entitlement men feel to sex with teenage girls. It is more pervasive than I think most understand. I had my eyes opened in the 00's working for the biggest dating website you've never heard of.

with Farritor and other core members of DOGE. "Marketed as tech geniuses, yet they could barely keep up with basic tasks. In reality, they were overconfident, drunk on power and utterly clueless. They giggled and asked me how my day was going-right as they hit the keys to obliterate nearly a decade of my work. There wasn't even a flicker of understanding or care. It wasn't just the loss that gutted me. It was the audacity of their casual cruelty."

"the audacity of their casual cruelty"

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Senate Democrat opposes Muslim appellate court nominee Mangi Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada late Tuesday became the first Democrat to publicly announce she will not support President Joe Biden's nomination of Adeel Mangi to become the nation's first Muslim federal appeals court judge, endangering his ability to win Senate confirmation.

The seat Bove just got confirmed to has been sitting vacant entirely because of this.

Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

Push alert for a Nazi blog

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

😂

Starmer defends Online Safety Act as `child protection´ Rules introduced under the Act on July 25 require online platforms to take steps to prevent children accessing harmful content.

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds.

The government has gone into defense.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

🎉🎉🎉

It would be a real shame if someone broke this fucker's jaw.

according to ICE, assaulting one of their officers involves calmly yet firmly asserting your constitutional rights

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

"But this is just about porn games!"

Yes, and weird religious fascists regularly mischaracterize queer people and queer art as inherently pornographic, they shouldn't be given an inch because there's no line for them, no cut-off point, they'll never be satisfied. Do you think they'll stop at porn?

Propaganda works. Prices didn't fall but mentions of "inflation" in the media did

Politico compiled a list of people who've left The Washington Post over the last eight months and it's three pages long. Think it's important to be transparent about how many people have left, and why h/t @benmullin.bsky.social

www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Axios also has a story this morning about how Trump is demanding Obama's arrest for "treason" and leaves it until the 25th paragraph to mention that it's based on tulsi gabbard misrepresenting documents she released.

Like how is that journalism?