The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

elon makes something that crashes every day until he forgets, day 8,037

The FBI uses a lot of shitty people as cooperators and informants but Trump is a great example of someone they wouldn’t use — a pathologically narcissistic braggart who could never keep a secret or maintain focus. It would be like asking the Trix rabbit to wear a wire.

Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.

Federal court blocks Trump’s use of 1798 law

i don't particularly trust the Venezuelan government but i can't think of any good reason to consider our government more credible here

The federal govt's extortion of UCLA has numerous problems. One is that it is ostensibly based on some factual allegations that are so exaggerated that they are actually false.

I wrote about this today in a long blog post reflecting on what I saw at UCLA and how lawyers later mischaracterized it:

This is a great interview. LA Taco really has been doing great stuff, well before the ICE raids. One of the best Los Angeles-based outlets. I remember a very good piece profiling the one voting center inside Skid Row, in an election where homelessness was the top issue.

I cannot repost this link enough times.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Publications turn to the old-style products to appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape.

Some incredibly good news:

One year ago this week, The Onion returned to print.

In that one year, we’ve grown to the 13th largest print newspaper in the United States, just ahead of the Boston Globe, and growing fast.

In short, it’s working.

So… thank you. Thank you for helping save this thing.

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

"Google’s AI summaries are cratering traffic and rewiring the web. In schools, ChatGPT hasn’t just killed the student essay; it seems to be threatening basic building blocks of human cognition."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"Because my parents are like super strict." More leaked sexts between Destiny and "Rose," the underage girl he sent revenge porn. 😑

Steven Bonnell aka Destiny is accused of both sexting and sharing non concentual sexual material with a minor and CNN thought it would be appropriate to do a profile on him this month.
After numerous women stated that he recorded and shared sexual material without their consent

it very much appears that the los angeles sheriff's department murdered this anti-ICE activist.

Videos are pouring in if cops being their customary roid-fueled, excessively violent selves, but not one video of a cop getting shot or attacked with anything beyond Subway.

So where are the Mad Max gangs who have supposedly taken over the streets?

Oh right, this is a fascist regime and they lie.

Issue-specific targeted checkpoints like DUI checkpoints can be constitutional, but a generalized roust-everyone-for-anything checkpoints are definitely not. There may be an exception for a special purpose to help a career sex pest and rapist evade attention to his connection to a serial pedophile.

this is the best thing I've ever seen

1) Andrew Cuomo's book deal was $5 million.
2) His net worth is estimated at $10 million. (Forbes)
3) Cuomo's scandals have cost NY state taxpayers $60 million in legal fees.
4) Andrew Cuomo's own father was governor for three terms.

we need to bring back marooning as a legal punishment

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

just wait until you see this in some actual context, Autopilot is the biggest high-tech scandal in modern history

Were the recalls a property investment strategy undertaken by two men who have apparently flourished in a market of luxury high rises that was out of their reach previously?

Remember when the sun got stuck in the Suez Canal and fucked up all our solar shipping lanes? Or all those huge spills of solar energy that we had to clean up?

Remember when the NYPD raided a Shake Shack, illegally arrested staff, put their names and the business on blast for trying to poison cops (despite the available evidence making that extremely unlikely) and then found out it was just paranoid cops who thought their shakes tasted funny?

Fun times.

She had to fight for help with medical bills. A new California bill could make it easier Millions of Californians are burdened with medical debt. A new bill in the state Legislature would make hospitals do more to help.

So infuriating to me that we live in a health care system where medical debt is systemic and telling that hospitals often bury details about assistance programs for low-income patients who cannot afford their bills.

Ozzy was a man who wrestled his personal demons his whole life and tried to bring something positive to the world, even when wrestling himself.

Hulk Hogan ratted out his friends, exploited his business dealings, and supported heinous policies.

And only one of 'em had a good reality TV show.

Good morning from Oakland and the Office of Administrative Hearings, where we are resuming the hearing in the matter of the California DMV's complaint against Tesla for misleading advertising of its Autopilot and "Full Self-Driving Capability." First up we will hear from witness Bryant Walker Smith.

Less than a decade ago, you almost exclusively heard this belief — every single trans person is lying or mistaken — on the fringe right. Now it is routine across the political spectrum and appears as a legitimate view in mainstream sources.