Gayle Turner

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.

We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Science journal retracts widely cited study that claimed Roundup is safe The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the controversial herbicide Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher, raising new concerns about the chemical’s potential dangers.

The Trump administration, meanwhile, aims to shield its manufacturer from lawsuits.

This story deserved a whole lot more attention. apnews.com/article/musk...

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

The end of that story in the Bible is Jesus telling the Pharisees to go learn what it means for the Lord to say “I desire mercy and not sacrifice.”

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Some of the fired-up "students" Turning Point USA brought to its youth rally for gerrymandering at the Indiana state house yesterday. Kids today! You may not agree with everything they say, but it's just great to see them getting involved.

Rep. Grijalva says ICE agents pepper sprayed her at Tucson restaurant raid ICE agents deployed both tear gas and pepper balls at protesters, video obtained by The Post shows.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona) said she was pepper sprayed by ICE agents in Tucson as she tried to find out more information about a raid taking place at a restaurant in her district.

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected €1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site The protective shield over the Chornobyl disaster nuclear reactor in Ukraine, which was hit by a drone in February, can no longer perform its main function of blocking radiation, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced. In February a drone strike blew a hole in the “new safe confinement”, which was painstakingly built at a cost of €1.5bn ($1.75bn) next to the destroyed reactor and then hauled into place on tracks, with the work completed in 2019 by a Europe-led initiative. The IAEA said an inspection last week of the steel confinement structure found the drone impact had degraded the structure. Continue reading...

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA

These blatantly skewed maps in states like Texas & Indiana are direct result of Roberts Court decision in 2019 essentially legalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering which doesn’t get enough attention as one of worst things court has done www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.

Reform Government Secrecy The government keeps too many secrets, and many shouldn’t be secrets in the first place. We must fight overclassification and defend our right to know.

54 years ago, Sen. Mike Gravel had the courage to read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, ensuring the public could read the classified findings.

Today, someone in Congress today needs to find the same courage to read the boat strike memo.

Tell them to with @freedom.press's tool.

Trump Administration Responds to Tragedy By Putting Hundreds of Thousands of Legal Immigrants’ Lives On Hold  - American Immigration Council Trump has halted immigration processing, expanded travel-ban rules, and launched reviews that could upend cases approved over the last four years.

Read our blog post on the matter! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Any sense your group will have input that is used in admin decision making? I have become a skeptic through experience. I would love to be wrong.

At my institution it became clear over the years that university administration never listened to leadership or advisory groups composed of faculty, even when the groups had contractual standing (Faculty Handbook). Decisions were always top down, absent of expert (faculty) input.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded


BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

three students sit around and look at post-it notes

five students hang out in an exhibit about bats. they are excited about bats. bats!

a bunch of trainees in front of the washington monument

students pointing at a whiteboard and laughing

I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3

Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for Texas to use a gerrymandered congressional map in next year’s midterm elections that a lower court found racially discrimina...

With its greenlighting of Texas's racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court is further normalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering.

More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million.

Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

They have trapped all of us in their drug and sex cult. And we really are ruled by just this - their drug delusions and their sexual predation.

In case it isn’t clear.

what's wrong with him?

The actual scandal of elite American education has never been the supposed unfairness of affirmative action. The scandal is preferences for rich failsons like Kushner who go on to make the world worse for everyone.

NC Supreme Court race ‘can’t be a campaign about issues.’ What to expect instead. The race’s candidates appear clear: Democrat Anita Earls will seek reelection against Rep. Sarah Stevens, a nine-term Republican state lawmaker.

NC Supreme Court race ‘can’t be a campaign about issues.’ What to expect instead. Democratic Justice Anita Earls will run against GOP Rep. Sarah Stevens. Outcome won't change majority in 2026 but could have impact in 2028. (Via @kyleingram.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/politic... #ncpol

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

The Heresy of a God Who Hates Empathy Why the struggle for the moral narrative in public life matters

On Ebenezer Scrooge and the "toxic empathy" Christians. From Revs. Barber & Wilson-Hartgrove open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

I shared this WILD post with my husband, who proceeded to Google me for fun, and according to Google AI I'm married to a coworker whom I've spoken with maybe twice. We met when we both had covid, apparently. 💀

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.