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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Nothing is surer to generate goodwill around the world than the US curating its very own state-sponsored 4chan board

One Year of RFK Jr. Has Left Public Health Devastated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he sai...

"Scientific expertise from the top all the way down to bench scientists has been lost .." How Kennedy dismantled public health agencies with almost no positive achievements to show for it.
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Seeing guys claim that AI is *already* intelligent and capable of original thought really gives the game away. It’s not about waiting for the technology to miraculously become better, it’s about convincing you it’s something that it’s not

Isn’t it more likely that demand took a hit from the fuel standards enacted by Obama and the advent of hybrids, before any effect from EV sales in the US was felt?

One thing I find curious in some articles about demand destruction, at least in the US, is how they say car sales peaked in 2017 and gas demand started dropping shortly after, and they point to Tesla as the driver for this, but that seems too early for EVs to have an impact?

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

But also weird that the oil industry’s response to a more efficient technology is to try to force cars to be even more inefficient

The Trump admin’s absolute hatred of fuel consumption standards is evidence of the desperation in these companies

America Just Lost Another of Its Great Institutions. This One Was a Filmmaker. Frederick Wiseman leaves behind a body of work as massive as all the institutions he chronicled.

I wrote about Frederick Wiseman, for whom most superlatives don't go far enough, and the most important thing he did that wasn't making movies.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

“These advances in AI really risk degrading the connections between politicians and political bodies and regular people.” Samuel Woolley, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, warns of “digital astroturfing” after a SoCal air board scrapped a key plan amid an AI-powered opposition campaign.

The platforms can juice the algorithms to help anyone they think will help them get richer and more powerful. Elon's doing it with X. Mark is almost certainly doing it (more subtly) on Meta platforms. And chatbots can do it with insane results. We need real guardrails on algorithmic manipulation.

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

$1800 a month for every family in the US last time somebody added it up

Hakeem Jeffries having a Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl moment

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Indigenous lands show strong restoration gains “The land is the greatest asset we have,” said Luzineth Pataxó, a Pataxó leader from the Caramuru-Paraguaçu Indigenous Territory, in the Atlantic forests of Brazil’s Bahia state. “Our people have…

A study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest finds Indigenous lands and agrarian-reform settlements restore more forest than private properties — but also face higher reversals.

Researchers cite governance, farming pressures and the need for stronger land rights.

“Since one cannot know a radically better world
is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by
insisting on continuing to justify, and reproduce,
the mess we have today? And anyway, even if
we’re wrong, we might well get a lot closer.”

- David Graeber

The U.S. Is Launching a Regulatory Assault on Drone Users New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.

Although the Trump administration cites national security concerns to justify snatching affordable drones away from American users for their own good, its own actions consistently undermine the argument, argues Faine Greenwood.

Big Oil got the win they've dreamed of: gutting climate pollution regs.

But their reaction isn't joy, IT'S FEAR.

Why? The old system of checks on corporate power is crumbling, and they know we could win a much better system in it's place.

They're right to be scared. We're coming for them.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

This is wealth redistribution, which Republicans claim to hate.

They're taking *your* money in the form of taxes, thereby reducing *your* wealth, and giving it to coal companies to prevent them from failing, thereby increasing *their* wealth.

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

Kevin Moncla, who pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge and was ordered to pay more than $3 million for secretly filming guests in his home bathroom, has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud.

Just in the past few months in Minnesota, there have been as many ICE employees arrested for sex trafficking as there's been people executed by ICE agents

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.