Gabriel Malor

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

this is an absolute twenty alarm fire and I just cannot bring myself to believe capital, in one way or another, isn’t going to reel him in on this.

we can’t have a real economy without the goddamn labor numbers. it just doesn’t work.

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Not just a "make things cheaper" button. A "make the economy SING" button.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I wanna tell you about the time I ALMOST died...

I thought of another one I really liked, but haven't seen in a long time. FALLEN. He's in it with John Goodman, and it's sooo good.

Yes, but I didn't want to watch it more than the once.

We watched that film on repeat when we were kids.

The new version of Magnificent Seven.

"Not even a four pointer. Go back to sleep." - Vivica A. Fox's character, whose name I've forgotten. Jasmine? Maybe?

This country has one too many Stephen Millers already. I don't think a Democratic variant is going to improve our situation.

I don't doubt that someone is telling Swin this, I just need more information about what they actually mean. Because it's just a bizarre statement to me.

Exactly. It’s like asking for a Democratic Trump. Why?

I don't understand what is meant by a "Democratic Stephen Miller." Miller is motivated by contempt and hatred and his most successful tool has been his willingness to lie. "Hatians eating dogs and cats" and "invasion," etc.

Not even the truth beat those lie. So what is it they're asking for?

Finally, a place we can go where we can get our sushi fix AND Dad can come too.

My hottest take about getting laid-as-politicsis it's downstream from housing policy. Nobody wants to have sex where they live with their parents, or have 1k roommates. We must increase the supply of cheap little apartments where people can bang 🙏

Trump's War on Chocolate: 'There’s No Way for Us To Source This Domestically' I didn't expect economic insights from an animatronic cow. In the Disney-style ride at Hershey's headquarters that lays out the…

We hardly grow any cocoa beans in America, but it was American companies like Hershey's that, thanks to assembly lines and economic efficiency, put chocolate within the reach of nearly every human being on the planet.

That's the power of global trade.

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lolll this quote is a banger: “The best approach is putting drug dogs in the officer’s locker rooms, because that’s where it’s coming in.”

As in Manzo-Jurado, the factors at issue here impermissibly “cast suspicion on large segments of the lawabiding population,” including anyone in the District who appears Hispanic, speaks Spanish or English with an accent, wears work clothes, and stands near a carwash, in front of a Home Depot, or at a bus stop. Id. at 935. This conclusion is amply supported by the record, which shows that U.S. citizens and lawfully present immigrants were seized based on the four factors or a

subset of them—including the three U.S. Citizens discussed above, an 11-year-old U.S. citizen at a carwash, a lawfully present day laborer outside a Home Depot, and a legally present immigrant who was stopped by Defendants once while driving and again while standing outside a Home Depot. A combination of factors that describes a large segment of the population has “weak” probative value and therefore cannot amount to reasonable suspicion “unless . . . combined with other more probative factors,” Nicacio, 797 F.2d at 704, that “corroborate[] [the officers’] initial suspicions,” Manzo-Jurado, 457 F.3d at

ICYMI last night, 9th Cir. rejected the Trump administration's attempt to re-start DHS' racist roving patrols in Los Angeles, which kept subjecting U.S. citizens and LPRs of Latino ethnicity to illegal seizures.

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CA9 panel refuses to stay lower court order blocking Trump’s “Operation At Large” in LA OF roving patrols of armed federal immigration personnel stopping and terrifying people without reasonable suspicion of undocumented status other than, well, racism.

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Reminder: it is a crime that they ended Across the Spiderverse with a cliffhanger in 2023, utterly no urgency, and we have to wait until 2027 to get the conclusion. I could be hit by a bus in five minutes! A CRIME.

This boy came face to face with a deer this morning while he was supposed to be makin' water. He jumped a foot and then froze while the deer ran away. I yelled from the house, "YOUR ANCESTORS WERE WOLVES!" while he looked confused.

Skeptical golden retriever.

Himself is a little irritated. He wants to go up to our bedroom for sleeps. He doesn't know that his person is on the way to bring him home.

Court allows Trump to end union bargaining for federal workers A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a judge's order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with U.S. agencies.

New: A federal appeals court on has lifted a judge's order blocking the Trump administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to engage in union bargaining with U.S. agencies. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

ICE has arrested and incarcerated and is trying to deport a Cuban legal immigrant who is a political dissident who entered legally, is here legally, who has committed no crimes and is married to a US citizen WITHOUT DUE PROCESS storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

well, that should tamp down the speculation, great work everyone

The inability to read out loud (which implies an inability to read silently) is scary. Maybe he's rushing bc he thinks you're supposed to talk fast, idk. That was hard to watch.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Good lord, Will Cain looks like he's aged twenty years since the last time I saw him. That is Will, right?