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After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem's across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard falls under Noem's purview at DHS during peacetime. Lewandowski also spends time at the house.

This was subtle.

GIFT LINK:

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(And yes, the same story holds explains the continuing onslaught against higher ed. See, e.g., …)

That is all prologue, of a kind. Up ahead looms the prospect of radical social and economic transformation at the hands of A.I., whose ultimate effects remain largely unknown but were sold first as existential and now as merely epochal. One consequence of that talk has been to remind people that they already feel pretty out of control of their own lives, in an age of big tech and a cost-of-living crisis. A.I. seems to promise another step in that same direction — handing what looks like a lot of social control over the whole human future to perhaps fewer companies, run by fewer executives, empowering perhaps even fewer algorithms, over which even less democratic oversight will be exercised than was the case in the hands-off social-media era.

That excerpt comes from a newsletter by climate journalist @dwallacewells.bsky.social (messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...) — who alluded, in a later paragraph, to billionaire ambitions of “social control over the whole human future.”

I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.

Another good reason not to argue with shitty people on this site. Block and move on.

George Zoley was on a conference call just a few hours ago talking about GEO's outstanding 2025. For fiscal year 2025, the company clocked an 800% increase in profit, thanks to our tax dollars. Just a massive wealth distribution upwards to this guy and his fellow profiteers. 800%.

at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew

It’s amazing that MAGA people actually think this admin spends 5 minutes giving a fuck about any of them because they are fed a steady diet of culture war bullshit by Trump, Fox and paid influencers to keep them blissfully ignorant of what is really happening.

Elon Musk genuinely has to be regarded as one of history’s pre-eminent mass murderers

It's not even that: It's that they don't CARE whether or not there is a future beyond their lives. They know there won't be, for the record, but they wouldn't care even if they didn't.

This is your regular reminder that in the year 2000, Paul Rudd, with frosted tips, appeared in the Hong Kong film GEN-Y COPS as a bad guy (kinda). In the movie, he does martial arts, fights a robot, and, most shocking of all, does an entire scene in Cantonese.

One thing to bear in mind as critical context is that these are the biggest fucking cowards who ever lived. He "survived" being spoken to sternly by a woman.

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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Name some. This sounds like an autocomplete response

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Bet you a nickel it’s related to this. 👇🏽

Gabbard and Kushner are on the take from a foreign government???

You can't trust ANYONE these days

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

the head of health and human services, ladies and gentlemen

UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.

Lying in a position of power should be considered extremely serious. All of these sacks of shit need to go to jail.

If you're not persuaded the Trump team is turning the 250th anniversary of US independence into a partisan clown show, note that Freedom 250, the dark money group that's taken over the party planning, is apparently partnering with Glenn Beck and Moms for Liberty. momsforliberty.org/news/moms-fo...

when, in the last five years or so, it became obvious that our main weapon against climate change did not have to be a reduction in living standards, but in increasingly abundant and cheap solar energy, I was so happy. but even the profit motive is not enough for these people

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

They're putting girls in forced pregnancy camps, Senator www.kut.org/politics/202...