saltwater sally

Could AI fake it tho'.

A bunch of lies by separatists about how Alberta would be independent but somehow the US is going to lend us half a trillion dollars with no strings attached. Sure bud.

“We’re not a US state but we’ll be getting a half trillion dollars in debt so when we default they just annex us” is not the clever political strategy you think it is

And you are dumb enough to repost a false photo and report. Read the comments and delete.

😏he's a CNET editor

That's the problem with the UCP: none of this is "real" to them. Its all just theater to squeeze Ottawa until they reduce regulation and taxes on their buddies in the oil industry.

More americans really need to do some reading on competitive authoritarianism

Worth noting: The phrase "art is political" often gets treated as a moral command. But it's more like a simple observation of a condition. The work is made in a world. The world is there in the work.

He should cover not like us and replace drake with Trump.

We have a word for art devoid of ideas and point of view: slop.

How it started.
How it ends.

political cartoon, side-by-side panes left: "HOW IT STARTED", January 6th rioter beating Capitol Police right: "HOW IT'S GOING", ICE agent beating personified Lady (Statue of) Liberty Cartoon by Pat Bagley - The Salt Lake Tribune

Found a higher resolution version, Pat Bagley at The Salt Lake Tribune.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

"Let’s just say we all have different ideas of fun. Some of us like Wordle and banana bread. Others like setting things on fire. The latter tends to have more of an impact on everyone else."

Rhik Samadder reviews new "Lord of the Flies".

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

Among those appointed last week was Daniel Rossignol, a doctor who was sued for alleged fraud after prescribing a 7-year-old autistic child a debunked and dangerous treatment. Tracy Slepcevic, an appointee who Kennedy calls a “dear friend,” offers exposure to a wide range of bogus autism cures at her annual Autism Health Summit, including one that involves the injection of animal stem cells into children. Another appointee, Toby Rogers, has claimed that “no thinking person vaccinates” and that vaccine makers are “poisoning children.” Rogers is a fellow at the Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research and has also called vaccines “one of the greatest crimes in human history.” He has written articles for Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine group founded by Kennedy that has linked autism to vaccines.

Other appointees are no different: John Gilmore founded the Autism Action Network and has said that his autistic son is “vaccine injured.” Gilmore is also the founder of the New York chapter of Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense group. Ginger Taylor, the former director of the Maine Coalition for Vaccine Choice, has publicly claimed that many autism cases involve “vaccine causation.” Elizabeth Mumper has written for Children’s Health Defense and is a senior fellow with the Independent Medical Alliance, a group formerly known as the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance that has promoted ivermectin as a treatment for Covid.

Meet the brain geniuses that RFK Jr has put on a key US government autism committee. from @davidgilbert.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

It's not even a middle-of-the-road position in Ohio; it's downright common-sense.
The governor of Ohio, a Republican, was born in Springfield and says that immigrants are key to the economic growth of Springfield and Ohio. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

Cincinnati enquirer headline about how Ohio depends on immigrants for growth

Love and support you always, Cincinnati Enquirer (support local media), but esp today

This is a Midwest daily paper. About as middle of the road as you can get

& they understand that this is an objective, straight news headline, in the context of a planned Trump/GOP onslaught in Springfield, etc

This was to be expected - after cutting support to pro-democracy civil society last year, the US state is now looking to actively support far-right affiliated think tanks and charities in Europe.

This SpaceX Situation: Not Good! Elon Musk's political projects are combining into a highly concerning megacompany.

The SpaceX/xAI merger situation is actually pretty important and, I think, very bad. "Data centers in space" is a bit of a pipe dream, but SpaceX now dominates low-Earth orbit in a highly concerning way. Starlink is real and could monopolize a lot of things.Not Good!

www.404media.co/this-spacex-...

"Days before his address, the AMA permanently shut down the AMA Journal of Ethics, a 20-year-old publication built to help clinicians navigate the moral dimensions of medicine."

"Before Dr. Mehmet Oz’s Nov 17 speech to the AMA, AMA leadership told physicians that any expression of dissent would result in loss of credentials, according to multiple attendees.
Oz, under President Trump, now leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid."

US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations

US taxpayer “slush fund to get MAGA-style things going” & “fund European organisations to undermine government policies”, says Reform UK source. www.ft.com/content/f869...

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE I'm an expert, and the misconduct and corruption run far deeper than even the deadly surges have shown.

America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year—let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests.

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Jeffrey Epstein relays to Ehud Barak a private question from Noam Chomsky— “how long and how far will Israel proceed on the course to self-destruction”

just stupider

Infinitely re-doubled irony? Is there another term for this? 🤑