Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 5d ago

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

The conservative playbook: when you don’t have anything good to run on, run on fear.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

AOC shut down a reporter's "communism" question with one simple fact:

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

If you are struggling to explain "democracy" to someone, just tell them: In a democracy, you tell the government what to do with your tax money. And if they don't, you lock them up. In a non democracy, they take your money and do whatever the hell they want. And if you complain, they lock you up.

Warnock earns 10/10. No notes. 😂😂😂 #LoserTrumpsElectionLies

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phylan@phylan.website · 3w ago

I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING

I don’t agree with Rep. Tlaib on everything, but she really nails Vought to the wall in this exchange. CFPB is utterly corrupt and is utterly beholden to corporations under this administration. youtu.be/wJBSn_MM6lg?...

Rashida Tlaib ERUPTS At Russell Vought: "YOU SHOULD BE FIRED!" | Explosive Hearing

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Save this before the speech starts: real election fraud evidence gets filed in court, reviewed by judges, and results in charges. Fake election fraud evidence gets announced on primetime TV with no paperwork attached. Watch which one you’re getting tonight. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

Trump years have been instructive because it's been clear that nobody in the GOP actually hates the inevitably bad things about communism. Secret police, personality cults, gulags, kleptocracy, party loyalty tests, martial law, even central planning. Just the concept of people with less having more.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 3w ago

Completely—and utterly irresponsibly—unhinged.

Yes, let’s ‘find a link’; forget about previous research and the scientific method.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3w ago

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

We’ve opened the strait that was never closed, ceasing a ceasefire for a war that was never a war, stopping Iran from charging tolls because tolls are illegal, all so Trump can charge his *own* tolls because *his* tolls are legal. This will hurt affordability which is a hoax anyway

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

A 20% charge would work out to about $32 million for a fully-loaded very large crude carrier at current oil prices. That’s far higher than the tolls that have been charged by Iran, which have previously been described as reaching $2 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To Democrats and their eulogies: If you say that democracy is under attack by the Republican Party—and it is—and you say that the Republican Party represents an authoritarian threat—and it does—then civility and comity have already been murdered, and shows of comity are utterly incoherent.

“We are travellers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” ― Paulo Coelho –

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If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 4w ago

Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Reposting to spread the word. Sane comments to preserve factual scientific research funding decisions are due by 13JUL.

Sarah Gollust@sarahgollust.bsky.social · 4w ago

Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

Democrats should just run ads that are montages of headlines of all the various Trump family theft of taxpayer money with this clip as the tag

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

JD Vance: "I ask you a very simple question: When you come to vote in November, are you gonna vote for the pro-fraud party? Are you gonna vote for the party that is sending your tax dollars to the fraudsters?"

This is all just ballooning foreign policy malpractice. The negotiations are a “waste of time” because Trump’s negotiators change by the day. So do his goals and demands. It’s all gross incompetence that is costing American taxpayers and consumers billions.

As I've said many times, to the reactionary mind, there is only one meaningful binary: us & them. It helps if you translate everything they say into those terms. "Good character," "real American," "Constitutional," "godly," "unbiased" ... they all just mean "us." Inverse of all those is "them."

The Graham Platner fiasco proves that the Democrat Party is far too tolerant of sexual predators. by Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Pete Hegseth, Jim Jordan, Dennis Hastert, Blake Farenthold, Trent Franks, Herman Cain, Cory Mills, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald J. Trump

Democrats, this election is a referendum on Trump - keep it there. This isn’t complicated.

Stop listening to this man - he has horrible judgement.

When the work meeting is almost over and that one co-worker keeps asking questions.

Whole thread, God this is so fucking enraging, we have absolutely failed this generation of students and as failures go I don’t see how that one can be forgiven

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/