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All of my heroines have resting bitch face.
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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It is also important to keep in mind that one of the first immigration actions Trump & Miller took was stranding the next batch of these Afghan refugees who were approved & waiting to come here. Essentially condemning them to persecution & possible torture or death.
this should go without saying but if you were one of the lucky few we did get out of Afghanistan during the withdrawal and we got you out because you'd been working with us, deportation back is likely a death sentence.
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It is also important to keep in mind that one of the first immigration actions Trump & Miller took was stranding the next batch of these Afghan refugees who were approved & waiting to come here. Essentially condemning them to persecution & possible torture or death.
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I think the right-wing conspiracy active here is quite old and mundane: the belief that government is full of freeloaders, or full of leftists which are the same thing
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I think the right-wing conspiracy active here is quite old and mundane: the belief that government is full of freeloaders, or full of leftists which are the same thing
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
As you can see, we all had "lower productivity jobs in the public sector" and a presumed lazy desire for extended vacation
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-denies-ever-laying-eggs-in-olivia-nuzzi/
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
RFK Jr. Denies Ever Laying Eggs In Olivia Nuzzi https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-denies-ever-laying-eggs-in-olivia-nuzzi/
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I don't think $140k makes sense as a "poverty line," but worth noting such a family is likely paying a similar or higher total effective tax rate than most billionaires.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I don't think $140k makes sense as a "poverty line," but worth noting such a family is likely paying a similar or higher total effective tax rate than most billionaires.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
American taxes are structured to make it hard to turn income into savings but easy to grow existing wealth into greater wealth.
this is the way
A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday ordered federal immigration officers to stop making arrests in Colorado without a warrant, unless the detainee posed a flight risk, the latest in a string of lower-court decisions rebuking President Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics.
Colorado Judge Tells Immigration Agents to Stop Arrests Without Warrants
The ruling that immigration agents are acting illegally is the latest to rebuke the Trump administration’s tactics, but earlier orders have been blocked on appeal.
nyti.ms
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this is the way
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“They should do it the right way”
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“They should do it the right way”
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Hegseth’s reference to “this nation’s Christian faith” at the end is notable. America is NOT a Christian nation, just for the record. It’s a nation in which everyone is free to worship however they want.
Pete Hegseth says Trump has asked him to add 500 more National Guard troops to Washington D.C.
It's unclear why he seems to be smirking throughout much of this.
x.com/dowresponse/...
It's unclear why he seems to be smirking throughout much of this.
x.com/dowresponse/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hegseth’s reference to “this nation’s Christian faith” at the end is notable. America is NOT a Christian nation, just for the record. It’s a nation in which everyone is free to worship however they want.
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Lizza doling this story out in a series of paywalled posts to drum up subscribers to his newsletter is just so utterly brazen, so spectacularly shameless, so quintessentially 2025 ... it's breathtaking. You gotta tip your hat.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lizza doling this story out in a series of paywalled posts to drum up subscribers to his newsletter is just so utterly brazen, so spectacularly shameless, so quintessentially 2025 ... it's breathtaking. You gotta tip your hat.
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“changing the course of history with the knowledge i have in real-time would be cool, but my book has gotta do numbers”
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
“changing the course of history with the knowledge i have in real-time would be cool, but my book has gotta do numbers”
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I am generally (inaccurately) considered a hypist on this site because I do applied AI/ML stuff as a scientist. But I 100% agree. I _wish_ all of the “ocean-boiling lie machine” energy was focused on morally obliterating image and video gen, which have few legit (and zero compelling) use cases.
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I am generally (inaccurately) considered a hypist on this site because I do applied AI/ML stuff as a scientist. But I 100% agree. I _wish_ all of the “ocean-boiling lie machine” energy was focused on morally obliterating image and video gen, which have few legit (and zero compelling) use cases.
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The Justice Department's settlement against RealPage doesn't take a dime of its profits from rental price-fixing, nor does it take away the data used to collude, which can still train the company's AI models. The restrictions imposed were things RealPage agreed to voluntarily a year ago.
Not good!
Not good!
The Wrist-Slappers Strike Again - The American Prospect
A settlement with algorithmic collusion facilitator RealPage allows it to keep allegedly ill-gotten profits and continue innovating to raise rents.
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The Justice Department's settlement against RealPage doesn't take a dime of its profits from rental price-fixing, nor does it take away the data used to collude, which can still train the company's AI models. The restrictions imposed were things RealPage agreed to voluntarily a year ago.
Not good!
Not good!
lol
The Department of Government Efficiency is claiming that it is still operational, despite reports that the agency has disbanded. trib.al/R5b8Fx6
DOGE Kills Shutdown Rumors, Vows to Continue Terrorizing Americans
The “Department of Government Efficiency” says it’s not going anywhere.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
lol
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It’s rarely easy to stand up against an illegal order. I did it for something relatively minor (setting up a fake contract in Afghanistan so the unit could have money to pay informants; illegal but not deadly) and it made my commander hate me (more). It’s still the correct, expected thing to do.
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It’s rarely easy to stand up against an illegal order. I did it for something relatively minor (setting up a fake contract in Afghanistan so the unit could have money to pay informants; illegal but not deadly) and it made my commander hate me (more). It’s still the correct, expected thing to do.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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dems should be putting out new “dont follow illegal orders” videos every day, they should be replying to announcements of investigations of dems with new videos, they should be posting at hegseth to not follow illegal orders nonstop
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
dems should be putting out new “dont follow illegal orders” videos every day, they should be replying to announcements of investigations of dems with new videos, they should be posting at hegseth to not follow illegal orders nonstop
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If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If people want to understand why American politics went bananas in 2012, the reason is that the moderate black President took a modest but consequential step toward decoupling healthcare from employment and every billionaire immediately poured their entire portfolio into race-hate media
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"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea" -- @davelevitan.bsky.social
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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Amazing how the Antichrist’s agents are always opposing Peter Thiel’s interests, either he’s the most godly man on the planet or
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Amazing how the Antichrist’s agents are always opposing Peter Thiel’s interests, either he’s the most godly man on the planet or
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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We're a little closer to seeing what horrors the curled monkey paw might bring us at the top of the FBI
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We're a little closer to seeing what horrors the curled monkey paw might bring us at the top of the FBI
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My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.