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Making games is hard. On the third anniversary of Alan Wake 2, here's the funniest bugs we sent to the Dark Place. More on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bh4uFU5f5oo #AlanWake2
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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM
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Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.
This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."
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I would also add the America 250 takeover by the Trump administration/the reflecting pool/the expensive gilding of DC while prices on everything skyrocketed.
Three moments broke Trump 2.0: 1) Kimmel and other attempted censorship after Charlie Kirk. Made public see the attack on speech. 2) Minnesota anti-ICE protests, Goode and Pretti killings. Made public see the attack on rights. 3) Iran war. Made public see bad foreign policy affects them directly.
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A cow’s liver weighs about 10-15 pounds. A cow weighs 1000-1800 pounds. 40% of the country cannot replace their beef consumption with 1% of the cow.
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
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The generality principle of the Rule of Law is its most essential concept. A class of people outside criminal law is incompatible with a law-based society.
Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
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Much of What Democrats Must Do boils down to valuing the good faith opinions of millions of Americans who vote for them more than bad faith opinions in media. They’ll call truth and justice “weaponization.” They’ll say voters don’t want accountability. They’re wrong, and Dems don’t have to listen.
If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.
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Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.
😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
This is what someone does in the leadup to an honest-to-God election takeover.
BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just sent letters to local election officials across California — every county in the state — demanding they identify potential noncitizens on their voter rolls and set aside their ballots. Local officials would "risk significant federal scrutiny" if they failed to comply.
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People i know probably would have understood sooner if coverage described tariffs more plainly as fees paid BY AMERICANS when buying from certain countries, and not "a tariff ON another country." People have slowly gotten it regardless, but I saw national coverage that implied the opposite meaning.
GREG IP: “.. Trump called ‘tariff’ the most beautiful word in the dictionary. He somehow made it the most hated word in politics.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Americans were upset about inflation, so they threw out the leaders who oversaw slowing inflation, opted for a candidate promising to raise prices faster, and got what they voted for.
"...prices began rising immediately after the broader tariff measures were announced in early March and continued to increase gradually over subsequent months" @econofact.bsky.social econofact.org/are-tariffs-...
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The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!
This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.
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even by normal oppo standards this story is bonkers — basically vivek and co (and acton’s shitty mother) are accusing acton of fabricating horrific stories of child sexual abuse that are clearly documented in court records
NRO obtained court records showing Acton did in fact face abuse and her mother and Vivek are just straight up lying www.nationalreview.com/news/amy-act...
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To be clear: Alan Wake 2: Lake House DLC is a timely must-play - A scientist uses rows of automated typewriters to try to artificially generate Alan Wake-style magical writing - Scientist worries that if artists are mostly left-leaning, and the art becomes real, they NEED some right-wing artists
REVIEW: A couple of months ago, I realized I hadn't played through any Remedy games since 2016's Quantum Break. With Control Resonant on the horizon, I'd peek at what I missed I became obsessed The result: A review of two Controls, Alan Wake 2 and four expansions www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...
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NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.
Business Insider also reporting that Amazon projects it would take delivery of $3 billion a month in GPUs “every month for the foreseeable future,” all while not having anywhere to put them, as part of an “early rack receipt” program. Extremely strange!
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Replying to @rparloff.bsky.social
DOJ: [i missed it] what plaintiffs are challenging is golf course redesign. J: not just that. historic golf coursre. first desegregated golf course in DC. way for people who couldn't otherwise play golf to play golf. not just putt putt thing by beach. tho there is a putt putt people like a lot /162
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Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.
the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.
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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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As someone who understands governments' current flaws all too well, I would NEVER tell anyone that "you must vote." But for New Yorkers ALREADY planning to vote, I ask that you vote for ✨Kathy Hochul on the Working Families Party line.✨ Here's how doing so will help build Left governing power. 🧵
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If a tool provided measurable value/productivity increases, this would be an odd move to make. Unless of course management realized that AI doesn't increase productivity in their work. Allocating less per employee on AI than they do each month on break-room coffee pods is a loud signal.
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after two years of bargaining thanks to activision's stall tactics, unionized workers have authorized a strike. I spoke to them, as well as an ex-employee with disability issues who was basically forced out of the company due to the return-to-office policies the union has been trying to fight
With Call of Duty release near and no union contract in sight, Activision workers authorize strike aftermath.site/activision-qa-...
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Her "immigration status" is that she's been a US citizen longer than either Melania Trump or Elon Musk. The Democrats SHOULD use this opportunity for 100% solidarity with one of their own, and throw the fucking kitchen sink at Trump and his Republicans. I doubt they will but would LOVE to be wrong.
BREAKING: Justice Department issues subpoenas in investigation into progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration status, including to members of her family.
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One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age
Someday, these guys will realize how much of a pussy these types of statements make them look