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just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

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Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

Oh this comparison pains me. I Let myself think that the money wasn’t there for Bell Lab like projects. It is. Just not for scientific agency.

Elizabeth Warren Is 💯% Correct...

Meta, X and other Big Techs are trying desperately to limit our reach on social media so we're trying to get to the search algorithms to spread the word: Flávio Bolsonaro is involved in crimes and schemes and is also trying to free his dad from jail, yes the one who attempted a coup d'etat

😆 Markov Chains Mar•kov Chains [mɑːkɒv ʧeɪnz] noun Being enslaved by probability theories, statistics, and contemporary AI models. reverse-contradictionary.net/words/markov...

the ukraine news is giving me flashbacks to the 2019 impeachment, not in a good way

Speechless 🧪 there is #science, there is #pseudoscience, and then there's whateevr this is...oet's call it evil/stupid

Showing the leadership that the APA can not.

Sen. Pete Ricketts gets the Trump rally crowd in Nebraska to boo the mention of "transgender rights"

It surprised me that the NYT story, which has five bylines, does not mention that Walters’ company, Salus Worldwide, has lost its $915M self-deportation contract. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/dhs-taps-r...

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...

Loll Yudkowsky, Soares and such AREN'T SHILLS? The Yudkowsky who founded the eugenicist, rationalist cult? The one who predected singularity to be 2025? The one in the sex parties that women have to attend to "network? The rape orgies with dubious consent mechanisms that Soares coorganizes?

Believe it or not, the Supreme Court was presented as far back as 1947 with the question whether attempting to execute someone a second time, after a botched first go round (then, in a portable electric chair known as “Rusty”), was cruel and unusual.

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol

"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

they genuinely would rather we not exist in the first place. so they settle for indirectly killing us. and then celebrate when we die

Personally, I think what needs reckoning with is how fake it all was. Centrists convinced themselves annoying leftists on twitter were an equivalent threat to Jan 6 insurrectionists. They wildly inflated the threat of left-wing authoritarianism while ignoring how it was taking hold on the right.

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism.com/health-medic...

this seems like political poison with the desi community tbh

Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.

Another loss for the Trump administration and a win for honorable transgender service members who were promised early retirements if they “voluntarily” (it wasn't) chose to go and then were stripped of them after retirements were approved. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

The @freedcproject.bsky.social, whose activists packed today's oversight hearing, has launched a flash campaign calling on people to #DeleteDoorDash in response:

Not everyone knows that there’s more genetic divergence between a mussel and a clam than between a dog and a fish.

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

Money in politics is sickening and sickens us!

Brandon Herrera is the GOP nominee for TX-23 (San Antonio suburbs). He has a long history of making lewd and sexually suggestive comments about women and children, which are documented here. Speaker Mike Johnson is campaigning for him and funding his campaign. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

To be clear: As I say in the post, I don't think Trump fired Bondi to prevent sharing NM files. But I do think the NM files can be a politically damaging point of pressure for Blanche in this week's hearing.

Believing that sexual assault is “not that bad” is absolutely a risk factor for committing an act of sexual violence. And why wouldn’t it be? If these men are insisting that it’s perfectly fine sexual behavior, then why would they hold themselves to a standard they don’t believe in?

NM’s AG just accused Trump’s DOJ of stonewalling the Zorro Ranch probe. Letter dated June 30, released Thursday: 130+ days of silence after 6 attempts to get records. Thread on what’s in it A #SheShed 🧵

The Trump-Vance admin deleted records showing if and when DOGE accessed sensitive data. We will continue to shed light on their attempts to operate in secrecy.

ICE murdered another person.

"Another caller, who said she was sleeping in her home, said she heard someone say the n-word twice before she heard two or three gunshots."

Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

"why didn't she come forward about the rape earlier" Because police don't do anything about rape most of the time, they try women for "false accusations" some additional percentage, and what was she supposed to do, upturn her mental health only for some judge to give him a suspended sentence?