You’re looking at it the wrong way.

It doesn’t matter who’s on the right side of the law. They don’t care if they lose this case.

They’re trying to make ordinary citizens fearful of speaking up or calling them out. When they come to take your neighbors away they want you to look the other way because you don’t want to get involved.

Honestly, it’s horrifying.

arguing that Moscow’s actions were undermining Trump’s credibility as a negotiator.

This is how you manipulate a child.

Billionaires should not exist, but in a world where they do the ones that give away some of their billions are less terrible than the others.

It’s not just the internet.

Professionals (using the term loosely) are using LLMs to draft emails and reports, and then other professionals (?) are using LLMs to summarise those emails and reports.

I genuinely believe that the general effectiveness of written communication has regressed.

Americans are weird.

Honestly the time with your partner and kid is precious irreplaceable.

Anyone who’s weird about it is insecure about their own paternal involvement.

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

Hol up. They’ve gotten rid of all the people who used to pick fruit in rural areas, and now they want to send arbitrarily diagnosed “addicts” to these rural areas to live for “free”.

I guess it’s good that non-political people are starting to get involved. Shame they didn’t spend 5 minutes to check which way the wind was blowing in November last year.

Timie for the daily reminder that economic hardships will be blamed on migrants, the gayness, abortions, primary school teachers, et cetera. A recession will fuel fascist agendas.

god I love librarians.

I’m prepared to be downvoted to oblivion over this but… I don’t think it’s a pile of dead bodies and here’s a bunch of reasons why.

I feel I need a disclaimer like: I’m not an idiot, I have grave concerns for the inmates and CECOT and I’m certain that many have already perished due to violence between inmates or malnutrition or even violence from guards, however… I just don’t think this is a pile of dead bodies.

• It’s never aliens - Sensational blurry images are never what people think they are. You know, the face on mars, et cetera.

• There are so many more likely things - It could be a pile of chairs, or uniforms, or boxes, or a tarpaulin.

• They wouldn’t make a pile of bodies for us to see - This thing is a cash cow for Bukele. They will be doing their best not to fuck it up. Any idiot would know that if you make a big pile of dead bodies oozing blood outside it will show up on some pesky satellite images.

• They wouldn’t make a pile of bodies outside in the sun - A dead body is a logistically challenging thing to deal with. A pile of dead bodies even more so. Leaving them in the sun even just for several hours would make the whole thing so much worse. The decomp gasses in the digestive tract would make all the dead bodies shit themselves.

• Industrialised Killing Takes a Toll - Admittedly I don’t know a lot about this but the nazis learned killing too many people in a repetitive waymakes a soldier “undisciplined” or unmanageable. I don’t want to go into detail but they set up a system where the same soldier never saw the same person alive and then dead. If they were systematically killing inmates this wouldn’t be the system.