A sobering reflection on the modern news landscape:
If you get all your news from right wing sources, you likely have no earthly idea the degree of corrupt and/or anti-democratic activity that’s being done in your voting name by the current administration.
In his final college at-bat, Georgia's Kolby Branch hit a home run against his brother Kyle's Oklahoma team.
With their parents crying in the bleachers, Kolby high-fived Kyle as he rounded the bases for the last time.
When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm
I’m not sure what else there is to say. Brendan Carr is a menace to free speech and the First Amendment.
When the passions and factions of the moment pass, he’ll be remembered by history as a lamentable censor.
Investigative journalism existing amid an infinite scroll of takes on this platform has made people think that reporting is basically a karaoke machine. But repeatedly finding information that people with money don't want the public to know can require months and months of work
Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.
The queen of all vices: Pride.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV on Trump’s warning to Iran of “civilization” destruction —
“This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.”
He adds the war is “continuing to escalate and is not resolving anything… is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.”
“attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law, but it is also against sign of the hatred and division that we are capable of.”
Video @Reuters
If we can’t accept textbooks reminding us that our ancestors committed atrocities in the past, how are we going to accept that we’ve elected a president threatening atrocities in the present?
The US has canceled hundreds of millions in science grants and driven thousands of Ph.D.s out of the federal workforce. China, meanwhile, has poured evermore resources into its research efforts.
If they pass us as a scientific superpower, we shouldn't act surprised. https://t.co/7p01A0YxTn
Part of the unprecedented level of corruption in this administration is the government-wide effort to replace the country's smartest nonpartisan minds with loyalists. History books are very clear how such moves work out.
Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled “Why Iran Will Escalate.” But who needs experts…
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The tech industry’s expansion of data centers is emerging as a wedge issue in the midterms, as candidates weigh economic opportunity against the associated strain on voters’ utility bills. https://t.co/v51rLzIu8w
The United States spent months threatening, insulting and belittling their “traditional allies” and is now whining that they don’t want to join America’s latest war in the Middle East.
Actions, meet consequences.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers impersonated New York Police Department officers searching for a “missing child” to arrest Elmina Aghayeva, GS ’26, acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, announced in a Thursday video.
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