Reconstruction was a pivotal and turbulent chapter in our nation’s history – and its consequences are still being felt today. With @HGMedia's Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise, I hope folks can rediscover an essential part of our past and remember that even in moments of deep conflict and contradiction, persistence and perseverance remain powerful sources of hope.
Reporter: Do you think Republicans can square their support for ending birthright citizenship with the USMNT whose top scorer is a birthright citizen?
Norman: Those are two separate issues—sports and policy.
PabloReports: Do you think the World Cup coach is taking an American job? He’s from Argentina.
Norman: That’s a separate issue. It doesn’t matter where he’s from.
PabloReports: What if he was a doctor? Or a construction worker?
Norman: That’s two separate issues.
PabloReports: What makes sports different?
Norman: With sports, you gauge on wins and losses. A construction worker is not a specialized field like sports is.
"That's it?" -- Durbin confronts a Trump DOJ nominee named Konstantinos Ligris with some of his tweets -- including calling Walz "tampon Tim," Biden officials "retarded," and referring to cops as "dumb as dirt" -- and Ligris doesn't even try to defend them, leaving Durbin dumbfounded
A civil engineer spotted a promotion on a pudding cup. He did the math in his head. Then he spent $3,140 buying 12,150 cups of chocolate pudding and walked away with 1.25 MILLION airline miles.
– David Phillips was a civil engineer at UC Davis in 1999 when he walked down the frozen food aisle of his local grocery store.
– He spotted a Healthy Choice promotion on the shelf.
– Buy 10 products, mail in the barcodes, get 1,000 airline miles.
– Early-bird bonus if you mailed them before June 1st, the rate doubled to 1,000 miles per 5 barcodes.
– He did the math. At $2 per frozen meal the deal was decent. Then he wandered to the next aisle.
– Individual Healthy Choice chocolate pudding cups. 25 cents each. Each cup had its own barcode. The promotion didn't specify meal size.
– He went home and built a spreadsheet.
– Then he drove to the bank, withdrew cash, and told his wife they needed to buy as much pudding as they possibly could.
– He emptied every Grocery Outlet in the Sacramento Valley. Ten stores in total. 12,150 individual pudding cups.
– Total spent: $3,140.
– There was one problem. Each cup needed its barcode cut out and mailed in before the June 1st deadline. There were 12,150 of them. He couldn't do it alone.
– He drove to the local Salvation Army and made a deal. Volunteers would cut out every barcode. In exchange he would donate all 12,150 cups of pudding to their soup kitchen.
– They agreed.
– He mailed the barcodes. Then waited.
– Then large packages started arriving from Healthy Choice. Then more packages. Then more.
– In total: 2,506 certificates, each worth 500 miles.
– 1,253,000 airline miles. Enough for 31 round trips to Europe.
– Healthy Choice never tried to fight it. The promotion said any product. The pudding was a product. He followed every rule exactly as written.
– He also claimed an $815 tax deduction for donating the pudding.
– American Airlines gave him lifetime Gold status for crossing one million miles on their program.
– His story became famous enough that Adam Sandler based his character in the 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love directly on him.
– He has since used the miles to take his family to 43 countries across the world.
A civil engineer found a promotion on a 25 cent pudding cup, bought 12,150 of them, donated all the pudding to the Salvation Army, and walked away with 1.25 MILLION airline miles. The company honored every single one.
STEINER: Can you tell me what those statues are, because I don't know
ANDY KIM: You don't come to us for the cheat codes. This is something you should be aware of.
STEINER: I am absolutely aware of it
KIM: So can you tell me then what the difference is between Title 39 and Title 13?
STEINER: I'm not a lawyer, no I could not
KIM: I'm not a lawyer either, but I know the difference
WHITEHOUSE: You have tweets calling Donald Trump and Kamala Harris '2 clowns,' calling Murkowski 'almost as dumb as Kamala,' calling Sen. Collins 'a fraud,' calling Sen. Padilla a 'thug.' You didn't tell the DOJ about those tweets?
LIGRIS: No
A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.
Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.
Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.
She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious."
She is not the only one.
In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.
A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.
AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.
Here is what the math says.
If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.
If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.
There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.
The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.
The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.
Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.
750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.
The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.
The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.
https://t.co/L91ldtXP05
Sophie: “Shit we’re grown women stop being so sensitive.”
Diana Taurasi: “Well mine is definitely getting rescinded. So I’m good I’ll be playing next game.”
And the tech was rescinded the next day! Guess DT controlled the spirit of the sport
This is very common in certain sects of Christianity. They will preach multiply and be fruitful and the wives are pregnant 9 months out of a year every year. But PDA is perceived as inappropriate because...
Keeping up appearances supercedes everything.
I have never in my entire life of reluctant heterosexuality had a man slap my knee like that.
You can’t convince me these people know each other’s coffee orders let alone have been intimate together.🥴
LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida.
Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama.
He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation.
The surveillance state is not coming.
It is already here.
Flock cameras do more than watch roads and scan plates. Their audio detection systems listen for sounds like gunshots, capture clips, timestamp the event, and help police locate where the sound came from.
Then the system pairs it with nearby vehicle data.
Think about that.
A sound happens.
A location gets marked.
Cars near the scene get pulled into the net.
A database gets searched.
No warrant in your hand. No officer on the corner. No public debate from most of the people living under it.
This is the new model of policing.
Cameras watching movement.
Microphones listening for events.
Algorithms connecting the dots.
Private companies building the grid.
Government agencies using the grid.
The sales pitch is always safety.
The result is infrastructure.
And once surveillance infrastructure goes up, it rarely comes down.
The question is no longer whether America will build a surveillance state.
The question is why so many people failed to notice it was already up and running.
#Privacy #Surveillance #CivilLiberties
Trump admin official who backed a U.S. takeover of Greenland argued it could help bring back Red Lobster’s all-you-can-eat shrimp, according to the New Yorker.
"We understood the assignment. ... It was to represent every little girl who looked like us, who wanted to be us."
Lisa Leslie celebrates the 30th anniversary of the WNBA's inaugural game 👏
John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself”
@thepostwire ...and she is not ever going to win anything being an entitled, whiny child, she should just stfu and do whatever everyone else thinks she should do and bake some cookies for the refs. Loser.
@RevampedCP ...idk maybe thousands of applicants are unqualified for all these positions. Maybe all these 'jobs' require something thousands of people can't accomplish.
Chicago youth took the court at our Sports & Play Clinic with @Cubs, @chicagosky, and @ChicagoBears Saturday at Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center! ⚾🏀🏈The joy was real!