Birdpoof
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Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Yeah something is not curling over with this. #YourSlipIsShowing
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Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
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Submitted without comment! thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/...
Howard University and Google Research Enhance A.I. Speech Recognition of African American English
Howard University partners with Google Research to increase representation for Black American dialects in artificial intelligence
thedig.howard.edu
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By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.
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White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.
Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.
Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.
Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.
Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.
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Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...
Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.
www.statnews.com
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1999: someday the internet will be a record of everything that ever happened
2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened
2025: someday the internet will be a record of everything that never happened
Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI
(via Axios)
(via Axios)