The incarcerated youth firefighters at Pine Grove are currently risking their lives on the fires in LA. Working 48 hour shifts with no sleep. These are their faces.

And also rejected a ban on forced prison labor. For all you indignant folk saying how unfair it is for the incarcerated firefighters … you had the power to put your money where your mouth was

OMG. The City of Atlanta crushed a homeless man to death with one of its bulldozers as the city attempted to clear a homeless encampment ahead of MLK Day celebrations scheduled for Monday. They didn't check to see if anyone was in the tents. Welcome to Hellscape America.

I know all the reasons behind it and don’t need an explanation for why it’s happening, but the almost overnight mainstreaming of Trump into normal pop culture by supposedly apolitical actors is astonishing

Democrats working to put The Onion out of business

TikTok is now region locking Americans from looking up things like "fascism" and "Donald Trump rigged election" on the left are results from a device in America, and on the right are results from one in the UK.

As a graduate of one of the first few classes to include women at West Point, you would hope Janet Petro (even as a Drumpf appointee) would be someone that understands the value of institutional mechanisms to help historically-excluded talent feel welcome in science / academics

The way this clip shows him capitalizing on two distinct fears - police brutality / abuse of power and then the general public’s fear of mass shootings - to “sell” why AI (and by proxy video cameras and automated decision systems) should be more prolific is so evil to me

Democrats brains are completely broken

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth scim.ag/3Cp5C35

This photo of Musk speaking at the AfD rally has an interesting composition. I'm sure the AFP photographer had fun.

People say the Vegas Loop system is useless, but I disagree: it's useful to the extent that any halfway intelligent person who uses it immediately realizes that this is not the mobility technology of the future.

banning this would be widely popular and it is something we should treat as patently evil

Memos posted publicly to government websites claiming to be from the acting directors of OPM and OMB have metadata showing that the original authors are affiliated with Project 2025.

BREAKING: The Attorneys General of CA, NY, AZ, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NC, NJ, NM, OR, RI, VT, WA, WI, and D.C. have all filed suit against Trump for his budget freeze on vital health services. The fact that 0 Republican AGs are joining this lawsuit, despite

White people not believing in systematic racism but believing in reverse racism is certainly a concept.

You cannot continue bombing Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and call it a ceasefire.

THIS is the fire I want to see from every Dem: “Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over financial systems of the Treasury but you don't control money of American people. Congress does that. We don't have a 4th branch of gov called 'Elon Musk.’”

the democrats were more energized and organized against campus protests than the current authoritarian takeover.

She’s right. She was right when she first wrote her paper on the value of structural separation, she’s right in the op-ed suggesting we should apply it to our silicon calves