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Will This Supreme Court Ever View Anything as Racist?
Trump-administration officials have made no secret of their desire to purge the United States of nonwhite immigrants. Donald Trump has declared, “If you import The Third World, you become The Third World,” a common refrain repeated by his advisers. Trump has also said that immigrants have “bad genes,” that they are genetically predisposed to crime,…
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Bonkers plot exposed to shield Trump from international prosecution: report
President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace – the international body established to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction, on which the president serves as its lifelong chairman – created a draft resolution designed to grant its members broad legal immunity in the case of Palestinian deaths, The Guardian reported Saturday. “It looks like an attempt to exempt the…
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The Strange American State Fair
Photographs by Lawren Simmons The U.S. capital has been outfitted of late with visual trappings that many associate with authoritarianism, such as banners depicting Donald Trump’s face and featuring his slogans. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the president erected his own Potemkin village: the Great American State Fair, where almost…
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AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them
For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious than raw, original data. To keep the large language models underlying our favorite AI chatbots up to date, tech companies have to feed them reams of fresh inputs. As one study found, the amount of data being…
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Truck parking lot plans near Port of Los Angeles spark backlash among residents
A proposal to build a truck parking lot near the Port of Los Angeles is facing backlash from nearby residents. Port officials say the parking lot would provide much-needed designated space for cargo trucks waiting to pick up loads from the port, helping to ease congestion in the area. But some neighborhood groups say the…
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Trump’s Great American State Fair suffers new blow as weather forces concert cancellation
Already beset by artist boycotts, electrical problems, equipment breakdowns, and small crowds, Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” suffered the indignity of bad weather, which forced organizers to cancel the one concert they hoped would draw fans on Friday night. According to the Independent, the plug was pulled on “Ice Ice Baby” rapper Vanilla Ice’s…
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ABC’s ‘3% delusion’ on criminal migrants turns the law on its head
The media’s at it again: Trying to whip up public hysteria over immigration enforcement. “President Donald Trump had pledged to target the ‘worst of the worst’ criminal offenders among the nation’s migrants,” ABC News intoned this month — yet “just 3% of recent ICE detainees had a violent felony conviction.” The story zoomed around social…
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Vance vs. Rubio: Iran Edition
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has for months been working to seal an agreement between the Israeli and Lebanese governments to clamp down on Hezbollah and allow Israel to withdraw its forces from Southern Lebanon. Then, last week, the future of Lebanon appeared front and center in the new agreement between the United States and…
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A mesmerizingly vulnerable Angelina Jolie fails to fully redeem ‘Couture’
In the last decade or so, Angelina Jolie has been on screen less frequently. So when she is — and not in forgettable tentpoles like “Eternals” — it’s worth paying attention. There seems to be a thoughtful intentionality to the roles she now chooses, almost as if this astoundingly famous woman wants to tell us…
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Higher Ed Is Very Sorry
Just 10 years ago, almost 60 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in higher education. By last year, that number had fallen to 42 percent. Seventy percent of Americans told Pew last fall that higher education is moving in the wrong direction. The disdain has become so difficult to ignore that,…