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the lebron "smiling through it all can't believe this is my life" meme
These investigations will be spearheaded by Glenna Goldis, a former New York state assistant attorney general who claims she was fired by the Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James for “speaking out against pediatric gender medicine.” In a podcast interview, Goldis said that she hoped to “bankrupt” doctors, including leading them to lose “medical licenses” and “teaching licenses.” A recent update to the FTC’s organization chart shows Goldis listed as assistant director for special projects (children and adolescents). “The Office of the Attorney General has protocols and rules for all employees, including for outside activities if an employee chooses to engage in them,” a spokesperson for the New York Attorney General’s office told WIRED in a statement. “This employee no longer works for the office due to her violation of those protocols and rules.”
Passage 2 There is something astonishing in the fact that we are made of matter forged in dying stars, that the calcium in our bones was created in stellar furnaces billions of years before Earth existed. The universe is not indifferent to us; we are made of it, continuous with it. To understand this is not to feel small. It is to feel implicated in something vast. Written by A.I. From Anthropic’s Claude, Opus 4.5
At present, Reid is trying to apply the lessons she learned to Unrivaled, which is due at the end of February. It’s getting the treatment her first books never received: a massive trade-paperback release with four special-edition covers and midnight release parties. She’s staying off social media and has avoided rewatching the show and reading any fan fiction. “I have no doubt that somebody’s probably written a longform fic that basically is the book I’m writing now,” says Reid. “Maybe people love it so much that when this book comes out, it will be like, Ugh, it’s not as good as that.” Reid is experiencing author death: the moment when the text separates from the creator. Her gay hockey universe is expanding at a rapid rate, spawning entire galaxies of ships including Shane Hollander/Hudson Williams. In one version on TikTok, told through Sims, Shane has just given birth to their second child and has to nurse. One popular fanfic, “please leave a message,” is written as a series of text-message screenshots in which Ilya accidentally gets added to the group chat of hockey WAGs — wives and girlfriends. On AO3, there were about 500 pieces of Heated Rivalry fan fiction before the premiere; now there are more than 18,000.
The comic James Tom went to a Shane/Ilya look-alike contest in New York and described it as “the straightest place I’ve been in years.” The audience was mostly straight women and had a dating-market feel to it. “The big thing was for many of the contestants to come off straight and be like, ‘Yes, I am looking for love,’ and then the crowd would go nuts,” he says. “Here we are — gay, mixed, Asian, trans guys — and it was just so clear we were not the people anybody wanted to see.”
WaPo opinion headline: EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law
An onion in a Christmas box
screenshot of a video with sen sanders on x, with the caption "I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI. The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%."
screenshot from the Graza website with the same font that says "The perfect gift for someone with great taste!"
screenshot of a tweet from the National Design Studio of a link that says Trump Accounts jumpstart the American Dream in a typeface i cant name but that i have been seeing literally everywhere
an Instagram post of a stock photo of an nyc street with the bowdoin logo photoshopped onto the side of a bus stop. caption reads “Zohran Mamdani ‘14 has been elected the 111th mayor of New York City. Bowdoin has a long tradition of graduates who have pursued careers in public service, including mayors, governors, legislators, ambassadors, and judges.”
a guardian article that says "‘Six-seven’: what does the latest slang mean (and should parents be worried)?" with a stock photo of a kid
In another post in 2010, Platner took aim at musician Ted Nugent, a conservative activist. “As a combat veteran, that m*therf**ker makes me want to puke when he spews his warmongering macho bullshit. Suck a d*ck, Ted.” “To be fair,” Platner told CNN. “I’m not really regretful of that one.”
How do you feel about becoming a political lightning rod? "People occasionally just flip [me] off or whatever, but nobody's come up to me and tried to make a statement about anything. Personally, it's kind of dumb. It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement, but nonetheless it is." [Editor’s note: Taylor was arrested and convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by President Trump.]
a picture of ekko killing it onstage
an announcement from the Oh Mary! twitter account sharing that jane krakowski will play mary starting in October
screenshot of Tom from Succession in front of the ATN NEWS rebrand pointing to the subtitle WE HEAR FOR YOU and holding his hand up to his ear
a sign for a mister bagel that says WE CAN HEAL THE SPIRIT OF WAR FOCUS & CREATE PEACE AND LOVE
screenshot of Roman Roy from the Succession Vaulter episode
a pencil drawing of bowdoin security chief randy nichols with a banner that says "table snatchers beware..." in front of an american flag
a crude drawing of a woman with a bow and arrow and the text BUFFY WILL PATROL TONIGHT
Krissansen-Totton told WIRED in an email that his work on ocean acidity billions of years ago has “no relevance” to the impacts of human-driven ocean acidification today, and that today calcium carbonate saturation is quickly diminishing in the ocean alongside rising acidity. Dissolved calcium carbonate is essential for many marine species, particularly those that rely on it to build their shells. “The much more gradual changes in ocean pH we observe on geologic timescales were typically not accompanied by the rapid changes in carbonate saturation that human CO2 emissions are causing, and so the former are not useful analogs for assessing the impact of ocean acidification on the modern marine biosphere,” he says.
“They appear to have discarded the whole paper as not fitting their narrative, and instead picked a single figure that was in the supplementary materials to cast doubt on models, when the whole paper actually confirmed how well they have performed in the years after they were published,” he tells WIRED. (Hausfather’s research was also cited in the EPA’s justification for rolling back the endangerment finding—which, he said in a post on X, draws a “completely backwards” conclusion from his work.)
"The proposed changes from the White House are no surprise to lawyers like Connor: “The 404 permitting program has had a developer target on its back for a pretty long time,” she says. Sackett v. EPA, the 2023 Supreme Court case that dealt a major blow to the reach of the Clean Water Act, was based on a 404 permitting issue. This ruling, Connor suspects, is partly why we may be seeing so many companies choosing to build data centers in dry states like Arizona. “They have a lot of waters that have lost their jurisdictional reach within the Clean Water Act,” she says. “It's just easier to pave over the desert, which is the saddest thing to say out loud.”
euphoria screenshot that says 'wait is this fucking play about us'
tweet from Matt Walsh about the Coldplay ceo thing that says “One of my least popular (but still correct) opinions is that adultery should be a criminal offense punishable by serious prison time for both parties involved”
headline from the economist: "Climate change is a by-product of progress, not an existential crisis, says Trump’s energy czar"
a fake NYT headline that says "Zohran Mamdani Tripped on the Sidewalk and Thought Nobody Saw It. But We Did"
While Mr. Mamdani was not a target of the hack, the information about him was included in a database of millions of student applications to Columbia going back decades. The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic and an opponent of affirmative action
I can easily see how the crumbling journalism ecosystem could give Big Oil the media environment of its dreams: one that is increasingly favorable to executives who pay for subscriptions, staffed with journalists under pressure from owners to stick to corporate-friendly coverage rather than investigative work that could undercut their funding.
a screenshot of a Dom Lucre tweet that’s a video of a bunch of happy lesbians singing Hot To Go in NYC. caption says “BREAKING: New York City is currently filled with naked lesbians at Washington Square Park who can be seen exposing their breasts and vaginas to little girls at the annual “Dyke March””
a tweet from bill deblasio "I LOVE WHAT I’M SEEING ❤️❤️❤️ #DontRankCuomo"
two queers on the red carpet
image of a screenshot emergency alert that says "Presidential Alert: THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGGG"
“Voldemort claimed in his initial town hall meeting that he will have a plan by May 30,” says a FEMA employee. “Voldemort,” workers say, is one of several nicknames for Richardson among agency staff."
Douthat: I want to make this just a tiny bit more concrete and say from any period, not the last 20 years, any period in American life, in modern Western history, give me an example of something you consider successful right-wing art that doesn’t fall into the traps you’ve described.
text from a nyt article that says "Mr. Lutnick has floated renaming the Department of the Interior “the Department of American Assets” "
Even in states where coal wields political power, data centers haven’t proven to be a savior. In March, lawmakers in West Virginia attached provisions to juice up coal use to a bill intended to jump-start the data center industry in the state. Despite cheerleading from the governor, the bill ultimately passed without the coal provisions after Appalachian Power, West Virginia’s largest utility, intervened, claiming that the coal requirements would raise bills for customers. An executive told lawmakers that even a big new customer like a data center wouldn’t spur the utility to buy more coal-fired power; the regulatory and financial reality, he said, favors natural gas.
a drawing of a smelt. looking surprised!!!
"Other divisions within DEHSP include, for example, the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program, which helps the cruise industry prevent public health issues, inspects cruises, and provides information on outbreaks. It’s unclear if the program’s work involving cruise inspections, or the lists of outbreaks on cruises, will continue. Similarly, the Lead Poisoning branch that works to eliminate childhood lead poisoning has also been gutted by RIFs. It’s unclear how much of its work will be able to continue."
a bloodhound dressed up like sherlock holmes