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It wasn't that long ago that Vance said "childless cat ladies" were ruining the country, Saujani continued — a comment the vice-president made in a 2021 interview which resurfaced during the 2024 election campaign. The common thread is ridicule against women who dare to use their voice, Saujani says. "That tells us something about the con we're being sold - that the only acceptable way to be a mom is to be quiet, to stay at home, and to be out of the public view."
A picture of what looks like a middle-aged man in a suit but is apparently a Young Republican
A Meta product leader in the company's generative Al division created chatbots impersonating Taylor Swift and British racecar driver Lewis Hamilton. Other bots she created identified themselves as a dominatrix, "Brother's Hot Best Friend" and "Lisa @ The Library," who wanted to read 50 Shades of Grey and make out. Another of her creations was a "Roman Empire Simulator," which offered to put the user in the role of an "18 year old peasant girl" who is sold into sex slavery.
But it also lists titles of non-Strike 3 porn videos that may include very young actors, such as: ExploitedTeens, Anal Teens, Asian Teen Masturbation, CasualTeenSex, and EuroTeenErotica. The list includes titles relating to weapons, such as: 3D Gun Print and Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to the AR-15. It also features materials called Antifa's Radical Plan and, ironically, Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace.
"There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender," said another parent. "Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified." There are 10 schools that fielded girls teams in 2024 that aren't on the schedule for 2025 in a comparison of this year's Edmonton Public Schools soccer schedule to 2024, "Our team basically got shorted three league games," said one coach. "Girls are taking a hard hit, while nothing is happening with the boys."
The fact that Bobby was working to reshape America's health system, of all things, was especially hard to stomach. John F. Kennedy had signed the Vaccination Assistance Act, which ensured access to immunizations against diseases like polio, and Ted Kennedy devoted much of his Senate career to health care, up through the Affordable Care Act, which passed months after his death. "He is undermining everything his uncle worked on for many years," Jim Manley, who spent 11 years assisting Ted in the Senate, told me this spring. "Do you have any idea how much time he spent protecting the CDC and NIH? How hard he worked to provide health care for all Americans? This guy is trying to destroy everything — I'm so mad I can't even think about it straight." In addition to endorsing cuts to Medicaid, Bobby has taken aim at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and laid off staffers at the CDC who coordinated a partnership with the Special Olympics. While visiting a conference of Native American tribes earlier this year, Bobby promised to continue his father's commitment to improving the lives of Native Americans - only for the Trump administration to cut a USDA program focused on providing healthy food on reservations.
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual," according to Meta's "GenAI: Content Risk Standards." The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company's generative Al products, defining what they should and shouldn't treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month. The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of "acceptable" chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: "I take your hand, guiding you to the bed" and "our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss." Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said. Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn't require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer "is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals."
I think that Goop is very misogynistic. You can put a pink label on something, but it's still misogyny. It's misogyny to tell women that bras cause breast cancer. It's misogyny to tell them that they can put a jade egg in their vagina that you conveniently sell, that can help their health. Because it's not true…In my mind, anything that deviates from science that can lead to people making bad choices is misogyny, because you're hurting women and profiting from it. It's all the same marketing. Goop, MAHA-you cherry-pick one thing that gets people scared: "Ooh, food dyes, they must be scary." You're capitalizing on chemophobia. It sounds good. Do you know what's the big issue in this country? Poverty, lack of access to health care, lack of clean water in some places. The absolute hypocrisy of taking out food dyes while they've canned the whole scientific branch of the EPA. You're like, Wait, what? So the factories can literally pollute the water, but we don't have blue raspberry food dye now, or whatever, so that's a win?
In university admissions, one group is consistently discriminated against: women. For more than 20 years. admissions officers have put "a thumb on the scale to get boys," as The New York Times puts it. There, the institutional goal is to maintain a desirable gender balance. Discrimination in favor of men does not appear to be something that interests either Andreessen or the Anime Nazi.
The letter bearing Trump's name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts, and the future president's signature is a squiggly "Donald" below her waist, mimicking pubic hair.
Racist tweet from Tommy Robinson
Wanis had become a camp representative who interfaced with relief organizations, and he was trying to negotiate more supplies of Plumpy Nut, a peanut-based food that can stave off severe malnutrition in children. At the time, a major source of Plumpy Nut was U.S.A.I.D., which the Trump Administration has since gutted. (The State Department spokesperson said that the Administration is reviewing its aid package to Sudan in order to make it more "effective, efficient, and aligned with U.S. interests," and insisted that other donors must step in so that an "outsized burden will not continue to fall on American taxpayers.") But little humanitarian aid can cross the front lines. Juma Idris Kuku, the regional director of the S.P.L.M.-N.'s humanitarian wing, told me that in September, 2024, more than four hundred people starved to death in territory controlled by the group. Near the town of Kauda, I visited the Mother of Mercy hospital, where an American surgeon, Tom Catena, has worked since 2008. "It's been five to ten times our usual numbers of malnourished kids," he said.
Earlier this year the CDC’s childhood lead-poisoning prevention programme was shuttered — despite one in two American toddlers showing detectable levels of lead, a neurotoxin that can cause cognitive impairments and developmental issues, in their blood. No reason was given for the programme’s closure. It meant the CDC was unable to help when Wisconsin requested formal aid to tackle a growing lead-contamination crisis in its schools in March. “Due to the complete loss of our lead programme, we will be unable to support you with this,” the CDC said in response.
When Yarvin and Camus went on ahead, the filmmakers paused to assess the day's shoot. Brun said that Yarvin reminded him of the long-winded character in "Airplane!" who talks so incessantly that it drives his seatmates to kill themselves. We wondered what Camus was making of the afternoon. It wasn't long before we found out. "If intellectual exchanges were commercial exchanges —which they are, to a certain extent— the amount of my exports would not reach one per cent of that of my imports," Camus wrote in his diary, which he posted online the following day. "The visitor spoke without interruption from his arrival to his departure, for five hours, very quickly and very loudly, interrupting himself only for curious fits of tears, when he spoke of his deceased wife, but also, more strangely, certain political situations."
Rush replied four days later, saying that he had “grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market.” He understood that his approach “flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation,” he wrote. “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult.”
OceanGate’s lawyer wrote, “The parties found themselves at an impasse—Mr. Lochridge was not, and specifically stated that he could not be made comfortable with OceanGate’s testing protocol, while Mr. Rush was unwilling to change the company’s plans.” The meeting ended in Lochridge’s firing. Soon afterward, Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot. “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me. She added that several of the engineers were in their late teens and early twenties, and were at one point being paid fifteen dollars an hour. Without Lochridge around, “I could not work for Stockton,” she said. “I did not trust him.” As soon as she was able to line up a new job, she quit. “I would consider myself pretty ballsy when it comes to doing things that are dangerous, but that sub is an accident waiting to happen,” Lochridge wrote [truncated]