Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

In the far future of star trek: academy they've forgotten the rare technology of "self destruct to stop them from stealing your tech." In fairness it was only mentioned in dozens of episodes of 90s trek.

The Lincoln Lawyer is a show about how prosecutors and the criminal justice system are evil but also some prosecutors are cool and you should marry them

The thing about conservatism is it's a very diverse and complicated ideology but you can still pretty much explain it as a scheme to advance sex crimes

My problem with the latest episode of starfleet academy is that i don't think speech and debate is good and think participating in it for so many years made me a worse person

Even if we concede ice should exist (I don't) why the fuck do they need guns anyways?

A profoundly brave woman.

The fact that a real general strike is happening with the cooperation of elected officials to churches to unions should fill you with profound hope.

Starfleet academy bravely asks the question: what if the federation sucks actually? A question bravely asked by almost every star trek show and episode since ds9 ended 20 years ago.

Most important thing to know about this administration is that (1) it is filled with people who do actually want to make America into Nazi Germany (but successful) and (2) it is prevented from doing so by physical limitations like state capacity, popular opposition, and what remains of federalism.

This is basically how we justified the mexican american war btw. Marched a US army into Mexico and declared war when they were shot at. One of Lincoln's first ever speaches was pointing this out in the House.

The United States has created a world order where it's rational for every state to be militaristic, insular, and authoritarian. Any pacifism or weakness and the US might destroy your government without cause. We don't get to cry dictator when the world order reacts to our violence.

I mean surely letting people complain and make conspiracies is a better outcome for trump than giving every liberal a signed letter from epatein calling Trump a pedophile they can wave in front of their conservative family at xmas.

Genuinely shocked to learn the epstein files were actually this damning. Makes you wonder why the fuck trump was playing with fire suggesting this or even signed the bill

Turns out when you remove the 'woke nonsense' from the FBI they get really fucking bad at their jobs

There are two ways to get an A in Oklahoma: (1) work hard to write a good essay that follows the rubric. (2) tell chatgpt to write about the culture war from Trump's side

INBOX: New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was heckled by State Rep. @heathhowardnh.com at the NH Dems dinner last night after she pushed to reopen the government without securing Obamacare protections. Howard, who is running against Shaheen's daughter in the open #NH01 seat, later posted this on X:

Critical to remember metoo was powerful and huge until it became a democratic party nonprofit (MeTooMovement) which, immediately after formation, became a catch and kill operation for Biden's primary campaign.

Air traffic controllers are resigning due to the stress inflicted by the government shutdown, a union president warned

The Farmer's life is objectively worse in most ways -- less free time, hard labor, high stakes, little room for error -- but it's also the opposite of the labor and social alienation most of us feel. To have your labor produce literal fruit, and to have a mutually dependent community.

I would love one theorist of "why the democratic party should go right on immigration" to 1) look at what Clinton and Obama and Biden actually did, and 2) to reckon with the fact that despite those overtures, Stephen Miller now has a goon army doing forcible deportations without due process

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

Devastating: my commute audiobook uses dramatic irony at the core plot device.

The problem today isn't people questioning science, but that they don't want the answers. They assume gaps in their knowledge are universal. But scientists aren't idiots, and if you think you've found an obvious flaw in their arguments, it's usually you who have missed something.

Putting 'teacher union during covid' next to 'police unions' as examples of bad unions is bonkers. These people apparently wanted more kids and teachers to die and think opposing that was as evil as police brutality.

I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.

Ik it's annoying and banal to point out but at some point you just gotta say that, if a Democrat dog-catcher in Vermont did even one of Trump's daily corruption scandals it would be a month-long national news story. Media likes Trump and wants to help him win.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

This is not true, at least not unless everyone gives up. If such a thing were tried, the richest and wealthiest states in the country would secede. It's easier to imagine America ending than America having a guy with 39% approvals as dictator for life.

Republicans oppose social programs because they make women and children harder to abuse.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

This would have been the first ever assassins creed game I bought lol, oh well.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Deploy the Illinois National Guard Guard.

Brazil built *4.5 million homes* with just their public housing program in just 9 years - Brazil has an economy slightly larger than the size of Northern California's. The entire housing economy, including private home construction, built probably 750k homes in Northern California during this time.

The MBTA. Unless you're from NYC or maybe Chicago you have no right to mock a functioning transit system.

France has been governed by austerity politicians for a decade now. Their policy has been exactly in line with this argument from wapo. That policy has manifestly failed, and so they are simply pretending it hasn't been tried

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

A Texas minister has been charged with distributing child pornography after an investigation turned up nude photos of young girls on his computer. Jon Sheptock, 49, was the worship minister at First Montgomery Baptist Church. The church has acted wegotthiscovered.com/true-crime/c...

Like gravity is a theory

Your wife should also know that research shows traditional gifted programs further inequality and routinely leave out BIPOC and low income kids. Rethinking how to give ALL students in early elementary access to high quality education that meets their needs is best for all.

What the fuck is the point of naval escorts if they immediately abandon the escort when faced with conflict

It is fascinating how little of the centrist wonk mind is underpinned by any sort of actual data despite that being the main pitch to buy into their bullshit. Their actual belief is so often “do this thing you think is bad because it’s unpopular”

Deep incompetence and delusional ideas about the economy explains it.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation