I’ve never had a colleague with say in whether or not we bomb children or restrict civil rights. If I had a coworker that somehow did that I’d spit on his open casket, too.

(Jowls trembling, spittle flying)

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Found a reddit mod

Graham Platner was "vetted" by Dan Moraff, a man kicked out of Pittsburgh DSA for sexual assault. You cannot have rapists in your tent because they will surround themselves with people who are also abusers or enablers, so they get away with more abuse. There are too many examples of this.

i have been trying to unpack why the i told you so’s here feel so legitimate despite the horrific seriousness of the allegations. i think bc it’s so enraging that he was allowed to make it this far. that poor woman was forced to traumatize herself in public because pundits are too fucking stupid

a coda i’ll add here is that my feelings about platner are no different than they were a month ago. the NYT story painted a picture of a predatory and unsafe man, but a woman had to share the graphic details of her rape for it to be enough.

The knicks managing to shrug off the trump stank is one of the most impressive feats in sports history and should be studied

This is almost exactly the reasoning Dolores Huerta had about not saying anything about how Cesar Chavez sexually assaulted her

He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent

Platner being accused of rape is only shocking because it took this long. That poor woman must have been watching his run, hoping it would fizzle out. But it didn't, because everything is awful and we will justify anything. Just like how people will say this is ok, for some reason or another

"Why did the casting of a Black actress cause so much controversy?" because small gangs of slobbering gutter racists aided by an unprincipled media landscape in the business of selling outrage have been allowed to run wild. there is literally nothing else to discuss.

This is all true but I was also worried they’d turn this easy patriotic/political layup (plus 9/11 25th) into nakedly stealing the midterms so it’s reassuring they’re still bad at it

In 5th grade everyone had to do a state report and build a display to put in the auditorium for parents to come see and it looked like an indoor version of this but with better turnout

This was James Carville's advice to Democrats one month into Trump's second term:

It is not clear to me what you are supposed to do with your frustrations with the Democratic Party if voting in primaries is isn’t acceptable

Anyone who says NYC isn’t the US is doing something either sinister or stupid

Once again reminding my fellow reply-guy riffers that while rhyme does matter, it’s the meter that brings it home

Few things worse than discovering your house’s leaky water pipes are all 5/8” lol

When you’re mostly blind and mostly deaf and have a few lumpy tumors but still the most handsome fella around. Happy 17th(ish), buddy

Blocked by a good follow bc I laughed about him using “skeet” in a post that didn’t mention him at all 😔

I know we all love (and lean into) being deeply uncool 35-60 year olds on here but for the love of god please just fucking say post

"Expecting me to read books and look up words is discriminatory" is for sure a viewpoint that crops up online, and it's very important to make fun of it every time

we need thousands more of this guy and thousands less of the kinds of guys we do have

No one wants to drink from the hose anymore 😔

the best encryption in the world can be broken in an instant by a snitch! technology can’t save you from the simple fact that the easiest & most common way cops find out what was said in private is not hacking or warrants or subpoenas, it’s somebody straight up telling them!!

That rfk shit is explicitly genocidal

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

this sucks. nashville zoo is one of the most modern, humane, and accessible zoos in the country. if you care about conservation, critters, and science, go sign and go raise hell. nash zoo is also a bastion of science and equality as a southern workplace. please please protect it.

I like how Mark Cuban has been interviewed about business stuff for decades when the best advice he could give would be “sell an Internet radio company to Yahoo in 1999” which seems hard for the rest of us to do here in 2026

once again tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, reader funded newsrooms how and where you are able to

Imo even the most milquetoast mass protests are very important for the simple fact that they illustrate such a stark difference in what a peaceful day march (maybe with your kids in tow) actually is versus how it’s portrayed on the news later that night

obviously i dont think anyone should have to live in constant fear of a madman emerging from a crowd to blow them away. i just think some people should live in constant fear of entire crowds surging as one, swallowing them whole and leaving no recognizable trace. like a sort of immune response 😀

babes, we don't have to talk about The Atlantic piece about the Dems and sports, we can simply talk about how the Seattle Mariners have won seven in a row instead

Nostalgia guys will always say “I miss when people kept their political beliefs to themselves” you were 8, why would someone talk to an 8 year old about their political beliefs

The caver’s lament

When the spine war is happening and I gotta kill my favorite sea turtle

I keep catching myself having this feeling that surely this cannot stand.

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

The Coke Zero people are so needlessly smug. I don’t drink Diet Coke because I want Coca Cola with zero calories. I drink Diet Coke because there is something wrong with me; something deeply broken inside of me; something that will never truly be healed.

Props to @whatsallthispod.bsky.social for being first on the money-coutts beat

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

glass houses and all but when I saw how unjust and irredeemable the occupation of Afghanistan was, I got out of the army as quickly as I could and never went back. I obv. don't think someone is disqualified from taking an antiwar position if they previously volunteered but...Blackwater is different

Generally speaking, if you are someone's ally you don't need to tell them you're their ally, because they'll know. When you have to use the phrase "I'm your ally" that's a pretty reliable sign that the normal channels of communicating allyship (behaving like an ally) are not functioning.

Actually you know what, let me just

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Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.