You're gonna disagree with some moots about all the shit going on. Some people cope with the stress through optimism and some wish Chuck Schumer to be flung into the Potomac. Try not to be too dickish to people you largely agree with and focus your anger on America's real villain, Michael Rapaport

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.

They can’t do it because it points out that they themselves are doing nothing to help. Maybe three of them saying Abolish ICE. The rest are talking about retraining and body cams and QR codes.

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

Block instantly.

Where is everyone getting that Orwell quote from? Because I just pulled out my digital copy of 1984, and all it says is, "Everything The Party tells you is in your best interests! Why are you bothering reading anyway? I bet you haven't even watched the Stranger Things finale yet."

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

that's so crazy. i'm sure you put him in prison and banned him from ever holding office again right

It's this but then the exterminator sends you text messages asking for more money every 3 hours for the rest of your life

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

@marisakabas.bsky.social managing to concisely lay out what's going on, without screaming and cursing like when I do it

Goes most of the way to explaining this era of imperviousness to shame

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

I had a little blog for a sec before getting too busy at my day job (hair) to keep it up, but did manage to pop off about Bari right after the '24 election, which you might enjoy if you like a petty one-sided grudge ask-hairoline.ghost.io/nobody-needs...

I have to say I think it was a mistake putting Barry White in charge of CBS News. Great singer but he’s no journalist, and he’s been dead for 20 years

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

when i eat too much tylenol

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

one upside of trump insisting on a "presidential address" is it interrupted programming on every major broadcast network. so a whole bunch of normies who only see sanitized versions of him were treated to live video of a rabid fucking hyena behind the presidential seal.

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

Not loving this trend of goys telling me I'm a dumb/bad Jew for knowing genocide is bad even when Israel does it

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

I'm sorry, no BEVERLY HILLS colorist is comping that 2-3 hour blonde appointment for any reason ever...I'm about to go down a terrible ig rabbit hole of BH colorists now aren't I

I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo. 85%

ANYONE, PLEASE: No. That response is unacceptable. It's absurd. Of course you know that Pete Hegseth is accused of ordering these murders of people on boats in the Caribbean.

This headline is criminally misleading, really speaks to the editorial decision making knowing most people won't read the article to see the actual *news* which is: the FDA under RFK Jr is making shit up that's gonna kill people. That's your headline.

I long for the time (yesterday) when I didn't get this joke

A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.

Clearly not enough people watched the German scifi horror series Cassandra cause they came home from work and their wife was watching it and they got sucked in and learned what happens when a scientist tries to imbue a computer with his wife's consciousness

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Substack should be the name of a domme's polycule, not a newsletter platform.

Why aren't all Dems just showing up & declaring the session open, voting on shit, swearing in who needs to be sworn in, that's how government works now! You just say something unconstitutional is constitutional, something illegal is legal. If all Dems 👍 a bill, say it passed unanimously!

Natl involvement is fucking everything up, Bernie threw his whole weight behind Platner like 5mins into his run & ME thought omg he's The One, & now w/o him think Mills is a foregone conclusion w/Schumer help. When a phony lovebombs you for a month you drop him & move on! Let the primary play out!

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Hey what happens when somebody barfs in a Waymo

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Turns out it took schadenfreude to finally motivate me to subscribe😎

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

@senangusking.bsky.social @pingree.house.gov @golden.house.gov will you instruct local law enforcement to protect Maine residents from ICE violating our constitutional rights & committing assault & kidnapping? They're escalating violence against civilians, we need elected officials' dramatic action.

I stg if any WNBA players get raptured tomorrow I'm gonna lose it