An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders

Great fucking passage. “Amd new experiences” takes it to the next level. ($ site) www.offmessage.net/p/reiner-mur...

The war on Venezuela is a war on reality www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

To love this country is to exist in a constant, unending state of torment.

Let’s face it. That people chose a man with no morals, ethics, values or decency over a highly qualified woman (twice) is what destroyed the White House. We could rebuild the East Wing, the Rose Garden and purge all his gaudy ornaments…but the stench of Donald Trump will persist for generations.

texas literally has assigned armed state troopers to guard the ladies room. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/12/t...

>id checks I’m sorry, you have to show your papers to take a fucking piss in Texas now???

This is really smart and true and, in its way, the source of what makes him terrifying. Not one shred of recognizable humanity.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

I do not believe for a second that these people really thought he was “anti war” guy. Not the influencers & not the voters. They knew.

For crying out loud, two of the nation's leading white nationalists (Jared Taylor and James Edwards) had front row, VIP seats to Trump's inauguration in 2017. The ties between genocidal neo-Nazis and Trumpism have been evident from the start. www.amren.com/commentary/2...

Why wouldn’t they? They’ll never lose the white vote. White women will keep electing them for as long as it takes to lose all their rights.

This entire weekend

Apparently it's a thing. U.S. military flying without transponders. You all still trust Pete Hegseth?

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Yep. Sure would be nice if the media would write about the soft eugenics program the US federal government is embarking on.

Collins is expected to cut 35,000 VA staff on top off the already 30,000 positions he slashed. The VA is already struggling to keep up with workload they have often at the expense of US Veterans. #ProudBlue#OneV1#Voices4Victory www.rawstory.com/trump-vetera...

what the fuck are you talking about man

Okay, but this is absolutely 100% what they voted for. They may have changed their minds but trump has done nothing that he didn’t campaign on that he/other republicans didn’t say he & they would do if elected. Every single thing that has come from that man since January 20–they voted for it.

sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Republicans summed up in one short clip.

ICE's plan to lose the war has entered the Napoleon in Russia phase with winter deployments in snowy steppe without dedicated cold-weather kit

An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

Trumpers are determined to be a worldwide force for authoritarianism. Trump's "national security strategy" declares the US will ally with Russia's dictatorship against our NATO allies, and makes the undermining of democratically elected European governments a US foreign policy goal.

JD Vance interacts with this guy.

Just like everything else the trump administration has done since taking office last January, the ending & stripping of birthright citizenship was already on the table before the 24 election. He & other republicans talked abt this many times. The electorate was fine w it. Why wouldn’t they be now?

Yes, it’s totally settled forever, well done sir

America got “the president is killing terrorists, don’t question it” in the 2000s too. But unlike now: -The US had been attacked -Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks -They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky -Congress authorized the action

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

For reasons completely unrelated to any opinions about regulatory policy, a Day 1 executive order here in the US should be ending every government agency account on X. Just delete them all, plain as that. For the same reason the US government need not have accounts on Stormfront or 4chan.

A few thoughts on the new NSS, expert responses, and upcoming NDS. 1. The first talking point for every expert should have been that this is an overtly white nationalist document that spits on every American ideal of meritocracy, the innate value of human life, and self-determination. 1/

Oh.

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

Every day I want you to remember that if you didn't vote for Harris, you are the co-author of everything that is happening.

they hate music, they hate art, they hate artists, they hate pop, they hate the video games they play, they hate the movies they watch, like, they're just all the worst fucking people you've ever met, none of them believe in anything

European reaction to the new American national strategy document

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

It isn't the worst part, but it is the most humiliating part that he isn't even interesting. People say he's funny but I've never experienced that. He is intolerable, but not fascinating. There is nothing to think about there. He is a horrible, stupid animal and we let him rule us. We allowed it.

I was so annoyed by all the people posting this back in 2016. No better way to tell me you’re an absolute dullard if you think the art is gonna be good.

People said at least the art would be good but it hasn't been. Not better than it would have been. Often worse. There is nothing to engage with. There is no beauty, not even interesting ugliness. Just a decade plus of wasted time and energy.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

He has been unfit to serve for 12 years and it’s been a non story the entire time. This will never change.