I’m sorry but LOL. zeteo.com/p/trump-jeff...

These people want any excuse available to abuse women.

Be as long-term preoccupied with finding the truth as Tyler Cowan is with finding virgins

Chinese culture literally thriving economically, creatively, and technologically in Taiwan. Imagine what the world would be like if China had followed Taiwan's model.

"Apologists for oppression in Taiwan, and on the mainland, said, 'Liberal democracy is incompatible with Chinese culture.' 'Well,' Cohen told me, 'Taiwan is a living refutation of that claim.' He was not willing to write off the democratization of China either." open.substack.com/pub/thenextm...

DHS leadership rethinking location of retirement villa

Socialists dress like middle-aged Texas women in the 1990s?

Just so we are clear, Trump did not succeed in his effort to regift a sword from the Dutch royal family to the English royal family

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Saudi Arabia should give each comic a chunk of murdered journalist sealed in lucite. Famous ones like Chapelle could get something recognizable, like an ear. The "who are you?" folks get a chunk of thigh.

One thing I suspected when I saw reports of agencies being excited to "sign" her was that they were happy they'd finally have an "actress" who couldn't say no. And they thought about all the future ways to monetize that.

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

CBS securing its future by doing something akin to changing the pilot on the Titanic to someone who promises to stay the course, but go faster.

/5 This is not merely about indifference to the brutality against the least of us that is characteristic of our system; that happens under every administration. This is about brutality being the goal, because it makes evil people happy to see others brutalized.

/3 The gulf is between people who see this as brutal and inhuman, and people who see the victims of this as inhuman. The gulf is between people who speak our opposition and people who think that makes us unpatriotic, unreliable, someone to be mocked with sombrero videos.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Your kids raised by ChatGPT:

SOoooooo exciting! Our friends at Blagdaross (successors of the previous Spanish translators) are crowdfunding a Spanish version of Ars Magica Definitive Edition, and it looks SOOOO GOOOOD: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

“Trump is a mad tyrant, destroying the country and handing its government over to countless malignant little cronies and corrupt underbosses, and the result is that America is on the brink of collapse” is, I think, an idea that is both more persuasive and more true than “this is about premiums.”

I remember that weird week, where every paid influencer was wearing those ugly Apple Vision Pro and trying to convince viewers that this shit is the future. Obv the real reason was for apple corp to make money on sales, which they probably failed. And now every corpo is pushing for "ai" in anything

He really does just... do other presidents' legacy-defining scandals casually over breakfast

Posting the 95 Theses -- but they're all printouts of 4chan threads, and thus a new church is born, Moronicism.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US. One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme. The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews. Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

I really want The Quantico Disgrace to stick as the name for this. And have someone one day write a treatment, "The American Civil-Military Relationship, from the Newburgh Conspiracy to the Quantico Disgrace."

New Penny Arcade for your Wednesday! www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/1...

I actually had to Google who the Senate Majority Leader was because zero of these MAGAs or their media lickspittles bother to mention him. It is John Thune (R-S.D.) btw, in case you're like me.

A tv show from 2002 has a character look on the internet for important information Me in 2010: ha, that’s ridiculous, the internet was nothing compared to now Me in 2025: i miss when the internet had things on it, and you could search for and find the things

It is sort of mind boggling how the science news of the last year or so has been software engineers saying “we’ve upgraded the torment nexus that might tear apart society to be 10% more efficient” while bio/pharma has been “we’re about to cure this disease that has plagued humanity for millenial

It's like when Einstein fled to the United States from some other country -- can't remember which one. But I'm sure it turned out well for them.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

One Battle After Another: Willa to her creepy but fit kidnapper, Colonel Lockjaw: "Why is your tee-shirt so tight?" Lockjaw got VERY upset at that line of questioning.

Saudi state money is often difficult to avoid in a general sense, since it is everywhere in the investment stratum and not always obvious from the outside, nevertheless "don't take money directly from people who murder journalists with bonesaws" is a personal rule that's easy enough to follow

The Christmas Tree Adventurer's Club. Hail Saint Nick!

This is a very interesting thread. Two points: first, is the fear that violence will now come for a class that hasn't even considered before that speech can face violent retributions. It struck me that Coates has always known his speech would come at great cost to him, but not Klein. Second,

One Battle After Another wound up being WAY more timely than I bet Anderson expected, and also had the majority of the work of its rebellion driven by women.

The way to save democracy is to lean into the values and messages that mobilize middle-class suburban professionals and rely on the superior financial and community resources of this incredibly powerful base to take over every institution in the country, once energized.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I am 100% in favor of AI being trained solely on Conservopedia.

"After his release, the 79 year old U.S. citizen was treated at a local hospital for multiple broken ribs, a dislocated elbow..." ktla.com/news/79-year... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

WaPo figured out the smart business move was to market themselves to a demographic that doesn't read anything that isn't in a chain email.

Reminder that Miller once asked an admiral “When a boat full of migrants is in int’l waters, they aren’t protected by the U.S. Constitution, right?” When admiral said that’s technically true, but int’l law still applied, Miller replied: “why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat?”

Yeah man, I cannot say what needs to happen to these agents and agency on this app without being banned

"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations." "AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." Oof. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Taxpayers should be able to file a class action lawsuit against the ICE goons and their entire chain of command to get their money back -- leave these thugs homeless and bankrupt.

79. American citizen.

This is the way. South Korea needs to train America in how to democracy.