Literally how tf can you be expected to raise children before figuring this whole gender thing out

the UK has had essentially no economic growth for a decade and a housing crisis which makes the US' housing crisis look tractable. their prime minister is sephirothposting about draconian punishments for littering. utter madness.

men love to get items that let them unlock doors they've passed before but couldn't open

I think it would be good if Dems would stop treating a vote like it's a marriage proposal. You're voting for someone to pass specific laws you care about. That's it.

the east wing was built in 1942 under FDR

The iPhones are lit, Gondor calls for aid.

Love to provide open air access to the part of the white house above the presidential bunker

Once again kind of funny how different the contemporary ultra-left is from the classical far left. Communists, socialists, and anarchists of 100 years ago literally believed the LAWS OF HISTORY DICTATED that “we are going to win.” Today it’s all “boot on our face forever” all the time

oh so they *murdered* murdered people out there

one of my trekkie crimes is that I've never actually watched Darmok...working on it

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Girls go to Saturn, their ass to enfattern

Pretty funny that Mamdani's gentle correction of NYT is a pretty good summation of the party surrogacy strategy which now forms the underlying consensus, albeit somewhat contentiously, of both DSA left and right

"Even a building like the Mansueto Library conveys certain priorities: The stacks are all underground and unbrowsable, so that the reading materials need to be retrieved electronically—rendering the visible half-domed building little more than something interesting to look at."

people gotta treat this behavior the same as we treat shitting on the floor

This is on every single TERF. Shame on them. bsky.app/profile/izzy...

BREAKING: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill banning landlords from using algorithms to collude and raise rents.

breaking no-contact with my ex to congratulate her on Dan and Phil

they’re literally shopping around for it at this point

Gonna reserve judgement until I watch the new tron movie, but generally I think you probably should not be making sequels to a work subtitled "LEGACY"

"Do I think Netanyahu is worse than Trump, yes" says man arguably defined by doing nothing about Trump.

Would love to invoke this defense in a court of law

oh, I'll show you meritocracy *kills self*

Due to a printing error, Samuel Becket will now be remembered for his infamous line "You must goon. I can't goon. I'll goon."

Today's big swing thought of the day: the term "decolonisation"- as used to describe a myriad of process - is 1) unfit for the specific phenomena it is trying to describe 2) a deeply unambitious starting point for the sort of new world system people are trying to imagine

This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

If I find out Adorno's whole thing is the question of whether aesthetics inform ethics, or vice versa, I'm gonna lose it

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

You can only have so many tech billionaire supervillains before someone dresses up as their favourite animal to conceal their identity as they try to help people.

I think the U.S. just gets massacred by the next entirely-predictable COVID-like event, and that's how we end ~250 years of the republic

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

The debate.

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it? Chiitan forever

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …” The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Credit scores are now falling at the fastest pace since the Great Recession. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/e...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination. The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵 #UnionsForAll

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

He remains a horrible human with an above average social media manager.