By the way, we’re gonna need to do this fast. Everybody in Silicon Valley with a clearance needs to piss in a cup within 48 hours of the new Democratic administration taking office.

A future D Secretary of Defense - should one ever come - will need to suspend the clearance of every last person affiliated with a16z, 8VC, Founders, & Sequoia and pull clearances from every portfolio company pending comprehensive drug testing, financial review, & CI screening. It’s going to hurt.

Birthright citizenship is like one of the only unequivocally modern elements of the American constitutional order and should be protected at, literally, all costs.

It's remarkable to me that in the 193 years since no other President, to my knowledge, has used the "fuck you, make me" clause in response to the Supreme Court.

I still maintain that Marbury v. Madison was wrongly decided and if they chose to either Congress or the Executive could just ignore the Supreme Court and dare John Roberts to do something about it.

you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay

...this sends a very clear message that their tacticool gadgets and Warrior Lethality Mindset aesthetic are not all that relevant in the battle for hearts and minds that they would have to win if they had to live out their fantasies for real.

If the Wide-Awakes marching in 1860 were a show of force for the kind of infantry the North could field, and the mass demonstrations of European workers the wake of WWI a show of force for the kind of civil wars the old regimes were in store for without reform...

Thinking about this again, how one interpretation of mass demonstrations in 19th/20th century was that they were a show of force for the kind of mass warfare that characterized the age. In that sense, this encounter and others like it, more than the mass street marches, are serving that function.

IMHO, the answer to complaints about birthright citizenship is: more dead Confederates. Enough until they stop talking about it, and if we hear it again, we fire up the Dead Confederate Machine once more.

take me down to the paraphrase city, where it’s nice

It’s clear the punishment worked. Quacks should also be aggressively prosecuted under anti-fraud laws instead of coddled.

Getting vaccinated is like paying your taxes. It should not be optional.

I've always thought that the better response to anti-vax sentiment from communities without a well-rooted fear of the medical-scientific community is "shut the fuck up, get your shot or you will be punished" rather than attempting to get people to understand.

We must take up the woke man's burden

We're going to have to jam civilization and science down some people's throats.

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

Painting brick should carry the same penalty as arson

i am going to start another crusade. against this

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Every day, more reasons to hate the genAI & LLM bubble... hoovering up all the hardware along with our IP. www.xda-developers.com/crucial-no-l...

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

i love when animals use the sidewalk

Something I’ve thought about a lot is that the WH has decided to govern the country like Missouri or Brownback’s Kansas, and most people have never lived in a deep red state so this is all a fairly new experience for them

International Style barbecue restaurant called Meats van der Rohe

it really is just elite status games all the way to the top a bunch of people who went to good schools are jealous that some people might be getting degrees from those schools "undeservedly" so now we're gonna get a thousand articles implying ADHD isn't real just fucking kill me man

it's very interesting how many people's response to the misuse of disability accommodations is to do away with accommodations entirely rather than reform the system to reduce false positives really speaks to your underlying motivations

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Sacred: O Holy Night da greatest to ever do it Secular: Linus and Lucy

I'm looking at that and wondering "is this an ideal length sleeve or is it just that it's on Steve McQueen?"

It’s crazy because he looks just as cool without it. Cut sleeve sweatshirt? What??

conservatives, it turns out, are absolutely correct about there being quiet, load-bearing institutions that are vital to the existence of civilization. they're just opposed to them

Hail to the King of Cool

that said this is such an absurdly cool fit to wear on your first day in a POW camp

Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip

For my Chicago neighbors, here's the petition to sign to oppose the delivery robots: nosidewalkbots.org

crisped rice 👉 Rice Krispies flaked corn 👉 Corn Flakes looped fruit 👉 Froot Loops puffed cocoa 👉 Cocoa Puffs nutted grapes 👉 Grape-Nuts jacked apples 👉 Apple Jacks I'm so close to cracking the cereal-naming schema I can taste it

It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.

Tired: evangelical pastor named Tanner referencing ancient Greek to justify modern views, such as harsh gender norms Wired: Greek Orthodox priest named Konstantinos referencing ancient Greek to justify ancient views, such as "why don't you come to church more often"

CONCEIVED IN SIN, BORN IN INIQUITY, NURTURED BY TYRANNY, DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH

An empty home in Cairo, IL does not help alleviate demand in Lakeview Chicago

"Come now empty handed, you don't need anything"

“The Cardinals warbled a joyful song. He'll make right what man made wrong. Bringing low the hills. That the valleys might be filled. Then “Child,” asked the birds, “Well, aren't they lovely words we sing?”” This year’s Xmas ornament inspired by mewithoutYou

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

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