This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.

today, this person who is responsible for protecting the rights of disabled americans, used the r-word slur. feels suboptimal.

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

This is MTG'w bill. She personally authored. It's happening now, not in the past. Spare me her redemption arc.

meanwhile the critique of popularism is "your own base will hate you for betraying them, people who really believe in this stuff will go full fash rather than support your half measures, and the waverers will take your capitulation as proof the fash are right" bearing out pretty well so far

I simply cannot take popularism remotely seriously when nobody involved even tries to answer the question "what happened to keir starmer" at best they point to a few policies they don't like, but "move right on social issues and immigration" is his main platform and look what fucking happened!

The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.

you do not and should not hand it to MTG under any circumstances it is useful for us, politically, that she's broken with Trump - because "Rs in Disarray" is a good narrative but she herself is still a vicious antisemite and transphobe and nobody progressive should lose sight of that

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I can’t stand anybody who wants to tell me consumer-facing LLMs and/or genAI are good. You are trying to convince everyone that it’s actually better to use a knife with no handle. Your hand is bleeding as you tell me handleless knives are inevitable and we need to get used to them or fall behind.

We are currently in the "hold open the Demon Core with a screwdriver" stage with LLMs, which means these chatbots should never, ever, have been released to the public

Frankly at this point I think talking about "safety tools" on LLM chatbots is mealy-mouthed garbage. The moderate position is that the people who built these systems should never be allowed to touch a keyboard again.

it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

I got suspended when I said what the developers of this tech should do to themselves.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

I don't know if he will enjoy what eventually happens to Nazis who aren't sent to prison, either.

I propose replacing it with a new metaphor, "you can't put the juice back in the proprietary Juicero wi-fi enabled cold-pressed juice pack"

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

My takeaway is that we have not been mean enough to the New York Times this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

Via Lisa Sorg and Inside Climate News: Deep cuts to state budgets and at the Environmental Protection Agency are preventing regulators from fully protecting the public from pollution, according to a report released earlier this month by the Environmental Integrity Project. https://ow.ly/Nq2e50XMy7m

Blanket censoring the word “gambling” is literally a pro gambling move. Gambling platforms avoid the word for obvious reasons, so YouTube eliminating its use under the pretense of combating gambling is the best fucking cover a gambling platform could ask for. It’s pretty disgusting.

Sinatra has gone woke

whenever a conservative says like “i won’t apologize for being white” i’m kind of like where were you hanging out that people were asking that of you

Me logging into this website so that I can “get a sense of what’s going on in the world”

Please keep contacting your representatives and demand they oppose repealing sec230, and oppose internet censorship/surveillance bills Get friends and family involved, february is when they are going to make a major push

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

🧵 I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Definitions matter. Each small precedent leads to the next and snowballs. This started with naming cartels terrorist orgs. Then drug runners "terrorists." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

Wow! Now to google if Harris did in fact win hmmm-- oh. Oh you're not going to believe this.

See how our friend Will focuses on tampons because he is both totally grossed out and also has no idea about the politics of period products. While protesting abortion bans in Texas, tampons were confiscated at security because they were afraid we would throw cotton balls at politicians.

This is not specific to ICE JSYK. When my mother was evicted from our old family home, they helped themselves to our things too. And I hear of people who, when they are taken into police custody, have their personal possessions (ordinary, non-problematic items) lifted from them out of greed.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

"an internet witch hunt" Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official. This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.

flying circus was all an elaborate plot to get people to draw cute anime OCs in world war one era uniforms and it *WORKED*

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

My Christmas Eve gift to you is that you can play the first two full campaigns of Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator RIGHT NOW, for free, in our demo. If you wanna give ME the present of a wishlist... I mean. I wouldn't say no. 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

Fucking hell Twitter, what's the opposite of a Christmas miracle?

brb, heading to a nice restaurant (as I usually do) to order dessert so I can ruin pathetically insecure weirdos' dining experiences.