Old enough to remember how someone on here who I won’t name recounted classmates at their college telling them, deadass, that they imagined all Black students went to college for free. As in zero cost. On Uncle Sam’s gravy train. People believe — hell, form policy around! — the damndest fables.

"Trump’s initial post about removing US troops from Germany came just hours after he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long sought to reduce the number of NATO troops in Europe... "The Pentagon 'was not expecting it'... www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The right are so obsessed with the idea that leftist agitiators on are secretly being paid is simply because their movement is being secretly financed. They also can't imagine why you would take a position that you weren't being paid to take, since they have no actual principles beyond self-interest

Me when the grocery store is out of Cherry Float Coke Zero

I'm still furious that Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg launched this war against Iran.

Reminder that Tucker's entire television career is, by his own admission, built on being a lying fraud. (Also he calls it a "take-out hot dog")

The Reconstruction Congress expressly gave Congress the authority to enforce the 15th Amendment to prevent such judicial usurpation, as had occured in Dred Scott

Extremely funny and telling that he falls back on "I might have said that some are asking it" because he can't keep track of when he does his little plausible deniability trick.

A Florida Republican Sheriff, Grady Judd, announced the arrest of 266 defendants in a sex trafficking scheme & minced no words. He identified influencer Craig Long, who he said moved in high circles including with the president, holding up a picture of Long with Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03q...

So much of my animus toward anti-trans bigots is that they’re picking on kids. That isn’t to say adults aren’t equally deserving of justice, but it takes a real sociopath to attack children.

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

True! Know what DOES reduce IQ? Lead ingestion: www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

It turns out that investing in public health can allow you to actually answer causal questions about public health! Who knew! Paper debunking link between fluoride and IQ is in @pnas.org. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Speaking as someone who has written about aviation for 40+ years (and pilot for 30+), and speaking about someone with zero experience in or knowledge about aviation: Sean Duffy is Pete Hegseth without the hair gel. (Both have Fox/Reality TV background.)

AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

They're going to name the bankruptcy after Trump

Sean Duffy officiating a wedding: "we are gathered here today for one of the most beautiful, solemn, and important of occasions: to blame the Democrats for something Republicans did"

I am not normally on the side of posting kids on the internet... but every so often...(this is a reposting account) www.tiktok.com/@fortheloveo...

it's really funny that anthropic claims their latest model is "too dangerous to release" and named it mythos. Yeah man my new ai is soooo powerful. it's called uhhh Fabrication

me (biking past both drivers): hey you can't park there

So Eric Trump is now threatening to sue MeidasTouch because our editor-in-chief simply reported on the massive amounts of money he and Don Jr. are making off government contracts. File the lawsuit Eric. We’d love to put you under oath. Our message: www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-fami...

So Charles dunked on and rebuked Trump for the entirety of his speech, but in British ways so subtle that it went straight over MAGA’s heads and they're cheering him for it. Genius.

yeah I had an atheist movement phase as well and then I realized that with a few exceptions everyone involved was a colossal asshole watching dawkins turn himself into a right wing christian in everything but name has been fascinating in a horrible trainwreck sort of way

the recent @skepchick.org videos about krauss literally emailing jeffrey epstein about her were really the icing on the cake here, all time moments in “my haters are ontologically evil”

If there's any job that can be, and should be, completely replaced by AI, it's "reporter who converts Republican lies into faux neutral newspeak." No good reason to pay any human for that.

I don’t think Americans realize how completely ludicrous our moral “common sense” looks to any external observer, whereby we’re willing to shrug off the deaths of thousands on the thinnest of justifications, or even spit on their corpses, but celebrating the death of a guy that caused them is rude.

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

I love this piece by Robert Shpiner about the scientific infrastructure that doctors, and society as a whole, relies on and which Trump is dismantling. MMWR warned about AIDS in 1981, putting doctors on alert. Trump's CDC hides data about diseases. That's bad. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

Callais is probably the clearest example of why the norm that places the individual justices' decisions above public scrutiny needs to end. These guys said racism was over then every red southern state immediately rushed to disenfranchise voters. Alito and Roberts should be hounded by journalists.

Tough news, does anyone out there have openings for some morbidly cynical hacks who specialize in cashing checks from the Hungarian government

We see a lot of Democrats saying they will respond in kind to Republican gerrymandering. But it doesn’t fix the fundamental problem of killing the VRA: Many Black southerners will essentially have no say in the political process going forward.

He tried to throw a grenade at his own employees (real soybean farmers that grow his soybeans for him) and another grenade at his own customers (people in other countries like China that buy his soybeans) and a third grenade at people in NY and CA, whose taxes subsidize his business profits.

Again, Caleb Ragland is not a soybean *farmer*. Caleb Ragland is a soybean farm *owner*. He doesn't farm 4000 acres of soybeans. He owns 4000 acres of soybeans that other people farm. He has a degree in business management, graduating Summa Cum Laude. And he voted for Trump, 3 times in a row.🤡

Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

I am guessing that “FOUR” did not sound as ominous as “MULTIPLE.” Four from across New Jersey.

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

I also want to address the use of the word "clean," which implies that grants that use "misaligned" words like "minority," "gender," "latinx," "equity," "lived experience," or "social determinants of health" are dirty. This kind of language matters. Grants that address these issues are not dirty.

The grant is "clean" means it no longer contains "terms potentially associated with misalignment with agency priorities" picked up by the "computational text analysis tool." Grants cannot be funded without checking this box. Yet NIH leaders like Bhattacharya & Letai insist NIH has no banned words.

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

We need to do reconstruction 2.0 on these Neo confederate assholes

I think about this all the time.

Uno is a game where having all the cards means you lost the game

This entire thing is ridiculous, but Lee also demonstrated extremely poor generalship at Gettysburg that resulted in a third of his Army becoming casualties. He also didn’t take over command of the Army of N. VA until 14 months after the war started.

part of the selling point for biden was “you will not have to think about the president every hour of the day” and for all his many flaws that was true and this country said nah we want to go back to thinking about this one guy all the fucking time and I will never get over it