My heart broke to see Americans fighting Americans in our streets yesterday. As I saw ICE agents tackling civilians and firing pepper balls into the crowd, I was overwhelmed by how broken we’ve become. We cannot normalize this violence. Here’s what happened at Delaney Hall: THREAD

Rise of The Machines

When you don’t know what representative democracy is

If Wemby stays healthy, he makes LeBron vs Jordan look so dumb

*inserts penis into hornets' nest* *One hour later* "The bees and I are very close to a deal."

This is the anecdote to the decadence of a professional class that constantly chases novel gustatory experience and has come to confuse this empty hedonistic quest with being cultured.

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

the thing about vote shaming is, if electeds always balk at spending on social programs/public services, won't fight for trans rights or cut cop budgets for fear of hurting their chances of reelection, hurting their chances of reelection really seems like the only way to sway their policy decisions

Also: The great failure of the Biden administration was not to protect Americans against the entirely predictable outrages now being perpetrated by the Trump administration. Let’s not fuck it up again.

Weird. I haven’t seen any right wing cranks on here

This is EXACTLY how the Overton window keeps moving right Dems absolutely, spinelessly capitulate, move to center. Republicans call them radical socialists ANYWAY. Center positions become far left positions. Repeat. It’s why a market based healthcare solution from Obama was “socialist.”

If they win, it’ll be ABTCAB. A lot more to type, but a trade I’m willing to make

tell your doctor not to use AI notes

This guy hasn’t stood strong in decades

Take this headline, and substitute quite literally anything you want for “sports,” and replace “fans” with whatever form of “consumers” will fit

Seeing Dril enter his Reply Guy Era is the only reason to ever log into Threads

In the past week, the Trump regime has sought the names of every trans kid in NYC, passed a rule that trans people must out themselves to buy firearms, and said trans people are akin to terrorists who will be "identified, mapped and neutralized". Where is the coverage? Where is the goddamn outrage?

I think one major disconnect for me in 2024 - the reason I was mostly optimistic - was tech oligarch’s total control over reality creation. I hadn’t realized they could pretty easily dictate reality even for voters who loathe them. That’s on me.

Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it.

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

At least once a week I see a debate about whether Bluesky is insular or not helping democrats and honestly all these debates are missing the fucking point. I don't care if my social media platform upsets nazis or doesn't get people elected.

Why did they stay on X? Perhaps they’re not being “dragged” at all.

I will not engage with a Skip Bayless take in the year 2026. I do not even remember who that name represents. At night I am visited by the beady-eyed visage of a short man with a body like beef jerky, clad in chains and wailing OOOOH LEBRON IS NOT THE GOAT. I go back to sleep. He is not my concern.

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

Haven’t seen anybody take care of an animal abuser like this since Tony Soprano

Trumpian Victory: (n) when you fuck up irrevocably and declare victory

This was posted under somebody pointing out that Republicans defy courts and Democrats roll over and die willingly. Hubris manufactures irony like nothing else

Gas prices the highest in years amid a disastrous war and the leader of the opposition party is busy thanking the White House for posting grainy "UFO" pics 👍

I used to have political convictions but then I got scolded by John Roberts. That’s an important part of his job. Now I see that it’s time for me to listen and learn.

Question: Why are we not using our strategic oil reserves that Biden helped to build up to help with supply shock and drop fuel prices?

every single one of these cracks me up

It’s kind of gross so many people are interested in closely associating any left wing politics with accepting bigotry and any sort of politics against bigotry as opposed to left wing politics but y’all keep doing it.

Ugh she’s an Eagles fan? That’s fine. Nobody is perfect.

Absolutely nuts that his is allowed to happen with a sitting president.

The Last Jedi isn’t bad because it’s woke, it’s bad because no studio has the guts to make Rian Johnson to do a second draft of a screenplay.

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

We still don’t know if Giuliani will pull through, but we do know Sacha Baron Cohen got him to solicit an underage prostitute on film

my top tekken picks after tekkening: King: kitty cat man Nina: botox psycho Yoshimitsu: cursed shinobi edgelord with bugs bunny energy

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

my husband has developed what is in my opinion one of the funniest fan castings of any character in history, which is Glenn Howerton as the Joker

The Celtics just missed another 3

Holy shit I’m watching Storage Wars and this ASPCA commercial is absolutely INSANE. It’s like the South Park episode with the donations at the register at grocery stores

Tell all of them yes and then start a new group chat without them

I think about this all the time.

Reality is drunk

Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this

i dont want bipartisan studies and commissions, i want you to use the dictatorial powers the executive has recently been granted to demolish our broken institutions and rebuild them from the ground up, and then i want you to completely neuter the power of the executive branch