When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that? And then they grew up to be even worse?

People keep marveling that Epstein got away with it and positing elaborate conspiracy theories about how he skirted consequences. The truth is that he painted his victims as prostitutes who happened to be underage and his creepy old buddies agreed he was the victim.

For the millionth time, I remind folks that throughout the Clinton and Obama presidencies we heard from serious people on CNBC about the importance of market stability

I suffered some memory loss just reading this

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

Happy to be online today, so I could witness Chapter 1 of the story of How WW AI Started (everything else up to this point is told via expository dialogue)

Good time to remember that Marc Andreessen claimed that he and the other tech broligarchs were forced to support Trump because of the Biden administration's arbitrary regulation and strong-arming of AI firms.

The best explainer that I have heard as to why Louisiana Governor was involved and how the hospital ship supporting into being. Even Greenland have their lying pieces of manure.

brilliant ….Use tineye to debunk AI images

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

Look, yes, Landis is credibly accused of sexual and emotional abuse over an extended period of time. But then you have consider his talent and his track record as a creative, which are also terrible, just absolute dogshit.

I know that everyone on the other site is 12, and the joke here is that everyone is 38, but what my theory presupposes is that every other person in here is 22

The first time a white South African refugee commits a crime I trust Democrats will name legislation after the victim and smear all white South Africans as murderers.

Sebastian Gorka at the 2019 CPAC convention: “they want to take away your hamburgers. This is what Stalin dreamt about but never achieved.”

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Sometimes I think about how his entire shtick would crumble if he suddenly got very wet

What's the over/under that he thinks Dennis can get real real small?

We really need to get out of this era of whatever this one weird white guy thinks is now policy

I have to laugh at how fucking absurd this is. I wish we, collectively as a society, could just agree to stop using AI

I love it when a celebrity story morphs into a journalism story

how the hell did we get leviticus in the divorce

Finally, frosting for men.

This is of a piece with how they all think RFK, the most fucked-up-looking and -sounding man alive, is healthy because he has pecs

It’s so bad that facts like this are relegated to the Oh Yeah That Happened file

The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”…… /1

First band in a long time that made me to go through all four stages of Vince McMahon face

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

The Nineties were so bleak. America had vanquished all enemies so there was nowhere for all that hate to go except onto the people who always got the worst of it

In the last week alone, Briahna Grey, Ryan Grim, Cenk Uyghur, David Klion, Ana Kasparian, and others on the Left have promoted anti-Semitic content. these are not really fringe people, and if we don't police the boundaries of liberalism and progressivism, we risk becoming like the right.

Getting Tucci instead of Trump is a hell of a trade

Analysis | If the right-wing Ellisons are allowed to purchase CNN, they could order Jake Tapper to obsessively focus on Biden's age, or demand that Van Jones to say Trump truly became president today, or allow Scott Jennings to brazenly tell baldfaced lies on a nightly basis.

What I like most about the David Ellison character is that they draw him to look like actually the stupidest guy you’ve ever met. It’s heavy handed but it works I think.

Now for this important announcement:

Lerry Ellison and his weird son Blunther (??) Ellison look like they go on weekend trips to kill horses and steal their teeth

President AOC is going to have to go on a trust-busting spree

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election apnews.com/article/hung...

If you can't tell that five minutes after he's sworn in this guy is going to be standing next to Josh Hawley talking about how president trump is right on immigration and heroically fighting to save America from the Mud Races, I don't know what to say other than "You are not very perceptive."

Dishonesty is at the center of the anti-trans hate campaign. Though much bigotry is blatant, an astonishing amount is laundered by the nyt, which routinely manipulates and falsifies information to foist on unsuspecting readers Take its small but important role in legitimizing this extremist group🧵

This still isn't going to be enough for people who don't know how journalism works and assume that anonymous means the writer made it up. Which is weird, because in everyday life people understand when you say "I can't tell you who told me"

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

One thing I don't understand about casting this guy as the white working class whisperer is that I thought identity politics are supposed to be bad

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Weird how the right wing believes black men when they say a woman is lying about them. Really drives that hierarchical thinking home

Well, if Trump is suing for $10 billion because of leaked info from the IRS, that means the government is on the hook for about $427 trillion here — more than its total budget over U.S. history. Oh well!

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice." "Real media access is still only on Twitter." "No one important uses or will ever use this site." Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

I think folks need to calm down about Newsome because the moment that mf truly hits national attention as a candidate, voters are gonna be like who is this sleazeball that says I shouldn’t retire until I’m 75

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

“Mr Beast related trades” at this point bring back Enron for fucks sake, at least those guys wore suits

Before "Roots" was on TV, folks tended to think of slavery merely as a particularly nasty form of unfair labor practice. It took decades of work to spotlight the psychopathic violence it really entailed and the extent that racism had corroded the nation's soul. Let's not wait another generation