In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

You do not have to give people “due process” before you choose not to vote for them. You can just be like “oh word the guy who wrote rape apologia and had allegations just got another serious allegation? Guess he doesn’t need to be my senator.”

thank you to Portland’s DIY Bar for letting you use your own design with their string art kits, I’ve never been prouder of anything made by these two clumsy-ass hands

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This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Beating Morocco was always a bit of a fantasy. Of course it's a bummer to lose but this team has proven Canada can compete, and for a little while let us dream so big

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

fuck, man, what are those 8 people who were looking forward to this supposed to do now

Hello and welcome to a thread about the wonderful world of Chick tracts*. When I say wonderful, I mean terrible. Join me on this ride together because if you don't Satan will eat your soul. *Chick tracts are evangelical booklets made in the 1960s. They are completely insane.

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

it is worth understanding that most evangelical churches do not actually require you to believe or do anything in particular. when they go to church they mostly listen to some songs and are told that god hates their enemies and wants them to own a truck.

my favorite thing about the sspx/lefebvrists debacle is the number of rando protestants who are outraged about who and who is not in communion with rome like, buddy, i have some news about what happened in 1521. you're gonna want to sit down.

The Prairieland cartoonist/zinester who got 30 years for making a zine. Still short of the goal for funding his fight against this total travesty of justice. A gullible rural jury brainwashed by rightwing media, and the most fascist judge in the country. Donate & push this over the finish line.

Please consider helping my good friend, a trans woman, in the rural USA escape her abusive home. If donations are difficult, please consider sharing. Thank you so much. gofund.me/3866bdbab

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Like, there's not even a "fairness" argument to be made here. Becky Pepper-Jackson never went through a testosterone puberty. I feel bad for the kid.

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

TOM HANKS: hi i'm beloved actor and wholesome family man tom hanks! the new deal was good THE RIGHT: tom hanks is a sick cannibal freak! i will NEVER watch his movies ARMIE HAMMER: hi i'm sick cannibal freak armie hammer and i love racism now THE RIGHT: it is our duty to support this righteous man

Please, please, please sue Meta for this, OpenAI!! The litigation space around AI development/scraping/agents/robots is already pretty mind-bending and surreal. But it could always get better! 🍿🍿 www.wired.com/story/meta-c...

Update - It was a charter boat that sank. Search continues for six missing people 😓 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

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If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

IT‘S HAPPENING. Scarlet the Corpse Flower is BLOOMING just in time to be part of your Pride Weekend pre-party AND entry is free for SF residents 🏃‍♀️🎟️💀🌹 @gardensofggp.bsky.social gggp.org/corpseflower/

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

The Supreme Court's fifth and final decision is Blanche v. Lau, another 6–3 split. Per Thomas, the government does NOT require clear and convincing evidence that a green card holder committed a crime before divesting them of their lawful status at the border. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

i worked at the last mall bookstore in my area from 2003-2004. i’d repack reagan biographies & send them back as damaged. no one ever bought anything from my staff rec endcap but sometimes they’d read jackets & look confused. i only sold davinci code, 5 people you meet in heaven, & lovely bones.

I meant to write about this story and I didn't and I'm sorry. Trans kids have been abandoned by so many people. It's hard to find words for seeing the kids who were our promise for a world where people like us didn't have to have the hard lives most of us had being abandoned life by innocent life.

I could write 50,000 words on why Jack Sowards script for 'Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan' is the best and most influential screenplay in the history of cinema, and maybe someday I will, but right now I'm too tired to actually do it but still want to put it out there

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

ppl treating the wayback machine as an acceptable casualty in their efforts to oppose ai crawlers is not exactly the same thing as ai killing the wayback machine

Make the bad guys pay: A Democratic message that the white working class will hear. They respond to gestures of power. A THREAD.

Happy Juneteenth! For this holiday let’s all donate to Black trans liberation and justice! Please share Black trans support orgs and MUTUAL AID requests in replies. Remember to not only donate to people and orgs at the top of replies but also scroll down to support everyone.

The cynical demonization of trans people and moronic fearmongering about bathrooms has driven some weak Americans absolutely fucking nuts. www.wfla.com/news/nationa...

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

Real diplomatic instruments are not full of basic grammatical errors and unintentional ambiguities. It is a unique humiliation that the American regime did not even have a professional translation and resolve ambiguities. They ran it through grok and signed it.

We don’t have any of that stuff anymore, are you prepared to fight and die under the red banner for deliveroo drivers?

NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:

4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

Well, I've never heard him use the phrase 'radical gender ideology' for one

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble: PP has promised to roll back trans rights incl undoing legislation that protects us. And he isnt above using the notwithstanding clause. Yes, Carney is being awful on many fronts. And PP would be VERY BAD for human rights which is the most important thing we have

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.

The simple fact of it is that — if you aren't Christian — you have to vote toward the left regardless of your personal politics, for the same reason that many socially conservative black folks do: because the alternative is people who theoretically share your beliefs but want to wipe you out

One of the things about the Lauren Southern story is that her reactions after being raped by Andrew Tate aren’t unusual. A lot of people think, maybe subconsciously, that they’ll never be raped. A lot of people, maybe subconsciously, blame victims. Unlearning this is key to combatting rape culture.

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.