We’re gonna find out later how much AI was used to manipulate a demented president who was already living in a sociopathic unreality.

These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

what you clearly see, CLEARLY, is a driver who is spooked by the agents grabbing her door, takes steps to drive away, and is immediately shot as moves her vehicle *away* from the agents.

Excellent frame by frame analysis by Brenna Perez: www.tiktok.com/@perezbrenna...

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” -- James Baldwin

I think I fucked up

Embrace tradition

Our reporters are on site at the vigil - network congestion preventing uploads currently. We would estimate up to 10,000 people are attending the vigil near 34th and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis at this time.

The greatest and most distinctly American thing about this country is the proposition that anyone can come here and become just as American as you or me. Defending that proposition is patriotism. Dying for that proposition is martyrdom.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The murdered woman's glove compartment is filled with stuffed animals.

Merrick Garland, seeing that the newstand is out of copies of USA Today, decides he doesn't need to know the news. His peace in retirement is earned from decades of dutiful service, he thinks, and there's nothing he could have done better. As sirens scream in the distance, he tunes them out.

no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies

“You can’t kill us all, Nazis” is particularly remarkable and moving because ICE agents could of course kill everyone literally there

surrounding them after they just killed somebody and shouting “you can’t kill us all, nazis” is legitimate “ready to run through a wall” inspirational

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

This guy is one of a kind. If you don't have him on your radar you should fix that. Instead of gazing with wonder at the denialism five years later, he's warning the polity. Possibly the most valuable news anchor in the country. Kyle Klark at 9News Denver.

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

A touching tribute to Mike F

also, bluesky

Sane leaders are all alike; every mad king is mad in their own way

The US government is an insurance company with a robust logistics network that happens to have a lot of weapons

i am not saying "nothing matters" because having a common base of knowledge is important for all kinds of reasons, it is just that you have to keep in mind that we live in an era of mass ignorance and fantasy

Trump's obsession with making Greenland part of the United States because it looks big on a map and is colored differently from the states is a classic case of Mercator Projection

to get speculative: trump is obsessed with the idea of himself. it's why he puts his name on everything he touches. what's killing him now is that people regard his first term as a nothingburger and he can feel himself aging and dying. how else do you guarantee a place in history? redraw the map

“Dominance means you take something if you want it”

Yep, I've got a History degree and the lessons from it are far less predictive of what will happen in contemporary society than Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory, which are like that sports almanac in Back to the Future II.

We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

Five years ago.

I referenced this Simpsons episode, my all-time favourite, in my PhD dissertation. It couldn't have been more perfectly suited lol

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

Is Tim Walz the Joe Rogan of-the-Left?

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

Really the take from the last few years is that if the Europeans wanted to kowtow towards a rapidly democratic backsliding state with that dawg in it that would actually protect them from Russia instead of throwing them to the wolves they should have let Turkey into the EU.

Any man who wants to start a podcast should have to sit in front of a tribunal of women and plead their case

E3 Snuffy signed up to have enough money to become a debt slave to his local monster truck dealer, to get a free college degree in business or sports medicine or whatever, and to be socially respected By. His. Fellow. Americans. He didn't sign up to be the fucking Schutzstaffel or Janjaweed.

Let he whose far right party is not approaching power cast the first stone.

It's like your violent alcoholic dad shoving you in the back of the car before he drives over to pick a fight with the little league team coach and you're sitting there in the back seat with no seatbelt going, "Well he has a point, that coach *is* kind of an asshole."

If this is true (and it rings so), then others' comments about neo-monarchism and Kremlin watching are all the more relevant. It's all going to be driven by personalities and not ONE of them is likable.

Deleted a repost of a thread. Looking closer, the person is comfortable sharing AI images & video. Was the thread also AI? Was it accurate? I’d rather not take the chance and share it. Journalists, keep this in mind. “Fun” AI videos & images undercut your credibility.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

It's why he is threatening Colombia + Mexico. Why he bought elections in Argentina + Honduras. And interfered in Brazil's courts. Latin America's democratic left bloc is the most principled opposition to Trump in the world, defending international law while richer + more powerful nations cower. 2/3

Maduro can also use the Hernandez pardon to make a clear case this is a vindictive prosecution.

some thoughts on all of this madness from earlier in the morning youtu.be/-yUi-0vNlDA

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier