Its 2026 and people are still acting like a child seeing two guys holding hands is going to leave them scarred for life Having to fear for your life at school? Normal But two men holding hands or even kissing? Irreparable mental damage I'm so tired

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Sam Altman just said he has tweaked his deal with the Pentagon and wrote a list of things he says are part of it, and he chose to include this really great line: "One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday."

Are you a bad person and also stupid? Great! You’re hired.

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

People frequently assume it’s fair for the criminal system to deprive people of basic rights when they are arrested, because after all, people who are arrested did something wrong, right? Wrong. This is why we shouldn’t let cops collect DNA from arrestees, for example.

Happening now: anti-war protestors are gathereing in Chicago's Congress Plaza for a demonstration against ongoing U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Tonight's rally follows a similar protest in Chicago on Saturday; other anti-war actions are being planned across the city over the week.

This paired with the admin telling everyone Trump had no choice but to go to war because Israel made him do it…it’s giving end times lunacy.

this is completely batshit.

BREAKING: Our client Mahmoud Khalil is appealing an immigration judge’s ruling that says the Trump administration can re-detain and deport him. This judge’s order was baseless and retaliatory, and must be reversed before Mahmoud’s rights are violated again.

if “for sale, baby shoes, never worn” are the saddest six words, then “riding in a golf cart fatly” is the opposite of that

State Dept. urges Americans to flee Middle East in what...speed boats?

I agree and I'll add one more thing: Something I love about his columns and his approach to persuasion is that he regularly cites history. Not just what happened five days ago but what happened two hundred years ago. I learn things from his columns all the time.

Oh man this is going to piss off so many people www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

emotional intelligence

Finally read the criminal complaint against the Milwaukee cop who abused his access to Flock LPR data to track his girlfriend and her ex. This was only discovered because the girlfriend looked up her plate number on www.haveibeenflocked.com!! incredible shit mkepdpio.org/wp-content/u...

I thought going to an authoritarian petrostate where critics of the government are routinely rounded up, detained, and tortured would be so fun, because they have nice hotels and pools. But it turns out it isn't so fun for me, personally, anymore.

Democrats would win a generational landslide victory running on this platform in ‘26 and ‘28 but Schumer and Jeffries will never support it, which is why they need to be ousted.

probably just a chemical burn from his beauty regimen. nothing to get too excited over

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I guess he’s sort of telling the truth when he says this mission is the opposite of nation building. It’s nation destroying.

Hallmark card imperialism

Neemi had 17 boards lmao let’s goooo

Door Dash Imperialism. It's been one day and "nothing has happened yet." White supremacist racists are very smart.

Not even sure who is the tail and who is the dog anymore

I'd be more inclined to believe that Graham Platner is merely a dumbass if he was making different kinds of "mistakes" instead of one very specific type of "mistake" over and over

He needs to be impeached before he kills everyone

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

Looks like he’s had a stroke. The right side of his face didn’t always droop like that.

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Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, it’s not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it

Take action: tell your lawmakers to oppose war with Iran m.aclu.org/28/8296sx

A 31 year old food engineer in Iran said he has no illusions about what comes next: “In just one day, they flattened a girls’ primary school and killed so many children. Do you really expect countries that turned Gaza into ruins to bring you democracy?” www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-ira...

Analysis from Columbia and CUNY prof Hamid Dabashi: The purpose of this war is to plunge Iran into civil war, allowing Israel the regional freedom to continue expanding its borders into Greater Israel. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-i...

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

If you like me are wondering what the Houthis might do in response to the US-Israel attack on their ally Iran, you may find this helpful. www.dw.com/en/houthi-pl...

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have abandoned military contractors in the gulf region and they and their families are terrified. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The illegal Trump-Netanyahu war against Iran is causing chaos in the skies, with tens of thousands of flights delayed or canceled and numerous countries closing airspace to civilian travel. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Death toll from US-Israeli attack on girl’s school in Iran rises to 150 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Al Jazeera reporting the British government is telling citizens to avoid travel to Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, and Qatar and those already in country to “shelter in place.”

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Yeah that World Liberty Financial deal is looking really suspicious right now! In addition to the jet and everything else. And re CBS coverage of the war, don’t forget the Gulf states are among the entities joining Ellison to buy Warner Bros.

They sent Jared Kushner. I think they fully intended to go to war.

“I oppose yet another regime change war-of-choice in the Middle East.”

This guy just saying any tough quotes he can remember. “Remember the Alamo.” You have to try to match the quote to reality so it doesn’t sound stupid man

Lotta fake news on X, the everything app

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames