Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

Sorry your health insurance costs so much more this year, we needed to make fancy airplanes for illiterate dog-murderers

“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.

This is a direct violation of long-standing US policy toward Taiwan. Beginning with the 1982 version, the Six Assurances to Taiwan explicitly states that the U.S. will not consult with China on arms sales to Taiwan. Nor will the U.S. set an end date of arms sales to Taiwan.

I don't know how to explain to people that elections have consequences beyond their specific pet issue, and that not caring about those consequences is actually pretty shitty.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

BREAKING: People who hoard wealth not generous

Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.

> Promise to release the Epstein Files > Release less than 2% of the files > What is seen is some incredibly horrific shit > Tell everyone there will be no more releases > [You Are Here] > The pedophile cabal gets nuked from orbit when someone releases the files unredacted

PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.) 14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave. Minnesota may be at an all-time high. THREAD 1 of 4 🧵

Is it weird to be happy for the characters in a story you're writing?

I’m just going to leave this here

the federal government trying to threaten a company into forcing them to do business with the government on the government's terms would have turned a particular type of republican lawmaker into a suicide bomber not even 30 years ago

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating

Will never stop reminding people of this

Like trumps entire National security team got fawning profiles while AOC is getting critiqued for reiterating what U.S. policy towards Taiwan has been for decades

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.

They're going to let the only trusted—and trustworthy—part of the BBC die.

To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

if an adult plays the trombone in the peanuts universe it sounds like words

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades. 😎

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it

this started a holy war, so let me state a very plain and direct argument for this the democratic primary is when we decide if we get to have things be good or mid the general election is when you decide if you dislike nazis

You know how you'll run into people on the internet who say they're really into WH40k but if you ask them who they play they'll admit that they don't actually play the games, they just watch lore videos on youtube? This is the politics equivalent of that

my husband has a young co-worker with these and he told him to look up goatse and the guy did it bc he didn't know and I think we need to do more of this

Predator: Badlands's opening fight scene is pretty painful to watch. Obvious CG is obvious.

huh… weird

I don't think I've ever seen gears shift this fast before.

My local bookshop understands their audience.

I am Graham Platner's age. I too was in the post 9/11 military. I also grew up in a small town in the Northeast US. I am also a college dropout with PTSD. And I am telling you: anyone from my demographic who had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years is either a Nazi or too dumb to be an effective US senator.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

Never been so scandalized by someone double-touching the stone after passing the hog line IN MY LIFE

I hadn't heard this shit until now and finding out Platner was all in on "black people don't tip" makes way too much sense. And it's a huge red flag for anyone who works in hospitality because it's not true. Everyone who's worked behind the stick knows who undertips and it's not the black community

finally painted the dumbest 3D sculpt i’ve made to date #art

YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GODMOTHER? I'LL BE SURPRISED IF YOU SURVIVE BIPPITY-BOPPITY-BOOTCAMP

This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.

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Btw, this is the exact same bullshit cop out Jon Stewart would use ("i'm just a comedian") when anyone would say that as a prominent political commentator he had responsibility to the public discourse he shapes

Gotta love Olympic tradition- the passage of the torch, the ceremonial lighting of the flame, the series of articles about condoms running out from journalists seething that super fit people are fucking

If y'all want to get your sci-fi groove on without having to buy into a streaming service... cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

Happy worst month of the year to all those who observe

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."