The PEPFAR program saved lives at home and around the world. It has had a demonstrable, positive impact on the lives of millions. It did ground breaking research on an illness that killed far too many, undermining societies and cultures. It is the best of us. And these bastards killed it.

point absolutely taken, agree, "accuracy" is just a smokescreen for racist cruelty and hysteria, but, um, I do. i would go absolutely fucking apeshit for something like this.

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

Juniper Blessing singing Tom Petty’s Wildflowers at the New Mexico School For The Arts in 2024

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

Sanity checks > age caps, and I will die on that hill. The problem with most of our systems is that they're governed by narcissists and psychopaths, regardless of age. Someone dying whilst in office hardly matters if the field isn't littered with predators.

this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Her last name being "Faust" is a little on-the-nose. The writing is so bad this season.

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

Why was Maggie Gyllenhaal there?

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

A bunch of extremely beautiful pictures of wind farms in China - all photographs by Weimin Chu e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

I like that the best preserved ancient people are either mummies laboured over by priests for weeks or just some poor fucker thrown in a bog

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Interesting analysis for those of us interested in hope and aware of the big graph that shows Reform peaked in October last year and is sliding inexorably down.

You don't get to say things like this and then ask why I, an immigrant, and all of my loved ones who don't see me as a problem to be solved, won't vote for you.

Everything is a conspiracy if you’re really fucking stupid

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

This is the problem. A pitch to voters "turning to Greens and Reform". You have to actually choose between the voters who want what they perceive as a socially liberal socialist environmentalist party and the ones who want fascism. You can't appeal to both, and now they all hate you.

I think the association of British accents with the ancient world is a bizarre one that is borne out of familiarity rather than anything more meaningful. "Wow Denzel had a Brooklyn accent in GladIIator lol," ok because it makes sense for an ancient Roman to sound like he's from 21st century London.

Every day's got multiple massive scandals, mate.

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in: 1. Do not do age verification. 2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

Conservatives: The epidemic of male loneliness is a scourge and we need to have compassion for all the incels worshipping Nick Fuentes. Also Conservatives: Men who have male friends are gay.

Caregiving is female, it is VASTLY undercompensated, and every government agency and male taxpayer benefits from women’s unpaid and underpaid work. Caregiving is a Feminist Issue, it’s an equality issue, it’s an equal justice issue, and it’s a racial justice issue.

okay "elon musk pretends to be his own mother online" is funny but its hinting at a much richer situation which had to have happened: elon musk explaining to his mother why its crucial that he pretends to be her online

I don’t exactly know what’s going on here, but it seems appropriate to invoke the First Law of Elon Musk: In any given scenario involving Elon Musk, the most pathetic explanation is almost certainly the correct one.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

70% of life is "Gosh, I need to do that" meeting the forces of "Can't be arsed right now, though."

GameStop’s CEO struggles to answer the question of how his company worth $12B can afford to buy eBay for $56B. This is amazing television.

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Me waking up in my luxurious data center apartment

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

A key point here is that he uploads his book to Claude first, then dubs it Claudia and begins gushing over how sensitive and smart "she" is. He doesn't even realize he just trained Claudia to reflect his own phrasing and thoughts back at him. He is Narcissus gazing lovingly at his own reflection.

With the reveal that post-Fox Tucker Carlson has 7.3k subscribers, reminder that *all* rightwing media is a miserable enormously unpopular and wildly unprofitable failure, only kept aloft via the largesse of a handful of billionaire pedophiles pumping them with endless amounts of cash.

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I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Initially read her job was "dickhead", and actually, I think that's quite right.

Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.

make bad art

It's fine. No one's listening to him, really.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)