Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

I love how Republicans are saying NO KINGS is anti-American and anti-fascism is fighting against American interests and Democrats are like "what's up with healthcare premiums and groceries" as if freedom from a monarchy isn't considered a kitchen table issue

It's really simple Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Okay this is probably a snobby one: James Joyce Ulysses is fun and easy if you approach as if it's the the literary version of a jazz record. The story is secondary. It's about turning the language that was force on you by the oppressor into a frantic, beat driven thing.

And the best adaptation of any Dickens that has ever been put onto the screen, or ever will be, is the Muppets Christmas Carol. But I think that is quite possibly the least unhinged opinion it is possible to have about Dickens. It's simply fact.

neither infinite jest nor ulysses is too long

How do you know if you live in a free country? Because it says so on your police registration papers.

There are more pictures of Donald Trump with Epstein than there are of Donald Trump with Eric. Must sting.

I think it’s fucked up when they started going to space because that’s just not a place X-men should go. You’ve got your space superheroes and your non-space superheroes. Gambit on a spaceship going “Mon Ami that star is going supernova!” is goofy

If your extended metaphor lasts more than four clauses see your doctor of philosophy.

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

At the top of all my medical records it has my name and then in parens “(Handsome)”. Anyone else have this?

"That the parts behave very differently in these arrangements than in isolation or in pairs does not license the idea that the arrangement exerts a downward 'configurational force' on the parts or that the wholes and their characteristics are emergent." #philsky #metaphysics iai.tv/articles/eme...

We must stop RFK

Here’s some Richard Salcido art to make your Monday a little better.

Nice….

Donald Trump says that Barack Obama could have gotten the October 7th hostages released during his presidency, raising new concerns about Joe Biden's memory and cognition.

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

Twilight (c.1899) - Joan Brull #symbolism #genre_painting

Un Deuil (1882) - Daniel Ridgway Knight #classicism #figurative

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way. by Ezra Klein electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

I knew it would be bad, but... so bad! So quickly!

my model of marjorie taylor greene is not that she is a committed bigot but that she is a person with a severe axis ii disorder with no fixed beliefs unrelated to her present set of resentments

A Chaffinch painted onto a Vimto drinks mat from the 1950s. darrenhaymanart.com

The far-right mouthpiece who told young men to clean up their place while in front of his very clearly messy home, now has contracted an illness from all the mold in his home. If you wrote such a fascist character in a story it would be deemed a silly caricature.

My money is on the cat 😎

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries. time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Egypt has extremely strict gun control laws. Civilians are only permitted to own handguns -- no rifles or shotguns -- and only if they can prove they need the weapon for a specific purpose. Background checks for licensing are extensive and include vetting of family members and psych evaluations.

Patient frogs

Yeah, I think most elites do not really have ideology or beliefs so much as a desire to be perceived favorably by whatever institution or group they’ve embedded themselves within - that’s how you become an elite! So asking “who are they trying to impress” is a great way to understand their behavior

The protests in a week are likely to be some of the largest in history. This time, instead of ignoring them, maybe Democrats could try something new: pointing out that a president who is facing some of the largest protests in history is definitionally deeply unpopular, and has no hint of a mandate

Related phenomenon is the seeming belief "it shows integrity and honesty to acknowledge legitimate criticisms of your own side, therefore it shows even more integrity and honesty to legitimise obvious bullshit smears against your own side"

Thugs. And we're paying for them.

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

When authoritarians tell you they like authoritarianism, over and over and over and over and over again, believe them

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.” Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

Here's the thing: nobody has built a gigawatt data center. They do not exist. Nobody has an open date on a 1GW data center. Even Elon Musk cannot afford to just *build* a 1GW data center and needs a weird SPV with NVIDIA. Nobody has the power for a 1GW data center. it's all bullshit!

The psychology that twists coverage in Trump’s favor is transparent, once you accept that psychology plays a role. They want to be perceived as neutral by their peers, and they know their peers suspect them of anti-Trump bias. So they demonstrate independence by scrutinizing Dems and praising Trump.

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

"Instead of Columbus, we should celebrate all Italian women for being so hot." this is a genuine thought I had this morning. I'm sharing it as an act of contrition. please do not get mad at me. please do not become passionately enraged with your fiery tempers and strike me with a heavily-ringed hand