The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

There’s a zone where supernatural belief, mental illness, and grifting all meet and it’s hard to fully distinguish them.

like, this was last night. you are not "seeing vampires and galactic parasites" you are schizophrenic. today i got one proving that the feds were collaborating with Yugoslavia(?) to 'gangstalk' a person. thousands of likes!

reviewing instagram reels on my lunch break and I think we need to issue an addendum to "everyone is 12" theory - everyone is 12 and some are in active clinical psychosis

‘Uuubhn I have enough money to commission a realistic space hulk board for the game space hulk, but instead I’m going to hang out on pedo island ‘ Losers can’t even get bring rich right

Imagine having enough money to run whatever total war game at high resolution, or commission the greatest gaming table ever created for a warhammer game, and still being unhappy? Skill issue

do not succulent chinese meal the epstein files

Pretty consistently a racist though.

Sullivan wasn’t a leftist! He was a right-winger - the original publisher of the Bell Curve in TNR - who went extremely right over Iraq and called for people to be imprisoned for opposing the war, and then had a repentance arc and went nominally liberal for a while before returning to form.

This is the beginning not the end

'getting the daughter I had with my teenage stepdaughter who I groomed and then married into college through the help of America's most notorious pedophile' very normal stuff

my most peepaw-coded trait is that I angrily refuse to use DoorDash (and similar apps) because I know the markup is so insane versus “picking the food up myself” - and that money doesn’t go to the restaurant. By god, I will drive or walk my ass over to the restaurant and get it myself.

mainly, I want to help more people learn to cook simple meals because it makes me *real* mad to see parasites like DoorDash and Uber Eats making big bucks off price-gouging both small restaurant businesses and stressed out normal people.

Just marveling at how up their own asses these people are

this is why making every ICE and CBP guy's job an endless series of humiliations is critical. also if they don't meet their quota they don't get their bonus.

A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.

i'm sorry... professional wresting fans?? we got professional wrestling fans in the national divorce?

The American belief in the difficulty of cooking is the product of a multicultural society and cosmopolitan liberal elite aspiration of home cooks to prepare cuisines from a variety of ethnic traditions that employ distinct sets of staple ingredients in this essay I will

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As of yesterday there is an injunction that stops the use of tear gas etc (except when a fed thinks they're in imminent harm etc). Even if the injunction is followed, this merits an investigation. It's outrageous that they shot tear gas like this at anyone, let alone a family-friendly march

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

HUGE “you people can’t do anything” energy

incredible 🤣

They aren’t cops, they aren’t doing law enforcement actions. They’re just going and grabbing people off the street for being not white and if you can keep them at bay you’re in the clear because you haven’t done anything wrong beyond existing in their field of vision.

One thing that I’m embarrassed to admit is that I only pieced together last night that the reason why whistles and observation are keeping people safe from ICE is because they don’t know who they’re trying to arrest, they’re just taking anyone so escape means safety, not a knock on the door later

oh my god the ENDLESS SCREEDS about how Biden Isn't Doing Anything For The Workers And The Cost Of Living now we're gonna use our fucking longform post feature (cause she has the official "I support the CSAM Machine" blue check) for ENDLESS NUANCE about Trump's fucking Food Simulations????

America might be the only country on the planet where most every home cook will frequently end up with a pantry full of staple seasonings from the rest of the world, but that you personally will use infrequently. Some people would regard that as bad for some reason

no but sky posting Cool Facts About Oil and then getting hit with death threats was literally this

This guy larps as an extremist researcher but his only expertise is talking to cranks during the normal day to day operations of managing a vape store

I'm impressed at how logistically, Sabrina Carpenter is like the perfect height to host the Muppets

There is something absolutely vile about encouraging the doxxing of a queer person "so they are afraid to leave their own house," it is the exact same tactic as fucking LibsOfTikTok: stochastic terrorism.

On a straightforward left-right spectrum, Sky is probably the 95th percentile for left. If we're gonna treat them like a Nazi, your position is going to be extremely totalitarian when you have to deal with the public as a whole

sneaking around the neighborhood at night, slapping stickers that say "I bought this after Elon begged to go to the wildest party at Pedophile Island" on every last Tesla I find

in order to save this country we are probably going to have to do things that make rich men sad 😔

Cryptocurrencies are an amazingly efficient tool for sowing distrust in democratic government and regulation, so there's that on top of all the criming too! This is a great piece from 2022 with many quotables.

The people with the most power in our society appear to be nothing more than a pack of rabid chimpanzees singularly focused on destroying the works of people immeasurably better than they are.

more fun Malcolm Gladwell Facts, he's basically directly responsible (via The Tipping Point) for the popularity of Broken Windows Theory, he basically invented the strategy that would become known as stop-and-frisk

There's a great all-gender restroom with a similar design at the Mox Boarding House game store/restaurant and it is incredible, more bathrooms like this please

I just did this series of replies as an off-kilter joke because it amused me, until I thought about it a bit more. LLMs is don’t provide answers, but rather answer-shaped objects based on training data, that might bear a passing resemblance to reality. Which also describes Gladwell’s writing.

This is the other piece of “ICE at the polls” discourse. We think if this happens and it “works” that everyone is just gonna kick back and say “yep those are our reps now guess we gave it the old college try”?

every malcolm gladwell book starts from the premise that any idiot can become an expert on any topic and then spends the entire book underlining how wrong that premise is

I move that we stop using investment funding rounds as a proxy for any sort of actual value or utility or interestingness of a technology or a business. That nonsense has dominated coverage and conversation for the last 15+ years.

they’re willing to valorously set dumpsters on fire and punch bystanders to stay clean on opsec but asking them to vote is just a bridge too far; it’s much too dangerous

There are so many (often sadly prominent) people who just are devoted to day in and day out telling us nothing matters and defeat is inevitable. It's tiresome. Especially when it's from people who risk nothing themselves. Prigs and wreckers.

God this is so insulting to my friends in Minnesota who continue to do the work day after day in the cold

yeah man, even on the conceptual pitch level, it's fundamentally a right wing libertarian project to privatize money, and the delineation between "rich right wing libertarian" and "pedophile"/"dude who is totally fine with pedophiles" is vanishingly thin

Someone on Reddit was reluctantly defending MGP and suggesting she still might stand a chance, but then mentioned his wife had gone from knocking on doors as a campaign volunteer last election to "cursing MGP's name around the house" on a regular basis.

"By sticking to popularist both-sides statements about the occupation of Minneapolis, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is being left behind by public opinion—and by history." Again, it is WILD to see people explain how MGP just has to contort herself like this to win while the public increasingly hates ICE.

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...