It's so weird that centrists keep scolding "the left" for losing them an election and meanwhile the former Democratic nominee of the party is like "all these Nazis need to be welcomed into the tent" like idk maybe these two ideas are part of the reason she lost idk

The sanitization and sanctification of Michael Jackson is one of those subjects I can't seem to talk about with calmness or rationality; I just stare at these money-machine enterprises and feel revulsion. I think I'll skip the discourse on this upcoming movie.

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

The cops are very good at their job, which is why they are exceedingly well compensated. If this claim of competence surprises anyone (unlikely to be Wes, given OP), then you likely do not understand what the job of cops is.

‼️ By refusing to hold officers liable for violating rights unless other officers have previously been held liable in identical circumstances, the Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence effectively nullifies those rights altogether ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...

I don’t know how QI works, but how can standards be known—and thus establish liability—if we aren’t holding people accountable and establishing standards? Is QI just an infinite “no liability” loop, except for conduct we knew was bad before QI entered the chat?

See also: education in the USA

going to a rationalist and being like listen buddy i heard about this scary new idea. its called $70’s basilisk. what if there was an entity that, when it came into being, eternally tortured everyone who didn’t give me $70? it’s a simple exercise of pascals wager white boy

“The Secretary of War is Vibecoding White Christian Fascism” is the kind of Philip K Dick bullshit that I shouldn’t have to deal with being true.

Exactly one year ago today:

Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.

vs Spicy Liberalism (Rorty)

Yeah, people talk about how Mackenzie Scott is not a "good" billionaire because if she was, she wouldn't be a billionaire anymore. And like 99.9% of the time that is true. But we also built a system where you can't actually give your money away fast enough to avoid how fast it is growing right now!

I feel like this is 99% of life. Just own your shit and get better, people (v much including me. At the very least, stop digging deeper while wondering publicly what happened.

Lol. So you mean to tell me he walked away from his comedy show 20 years ago and a multi million dollar contract, all because he recognized that “the wrong people were laughing a bit too hard at his jokes”… but he didn’t know that transphobes also would laugh too hard at his transphobic “humor” ???

Dave Chappelle's show was comedy that was actually socially conscious & aware & on the edge of confronting whiteness & power. He chose to commit himself to getting as rich as he can be & hating marginalized people. He didn't fulfill the promise of what he was when he came out & we owe him nothing.

As soon as you don't conform: your mental health, your gender, your race, your disability, your class, your age, your queerness, your partners, you find the medical profession has a lot of power and control of your body.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Breaking: Sal Khan, an MIT engineer and Harvard MBA who has no background in education, nor much curiosity about it, still knows next to nothing about the industry he perpetually fails to disrupt.

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

lets go back to worrying about piranhas, quicksand and the bermuda triangle is what i am trying to say

I don’t even like her or her music that much but when you realize that Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the CEO was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than half the people in the actual Epstein files, you do have no choice but to become this woman’s strongest soldier

There is a reason the police get more money than school teachers, librarians and nurses, and every other show is about cops 'protecting us from the bads.' The average US citizen is not going to give up the ability to weaponize terror against people they don't like. Ever.

everyone remembers Hulk Hogan using Peter Thiel's money to kill Gawker, right?

When I was reporting on Dan Schneider 8 or so years ago, I got to a point where I had to stop. Because I was being threatened w a lawsuit & despite having everything nailed down, I couldn't afford to go to court. When "Dark Side Of Kid TV" came out, Schneider sued the producers @moryan.bsky.social

In what universe did this take place www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Genuinely feeling like Mamdani has finally figured out the thing the left has historically been The Worst at. The left needs to: (a) use government to do Good and Popular Things Normal: [✓] Mamdani: [✓] (b) TELL PEOPLE VERY LOUDLY AND MEMORABLY EVERY TIME IT DOES Normal: [ x ] Mamdani: [✓]

Actually, it's only Star Trek if it comes from the Roddenberry region of France; otherwise it's just sparkling

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Bet good money that the aforementioned officials were utterly indifferent to the brutal suppression and deportation of protestors, in the rare instances where they weren't actively supportive. & why is it that they expect the campus communities to do work that Democratic officials themselves refuse?

like when we talk about "Adult Convert Energy" it's not gonna reflect most of the people at your neighborhood church who got baptized last weekend at the Easter Vigil Mass it's the kind of guys who are like "hello, I'm here to join your 2000-year-old institution and improve it with my genius"

not everyone who converts to Catholicism is a JD Vance, of course but IMO it's always safer to trust someone who came in via a personal connection (spouse, family, loved ones, a community where they felt at home) over someone who was drawn specifically to the INSTITUTION, if that makes sense

If he can start a war illegally because he feels like it & Congress is just like, yeah whatever, if he can threaten to destroy a civilization, there's nothing they won't let him get away with. That's where we are.

I don't watch Hasan Piker or think about him much, but the attacks on him from multiple elite media institutions all within the same month sure seems like a coordinated campaign to neutralize a prominent pro-Palestine voice.

what they've actually done here quite deftly is shine a 3000 watt Fresnel lamp on the central problem for which Pope Francis wanted an American Pope in the first place: namely, that the American right wing believes they are invincible, they are destroying the world, and they have to be stopped

my best guess is that a Trumpian Pentagon official, high on his own supply as they all are, thought "get your boss to play ball or we will do an Avignon on him" would genuinely intimidate AN 80-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL FROM FRANCE, which is perhaps the funniest thing anyone has ever done at the Pentagon

The most egregious thing that happened in this exchange, however, is that I was obviously lied to. If I ask "are you an AI" the tool fails to give me a true answer, that should be against the law. Its deployer or maker should be held to account.

The fact that someone with the power to do so threatened to bring down the Vatican and i am unhappy about this is just, one of the crazier things in recent history

"If you remove him you get Vance." You're familiar with Donald J Trump's foreign policy where we remove a country's leaders one by one until we get to one we can do business with? No reason impeachment can't work the same way

REMINDER: ICE Executed Renee Good 3 Months Ago. She Was Killed by the Kind of State Violence Our Founding Fathers Warned Against | Once a state teaches its agents that force is the solution, force becomes their habit. That’s how police states are formed out of democracies. #AbolishICE

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Following on from the court expanding states’ authority to hurt queer people and constricting states’ authority to help. Following on from the court expanding states’ authority to hurt minoritized people and constricting states’ authority to help. Etc. Almost like all the fascists learned from US.

There are a lot of incredibly marginalized people on this platform, very mentally ill & otherwise disabled people, very poor people, people undergoing genocide, trans people. My experience on here is way different from those who are only rolling with those with privilege.

There was no negotiations, no brokering, no deal. Trump backed himself in a corner and needed a way out. Iran obliged, because the cost was zero and the benefits were significant (no more US bombing and keeping China onside). Everything else is wasted effort.