Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion. They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less. bsky.app/profile/jack...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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From jazz and Elvis' hips to TV and video games, industrialized mass society has never come to grips with the moment when children and the adult world can no longer be kept apart, otherwise known as adolescence.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

"morbidness, longing, the picturesque" — that seems right for THE TURNOUT, on this excellent list. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/b...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

And he and Mary Pickford lived long enough to see the company they founded sign the Buzzcocks

It's arguably the most important sentence in the entire Constitution!

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Ok, this is just funny. isportlandburning.com

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

INFOSEC TAYLOR SWIFT Before TLOAS release, the only people allowed to hear the songs had to listen on an iPod physically controlled by her publicist, using headphones. It was not on her phone. Famously for 1989, even a collaborator had to listen on an iPad flown by a courier who then took it back.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

After a dozen years this is still my favorite remix youtu.be/-aLYvZ5sX28

For anyone who has been fighting for your life with Zoom's AI companion, you have to turn it off in the web settings, not in the app!

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Ed is spot on here. To repeat myself: Ed could not be more correct.

One of the weaknesses of the left’s use of Marxist analysis is the way it can flatten differences between degrees of moral wrongs. Tools of analysis are not revealers of truth. It does matter who was doing something and why. Especially if you want to fight back.

This ad cracked me up. Just peak anti-knowledge wack job “nutrition” BS.

Prehistoric mammals FTW!

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored). 1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues. 2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here... 1/

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

The U.S. soy market problem is going to cause massive problems with corn in coming years, as soy is rotated in the same fields with corn to keep corn rootworm populations low. If farms switch to corn only, we’ll see pest resurgences and increased pesticide use.

These programs weren't set up this way simply for the benefit of recipients. They are by design also a subsidy for American agriculture. That's the longstanding red-blue, rural-urban political deal of it. Like how they're getting nuked by the trade war, they are cannibalizing their own coalition.

Ok this slaps

Clear plastic frames are going to become popular, perhaps even expected in certain places.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I think "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" exemplifies American culture more than any other art piece. Most cultures' folklore involves cautionary tales warning people not to tempt the devil. The American version has the challenger win because he is way cooler than the devil. Yea, that sums it up.

I checked out at my leisure and then actually left, contrary to reports indicating otherwise

If I learned one thing working at quickly ascending start-ups it’s that everyone in a leadership position thinks the users love and are rooting for the company as though they also work there So when users express dissatisfaction the leadership reacts as though this is DEEPLY ungrateful betrayal

Trump is exercising more power for a fake emergency than Lincoln did for a real one.

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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies. jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

Anyway there’s a weird inversion of the firing on fort Sumter going on here. We are obviously not at that level of conflict, but the complete inversion of states attacking a federal facility in their borders to the federal government looking to attack outward from one is interesting.

Remember that the TX NG (like any deployed from OR, CA, or IL) will not get paid during a shutdown. So, uproot them from family, home, jobs. And not pay them.

one more thing: it is absolutely moral and politically crucial to treat members of the national guard policing and intimidating your city as traitors. because it does not matter if they "want to be there," they are, and what they are doing is a betrayal of their oaths

Governor Whitmer was almost kidnapped by armed thugs. Governor Shapiro‘s house was set on fire. Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was violently attacked by someone looking for her. Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home with her husband and dog…and now this. The left is the victim, not the perpetrator.

if you ask the average American to describe what they think a tougher immigration system should look like, they will describe something a degree of magnitude softer and more generous than the current reality. The lesson here is that people are both better and dumber than they appear.

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FREE LINK NOW This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic. We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

Fascism occurs twice: first as the tragedy of a Second World War started by men who fought the First and knowingly chose slaughter, then as the farce of an ignorant draft dodger trying to provoke a war against his own people.