I have split the atoms that were in the icebox you were probably saving for nuclear power forgive me they were deadly so powerful so hot

Well now who's the enemy of the People?

Great gift for your kids' science teachers!

If someone says "don't follow illegal orders" and you claim they're encouraging soldiers to disobey orders they're being given, it's an admission you're giving them illegal orders.

What this shows yet again is that DHS's "official version" of events simply shouldn't be believed without verification. In video after video, claims made by DHS officers and DHS itself were shown not to have occurred at all — or to have occurred in a substantially different way than first described.

My kid brother went to his first ever protest because of the corruption; I hang out with a lifelong-GOP geriatric crowd who are almost all now anti-Trump because of the corruption (and the cruelty). Drawing attention to specific corruption and opposing it is the way forward.

The Epstein stuff reveals that our elites are so insulated and powerful that they can do anything, but it doesn’t stop with this abuse. That same mindset is what leads to these terrible wars, government that leaves people to starve and die unnecessary deaths. It’s a systemic failure.

Visualizing Musk's absurd Tesla pay package: "On average, Musk will make $3 billion more per year than the 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined."

The impossibility of giving directions when you don't navigate the same way: "It's on the NW corner of the intersection." - "is that on my left or right?" - "depends, which direction are you facing?" - "I'm coming on Main St" - "going south or north?" - "just tell me if it's left or right" - 😬

On a tangent, thinking of the place (law firm?) that was surprised when they took a woman applicant to their standard interview place and discovered it was restricted to men-only. They'd never noticed the absence of women or considered hiring one.

Remember, folks: you're a "kid" if you're a Republican man in your 30s making Nazi jokes, but if you're a 15 year old girl who looks even younger, or a pregnant 10 year old, you're old enough to consent or be a parent.

Also, at least 20 years ago, the government *funded* area studies programs, in the hopes grant recipients (like me!) would go into government work focused on those regions. Back when we weren't so isolationist, I suppose.

He outlived the isdickcheneydeadyet website and subreddit!

Apparently, according to the administration under NSPM-7, 28% of Americans are terrorists, I guess 🤷‍♀️

So it can obviously be used. The Trump administration is contradicting its own guidance (that it has since deleted) in order to not deliver SNAP benefits because it doesn't want to deliver SNAP benefits. This is the same administration that just enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history in July.

"Every man goes through a Nazi phase", "every guy would be charged with sexual assault under that definition" -- either people who say those things merit a good look into their past, or, if they're correct, men are all with no exception abusive racists and shouldn't be allowed in public.

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more. Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need. Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

Planes are being flown by twelve year olds, I guess?

I must say, it's nice of the news to break up the modern horrors with some nice crimes from a century ago, like jewel heists and mafia gambling rings. Maybe some rum running next?

The new “masculinity” is all the permissiveness and entitlement, none of the responsibility. I am not a fan.

also: I am a white man who has been terminally online since I was sixteen years old I even spent some time around 4chan in its early years it was actually quite easy not to have a nazi phase

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

I love that your argument is "thinking too hard, let machine think for you" as if somehow that isn't a large part of the criticism of AI

Bessent: "No kings, no paycheck." Vance: "Federal law enforcement no longer goes after actual criminals; they now go after anyone who opposes fascism." Both on national TV on the same morning.

Insisting on backing into parking spaces is a choice. But insisting on driving against marked arrows through narrow parking lots so that you can back into *angled* parking spaces is remarkable.

The guy who keeps invading cities and bombing foreigners whenever he feels like it and keeps dangling invasion of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela didn’t win the Nobel peace prize this year

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's a big tent! All you really need is to value wealth more than humanity.

"Hellfire-and-brimstone, but without the problematic phrasing" is a tough needle to thread.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now. You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship." This how you end up randomly invading Portland.

I graduated from a conservative Baptist university in Texas (Baylor). We were absolutely taught about intersex and transgender biology in our biology classes at the time. It was new information to me in college, but it didn’t seem controversial in the slightest- just science. Things have changed.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

So either WaPo (like so many others) can't understand modifiers, or they think there is no such thing as a white man who doesn't espouse violence. How else would they read criticism of white men who espouse violence as criticism of all white men?

Supremacy is the idea that some people's lives matter and the rest don't. If you matter, then violence can be done to you. If you don't matter, than you can only ever threaten violence or be violence. You can't be the victim of unacceptable political violence. You can be an acceptable loss.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

He prettied up hate in business casual and told people it was totally okay to hate. For example, saying it was "normal" to be nervous if you had a black pilot. It's obviously racist. But it is super reassuring to racists. See, here is this really nice young man and he told me it was okay. 2/2

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

"Online leftists are in a bubble. We're actually all a lot worse that they think we are."

Just heard on Irish radio someone saying about Kirk, "he has been given a huge amount of empathy in death that he denied huge amounts of people in life".

Because we have people who subscribe to conspiracy theories running our government, it is highly likely that confirmation bias, rather than actual facts, are going to drive this investigation. Which means wasted time, wasted resources, and less justice. But I guess that’s what America voted for

Reading long piece on Hegseth shutting down CAP, where the article doesn't discuss any possible reasons why such an apparently well-regarded and rigorous program would be shut down with scorn, until a line near the end makes it all clear: CAP opposed everything Hegseth stands for and vice versa.

Of course, some collections are fairly benign. Like Tom Brown, an Appalachian man who collects rare apples.

Current U.S. economic policy regime: "I want to try to get as much as I can."