It's been fascinating to see the older white church ladies switch from lifelong Republicans to almost all anti-GOP, debating the merits of James Talarico vs Jasmine Crockett (they like them both and will vote for whichever wins the primary).

Why do I always feel a bit better after liking one of these posts

The White House said in June, and I quote, "Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News" That post is still up: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Yellow fringe on a website means that it’s an admiralty court and you can’t be charged with a war crime.

Iranian authorities and Red Crescent Society officials report that more than 100 people, most of them girls, were killed at a primary school during joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. Let’s be clear: Slaughtering children in a school is an atrocity and a war crime. www.ft.com/content/055d...

I suppose if we keep killing schoolgirls they might eventually give in to get us to stop, but attacking military targets instead would make us seem less of a terrorist nation.

that top DOD officials spent the entire day feuding with a tech company and the boy scouts before launching a war in the middle of the night should probably inform your opinion about how well planned and executed this will be

I guess he was bored of peace

www.nbcnews.com/news/militar... protecting us from party balloons and each other. The country's in the very best of hands.

Also the US GOP

Thinking of the "get out of hell free" argument applied only to men caught in sexual misdeeds: If they'd intentionally set someone on fire, they wouldn't get mad at the person for being unforgiving for needing ongoing medical treatment for the burns.

Turning a state university system into a safe space for racists and incels.

DHS, ICE and CBP lie 100% of the time: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born" Them: ok, so we'll change things so being native-born doesn't grant citizenship rights either, and for good measure let's also detain, deport, beat, and murder our own citizens. So we're treating them the same!

I'm old enough to remember the conservative viewpoint used to be that mutual aid was always better than government and that people should self-organize to help each other instead of relying on government. It really seems they loved big government all along and just disagreed with helping others.

The killings will continue until morale improves... Seems to be the message.

Well, Ken, next time you spend a few million bucks helping a fellow billionaire get elected, ya might want to check out their platform proposals beyond "cut taxes for the rich". They usually have *other* dumb and dangerous ideas.

/6 ICE is a monument to totalitarianism, lawlessness, and bigotry. It should be ripped out and woodchippered root and branch and replaced with something focused on the concept that you can’t defend the rule of law by burning it down.

They later claim he “reached for something” after illegally searching him and discovering a legally owned firearm in a conceal-carry state. The video contradicts them. If refusing to “carry papers” gets a U.S. citizen assaulted and arrested, this isn’t law enforcement. It’s a police state.

Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...

"Trump insists the U.S. must take control of Greenland to prevent Russia or China from doing the same — an argument Beijing dismissed Monday as "an excuse" to pursue territorial ambitions" China would know - their original excuse for invading Tibet was to protect it from foreign imperialism!

call me a radical marxist, but i simply don’t see why we need agents of the state to murder innocent people, whether or not they list their pronouns

Professor Who Claims He Bravely Quit Because of the Woke Not Turn Out To Actually Have Done Something Gross to Female Students Challenge: Impossible

And one last thing. As a true outsider, I said she was going to win early on and no one believed me. It's a mountain of stress. You know that. You wonder if it's worth it. I no longer wondered if it was worth it when I saw her hand out 100 or so backpacks one day. Regardless now, it was worth it.

I never pass up the chance to talk about the citizenship case of Bhagat Singh Thind, who argued that he was as disgusted by the Indian lower castes as American whites were by other races, so therefore he was racist enough to be considered legally white.

And people ask why there's not more public transit usage in Houston. It's convenient if you live right by one stop and work right by another stop on the same line. Otherwise, you're sweat-drenched walking to/from stops, hope you make your connections, and it takes forever.

No context skeets

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

The answer is: people have personal, political, and bodily autonomy. If a movement has meaningfully helped them accomplish that then it is good. If you are proposing to take that away from them because you are asserting they somehow can't be trusted to make their own right choices then you are bad.

2/ Personality Cults. And just to be clear, I do not see my family changing when Trump is gone I’m 99% sure they’ll just switch their allegiance to the next Great Leader In large measure because they’ve become accustomed to not thinking

These pieces really do make it clear that it's not so much that men like this view chatbots as human women. It's that they don't actually view women as humans. We're flattery machines that are defective if we don't sufficiently flatter them.

Thank You (Part 2/2) - Gator Days

Fentanyl is fentanyl. It’s a molecule. The illicit form, which is the same molecule as the medical form, comes in a different physical state (solid rather than liquid) making it even less of a threat/concern to anyone who isn’t using illicit drugs. It’s one of the most studied compounds in existence

ICE agents should already know that ~ 90% of Somalis living in the Twin Cities are citizens so those that are out in public when ICE is in town are almost certain to be citizens. Barricading Somalis in restaurants isn't meant to find undocumented immigrants, it's meant to intimidate.

If I were to invent the name of a ‘reporter’ who wrote a column about the dangers of liberal women exclusively from the perspective of divorced men, I could not invent a better name than Blake Dodge

As a Brown alumnus, I am utterly heartbroken. The Brown campus has always been a place for chasing dreams, not dodging bullets But it’s just as gutting as Uvalde, Newtown or hundreds of other mass shooting, in a nation where Congress disappeared for 2 months and the president is building a ballroom

Guy on NPR saying grocery stores will "improve the customer experience" by having the self-checkout machine make small talk with you. Guess he's never asked anyone why they chose self-check over standing in line to chat with the human employee.

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.