Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you? Caller: I am eight

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What THE FUCK

started / going

How good is cricket

top notch mascottin'

For whatever reason, in minutes, Trump has spoken more warmly about Zohran Mamdani than some of the Democratic party leadership has to date

throat goat www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex

best ending of all time, let's be real

lol

If Biden had said anything half this dumb/crazy, he would have been removed under the 25th Amendment by the end of the week. The only reason Republicans don’t remove an obviously unfit president is because they’re no longer a political party. They’re a crime syndicate.

A24 could never conjure a horror like this

The authoritarian takeover of X was a harbinger of the regime’s strategy for America at large. Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.

bengals and bears was like watching two absolutely hammered dudes with beer guts swinging wildly at each other with their eyes closed outside a bar at closing time

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

Ahhhh, feels good.

The greatest bird in the universe has finally won Australia's bird of the year. ALL HAIL THE TAWNY FROGMOUTH! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These "kids" include a Vermont state senator, an aide to a New York Assemblyperson, and the general counsel for the New York Young Republicans. As Politico notes: "Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator."

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

Buffalo Bills white power uniforms giving them elite fumble and penalty skills

me before and after shelling out to see One Battle After Another in IMAX

What’s even the point of Australian media outlets having foreign correspondents in places like the US when they don’t even break the important stories that are primarily relevant to Australia? It’s like how the @washingtonpost.com broke the story about Indian spies being expelled from Australia

Time, after time, after time, Corbyn has defended, excused, or apologised for Russia’s hostile foreign policy positions, and the evidence for that is stark & overwhelming. Yet his supporters continue to present the lie that he has always stood on the right side of history.

Senator: (posting on bluesky) The president told his supporters to prepare for the “Night Of One Thousand Screams.” Might I suggest he instead hold the Night Of One Thousand Bipartisan Discussions Of Job Creation Opportunities

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Played a shitload of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor in early access about a year or more ago and it was clear they were cooking up something good. Night one of 1.0 release and they've tuned and layered the progression just right. A+++

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

Fox gave Aaron Rodgers the AI treatment during today's game 🤖📺🏈

Wow, Fox News and other Murdoch press really want right terrorist killings of civilians. They've outed Robinson's roommate, who is *cooperating with law enforcement,* and made a bunch of unevidenced claims that the two were a couple and this seeming cis man is a trans woman.

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

The Groyper Wars

As other commentators have noted, this indicates participation in the sort of irony poisoned, nihilistic, extremely online forum cultures that traditional media usually does an awful job on reporting on.

Time to break out the chart