The day of reckoning will come.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting died today after some 50 years.

Torment Nexus as a Service (TNaaS)

A polity in which it's considered naive or irrelevant to center political discourse on the general welfare or abstract moral principles cannot sustain a "democracy" in any sense worth defending; it's just a scrabble to assemble the largest coalition for the purpose of divvying spoils.

Benghazi, which was a tragedy, had a fraction of the death toll. Republicans made it the only thing they talked about for years.

if so, then: death to america

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Dokoupil is a DEI hire.

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

Solaris Energy: Nearly the entirety of this company's value is derived from their Gas Turbine lease contract with xAI. Anyways the stock is soaring this morning on unlimited demand for more CSAM harassment images

Presumably biding his time until he can run for Congress.

i dont like handing it to the second wave but we are gonna have to start killing men for this.

Genuinely find this upsetting to watch. It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

It’s wild how the republicans have historically been the most effective at passing gun control (Reagan Mulford Act, Trump’s bump stock ban) and yet they get the unflinching support of gun owners.

You can get done for cyber-bullying vis-a-vis falsely accusing someone of being a trans woman. But you get nothing if you provably harass trans women. Simple transmisogyny.

Obama/Hillary as SOS bombed 7 countries in a year (walked) so Trump could bomb seven countries in a year (run). American liberals, please don't ask how we got here. Americans have normalized this inhumanity for decades upon decades.

Scientists be like: eat healthy and exercise and you’ll be punished with an extended lifespan

It rules so hard that this interview got big enough for the NYT to try to do firefighting and that Trans News Network said fuck off we don't owe you column space.

In 2025, “US equities underperformed the rest of the world by the largest margin since 2009.” @thedailyshot.bsky.social

you do not hate congress enough

And who were quite determined to find Trump's inner libertarian while watching those who disagreed being sent into exile:

Every member of Congress not calling for impeachment and removal is failing their own oaths of office.

Probably the single most radicalizing event for me was seeing the US Army recruiters in my high school cafeteria circa 2007. To this day one of my biggest regrets is not walking over to that table and flipping it over. American youth can’t buy alcohol but can volunteer to be cannon fodder.

The extremist lurch of the Republican Party is pretty much the only political story of the last few decades and it gets no ink at all.

All of this is nauseating and profoundly embarrassing. Americans who can watch this without feeling shame and horror are inhabiting an alien moral universe I do not understand.

Idek what to say. Being trans in this country is so degrading.

talked to the owner of a denim company that produces jeans in the US. he said that he's seen declining sales abroad in EU and Canada. stores tell him that customers don't want to buy MiUSA products bc Trump makes dumb, pointless threats like "taking over Canada or Greenland"

Yeah, if there's one thing I wish I could press into the brains of every leftist commenting on this it's that "the US did this because it needs their oil" is a bad analysis in the structural incentives of the 2020s. Trump personally just thinks "blood for oil" sounds cool.

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

The term “conservative” now is just a single word dog whistle for the 14 words.

Since invading another country is the "ultimate crime" under international law, I trust the US will be banned from all sporting competitions like Russia was, or do the rules not work like that?

Got brigaded in World of Warcraft by butthurt right wingers so now I can’t talk in game for over a week!

Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes. Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.

Days after his third dementia screening in six months the president of the United States, who is an open pedophile, abducts a foreign head of state

Obviously this is racist claptrap but I do want to point out: If a member of Congress went to the floor and leaked an upcoming military operation, that would in fact be 100% consistent with the Constitutional text and the Framers' intent. They created a special immunity just for stuff like that.

Trump just handed Russia and China all kinds of pretext and precedent to take illegal, unilateral action. We are headed into very dangerous times.

Didn't the 40 dead Venezuelans deserve some consideration?

Imagine someone illegally abducting your nation’s leader and taking them away. Must be nice.

Looking extra orangish-pink today.

In the same repurposed complex as the Restoration Hardware outlet and a Costco!

“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.