So social media has become a collection of snuff films, where we watch some of the worst people in the country execute some of the best, and mainstream media has become the place where talking heads debate whether the executions we just watched were justified.

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I love the “every generation of men needs their Hemingway / Kerouac / Bukowski . . . to write self-published violent pedophile porn under a pseudonym for a small group of LA edgelords” thesis. Ah yes, a literary movement to be reckoned with

“Do you solemnly swear that your racial self identification is accurate in the eyes of white journalists 15 years from now who are allied with White Supremacists? Failure to do so will be used against you in the event other White Supremacists hack and leak this application for political gain.”

i’d appreciate if more people would own me by posting pictures where i look really beautiful and elegant. that would show me

This 940-page reconciliation bill has a list of horrific provisions. One of the worst is a $211 billion tax break to the top 0.2% who inherit $30 million. In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.

Love this totally legitimate and real functioning democracy, where every June our nine wizard-kings descend from the mountain to tell us which laws aren’t real anymore

Axelrod on #CNN saying the Dem establishment is opposed to Mamdani because he’s too young and that his supporters just want a fresh face. Nothing about policy. Nothing about establishment failures. This a party that refuses to learn.

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

Is there a way for the people who actually enjoy living and being an animal on a beautiful planet to be in charge instead of these soulless pits of despair?

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Dear god let this man cook.

love how Katy Perry and co’s 10 minute space trip had a $167 million price tag yet insulin still isn’t free

There’s something very perverse about this happening in the context of all the cuts in funding for research in public institutions.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

Screw it, turn every movie theater into a Spirit Halloween. I give up www.businessinsider.com/meta-movie-m...

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Excellent turnout for “Hands Off” Heard and McDonald Islands!

They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism. It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism. This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!

Let me get this straight. The “richest man in the world” sold his propaganda outlet to his own plagiarism machine company at “a loss” he’ll claim on taxes EVEN AFTER he’s destroyed the entire federal government and its capability to tax billionaires? Huh.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

I can’t compete with this

what's nice about this is that it's 25 seconds, exactly the length of a campaign ad.

imagine accusing hecklers of being paid while youre on stage at the event where youre literally purchasing votes

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

mm yes more of that populism I've heard so much about

gotta hand it to @electricliterature.com for taking a stance and not applying for nea funding under this administration. here's part of their reasoning from today's email -- this is a MUST-READ for writers.

The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

I mean Bill Clinton wanted to say he got shit done, which is why he collaborated with Newt Gingrich after ‘94 to make the country worse. Obama offered Boehner the “Grand Bargain” to get shit done, which would have been a disaster. What you do matters.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

ah crap this guy is stabbing me with a knife. maybe if i help him hold the knife he’ll stop stabbing me

Me too :(

YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

The same people who decried taking down statues of Confederate Generals are now purging mention of Jackie Robinson, and I’m beginning to draw a conclusion from that! All the pieces are coming together!

today's insane job listing comes from Netflix's game studio, which requires a work sample with your application along with a disclaimer that says "we might steal your work, is that cool"

Interesting move by Schumer to cave and disappoint everyone and then immediately go do an extended NYT interview explaining that actually he is even worse than we thought, let’s see if this pays off for him