the middle distance is 2025's trendiest place to stare

Mournfully daydreaming about consensus reality

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

oh so now suddenly these guys can't do phrenology

Every single day, damn it.

Have any Democrats ever heard of that rule of thumb where if someone comes into your bar with even a single, subtle Nazi patch or tattoo, you either fucking kick them out immediately or you'll end up with a Nazi bar? No matter how nice or polite they seem? Just wondering, no reason

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Context matters

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

The thoughts of an economic depression are depressing

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

This video of an ENTIRE LECTURE HALL of students chasing this hateful piece of garbage out made my morning — highly rec. it’s a great reminder that majority of people find this stuff disgusting.

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

When the subway was first conceived one of the oppositions against it was that it would encourage race and class mixing.

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

A reminder that The New York Times has been terrible from the start, 1859 edition:

Hey so, the US government just vanished 1800 people.

John Brown's Corpse 2028

trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits

Personally the worst news of the past few days for me is finding out that Groypers have bastardized Bella Ciao

Charlie Kirk was a man of violence. He cheered for violence, he helped create violence. He used violent rhetoric to inspire others to violent actions. He spent his time on this earth making it a more hateful, violent place. I do not consider it especially shocking that he met a violent end.

getting real into suicidal honky tonk lately

gen ai responses have always been curated to give politically motivated responses by the people who control it. mechahitler is nothing new, it's just an idiot tipping his hand too far. it's why you should always be anti-AI in general. imagine if someone competent had done this shit

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

wokeness 2: whoops, all Nurembergs!

Hey guys what did I miss? Image unrelated

trump: "democrats are weak, they're pathetic, they are like sick dogs to me. not people! they are not people!!!" democrats: *silently holding a tiny sign that says "not true" like daffy duck*