Is there anyone in Congress that does not already view it as their sacred public duty to drown our tech kakistocrats in sycophancy?

Elon Musk's mass murder spree from his brief hours in public office serving his own private interests from within a holistic cloud of aggressive incompetence continues apace. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/africa/nigeria-malnutrition-crisis-usaid-intl

Donald Trump finally became President.

Maria Ressa -- awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "efforts to safeguard freedom of expression" after being prosecuted by the Duterte regime in the Philippines for telling the truth -- explains to Jon Stewart how commercial social media and surveillance capitalism destroyed democracy and […]

Truly the most important and sanctified work of The Lord's anointed is randomly murdering refugees and fishermen. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article312184848.html

Do any sports fans know of a streaming alternative to ESPN? Jelle's Marble Runs and Banana Ball? Aren't the leagues self-streaming at this point? https://www.fastcompany.com/91407226/disney-boycott-will-cancelling-hulu-abc-espn-work

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Many years ago, someone told me “Mormonism is basically steampunk Scientology” and I still think about that.

"in 2014 Ben Shapiro appeared as a guest on a show run by a neo-Nazi. It was an entirely friendly conversation about how liberal Jews who hate white people, straight people, and Christians took over Hollywood and have brainwashed the nation"

Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information. https://archive.ph/3GGyU Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist. But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

Didn't Jimmy Kimmel create Joe Rogan's job on The Man Show? Kimmel created a job for Rogan that consisted entirely of watching women bouncing on trampolines and all the thanks he gets is Rogan's spineless silence […]

dang, they lost the hulk, aunt may, and mr fantastic

"The Turkana have practiced nomadic pastoralism (raising and herding of livestock) in extreme arid environments for ∼5-8K years. The authors analyzed 367 genomes and discovered adaptations to ... chronic water scarcity. They identified physiological compromises in kidney function that improved […]

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

"TikTok, under US government coercion, is selling 80% of its US operations to an investor consortium that includes Oracle, along with investment firms Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz." https://fair.org/home/as-ellison-buys-out-tiktok-us-moves-toward-one-party-media/

"Although phenotypic adaptation in humans has long been of interest, the increasing availability of genomic data from global populations over the past 20 years has allowed the identification of specific genes underlying these adaptations.... These findings […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"In June, 29% of Republicans said the country was heading in the wrong direction. That number is now 51%" https://www.newsweek.com/trump-poll-republicans-charlie-kirk-ap-norc-2132450

pictured here is Caroline Pham, the sole member of what should be a 5 member board of america’s 2nd most important financial regulator (the CFTC) in front of a #tesla #cybertruck in #SaudiArabia shilling for the crypto industry. the #CFTC is less well […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

Charlie Kirk miscited Leviticus 20 for Leviticus 18 when trying to school Ms. Rachel about cherry-picking the Bible with its most infamous quotes about death to the gays. While the priests have their complaint about the propriety of a man laying with a man […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

New grandpa hit the limit of his support for Israel just like old grandpa. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/doha-bombing-trump/

i think spending the last decade writing two books and many articles about the rise of religiously inflected, internet-infected fascism and then watching it consolidate has lightly broken me apart

This is terrible news. No reporting in this story about what ostensible details Mahmoud Khalil failed to report in his green card application that is the pretext being used to deport him for telling the truth, so I won't waste your time by linking to it.

I run a self-parody account, I think the joke goes.

Why have all of Dr John Howard's videos of MAHA bullshitting and then lying about bullshitting their way through the pandemic for Billionaires Against Public Health been taken down from YouTube? https://m.youtube.com/@everyoneelseislyingtoyou

Every time I see a photo of Marco Rubio he looks like a hostage and I feel sad because I have no idea where this is going but I don't think he's going to be left with anything for his trouble.

Anyone looking for a job tooling around college campuses sharpening their rhetoric and triggering conservatives with PURE LOGIC? Ezra Klein has volunteered to foot the bill, which seems to run around $100 million a year. As with any wingnut welfare troll it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An ad-free Disney+/Hulu subscription is $20 a month into the slimy pockets of its jellyfish owners, who are busy rediscovering their company's historical roots. https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney I don't know if it's not obvious […]

Open up whole new vistas of attack surface by integrating OpenAI with your inbox, or anything else you grant it access to: "Researchers recently devised an attack [on ChatGPT] that plucked confidential information out of a user’s Gmail inbox and sent it to an attacker-controlled web server […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@buermann/115187686254866823 The cottage industry trying to turn Charlie Kirk into a national hero instead of a Kirk Cameron reboot might be best understood as different factions of the MAGA kakistocracy fighting in line for the tens of millions in annual donations […]

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Jokes are legal again! The only comedy that's MAGA safe for late night network television are simulcast jimmy fallom lip sync battles.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@buermann/115225610414567982 "What if we tried what we did last election, which we lost....just one more time?" - Dem Megadonors. #uspol

In a drug-addled kakistocracy run by a teetering teetotaler there is only one metric for inflation that counts: “Cocaine sold in the U.S. is cheaper and as pure as ever for retail buyers,” reports the WSJ. “Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five […]

Democratic megadonors have a brilliant plan to run Democratic campaigns promoting Republican propaganda some more. https://www.pbump.net/o/climate-change-and-lgbtq-rights-are-among-democrats-strongest-issues/

I don't know how to read Nate Silver's "Riverian" as an epithet for "gambler" as anything other than a reference to Herman Mellville's The Confidence-Man, a series of crowded vignettes aboard a steamboat headed down the Mississippi in which a con man works […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It’s been clear for months that this administration is ten times the threat to the First Amendment that “wokeism” ever was. If this doesn’t wake the fuck up all the comedy podcast bros, nothing will.

The word “#republic” originates from the Latin term “res publica,” which literally means “public affair” or “public thing”—with “res” meaning “thing” or “affair” and “publica” meaning “public” or “pertaining to the people”. This term was used in ancient Rome […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

I enjoyed Amanda Moore and Posting Through Its' humanizing narrative history of Nick Fuentes' history as a public figure and his frustrated grasps at... whatever it is that he wanted that he's wound up as the MechaLimbaugh of the Young Republicans. From last Spring […]

“A war framing confuses the issue. This is not a war,” former Pentagon lawyer Sarah Harrison explained. “U.S. forces went out and committed murder.”

Should I think of stock buybacks -- which look to my lazy eye here like they're still a bigger sink for 'investment' than the AI bubble but not by much -- as anything more than another trajectory on which capital spirals towards the unitary gini coefficient?

They want so bad to be able to do murder and brag about it.

A brilliant move by the President to co-opt the nation's Epstein conspiracy theorists and put them in charge of a cover up every bit as incompetent as Epstein's original feather touch prosecution. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/16/kash-patel-hearing-epstein-trafficking

Somebody didn't get the memo that the FOX News host regretted his top of the morning call for executing homeless before somebody started executing homeless people in a Minneapolis hooverville, a crisis which mayor Frey has used as an opportunity to do what he […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ta-Nehisi Coates really hands it to Ezra Klein & Co. for erasing Charlie Kirk's words even as they enshrine his memory in flattery. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates A subscription to Condé Nast publications is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Bari and Suzy Weiss think Charlie Kirk was bigger than John Lennon.

I was watching episode six of 2018's Civilizations when I first saw high definition video of the incredible saltcellar ivories of the Portuguese from 16th century Benin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltcellar_with_Portuguese_Figures

sweeping up after their pardons https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/

It would be so cheap for the American Midwest to be largely solar powered on these 90 degree sunny afternoons instead of this pathetic display. #climate #minnesota