Say what you will about reboot culture and how I.P. is never allowed to die but Howdy Doody was one of the biggest cash cows in history and he is GONE we put that motherfucker in the ground

Night Court made getting arrested at night seem fun as hell

Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief

the gavin stans are about to meet the real gavin

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

Also: they're explicitly trying to terrorize everyone. Immigrants are just the people they think they can get away with assaulting right now. But this guy, in his incompetence, gives away the game. They see everyone as a threat, and a target, too. There aren't meant to be any limits on their power.

i think about this onion article approximately 1 million times a week

I don't want to speculate, but you have to think that the hours that Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein spent over lunch in 2017 almost certainly featured one of the most normal conversations of all time.

not even excellence tbh ice is giving the worst revanchist scum of america license to terrorize and disappear and eventually lynch with impunity

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

easy way to nip this in the bud is for someone to invite farrakhan or dr. umar

though it would be hilarious for me to invite like a conservative think tanker, so they can see how little universities pay people for talks here's a $250 honorarium and reimbursement for your flight that you'll get 6 months later

But also LOL at the idea that our department has the money to bring in 38 speakers. In a good year we can do, like, 2.

Geoffrey Ingersoll, the author of that piece, served in the Marines. This is from his bio at the Young America's Foundation: "After his honorable discharge in 2009, Geoffrey enrolled in NYU’s graduate journalism program, discovering, in the process, that Greenwich Village is scarier than Baghdad."

and away we go

1) holy fucking shit 2) reminder to anyone seeing this: we're hearing about this because reporters from a local, public broadcaster are on the case. the more local journalism is picked off/defunded in the next few years, the fewer of these stories we'll have any easily broadcasted info about.

What the fuck?

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

holy shit this is so antisemitic it's staggering

it's super cool to open x and see a new campaign ad set to run in your home state that uses the phrase "violent they/them radicals." anyway it's all horseshit of course

i think a lot about how globalization/technology removes 'contingency' from many aspects of life, introducing anxiety around chaotic, random, non-general elements, and how this can lead to a compulsive need to optimize and 'perfect' (escape) your situation, increasing your alienation/isolation

The complete collapse of the attempt to remove Kimmel from the airwaves shows you how weak the corporate enablers of fascism are to pushback. The challenge is that it also shows how much easier it is to motivate mass action around a guy like Kimmel’s career than, say, thousands of people’s lives.

hello sharks, my new AI product reads AI generated novels for you and then generates lists of who to Stan, and who to bully online including why and how in the most hurtful way

It’s impressive the extent to which the people coming up with this stuff do not know how anything works.

do pennies prevent fucking sociopathy?

His cop dad got shot once & it didn't even kill or retire him so now he's being such a big brave boy by taking a walk "On his back, he carries 80 pounds of pennies. "They're painted the colors of suicide prevention, purple and teal," Swiderski said. At each stop, he gives a penny to every officer."

I would really like some resources about how to talk about this Tylenol stuff with people in my life who are low-info/low-scientific literacy. Like, they won’t see Trump’s post, but they’ll talk at work with a friend who does, and make decisions and form opinions accordingly

One note: they must spend $800bn *MORE* based on what Bain said, because Bain believes there will be $1.2tr in AI "savings" and revenue on an industry that will make $55bn this year lol

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

My theory that the "warrior ethos" is 90% posturing, 10% being okay with killing civilians continues to pretty perfectly describe Hegseth.

My god. I saw some people predicting it was this, and I scoffed, thinking even Hegseth wouldn’t be this stupid or frivolous or egomaniacal.

it seems like every field has an adjacent field like this but that isn't true. it just means that one field has an actual methodology and the other field has historically been for rich failson dandies. like linguistics and anthropology, or history and international studies

Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.

Mis-defining fascism, because they can't admit to themselves that they're fascists, then using that incorrect definition to "define" what their opponents are. Add "fascism" to the same pile of intentionally misrepresented concepts as "DEI", "CRT" and "woke". It's idiots all the way down.

Basically anything meant to challenge the MAGA government is illegal. Fund raising, protesting, posting in support of changing government policy is explicitly listed as terrorism here.

“Extremism on migration, race, and gender” will be used against any of us. What we call human rights, they will label extremism.

What will happen: The folks who organize street protest will see more arrests and some seizure of assets. Headline cycles are the main object. Long term prosecution is hit or miss.

There is no real effort to present broader unifying principles here: it is an explicitly partisan agenda to weaponize the power of the state against opposition to the Trump administration.

"extremism on migration and gender" r they fucking serious right now

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESTRICTING COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSES FOR NON-U.S. CITIZENS, USDOT SAYS @reuters.com

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

I don’t think the president should have the power to just arbitrarily declare online that IKEA cannot do business in the United States for no particular reason other than he feels like it

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

This is my favorite movie with King Kong because it’s good but also every tertiary character is played by an improv comedy person from an Adult Swim show that would air at 2 in the morning.

My favorite branch of behavioral ecology is optimal foraging theory. I'm particularly fond of Charnov's marginal value theorem which states that a leopard should move on quickly to eat someone else's face after eating your face, since it is less expensive than consuming all of you.

Thankfully foreign drug companies are thrilled by the prospect of coming here and experiencing an ICE raid called by a woman with 65 Precious Moments figurines who is trying to run for local office to ban trans people from grocery stories.

If we ever win again and the new government is progressive it would be cool to have some sort of new deal situation where they hire tons of people to undo all the damage that’s been done, like fixing the govt websites and stuff. Huge public works stuff