Goya really had a way of capturing the unsavory elements of humanity and society.

Honest question (not really) is there any ethnic cleansing going on in the world right now where KSA isnt somehow backing one or more of the guilty parties?

Star is a smart, nuanced, critical thinker and man you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to find her point angering so it's not surprising the quotes and replies were some of the dumbest meanest fucking things on gods green internet. Use the replies to her post here to fortify your blocklist.

Its him, the one spoken of in the prophecy.

I mean, quite literally, they seem him rolling, and they hate it.

His scooter does the Kestel run in only 28 parsecs. ICE doesnt stand a chance.

insightful thread I’ll be thinking about a while here:

In "On Tactics" @bafriedman.bsky.social says "Tactics takes the form of geometric fractals that deceptively promise victory if repeated in proper patterns" and I think about that a lot when it comes to "just use the right messaging 4Head" commentary

Tech Executives need to read theory...

The bottom line is if you’re going to fix American defense policy you need people like this in the Congress👇

To head off some of the obligatory bluesky Buttigieg bashing, an important quote: “We don’t need to water down our commitment to racial and economic justice as a party,” he said. “We need to remember that all this ties into what it’s like to be an American” He’s talking about framing, not policy.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Republicans: "watch what we can do!" *totally exonerates Bill Clinton* Dems: "um.... thanks?"

this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him

Occam's Razor would at the very least suggest that, unlike all the creeps in these emails, Clinton, who is known to be insanely charismatic & charming in person, simply didn't need Epstein's help to get laid, if he wanted to.

Russiagate apology forms now

Honestly, this is the least surprising thing I've learned about everyone's least favorite South African Vampire.

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

the New York Times ran a catch and kill on donald trump being a pedophile to help him with the election and liberals gave them hundreds of millions of dollars

Everybody: just put your Merrick Garland stuff on hold. Y’all talk about message discipline, now’s the time. Do this shit like tomorrow or Friday.

Saying the most basic shit about politics, like "Voters have to feel like you like them" and "We should be able work with people who aren't our exact type of communist" will get you feted as a cis white oysterman and dragged as a trans woman or a Muslim, I guess

Talking do one of the chief DOT signal network guys last night and he brought up that a few years back the next NYSDOT region over had the system they use to monitor and control traffic signals get hit by a DDOS attack that originated in Russia.

Politico actually managed to crunch some of the numbers on just how much less of a presence Schumer has had in NY lately. Certainly a lot can be chalked up to trying to fight against Trump, but even compared to Trump I when he was also minority leader he is less present.

Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution

This was pretty much the shut down. Dems felt good about stopping the government and it gave them a momentary high but 1. Trump was still President and doing bad stuff 2. The GOP didn’t (and dont) care about being blamed for the shut down Dems weren’t in as strong a position as they felt

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

Trading places with Elon would be like waking up as a cockroach and the worst part is that you would have traded away your knowledge of Kafka and the literary grounding to make sense of said experience.

the government forcing the wiggles to do a podcast episode as punishment really shifts the Overton window of regulatory enforcement possibilities www.accc.gov.au/medi...

we're all clear that SNAP has work requirements for almost everybody, correct

If you want Republicans to get the blame, you can start by blaming Republicans.

if I'm an ATC who took one measly sick day since it was fucking October and my kid had a cold I am *incandescent* over this.

not even my favorite cover, but I deeply appreciate Headstones for crafting a version that is most likely the version that the men on the ship and their friends would have actually liked.

Yeah I know we're all angry, but blaming this on the Jews is really really bad.

some remarks on the shutdown fight, courtesy of philips o'brien: "A battle is more a snapshot in time--a moment when two armed forces reveal their current strengths and weaknesses. What to take from a battle... is what it reveals about the direction of travel of the armed forces involved."

I need those ACA subsidies. My neighbors need food. I’m not going to fault the only party that wants us to have both for only being able to secure the food. Be mad at Republicans. Be mad at your maga family. Use the rest of your energy to give Democrats a majority.

If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome. The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.

I keep thinking, stuff like this doesn’t come down without a mandate from fairly high up, ultimately at least sanctioned by the top, to remove everything that positively mentions Black people. It’s not like the memorial to Black soldiers in the Netherlands was on anyone’s radar otherwise.

If you see this, post one image from your device with no context.

Sweet bejeebus this is beyond tacky. Actively humiliating what this asshole has done to the people's house.

If only Infantry Dort was remotely this poetic

Yeah and it's honestly pretty disgraceful that these kinds of unsourced insinuations and rumors can have a real effect in our politics. I think EVERYONE should be reposting this just to set frivolous people straight.