"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page: Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.” Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

Heck, having a conflict is a prerequisite for appointment in this administration

All of it his thread, especially this

Totally true Why would anyone in their right mind commit capital when it can be capriciously thwarted or even expropriated at any minute?

Tesla has a commodity battery business, a car business that is going out backwards, a robotaxi business that operates 29 cars, and a tele-operated robot. Tesla is valued by the stock market at 1 trillion dollars. Choose your own explanation.

Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.

Hey Siri, Why was Trump so confident that elite institutions would fold like cheap lawn chairs?

Berkeley has John Yoo. Harvard has Alan Dershowitz. Stanford has Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. Penn has Amy Wax. George Washington has Jonathan Turley. We could go on and on about terrible people who are tenured law professors.

JD Vance argues that having Muslims makes the UK and France too dangerous to have nukes, which will be great for US relations with India and Pakistan. So if you’re keeping track, the Trump administration’s position on nuclear arms is: North Korea: cool, nonthreatening France and UK: bad, dangerous

This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression https://theonion.com/trump-says-recession-unfortunate-but-necessary-step-to-get-to-depression/

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

Wow

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

ICE agents stealing from the victims might be Kavanaugh Dividends

It took the Trump administration less than a year to oust upwards of 10% of career civil service. That means lost of things. But one worth emphasizing is this: The Trump administration cannot blame the so-called "deep state" for its failures. It's *their* deep state now.

I’m very late to this but it’s still delightful www.billboard.com/music/music-...

A smarter model for paying for college: income-based repayment. You start paying your student loans only once you earn enough to comfortably get by. That turns higher ed debt into something more like a tax surcharge on success, not a choke collar on people who are struggling.

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Pillage and plunder

Another huge blinding neon sign of how Not Normal politics is right now. The very mention of a politician cutting a single penny of funding to homeless vets would've been a major scandal at any time between WWII and 2016. Today? Billions of dollars? Just part of the scenery.

"an internet witch hunt" Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official. This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.

This is what it took to shame Kristi Noem into letting an Irish green card holder who bouncing $80 in 2 checks 10 years ago free after 5 months in detention: A veteran, Trump-voting spouse 9 US descendants Letter signed by 18 Senators 30 character witnesses www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-...

Hey @stevevladeck.bsky.social saw this and immediately thought of you Happy holidays from New York City

Your internet gunkle is here to bring you gay tidings for the holidays. My gift to you: the ebook or audiobook of Jack of Thorns, completely free for Christmas. Merry Christmas. I love you. You're doing your best and it IS enough ❤️ Repost to spread joy. shop.ravenswordpress.com/products/jac...

“Their happiness is your happiness” My experience of parenthood, truly

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

only a bit above the paywall but you get the horrible gist www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

thinking of the fugitive slave act and people who profited from it

Really interesting. My add: this is not the 1970s, when stagnation kicked off retrenchment. We have growth, enough to power material improvements in people’s lives! We need a real plan and a way to talk about it that can be heard above the greed and cruelty open.substack.com/pub/waleedsh...

"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz

Many thoughts below on why this letter might be real

Minor point but: not even an American car

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started / going

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

Annual trip to the NY Sirens game (Down 2-3 beg of the 3rd)

Hey @mta.info the signage on the downtown 4/5 at Fulton to get to the PATH/WTC is *terrible*. It’s ridiculous that I get off the subway and look up at the directional and exit signage and see NOTHING Process of elimination — no, not Dey st — not good enough. I know it’s there but everyone else?

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Fox reporting that all entries in the Epstein files discussing Donald and Melania Trump, other members of the Trump administration, and their friends have been blacked out of the Epstein files as released. www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.