Billionaires are a self-alienating race of people, they don’t want to be treated like everyone else

Newsom is saying “we don’t want to alienate billionaires” like they are normal people with normal values and desires, this guy is trying to say that billionaires deserve to be heard just as much as YOU DO

But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang

Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

hahaha jesus.

Contemplate how terrifying this is. religiondispatches.org/us-ambassado...

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The respect of the Supreme Court is long gone. They all need to start actively speaking out about the corruption that got the other 6 justices there and how they act. If they don't I frankly don't give a fuck what they have to say about anything.

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that: - labeling is censorship - fact-checking is censorship - transparency is censorship - research is censorship What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.

this is all a game to these depraved psychopaths.

Mandatory online age authentication makes almost everyone worse off--except age authentication vendors, who will celebrate their concern about children's welfare at their black-tie industry awards gala + after-party (seats cost 250£ & up; photos cost extra) 🤮 events.ringcentral.com/events/indus...

The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

"If you didn't know, when we celebrate Christmas Eve we are not celebrating the Christmas the next day but the Christmas a year later." -- SCOTUS

They said they did so because it was "the eve of an election" (that occurs next year)

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

This is like porn to Elon Musk.

WHAMMO

Speaking of House GOP conference, when a group is in danger they pull together. But at a certain point the Titanic isn't "in danger"; it's sinking. And at that moment, one person looks at another and says, "I never liked you, BITCH!" and throws a punch. This seems like where we are in the House.

Oh this poll is fascinating

Himes: It was exceedingly hard to watch. Even if you stipulate that it is a war, there is a very specific prohibition against killing individuals who have been removed from the fight. And there is no question that these individuals were removed from the fight.

I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me

Important facts on the Sept. 2 strike survivors👇 And of course, the most important fact is that the shipwrecked men *were never "in the fight" to begin with* (because this is a fake war taking real lives). Again, applying the laws of war when we are not at war is an exercise in absurdity.

Now I get why she didn’t make it as a child actor

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

"researchers noted that while chatbots would present their arguments as factual, the information they provided was not always accurate. They also found that chatbots advocating for right-wing political candidates provided more inaccurate claims in every experiment."

Brian Cole of Woodbridge, Virginia:

This administration literally pardoned over a thousand people for doing exactly this.

Uh this is not a good thing.

My jaw dropped last week when I was watching 60 Minutes and they pointed out that Trump Jr is on the advisory boards for BOTH Kalshi AND Polymarket. Not even being subtle about it anymore.

Who among us hasn't pulled the "suddenly realize we dozed off so quickly look to the side to pretend we were awake the whole time" move?

Trump having a nap for peace.

It was physically impossible for that boat to reach anywhere close to the United States, even before it was a flaming upside-down wreck, and Tom Cotton knows that. He's not that stupid, he just thinks everyone else is. This kind of dishonesty is inseparable from egotistical arrogance.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Remember how @kathleenbelew.bsky.social wrote an entire book about how the white power movement in America mobilized after the Vietnam war ended? Well guess what: we’re in the midst of coping with a very similar phenomenon in the aftermath of the GWOT. newrepublic.com/post/203784/...

"As with so much of what has gone wrong in the past 10 months (or years), this chaos can be laid squarely at feet of SCOTUS. Here, they’ve allowed him to continue collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs despite multiple lower courts ruling it's patently illegal." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS (hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

When Bezos changed the Washington Post's editorial board standards to align with “personal liberties and free markets,” he meant his own liberty to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into worse economic insecurity and fear.

lol these people are delusional and get paid big money to be delusional and to act surprised when the obvious can't be ignored anymore. And they'll claim no one saw it coming. And we'll let them.

"Speaker Johnson, care to comment on the sun rising in the east this morning?" "Sorry, I've been in meetings all day and don't know anything about that. I'm a busy man and can't comment on everything going on, especially things I haven't read about."

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

8. Increasingly, that language has fallen away as lawmakers move to strip supportive parents of any authority at all, mirroring the approach in medical transition bans that override parents entirely. Under this proposal, parents would have no right to approve their child’s affirmed name or pronouns.

7. The ban on social transition—even with parental permission—underscores a shift in how anti-trans legislation is being sold to the public. For years, supporters of bathroom bans, sports bans, and “don’t say gay” policies framed their efforts as battles for “parental rights.”

100 percent he just thinks they look cool and kids love seeing cool things so now he wants more of them, because the overgrown child King needs to be entertained by machinery. Like TRUCKS TOOT TOOT!

THIS is what real "news distortion" looks like: The president of the United States bullied CBS into selectively editing an interview with him. The FCC should repeal its news distortion policy as a dangerous weapon against the free press, but if it won't, it must open a docket here