you see, the fascism is just a distraction from the fascism, I am very smart

It's wild how, unlike with the Iraq war, they didn't even bother to sell this one to the public. I suppose they feel even less constrained by public opinion than Bush did. (And of course elite opinion is almost always pro-war, so nothing to finesse there.)

Oops, I did it again, I turned in the gyre I loosed blood dimmed tides, Oh baby baby Oops, your things fall apart, Mere anarchy starts; I drowned that innocence

I wonder if Maduro can just buy a pardon like Hernandez did.

Are we supposed to call our reps and tell them we don’t like when the president engages in overt war crimes, or can we trust them to get there on their own?

Furious all over again at the credulous Gen Z rubes who insisted Harris would get them killed in conflict.

*Samara crawls out of the TV holding a DoorDash bag with your Chipotle order*

people offended by $600 shoes are going to be in for a surprise when trump eventually reshores US manufacturing

The liberaltarian is mad that Mamdani didn't say "There's no such thing as society."

The closest comparison for the Grok thing we can imagine right now is if cereal made a bunch of people ill and the news put a microphone in front of some cereal boxes at the grocery store and was like “well they didn’t admit guilt, not sure who else we can ask”

Once you look for, "does this [article / op-ed / claim by a politician] consider the 80% of Americans who live in urban areas to be real Americans?" you will see it everywhere, because the answer is usually "no."

Typical Republican move. Become a slightly better person once you are powerless.

I skeeted "plus sized language model"

Brigitte Bardot be like:

imagine being a retvrn guy for gaudy drive thrus

they should make a sleep where it feels like you’ve slept

People who think 65 is too young to retire have very easy jobs, if they have a job at all.

they call it single sign on because you have to sign on every single time you get up from your desk

I wonder how much longer CBS will do polls like this.

Having our annual self evaluation due Christmas week is insane. Probably my two least favorite annual occurrences.

The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?

Americans have got to be the dumbest fucking people on the planet. Unable to guess whether the stove is hot until they touch it good and hard.

“Have you ever noticed how even a Jewish lesbian can be a Nazi?”

And may every day be another wonderful secret.

"Did you know books continue to exist outside of their release window? Crazy but true."

I can think of worse things about him than this but OK

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Everyone who participated in the firings, prosecutions, blackballings & penalization of the people who found it ironic that the 'Sin of Empathy' and 'Gun Violence Is The Cost Of Freedom' guy got shot in the neck (including moderation here). You guys are fucking clowns.

The urban liberals that Mr. Zink hates care more about water restoration and healthy forests than the Republicans he has voted for to pillage his state.

Everyone in this admin, from the president on down, rushes to social media to put things out rather than act responsibly and prudently. Always looking to declare victory while seeking praise.

They think it’s an anti white epithet rather than a factual description of a set of beliefs

Mark Kelly is exhibit A that Democrats can’t let an inspiring moment breathe without immediately ruining it with obnoxious fundraising spam. These texts are an incredibly inefficient way to fundraise. His fundraising consultants are making a killing off his courage.

Winning the Cold War only to blow yourself up for no reason 30 years later is such a good bit

It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship. The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.

The trick of Star Trek is that Kirk is not horny. *Gene Roddenberry* is horny. The tension between Kirk the character trying to do his job & the camera & production trying to get him laid, that's the key.

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

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

Quibbling over the semantics of the second tap also runs the risk of suggesting that the first tap was something other than murder.

i like the “hes not delivering” complaint bc yes he is, hes doing ethnic ckeansing and war crimes. hes destroying the university system and raising tariffs. hes making obamacare unaffordable and funneling money to his billionaire tech backers. hes doing everything he said he would…

you go most of your life never handing it to Margaret Thatcher, and then these guys ruin it

A note of caution about the new GOP vow of oversight on the murder of the two men clinging to the boat. It's good to see, but it could become a backdoor way for Rs to defuse pressure for broader scrutiny. The entire operation is illegal. It all needs oversight. 1/ newrepublic.com/article/2037...

I named my fists “Strong Floor” and “No Ceiling” because they are not ready to win any important fights.

I am sorry but if you are a combatant commander and you get outmaneuvered this badly in a bureaucratic knife fight with Pete fucking Hegseth you need to go ahead and do The Honorable Thing

theres a huge problem with academics who cant see the most obvious political attacks. the right uses this like a hacker exploits a bug. these people are never operating in good faith and they use the basic protections of our society to literally undermine the equal rights of others. wake the hell up

This entire thing is an op

The phrase "Fox News weekend co-host" appears nowhere in the Constitution, so it's hard to imagine even the most activist judge allowing Pete Hegseth to stand trial for war crimes. by Jonathan Turley

Don't have an advent calendar, so I'm opening a different neighbor's window every morning. Today's pic: screaming man in a bath. Not very festive

We don't have to adopt the billionaire's slogan. We don't even have to talk about it!

It's so funny that 20 years ago there was a huge moral panic around Wikipedia and it's actually the only good thing the internet ever produced.

my most useless pet peeve is I really hate it when birds are called dinosaurs, thats like calling a dog an amoeba because if you go back far enough it was one