They spent your tax money on killing children. I think it's worth us spending our tax money prosecuting and punishing them all. No one will argue against it. It is a popular stance. Don't be a pussy. Stand up for those girls who were killed in our name.

Run on prosecuting war criminals and show ads with the missile hitting the school and show photos of the girls when they were alive. Make it a point to arrest and prosecute Hegseth and go from there. Trump won't protect him. He'll either be dead by then or cashed out.

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Ruin a dad’s week by saying the TV display looks weird and refusing to elaborate

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

Iftar, Day 19

Say what you will about Jay, but she is solely responsible for Bluesky posts being called skeets.

25 years ago, I was a very anxious junior female economics professor at Harvard while our President Larry Summers was telling the world how women weren’t very smart Wish the arc bent a bit more sharply

I asked for a regular coffee at the coffee store and they injected me with estrogen until I apologized for being white. This is a true thing that happens in America, the country.

David is off in a field somewhere strumming on his lyre, while Solomon is dictating "THEM TIDDIES"

Solomon was truly the Israelites’ Benjamin Franklin

I don't want a world war but Christ on sale I want everyone who backed Trump to *HURT*. Oh the rest of the world is a joke, huh? Not any fucking more, you assholes

Look sharp everyone, it's creepy and beautiful out again

Look sharp everyone, it's creepy and beautiful out again

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

I am not certain of the war's outcome except that it will be some version of this.

If I understand correctly, the thing propping up the global economy is Wall Street’s collective belief that a man whose father, wife, and daughter we killed would not want to do anything that would impact our 401ks to us and will make a deal so Mr. Trump can have a good midterm.

anyway, its interesting that our ruling class and the media treat small family farms like an endangered lifestyle that should be saved with policy interventions while treating well-paid unionized blue collar workers as a doomed economic anachronism when the actual situation is the opposite.

There is something deeply funny seeing racist dipshits who try to say there is no meaningful cultural difference between cultures in Africa or Asia turn around and crush down European cultures the same way. "English, Welsh, Scots and Irish people are basically the same" buddy there have been wars.

There's two parents at gymnastics who are clearly working up their nerve to have an affair

Ooh! *puts on fight director hat* Because creating the illusion of violence is its own type of skill and performance! I love all types of martial arts, but combat sports scratch a different itch than over the top, coordinated fights with absurd props performed safely

Any time soon they'll be embracing 15 minute cities

he is a pedophile who has dementia. none of this should be even slightly surprising and it's depressing that it is

Like sure I guess it's marginally useful for a poor person to get a tax credit of $500 per year. But that tax credit will not fundamentally change anything about that person's or their family's life. You know what would? Fully funded healthcare, education, rapid transit, public housing...GOVERNMENT!

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

They haven’t put any real work into manufacturing consent because they sincerely do not understand that such work is necessary and they wouldn’t know how to go about it if they did

If LLMs were treated as a niche technology for a subset of work, instead of being shoehorned into every aspect of life without consent, you wouldn't have people ready to join the Butlerian Jihad Vanguard. There is a kind of self-centered chauvinism in the way tech people think of "work" and "use."

If we didn't need jobs just to survive then the job destroying machine wouldn't be scary.

AI enthusiasts should really grapple with the fact that their fellow Americans would probably be a lot less mean to them on the Internet if our country actually had a semi-functional social safety net.

I do see posts from LLM enthusiasts that boil down to “critics are just mad the computer is better than them at trivia now” and idk, I think *most* critics are just genuinely terrified they’ll never find work they don’t hate that pays a living wage again in the current batshit climate

I'm going to Outstancilpost Stancil and say that imo the leading cause of people feeling impoverished is that they stare at people living luxury lifestyles on Instagram and Tiktok all day long

It's the apps

Hey men and boys? I'm gonna ask you very nicely to begin to extricate yourself from the idea that "bitch" is something you're allowed to call women.

Sorry to post about this guy but I think this is it, the apotheosis of Consultant Brain.

Tbf i think that many D politicans do in fact get this. I think voters largely do not & their inability to give a shit enough to actually pay attention to how deep the hole gets dug whenever they put Rs in charge—& thus getting angry when it isnt filled fast enough—is why we keep ending up back here

It is 2008. Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding. It is 2020. Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding. It is 2026. Democratic politicians are greatly—

Civil authorities, from the Congress down to local committees, might well require such tests; but military officers can never have the power to do so, as “there can be no liberty where the military is not subordinate to the civil power,” says Congress.

Folks we need help raising $500 for permit fees. Any help toward that goal this week is greatly appreciated.

I know people are looking at how unpopular everything they’re doing is and trying to come up with cunning plans they’ve concocted for how they’ll escape a reckoning with a furious public and I promise you, you are putting ten times as much thought into such plans as they have

The upcoming US midterms may seem like an American domestic political battle, but the fight is for its very democracy and its being paid for in Iran, in Ukraine and in spilled blood all over the world.

Still crazy that the president’s lawyer spent two days with Ghislaine Maxwell, she “cleared” him of wrongdoing and was almost immediately transferred to a more pleasant prison and nobody in the administration will explain it and the media acts like two large dots are just impossible to connect.

You start to realize the era of the nation state is long since dead and that everything that happens is wealth and oligarchical class jockeying for power between people and groups that sometimes partner and sometimes hold the global economy hostage in a perpetual game of chicken.

Back on the old website a general officer's wife once stopped talking to me after she was telling me her family "couldn't afford" for her husband to retire and I told her that his retirement salary would be larger than the salary I was making at that time as an active duty NCO, with a family.

"Nothing about Gaza will get better and literally everything else will get worse"

*Opens app* *Sees this first* *Closes app*

Following the 'ruled by 12 year olds' theory, these men genuinely think the rules-based international order is like their mum The nagging shrill lady who won't let them do cool things like stick their heads in ovens, the cat's tail in electrical outlets, or play on train tracks

It was never the rules-based international order that wouldn't allow us to kidnap leaders, invade other countries, or bomb the everloving god out of poor countries It was that we agreed not to, because it led to very bad outcomes. And we created the rules to reflect this The rules are not your mum