Knowledge is power but the dumbest guy you know is probably doing amazing.

It is again time to post the real tree my dad put up in the late 80s

saw someone say the next dem administration should learn from trump & simply enact their agenda without thought to norms or procedure, & i hate to break it to that person but the dems already do exactly what they want with power. they don't try to do things & fail, they try to do nothing & succeed

This shit is so not out of nowhere that the Amazon Jack Ryan show, that the CIA was attached at the hip in producing, featured an entire season about how Venezuela was a threat America needed to deal with

Alrighty then.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

i actually like walking away less informed. in fact, reading an article should give me brain damage, and that’s why i subscribe to the new york times

I say this every year: has any man been more vindicated by history than John Brown bsky.app/profile/haym...

Trading Sonny Gray now instead of at the deadline last year. Oh yeah that's moneyball to me. I love that.

Benico Del Toro is like the coolest guy who ever lived in One Battle After Another

Fun fact: November 28, 2001: "ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

AAAAAAAHHHHH

Probably because it's too good

lol she got his ass and he knows it

(michael myers on ross douthat’s podcast) ha ha, ross. that’s hardly a fair characterization. I would reframe the question. it’s not “why am I ‘killing’ babysitters”, it’s “why are babysitters behaving in a way that sets them up for these issues?” that’s something we need a national conversation on.

WTF 🤬 A police officer in Baltimore, Maryland, attempted to run over and kill a civilian who refused to answer their questions.

This "Deciding To Win" study is pretty compelling, say what you will about the participants but you can't argue the stats

You can tell Platner is full of shit because if he was an actual leftist none of these people would support him

Not at all that you’re looking for an answer but for me I view it as the natural endpoint for American individualism. A fantasy where society is completely unnecessary and other people should just go away entirely

American law, it seems to me, exists to create a condition of constant titillation for people whose material needs are never unmet, but whose appetites have been teased into a state of ungovernable sadism by sloganeering & advertising that promises a return to a world that never existed & never will

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

I guess it has been memory holed but at the time the ACA was being legislated there was a huge amount of effort and promise to "bend the cost curve" of healthcare. In that regard the law has been an utter failure. Healthcare costs have massively increased year after year completely unabated.

The ACA was a massive improvement from what came before it that saves lives. It also occurred when Democrats had a supermajority, THAT THEY ARE UNLIKELY TO EVER HAVE AGAIN, where they could have passed a law that did not leave Americans still wanting for affordable healthcare.

Sam Altman, excitedly: “AI can now go fuck itself”

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

lol it’s this guy

Democrats knew it too. they were warned over & over for more than a decade that police have become a dangerously unrestrained RW paramilitary and begged, demanded, protested to commit to reform. they told activists to fuck off and just kept giving police more money without more accountability

They never had a problem when The Who, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney or U2 performed during the.....ah wait I get it now.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Where does the “Abolish ICE” movement go to get its apology? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

white supremacists and capitalists got so mad at one 18 month stretch of increased labor power that they've agreed to reverse the most complex economy in human history to an agrarian state

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

Imagine a holiday they made for labor

You only see value in things that are monetized, don't you? Community has no meaning for you unless you can make money from it in some way...

a dust storm that approaches from the east or the west is called a side haboob no *you* shut up

(dropping a brick off the roof) and yet in the tragedy of that toddler's skull getting pancaked, is there not evidence of a miraculous new phenomenon -- a brick with the will and agency to commit murder?