Like can anyone give a reason for why we are doing this, they built 0 public consent for it and if this does expand beyond strikes for a couple days that’s not a great recipe

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

This is a topic for another time, but we really need to talk about how this is a good example of how news is going to shaped going forward for so many in power in DC, particularly boomers. WaPo has been the go-to paper for so long... Who pulls their attention now?

Disgusting

did a quadruple take

The most useful writing I’ve read on the subject remains this blog post from William Scheuerman about the dual state: Fraenkel’s argument—that capital requires a normative state—falls apart when economic power becomes highly consolidated verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...

Why to use Kagi Search in one image:

Ah

I wish I could use ChatGPT less

The arena has bursitis

final fantasy tactics advance, screenshot, game boy advance (2003) www.mobygames.com/game/10325/f...

every time im lying on my heating pad (so 90% of the time) i feel like this

check this shit out

[doing backing vocals for Sam Cooke] Science Book

lol

Good time to remember that Marc Andreessen claimed that he and the other tech broligarchs were forced to support Trump because of the Biden administration's arbitrary regulation and strong-arming of AI firms.

Great job, intern

Really don't understand how this isn't a bigger scandal. This is conspiracy to commit federal witness tampering (and likely witness murder) for the purpose of covering up a foreign government's deal with organized crime, a deal that has been affirmed by the DOJ.

This is what people mean when they say "this is not who we are". It's Midwestern police departments finding out even they have a limit. It's everyday suburbanites funding transport & relocation for trans women in danger. It's fighting to crush Republican supermajorities in red states this November.

there's a Lego Batman game coming so they re-created the Jack Nicholson Joker scene in the museum with Prince's Partyman... let's see how they did

I saw this and now you must too

*batman voice* do you have any cough drops

Roberts: Let’s bring in the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright. He joins us now.

“Sit in shell and make Trump play quarterback” unironically is an adequate description of a non-apocalypse-seeking strategy

doing some research

I think I’m ready to concede that she was not

This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

The Tamashii Nations Instagram reposted this and I felt you all needed to see it

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

This has me crying in real life 😂😂😂 🦁

I am normal and can be trusted with a costco membership

Very excited to have found a place at the airport that has “chef-inspired menus.” Love to eat food inspired by… the idea of making food.

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

but MOMMMM I want to play SONIC

The thing I never understand is that the RW agitprop media has a total audience of around 3-4 million people. Appealing to its crowd fundamentally is going to just take legacy media and make it less popular. It's.. a smaller group than you already have?

i actually think this is the wrong way to think about the direction this is going. fox news is the default channel in many public spaces — most troublingly, us military bases, has been for decades. this was not a matter of policy afaik, it just slid into place. it's not hard to lock it in as policy.

belatedly discoverd this a few days ago and have listened to it approximately 23423958345982 times since

Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.

Millard Fillmore erasure smh

A thing I strongly believe, but that was only obvious in retrospect, was that drive-time talk radio was the most valuable propaganda platform in history and a big reason we got into this mess we're in now was because conservatives dominated it in the 1990s and 2000s

Hearing about this new trend. It's called brown hair

I found it: the absolute worst item of licensed apparel ever created

I see it differently. I'm mid 40s & my entire life Republicans have been dedicated to demolishing the status quo to do deregulation & racism & they used every chance, including 9/11 to do it. It's Democrats who have been dedicated to pacifying resistance & maintaining whatever new status quo Rs set.

“Widespread voter fraud” — Another lie from our lawless President at the State of the Union. The Save America Act is a solution in search of a problem. It would disenfranchise millions of Americans, and I urge the U.S. Senate to oppose it. More from CBS News:

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…