I'm pretty sure I know one of the countries, Eric.

Repeat this sentence to yourself and try to retain control of your sanity: The Bureau of Investigation went to Glenn Beck to get expert information about antifa.

When you need a set of tweezers, but you have a set of tongs.

Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.

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I think I largely believe that the personality traits of people who become Young Republicans are knowable and known, but I keep thinking people are getting in arguments over this because no one is saying who "they" are when saying "they were always like this."

To put it mildly, I will be angry if anyone, including citizens, go the ER triage and have to wait to have their papers checked before they get necessary emergency care.

I choose to believe that he was not misspeaking. I choose to believe he really does mean "anthropomorphic." I choose to believe he thinks he is literally getting protested by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Seeing Tiny Tim on his crutch: "That reminds me, children. Do I have a story about a crutch mishap for you!"

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.” Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

I think it's borderline criminal that I had to discover Jorge Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in book clubs during college.

Ok, Play Doh. Take it down a notch.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

This is the work of heroes.

New article out this month on how doctors become fascists. 50% of German physicians joined the Nazi Party––twice the proportion of any other profession. US doctors today are arguably the most conservative in the world, and we're heading along a similar path. drive.google.com/file/d/1CAk9...

Platner is speaking my language

Sometimes humans are extremely cool

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

Big shout out to the people who saw Trump's COVID pressers and thought, "probably fine to put this guy back in charge of important health stuff"

Among other things saying "Fuck you" to someone who has tried to kill you is not deranged.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Pop music is McDonalds. It's delicious. It's designed to be delicious. There is no reason to be mad at people who eat it and like it. But I don't have to pretend it's haute cuisine either.

He's obviously going to hell, but there are 2 notable things here. 1.) He is once again ruminating on the state of his mortal soul. 2.) The rules for rich dudes going to Christian heaven are actually really simple! Give up all your money and follow Christ. Oddly none of these people want to do that.

Boxes also work on bobcats

I think there is a strong argument to be made that reality TV pioneered the entire influencer phenomenon, and while the internet/social media popularized the idea that everything must be monetizable/your whole life is a public branding exercise, reality TV gave influencers the tools/vocab to do it.

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

This is my foiled drawing of a giraffe! #printart #handmade #art #animal #giraffe #sciart

Since this is a place where we are promoting free discourse aka doing politics the "right" way, here's an idea to discuss: "Knowingly violating the 4th Amendment should be a felony with a 20 year minimum."

Just do we're all clear, what he's saying is intelligible if you know what that he's constantly talking to genocidal lunatics like Miller. When he says "politically correct" here, he means "we weren't willing to use total war against the civilians."

I am not a practicing Christian. I have very strongly considered putting a Golden Rule license plate or bumper sticker on my car, because it is absolutely missing from the lives of the worst Christians in our midst.

Not every illiberal, authoritarian movement is fascism, but I see absolutely no reason to browbeat people over the differences so long as they understand that these kind of movements are bad.

like let's stop kidding ourselves. let's stop doing the social media larp. they hate this and have the whole time. the app is the side project that exploded because of some other dipshit blowing up their spot. get someone who actually wants to run a social media and let them do the job instead

Part of what is infuriating and surreal about this is that with sound off, not only does this knuckle-dragging chucklefuck in his jeans and stupid buttoned up t-shirt look like he is screaming about not getting flatware with his order, he was probably doing EXACTLY THAT 8 weeks ago.

I would pay a king's ransom to get 5 minutes alone with her so I could just mess with her and say, "You know what, Kristi? We ARE trying to replace you. We're gonna out breed all you white-bread, redneck shitheads. Latinos sing better, cook better, and we sure as hell fuck better. Bye, babe."

This woman wearing a cross while saying this is an obscenity before God and man. The Parable of the Good Samaritan is LITERALLY about how the only person who takes care of an injured man is a foreigner and the EXPLICIT lesson is "The foreigner was the only one who obeyed God's Law.

I think there's a lot to say about this, but I think it helps to keep the following in mind: It is infuriating and incomprehensible to radical centrists and the right that millions of Americans had the empathy to see a Black man lose his life in a snuff film and say "This is the last straw."

This was a weird photo I took in 2021, mid-pandemic. Weird coincidence. Ominous.

It's good to touch base with your conscience, if only for you. But I gotta say: if someone has the power to destroy lives and takes gleeful joy in it, and the only consequence he is likely to ever face is a columnist calling him a pig man, I'm inclined to say I'm cool with it.

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

Just discovered that Lego stopped shipping ala carte brick orders because of the tariffs. Trump take toy

There must be consequences or the lying will continue.

Pundits and right wing activists have turned Nazis into some kind of weird, inverted sin eaters. Dead Nazis have absorbed the entire sin of genocide for all eternity such that they are it's only perpetrators and no one else can be compared to them or accused of genocidal fascist tendencies again.

Blaming literally every problem on one group of people is a necessary prelude to genocide.

This whole section really.

I may have found my defining quote. Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

The toddler in public, speaking as he does, in a stream of consciousness: "Sometimes mommy and daddy do it in the backseat." Me to a waiter: "He means changing his diaper!! He's talking about when we're out we sometimes have to change him on the pad in the backseat!"

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...