“Roughly $24 billion of Paramount’s takeover financing is coming from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia. [The] journalist-killing kingdom is poised to become a part-owner of one of the world’s most influential news organizations.”

I can not emphasize this enough: Fuck polls. Do all of it anyway, because it's the right thing to do.

I swear to God, nobody ever reads the charts Leftists DO vote for Normie Dems! In these polls, 90% of socialists, 95% of progs say they'd vote for Kamala Harris. A higher rate of libs & centrists ("Normie Dems") DON'T vote for Dems. They vote Rep instead, 2x worse! 👉 Centrists are the problem 👈

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

What's farcical about this point of view is the idea that there continues to be a singular "commons". In order to accept that X continues to be one, you have to decide that all of us who have abandoned the Nazi haven matter less than the dwindling folks who stay. And you have to ignore Tiktok.

tapping the sign

I know Annie's boxed mac n cheese is not, objectively, special... my tastebuds don't care. (hot tip: use a touch of salty cooking water and a heap of sour cream with the cheese dust to make the sauce)

John Roberts's legacy is spending literally decades putting a genteel face on a movement to replace representative democracy with sloppy authoritarianism, and his reward is getting absolutely stomped out in the White House briefing room. Pathetic. Good riddance.

THAT'S RIGHT

Last night, I was notified that another person has died in ICE custody. That’s 39 people who have died on ICE’s watch during Trump’s second term. We cannot grow numb to this. There must be immediate oversight and accountability.

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

A reliance on one-time funds to prop up shelter, public safety costs has Portland in deeper budget trouble than anticipated.

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Deaths are higher in emergency rooms of hospitals owned by private equity firms, per Harvard University. They did the math: It’s cheaper to let you die than save you with a procedure you can’t afford. This is what happens when it's profits over people.

I've slept a bit on this other than a few posts, but one of the most brazen things happening in state governments right now is that the Kentucky GOP is trying to impeach a liberal justice (and the first/only Black woman to join the court) because of a vote she took last year they don't like.

The effort we put into eating our own...

UPDATE: we regret to inform you crystal Shrek is a milkshake duck

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

this is yet another example of DHS employees literally doing the kind of thing that would get your entire family bloodline erased in morality tales from medieval times, like, bread and salt shit

Update: As of today, February 13th, there are still NO Dem-aligned candidates for the 3 Georgia State Supreme Court elections on May 19th. The filing deadline is March 6th. So why aren't any challengers filing? See next post in the thread for a possible explanation...

I bet if you just did a simple survey, not one American in 10K would be able to accurately tell you the current level of immigration to the US, whether that level is up or down from the previous decade, what countries are most represented among immigrants, or what current US immigration policy is.

The way this gets reported without any FACT CHECKING with people on the ground is insane.

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.

Bondi was the AG in Florida who refused to bring charges against Epstein, wasn't she? She's been practicing ignoring these victims for over a decade. I wonder why?

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

Airspace was closed due to... party balloons. Everything this administration does is an awful, inept catastrophe.

Pam Bondi was Florida’s Attorney General from 2011 to 2019 and refused to bring charges against Jeffrey Epstein. He was charged with sex trafficking in Florida and New York six months after she left office.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

My husband just texted me there's a downhill skier called Breezy Johnson in the same year that the ski jumpers are in trouble for letting out the crotches of their suits and this cannot be true?!

The emails in my inbox emphasize: nothing, absolutely nothing, has changed. All eyes should still be on Minnesota.

I’ve been watching old, full episodes of Nightline, and it honestly makes me depressed. We’ve lost so much — politically and in the media.

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

I'm afraid that this seemed mostly like a safety measure, to me (and a way to keep the visual energy up, which seemed pretty dissipated in last year's show with Kendrick because of the minimalist wide open set and inability to use pyro b/c of Trump). Looked like he was wearing a bullet proof vest.

There was no happy ending for Patriots' owner Robert Kraft today.

There were two lost dog ads. One was on the right side of history and one was NOT.

fellow engineers, you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something: 1. how will the police use what i'm making? 2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against? 3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?

That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

“We cannot just abolish ICE!” Bestie, you are older than ICE.

It's so cute that they think the Boomers only had one. I'd love to know so little about the Epstien files and who is in them. That said, Gen X has at least 5 (if you count the cast of That 70s show - minus Topher - as just one) and the Millennial list is just getting started.

“The Epstein class” is a keeper.

Which separately goes to my whole thing about how white elites just generally don’t think you’re supposed to argue with whoever’s dominant in the room. This has turned out to be a real problem! You know in *some* cultures it’s disrespectful *not* to pipe up. Ahem.