the best way to avoid Mean Posters taking victory laps on your timeline going "nyyah, nyyyahh, told you so!" when the Blackwater mercenary with the Nazi tattoo has his monthly sex scandal was going "hmm, don't think I'll defend this guys Nazi tattoo" when the picture was first made public simple

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

"Is America Good or Bad" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 250 years of heated debate

anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

Long story short, she's now been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

I listened to the whole clip and as a Jewish person who gets schlepped to mass 3-4 times/year with his in-laws (for 20 years) I can confidently say this is way out-of-bounds for even the most conservative Catholic homily I've ever heard.

my god

the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

I know it's primarily about the bigotry but the country would be a lot better if we stopped doing this also.

Saw Disclosure Day in theaters and then happened to watch Nope streaming the next day, and you can guess which movie I can't stop thinking about.

I gotta be honest, setting reasonable limits on the technology for my kids is really easy and I would like the democrats to help with literally any other aspect of having children instead of

I very much enjoyed Disclosure Day, but I have two lingering questions. 1) Has Steven Spielberg seen 'The Rehearsal'? 2) Has anyone in the universe of Disclosure Day seen a Steven Spielberg film?

May the Republican Party conclusively repudiate the legacy of George W. Bush turned out to be one of those monkey paw things.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

The key to understanding DNC Dems is they're laser-focused on only occasionally being the majority or exercising power knowing they'll never lose extremely safe Congressional seats. Losing those seats to DSA means the fun is over for them. Rs usurping rule-of-law didn't spur them to act.

It feels like the only lesson so many people across the political spectrum learned from Trump is that you’re allowed to be a whiny baby crying all the time that people don’t blindly fall to their knees to praise you for existing.

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

the key to understanding the rich pricks fretting about the left destroying 'the democratic party' is that when they say 'the democratic party' they mean their gentleman's club. that's where they go to do insider trading & extort the elderly with scam texts. you're not allowed in there

James Carville is in the news again? Time to unearth my ancient meme for ancient people.

i have been saying this for years, but one thing politicians and journalists don't understand (or pretend not to) is that people don't have to be concerned with "gaza" as some sort of niche political cause to have reacted in horror watching the events and the way the political-media class reacted

we are not “self-hating jews”; we are not antisemites; we are proud jews who also believe in the human rights of palestinians. we have proved those things can and do very much coexist, something that seemed impossible not long ago. we are a constituency and we have a voice.

Big props to Brad Lander on winning his primary. Dude has done the moral thing many times and put his body on the line against ICE. He even came to Minnesota during the ICE Occupation to see the injustice firsthand. It’s nice to see moral courage rewarded by voters.

NY-10, my district, is the most Jewish congressional district in the country, w/about 25% of voters identifying as Jewish. And yet tonight the district threw out pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman, and elected Brad Lander, who calls Gaza a genocide and favors an cut-off of weapons to Israel, by 30+ pts. 1/

"amid all the creative ideas people have had for new assessments [in light of AI], we also need an explicit, robust defence of the essay." Exactly.

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

Also, the article doesn't say Alite is a Republican, but he is. Even if you didn't know he was a Republican, the article provides some clues: -mob hitman -rat -described as "shameless" by John Gotti's son

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

This is some world class trolling, the internet remains undefeated, Trump not so much.

That’s where my head went - revenue vs cost of revenue growing positively while netting losses on R&D to fuel longer term growth could make sense, but if the R&D is actually a recurring operating expense that depreciates immediately that’s what’s known in corporate financial speak as no bueno.

on top of it all: we are living in a truly *peak* "the emperor has no clothes" era — on account of how blatantly stupid and evil and vision-less all our governments are — and that means any discursive approach that doesn't aggressively acknowledge that paints you as some mix of liar, mark, or toady

Maybe the dumbest bit that still seems to have purchase in American politics is “that really rich guy can’t be bought!” I assure you, his wealth is *proof* that he can be bought, despite a weird elite class of Americans who want you to believe they won their fortunes in single combat or something

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

Everytime I watch an NBA game I get incensed at all the bad calls that build up and absolutely affect the outcome. Sitting down and watching this finals game where the Knicks won despite bad calls was really satisfying. Barely had a horse in the race, but the Knicks played their hearts out.

His companies don’t do anything except soak the government for money. He’s a weird little ghost who is for some reason allowed to haunt the very concept of money despite not making anything anyone wants.

Mods? Asleep? Post? Dog pics?

The acrobats fucked up my parlay and now I'm ruined!!! Damn these circus gambling apps!!!

I guess it's bread and circuses but the bread has never been more expensive and the circus is an ad.

Both Republicans and Democrats spent years falling over themselves to gift this world-ending power to a violently deranged, sieg-heiling Nazi

"Speak softly and carry a Big Gulp"

Here it is:

“having money on the line enforces clarity” I saw the saddest man I’ve ever seen lose $5000 on a single hand of blackjack at a casino in turtle lake, wisconsin

Many people can only imagine liberation as an inversion of power. They cannot conceive of a system where nobody stands on anyone's neck. That failure of imagination is the real prison.

tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Three months of war and supply shocks and the first real stock drop is when the jobs numbers are too good www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...

Late capitalist culture and everyone switching workplaces every few years has really diluted the term mercenary. But Platner is an actual guy who signed up with Blackwater to murder people for money. It's not just another job and isn't equivalent to being active-duty military. It's the worst people.