the Trump administration has successfully eradicated impostor syndrome. credit where it's due

remember those few weeks where ivermectin was the magic right-wing health tonic? why not pull out some of that to cure them kids with the autisms. surely it must be the Tylenol antidote

can you even imagine a less trustworthy source of medical information. this is the dipshit who thinks exercise is bad for you

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

I don't understand the mentality of older folks who don't give a single fuck what kind of world they leave the next generation and are basically content to regard their country as their own tomb, and I only feel the anger over this more as I get older myself

Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. Here are two of the best. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

the only policy stance more odious to me than NIMBYism is antivaxx. literally risking the life of your own children (and others who are immunocompromised) simply because you’re a total fucking moron

statistically, he's got to be in the top 1% of sex offenders, right?

If you say “yankin' my Skeeters off” your homophobia is showing THE END

"they intend to stay in power" may well be correct but is overly simplistic and implicitly assumes they have a well thought out strategy for actually doing so, which I'm not at all convinced they do

this is a weird tic of Sinclair's: in the 2004 election they had planned to air a "documentary" smearing John Kerry's Swift Boat tenure, and also cancelled at the last minute

chat, how do you remove a link from a post, I can't seem to delete this one youtu.be/8jj1pR9kM90?...

I definitely have become way more elitist in that there just clearly are people who without their participation in civic life somehow filtered through intermediaries go full medieval peasant. Like they need their local newspaper, their union, etc. to render modernity legible to them.

Dear gestapo trash:

somewhere, an Aella stirs

yeah man that's literally the entire point: I don't get off on being radical. it is not an emotionally important identity to me. I do not like that many of political beliefs are outside the mainstream. I consider that bad. I would be happy if that changed.

public officials and executives in Bangalore and Beijing pulling out the champagne

critical point about the protesting RSVP debate: you don't even have to use your real name, you know!* the benefits of it can be extended without that.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

bad poll results for Trump: good the fact that media orgs now specifically and regularly try to bury the bad poll results for Trump in the article: bad

Tragically, Will Stancil is actually the closest thing this age has to a moral paragon because he was exposed to people being mean to him on the internet without becoming a Trumpist out of spite, a test which seemingly every other major Discourse Generator online has failed.

Donald Trump is a feebleminded, frail old bigot with no redeeming qualities, who is unsuited for any office, let alone the presidency. I am superior to him in every respect, as is every person I’ve ever met. Anyone who treats him as a model of virility or statesmanship ought to be laughed at.

They want to kill your kids and they want to be able to put you in jail for saying that

they're extremely upset that they can't force you to like him

two of that blighted island's most iconic dishes were thanks to Jewish and Indian immigrants, respectively. multiculturalism is good and I don't care who hears it

I think we are allowed to publicly criticize the president

he files the most frivolous lawsuit in history against them and they still love the taste of his boot

ffs, even Putin has to _pretend_ that criticism is allowed, even if he says it would be obviously "nonsensical" or whatever

the FBI is extremely unlikely to ever come to your door simply because your name was on a protest RSVP list, but they might if you accidentally enabled money laundering

"I would only make myself visible if it is completely safe and is also guaranteed to make a difference" is the view that most in the Russian opposition had adopted, and everyone can see the result.

I'm half convinced that if Trump tries to run again then Obama should too

How I imagine myself when doing my four-minute downhill morning commute (Rider Tomas Slavik racing Chile's legendary Red Bull Valparaiso Cerro Abajo 2022, with @dutchdronegods filming it all in one continuous First-Person View drone shot)

the DOJ, nationwide, files about seventy thousand criminal cases a year. if every single one of those cases were filed against a No Kings protester from just one of the protests this year, that would be 1.1% of all attendees.

Republicans are Nazis actually

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look, beyond everything else this whole conversation about indivisible email lists has convinced me that many of you are remarkably cowardly

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

American elites are deeply corrupt scum. Dimon fluffing the GOP Senate caucus today was a perfect example of it.

Vaccine access update! Can confirm that at a Walgreens in San Francisco they showed me the list of qualifications for the Covid vax, asked if any applied. I said yes and did not have to say which item on the list qualified me. Anyhoo, Covid and flu vaccines onboard!

if you're too scared to put your name on a giant list of protesters, you're probably too scared to go to a protest, and will soon be too scared to speak even anonymously, and maybe too scared to even vote against the regime in other words grow up, get over it, life has risks, this one is minimal

YIMBYism is a rare thing in that it’s a disciplined and effective but largely nonprofessional movement, and if I were a Democratic funder I would spend money on figuring out how to build on that model instead of paying for more issue polls

Courage is a virtue. It's laudable. It's something that should be socially rewarded. We should all be egging each other on, making it clear that we all have each other's backs, not cowering in terror. That's how you build a cohesive movement.

I am now starting to suspect that people doom posting themselves into saying it doesn't matter that Trump is wildly unpopular because he is going to do a dictatorship are themselves an op. Dictatorships aren't stable by magic, they need people to buy in and go along with them. This matters.

Today is the D4 Engardio recall election. I opposed the recall and have volunteered some of my time against it. Multiple reasons, but let's start with the big one: Engardio has done nothing that rises even close to the level of a recall. This is a policy disagreement masquerading as something else.

You don't have to love Engardio on all the issues. I don't. A Lurie appointed replacement is unlikely to be better on those issues. But a yes vote out of spite for the 2022 recalls or on policing/social services is not the right move here. Vote NO.

there _must_ be consequences for those entities when we get out of this, or it will always be logical and not merely cowardly for them to capitulate

the libelproofing is entertaining in this headline; are they implying he _might_ actually have committed murder?

yikes