in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

she clocked it. the policy is wrong, but the line that bugged me the most? “Indian Americans, he said, tell themselves: “We are the richest, best educated people. We don’t commit crimes. We go to good schools. We came here legally. We’re not like the Mexicans.”” brown is brown to the racists, pal

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.

if you’ve had kids in the last 30ish years, you should watch this with them!

concentration camps.

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.

this man should be our senate leader

Sorry for missing last week, the Baltimore Film Revival calendar is now updated through the first week of January. Female Trouble, Annie Hall, Stop Making Sense, The Godfather, The Apartment, My Man Godfrey, Throne of Blood!

a win number is simply 50% + 1 vote. Yeah, you want a few more to ensure a win, but a win is a win once you get that extra vote. this must break the brain of the “let’s optimize everything” tech generation

After the way she debased herself for Trump, and the way he carelessly cast her aside, this gives me so much pleasure.

the kerning is not consistent

this is so disgusting. wtf

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Also it really can’t be understated how much the voucher scam has helped to take a sledgehammer to public education here. Just a regular stream of these kinds of headlines ever since:

I would like a society to ridicule everyone who thinks a government should be run like a business into never sharing that opinion publicly ever again

Multiple Republicans are absurdly claiming they're just fighting back against Democratic gerrymandering. In 2024, roughly 3 times more seats were in states drawn to favor the GOP than Dems. The GOP in Congress & on the Supreme Court has repeatedly blocked efforts to ban gerrymandering nationwide

this is crazy

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YESSS

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Welp, looks like we're teaching the LinkedIn grindset people what The Onion is the hard way.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

What’s remarkable about Scott is that her philanthropy isn’t an effort to offset the moral choices made in earning her fortune, as was the case for the Carnegies et al. As far I can tell, it’s just unadulterated beneficence.

One thing I think normies would support (after all This) is some kind of anti-corruption federal agency with a flashy name and hyperbolic daily pressers about going after everyone in the Trump orbit. Folks would tune in and pay attention.

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."

wtf

And there's the motive.

I fear we are about to learn that Americans are fine with war crimes.

Pete Hegseth is a sadistic serial killer.

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Democrats need to be demanding a select committee on DOGE and promising to do that when they take either House.

lol there’s a right wing national security account that I follow for shits and giggles and he’s sweatinnnn because now people know he’s from south asia and not the US hahahaha

world-historical subhed

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

I really, really strongly encourage you to watch Aaron's clips of the Trump-Mamdani meeting, not just read his recaps. This is a totally different Trump than we ever normally see. It's wild to see him like this—and Mamdani is the one who brought it out in him. There's a lesson here.

which etsy witch did Mamdani hire for this spell

Mark Kelly: "It was just two months ago that Charlie Kirk was assassination and Trump talked about political violence. And now his instinct is to call for our execution."