this is my political affiliation now

"Assistant, buy the pants with my MasterCard." IM SORRY I DIDNT CATCH THAT "Assistant, buy the pants. With the MasterCard." EXCELLENT CHOICE. BUYING PLANTS WITH THE MASTERCARD "No. Cancel!" IM SORRY I D- "Assistant, cancel!" THE PLANTS WILL BE HERE TUESDAY EVER THOUGHT ABOUT KILLING YOURSELF

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

There is no evidence that breaking up the MMR shot would make the immunization safer or more effective. The reason why the acting CDC director wants to separate the MMR shot is to discourage people from getting vaccinated by creating larger hurdles.

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

Interesting use of the passive voice you've got there, CNN..

There is not a single example in American history of a president doing something like this: having a secret agenda that's incredibly, unbelievably unpopular, spending the entire campaign pretending it's fake, and then, upon winning, going "psyche!" and not just embracing it, but expanding on it.

At some point while writing "the law unequivocally says he can't, but he wants to do it anyway, so its unclear" did you stop and reflect on what you just wrote or nah? Did you think, when you wanted to be a journalist as a kid, it meant stenographer for a wannabe tyrant king?

Who needs healthcare when you can have a terminator? ('terminator' being a text generator that may lead your citizens to commit suicide)

Was going to respond adjacent with 'things that are bad now', I want movie storylines to be smarter - but I want less tech in them.

[sitting in a conference call in south carolina] “quarterly billings need to—“ “oh fuck” “…sorry? billing issue?” “oh no no, i just found out i’m currently an active shooter in montana” “let’s put a pin in that & circle back.” “i should actually drop, but have copilot surface me action items”

Having a morning doing the most basic of internet searches, then coming on here to see just endless enshitification news. The internet's usefulness is on life support and I don't think it's gonna make it through the bubble.

I can't believe our taxes are paying for our military to attack us, and every mayor, congress person, and governor isn't yelling about what we need our taxes to pay for.

They're literal toy soldiers, little green army men. I don't know which is worse: if he was intentionally doubling down on the calculated insult of this whole show, or if it genuinely didn't occur to him why "ha ha I get to play with my toy soldiers" isn't an ideal sartorial message in this context.

Sure, Americans are totally willing to go back to eating seasonally. Everyone knows that the average American is flexible like that, like they haven't spent decades living in unprecedented abundance where they can have peaches in January and freshly dug potatoes in March.

For anyone arguing that the Big Ugly Bill “didn’t cut ACA tax credits:” Sen. Ossoff introduced an amendment to extend them as part of the BBB. The Senate GOP shot the amendment down. So yes, they damned well *did* vote AGAINST extending them.

This is demonstrably pathetic and a sign of true weakness. The Feds lack the numbers to do what they want to do. They can hurt, yes, but not at the authoritarian scale that (de facto President) Miller desires. So they go for the media-bait illusions of power. Like this. Profoundly weak flex.

Remember: there are more CPD cops than all of ICE. There are more NYPD cops than all of the FBI. The US Attorney offices have a fraction of the lawyers vs counties they are in. Federalism isn’t just a legal shield: it is a STRUCTURAL one. The Fed law enforcement machine is STRUCTURALLY weak.

They're all there, they might just as well coup him.

Your health care bill is about to explode. The notices will start arriving next month. A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000. Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up. We need to fix this. Now.

The thing I don't get is - there's a lot of people saying Trump had it removed. I believe it. I believe he saw news of it and had it removed. Why are they not limiting his news? While his sycophants still remove it.

Don’t perform at the Trumpified Kennedy Center. newrepublic.com/post/200889/...

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

You know what they call the people who joined the resistance because they believe it is in their financial best interest, rather than because they care about freedom or democracy? They call them the resistance.

If you want to cancel Disney, but are reluctant to do so because your kids like to watch one or more of its shows, then this is an opportunity for you to step up and be a good parent. Explain to them why you are cancelling it. Teach them about doing the right thing. Kids are smarter than you think.

Imma just block anyone that posts memes or comments with memes. You're not discoursing. We're not learning anything. Go to Facebook.

Couldn't cut it in the Marines so you became a hired goon who wears Temu multicam

A chant you guys should try some time is "Airsoft LARPers, Airsoft LARPers"

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

What the hell are they buying? No seriously, what do they buy that's more expensive than say a whole population of a midsized city's expenditure?

So everyone that is upset about this fascist capitulation could boycott Disney and derivative properties. People won't because they'd rather post about being sad and then keep on consuming. Maybe write to them to let them know? No? Just post 'so sad' comments instead?

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week. Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition. The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

Ring wing grifters screaming to kill the left, while getting shot by their own right wing extremists, until there's only a few left, still baying for leftist blood. All of them scared and unhappy and never bothering to take the shortest of time and introspection to understand why.

This is what I want from my reps or I don't want them at all, tbh

Every single social justice concept — safe spaces, intersectionality, microaggressions, representation — is embraced by the right when they talk about men or whites or straights.

If institutions showed a modicum of unified resistance to these dipshits this administration would crumble into dust. Instead they’ve decided to get rolled once per month in the hopes that they’ll get some table scraps

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald."

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

I hope I have given fidelity, and that everyone viscerally understands: You will have to come through me.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

It feels like it needs to be rewarded in kind to meet their level. Every company, every person mourning the death of someone that was so immoral and full of hate I saw someone liken him to David Duke. They are celebrating the dishonorable life of a David Duke. A life without honor That can't stand

I would pay good money for a journalistic outlet to cover other news outlets and just be like, 'Look at these dumb c*nts. They can't even remotely have integrity or be professional.'. The egos that would be shaking in rage.

Maybe @annabetts.bsky.social could ask the editor to update the headline to reflect, rather than just add a note that no one will read? You know, the false headline which is the only thing 85% of people read?

It feels like we’re flying the flags at half mast for David Duke or something. It’s enraging.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

SM is odd in current times. Loads of people putting in work to make screenshots being 'look at this hypocrisy!' What a waste of time. We know. They will never see it in this bubble. Post links to contact them, to contact the media, their bosses, and complain. Waste of energy otherwise.

So there's been multiple young male extremist assassination attempt and murders of well-known GOP extremist figures. Maybe... they should be terrified of their own people. It's only going to accelerate. The amount of noise the press is making about Kirk? That's gonna inspire loads of these men.

I've learned more about class solidarity in the past 24 hours than I did in the previous 24 years.