Once again ugly crying into my coffee

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

Anyway. We are paying like hell for our car culture. Insurance, cars, car maintenance, road upkeep, the incessant road widening which SHOULD NEVER EVER HAPPEN AGAIN. I do not want it. I want trains and public transit. I would GLADLY get rid of cars. But here we are.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

all the AI slop out there makes me want the most aggressively analog stories out there. like I want a one-of-a-kind homemade zine someone tucked into a baggie in the hollow of a tree, and I want that zine to include a shitty hand drawn map to a treasure it may or may not take 30 years to find

"I can help some people" GO TELL YOUR WHITE SONS... THIS IS YOUR HERO!

Adds something to my bookmarks knowing full well that I will never see it again

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

There is a distinction that’s important between “I don’t care about the Epstein files because all the evidence that Trump is an abuser is already on the table,” and “I don’t care about rape and gendered domination because the only war is class war.”

Counterpoint: what did Jessica Winter do to deserve this New Yorker headline?

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

My incredibly normie suburban white boomer mom just described herself as a Democratic Socialist on the phone and I threw four punches into the air like the hero of a 1980s teen romance.

The headline about Spanberger's blowout victory in VA--along with the Dems romping in the House of Delegates--is that transphobia really doesn't work as an electoral secret weapon. And this fact needs to set in, despite the dearest wishes of the most ossified members of the commentariat.

“Inside you there are two wolves” get real. I have at least 6 wolves in here. I contain multitudes.

You love to see Cuomo lose.

Quick please someone in NYC post the people cheering and making out in bars for the rest of us living vicariously through you.

Happy Zohran Day to all who celebrate!!

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

SNAP is not the reason your taxes are high. SNAP recipients don’t need to “just go get a job”. Most of them work. The rest are disabled, elderly, children or caregivers. People need & deserve assistance Your taxes fund wars and tax cuts for the ultra rich Be mad about that

One contribution I can make to the “is Graham Platner” working class discourse is that “artisanal first-generation oyster farmer” is a dog whistle to anyone who’s spend any time in agriculture that you’ve got 💰

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now

At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries

Centrist extremists, man. They don't care where they move, they care only that they remain moveable. They say they wish to persuade, but their only tactic is to be persuaded.

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

I have two cents to share about the Epstein files, and it’s that we wouldn’t need the files released if this were a society that valued women and their accounts. If you’re willing to entertain victim’s statements as credible, you don’t need some epistemological authority to release a list of names.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:

You're all being ridiculous but by all means do not stop. If the posts get to a high enough pitch, they'll drag him out for a public appearance where they have to hide all the tubes sticking out of him

Trump does a thing, democrats call it a distraction. No they are all the thing. We’re under attack. Fight all the things.

I think the Us may need to shut itself down, wait, and then start up again. A reboot. It can’t hurt.

The despair hath taken me

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

No where near enough people voraciously read historical fiction as adolescents, and the consequences are like cholera in the watering hole.

Think the available tools for fighting injustice are inadequate? Wait until you don’t have any tools at all.

If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness

Editorial | The Times has concluded that the Epstein client list does not meet our standards of newsworthy journalism, and thus we will not be covering it. Unless it turns out that Zohran Mamdani is on that list.

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s. Pick a damn lane.

You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in

it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act

Parentheses! Em dashes! Comma splices! Semicolons! Welcome to ADHD Grammar (since every thought comes with exciting bonus content), friends!

The Black Death wiped out 40% of the population of Europe, but it also led to significantly higher wages within a generation. Could Trump's megabill have the same effect here in America?