Hey come check out all the normal folks give a lesson in civic virtue that should make our elected officials retire in shame and dishonor.

Hello from the second Surprise City Council meeting since DHS purchased a large industrial warehouse nearby with plans to convert it into a concentration camp. Public comment begins soon, tune in here if you want to watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT8...

40+ years of technological promises to make education better and the actual best we can do is "get slowly worse at remembering things and reading". We could have spent those billions on making children's lives richer, but we didn't.

"The Ones Who Moved to Omelas because It Was a Good School District"

I'm tired of the lesser evil. These hoes wanna live in Omelas or something? Can't we just have a good candidate who doesn't have a forsaken basement child to prop them up? I just want someone who doesn't chum up to types like Charlie Kirkn't, and wants people to be able to live somewhere.

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

If legacy media reported accurately on Trump then legacy media would have to admit why it currently doesn't. The whole fucking world might burn because a few overly important people haven't the barest shred of decency or humility or shame.

“A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in neutral reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[&] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.” open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

Every part of this is correct, and I absolutely believe that if Democrats don't offer a vision of education for all that is about human dignity and beauty, then Republicans will (rightly) win the battle of public opinion (for a wrong end).

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

People who worked at these jails should go to jail for a term as long as their employment lasted. People who ran these jails should go to jail for life.

Every conceivable "security" argument (which is often just an anti-political argument) can be mitigated or mediated by other elements of the law than immigration restriction.

TAH That Ass Hole

They lie

The problem is not that they're passing, the problem is that we're having to flunk them in high numbers and report them for academic dishonesty and all of it eats time no one has for children who have been handed toys they cannot control or function with or without. This is bigger than grades.

"Nobody hates Christians as much as Christians" - review unit for European history

Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus

"What if our roof was gone? What if there were no more roofs or houses anywhere in the world? What if no one could build any houses? What if there were no roofs or houses on other planets?"

Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time

No Kings includes Draft Kings

What *about* that 5-year-old US citizen? Finish the sentence, Congressman. What does that hypothetical child have to do with Liam Ramos? Spell it out. Don’t just say “but what about our kids” and stop there. Explain your logic.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Sadistic, violent liars.

Watergate, but if someone was killed.

JD being asked about getting booed in Italy

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

1. The Senate shouldn't exist. 2. At 6 years, the Senate term is too long. 3. Trading Chuck Schumer for Chuck E. Cheese would be a massive benefit to the Republic.

more things should be named in this manner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_C...

"Hey man, you see those mountains over there, they totally look like" "GRAND TETONS, OUI"

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

When you’re a miserable shitty person nothing will fix it.

That's not AI; that's a man who refuses to let the fine art of practical effects go to pasture in his stock photo model side job.

My favorite part in the Ken Burns American Revolution series is right at the end when one of the historians says "it's obvious that Thomas Jefferson did not believe that all men are created. But I do"

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Cato Institute exiting its Cato the Younger phase and entering Marcus Cato's ride-or-die to Philippi with Brutus era.

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

“Yeah I’m not doing that,” is an essential part of your civic duty and vocabulary right now.

It’s helpful to have an annoying bard throwing down taunt spells

Please let Stancil back into the Signal chats so he can spend his time annoying ICE and not posting.

People have been shouting for years that no one should be a billionaire, that wealth on that level is personally poison and societally catastrophic, and now we have millions of terribly written emails demonstrating in the clearest terms that every one of those shouts was impossibly correct.

All the stars are here: Brantley Gilbert, Brice Bradley, Gabby Babby, Bibb Glibsy, Slab Gabbert, Brice Bryce,

I had a friend in college get her head stepped on by a small child in a bounce house and she lost the ability to speak aloud in complete sentences for the better part of a semester. Had to do everything by hand in small sessions to avoid strain on her head. Log off, man!

"And when you saw only one set of footprints, that was the Sand People, who walk single file to hide their numbers."