Starmer: This is proof we need to double down on bigotry.

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

*Sigh* Since the idiots running the world clearly learn everything they know from video games, national security demands the next generation of FPS games have titles like Call of Duty: Mobility Officer and Battlefield: Military Checkpoint (special edition with bonus SITREP missions).

Man, the campaign ads just write themselves! The only trick will be to tie whoever presents themselves as his successor to him.

How I arrived on Bluesky.

Wow, I had, like, perfect timing this year. Now to get to Poland before it becomes a war zone.

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Trump, 11/1/24 “I’m not going to start a war, I’m going to stop wars.” - Trump, 11/5/24

“Only I can unify the people by appealing to their essential bigotry. And anyone who can’t get on board with that is promoting divisive, factional politics.” How is this man the worst, most racist PM of my lifetime?

Every primary ad should just be vids of Trump mocking Dems as Rs cheer wildly with closeups of the senator up for reelection just soaking it up like an empty vessel. Rile up the base, show exactly what kind of behavior they are being primaried for, and warn others what we expect from them in future.

Too Many McClellans.

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

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.

Sounds like I made a good decision to update my voting address!

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Social Democrats want commonsense reform for the SA: End the roving patrols and racial profiling. Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police. Armbands need to come off, beatings need to be toned down—no secret police in the the Republic of Germany. I’m sure that’ll work.

It's 410 CE, and I'm your podcast host, Rossus Douthaticus. I'm here with Alaric the Visigoth, who recently sacked the Eternal City. Alaric, why do you think people have lost faith in Rome? Is it a crisis of liberalism? Is it because of the feminization of the workplace?

Niche memes = best memes

“Can you direct me to where the outside agitators organizing your terror cell are so I can help them, fellow libs?” - A totally normal (not ICE infiltrator) activist

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

have said it before but I’ll say it again: believing in evil in our secular age is a radical proposition. that’s partially why it feels unbelievable to see what you’re seeing. ICE and its enablers are evil, and if you are on the side of the good you have a responsibility to stop them

according to the constitution, trump is not the legitimate president. we need to start thinking about what that will mean as we retake power. and mamdani? mamdani shows us how. www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

What we need is a future where the press starts pointing this out. Their lack of urgency is damning.

MAGA: We need to reestablish the dominance of the white race. White women: leave your jobs and have babies. Also MAGA: We will now drive any families with young children into grinding poverty for the sake of owning the libs. I can’t imagine why this plan isn’t working. 🤔 #incompetentfascists

tfw you forgot to register the domain name, and someone else snatched it.

Bird Hunted To Near Extinction Due To Infuriating 'Fuck You' Call

Actually one of the few cases where dystopian tech spreading false information seems appropriate. Should have leaned into it and made it a viral marketing thing: customized lies for everyone!

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

There are specific reasons Trumpists want war on Venezuela, but there‘s a generic one: they crave power to make war on anyone, any time, for completely fabricated reasons, and then to use the guise of war to increase violence and repression everywhere, including home. They are lawless bestial scum.

It really is staggering to me how every Republican presidency this millennium has resulted in economic failures that Dems need to clean up. Even more staggering is that Dems haven’t found a way to message this effectively because they too regard Republicans as the pro-business party.

Great stuff from some very insightful people.

Shiiiiii-

Dick Cheney would be loving this

Spot the problems in this chart. I’ll wait. No, you missed one. Plus that one there. And maaaaybe something’s questionable about those numbers.

#nokings New Haven

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

“After scheduling a meeting with Democratic leaders in the hopes of preventing a shutdown, the president changed his mind for reasons that were bonkers.” Love to see papers saying it like it is. Nice as it is to have Trump gift Dems a spine I worry it will prevent them from learning needed lessons.

This is how upside down the world is: Bedbug himself is more on point with regards to Charlie Kirk than Ezra Klein.

Hey, wanna guess what vitally important event in the mid 1960s doesn’t get even a mention for explaining the loss of white Democratic voters (particularly Southern ones)? Funny that. It’s almost like Democratic losses are just an excuse for pundits to preserve their place in the status hierarchy.

This says it all about the shallowness of the pundit class. So long as you are polite when talking they will take you at face value, even if everything else you do violates your supposed values. Kirk was no free speech warrior. He just played one when it benefitted him. He knew no one would check.

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments. An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

I put up examples of Trump and Musk reposting Neonazi accounts/memes and students reported me for bias. Judging people by who they associate with and what they actually do rather than what people would like to believe about them and how slick their TikTok videos are is so 20th century.

I worry about this one because it seems a certainty when so many other abuses are unclear. But we have to remember how many voting districts there are and how few ICE agents comparatively. They will rely on uncertainty to terrorize voters. We need to make that terrorism enrage us instead.

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

oh, you know it. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Really hard to tell what these targets of Trumps attacks and smears have in common Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

wow that’s fucked up that they killed everyone who didn’t complete the scavenger hunt