As usual, I agree with President Obama. Even if done against people I think should be charged with crimes, the president should not be able to interfere with charging decisions.

Like I don't want to dismiss how life can be hard in 2026, but the past just sucked at a level that almost everyone in this era would find shockingly intolerable

Boooooo

I dunno if this is a spicy take, but I find firing squad significantly less offensive than lethal injection.

We have noticed a very pixelated version of this image kicking around. Here's a better quality one. Were you there for this photoshoot on 2nd Ave nearly 20 years ago?

Bike lanes are for people who are afraid of biking through traffic more than they are for serious cyclists.

In addition to all the other reasons the world is terrible, one reason nothing sells for $1 anymore is some CC processing fees have a fixed fee per transaction of ~$0.30 (sometimes more, sometimes less) plus a percentage. That's one of many reasons it doesn't work to sell $1 worth of anything.

Does anyone have a link or a timestamp for just this part?

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Person who is two steps removed from a criminal must also be a criminal is always a bad take.

I think probably the one misconception that bothers me about bike lanes is that people assume they are for those who bike...when really they are for those who are too scared to bike.

Has this dog gotten a medal yet?

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This is becoming so common that the no bill laureate jokes are getting stale.

Yeah I agree with this Radical proposal. Follow up, I wonder if we could all agree that it's not okay to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law?

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

Exvangelicals are some of the most interesting people

Feel bad for anyone cracking under the strain, AUSAs are people too... ...but this does strike me as one of those "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win" moments.

Wtf uhhhh will someone please tell Dr. King about opsec?????? Hello???

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

If the first fish to flop onto land had just gone back instead of adapting to life on land, Trump wouldn't be president. Therefore, everything bad that happens is that fish's fault. 1/39

Sad but true

I don't know what her religious views were and of course that's not the point, but this is what actual Christian martyrdom looks like.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

Make it viral.

OK - now at US v. Nicolas Maduro presentment in SDNY, in Venezuela narco case 1st indicted in 2011, Maduro added in 2020, wife Cilia Flores added last week. Inner City Press has covered it all, including in UN until banned, and will live-skeet, thread below

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. Nobody cares why.

The windchill here is -4 degrees and I’m waiting for the bus. As I blink through the ice shards blowing into my eyeballs at 30 mph, I think about how glad I am they took the bus shelter down. At least the unhoused will have cause to reflect on how little they contributed to the economy.

Our own propaganda was so powerful it has echoed through generations and seeded discontent into the population 75 years later as we compare ourselves to a world that never existed

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

You're supposed to be satire, Onion. STAY IN YOUR LANE actual reporting isn't a good look for you

among other things, I'm just so sick of candidates like Platner, Biden, John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, who fucking know they have skeletons that cannot possibly win a campaign with and are willing to sacrifice all of us on their own arrogance and delusions that nobody will notice

This is the least bad explanation of recent revaluations. There are many plausible explanations that are much worse.

Baltimore No Kings Dance Party IN EFFECT

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright: "I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you." This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

"A second guy in a frog suit has joined the protest"

The middle of a fascinating story about being in an airport

Generally speaking, everything is way more complicated and requires more resources to work than most people realize. Healthcare, sewage, power grids, etc. Content moderation of any group larger than maybe 1000 people is also very hard. For some reason most people think it's easy.

The second amendment was written so that locally controlled militia could defend themselves against overreach like this.

Let them eat cake

3 ways you can make noise about the shutdown if you have a GOP Member of Congress. 1) Find where they publicly said Dems want healthcare for illegals [sic] and--in the most aggrieved voice possible--berate them for claiming their constituents who rely on ACA are not real Americans.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

CARTOON OF THE DAY (Updated Version)

Proportional representation by state in the House of Representatives could reduce partisan animosity, enable meaningful 3rd parties, and mostly kill gerrymandering with one relatively simple constitutional amendment and without totally restructuring American government. 1/2

Administration : we can either ask the entire journalist profession to become stasi mouthpieces or we can ask Pete Hegseth to stop conducting airstrikes in signal group chats with his wife Administration : so the answer was obvious

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."