"i miss being a kid" is the complimentary pairing of "everyone is twelve"

The problem with this “sacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.

MrBeast competition to see who can make it through the Strait of Hormuz

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a whole lot of things. It’s like Brazil had a baby with Sorry to Bother You. It’s like that Sam Rockwell monologue from White Lotus was about social media. It’s like you asked AI to critique itself and it could only do it in a ham fisted metaphor. It’s good.

Happy Mario day!

don’t cancel me for saying this but Nobody should be assaulted in prison. Not even Harvey Weinstein Listen listen! The point of rights isn’t to protect people who we like. The main point of rights is to protect people who we don’t like from our own worst instincts

This is unabashedly true

If only there was another war I could think of in recent memory involving the US in the Middle East, where regime change was promised, didn’t happen, victory was declared and then the whole thing was repeated catastrophically badly at a later date. 🤔

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someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

So we're all smarter than the Bank of America securities head of US Equity and Quantitative Strategy?

I know this seems bad, but at least the legislature took the time to allocate millions of dollars to a sports stadium remodel. www.opb.org/article/2026...

America's fascist right has pulled a 180 and is selling the idea that expensive gasoline is a good thing. Americans have failed a lot of intelligence tests in the last decade. This is another one.

Stop 👏 having 👏 unrealistic 👏 body 👏 standards 👏 for 👏 camels 👏

When I break the law regularly I immediately call my friends in media to let know know about my compulsions.

You must embrace taxes. You must love taxes. Taxes are the price of civilization. Adopt a tax. Make @jdcmedlock.bsky.social proud.

This is a reason why "affordability" is a trap for the foolish or perhaps unambitious: it's completely untargeted and begets untargeted solutions. "Stuff is too expensive so we're gonna 'let you keep your money' to buy more expensive stuff."

I talk to people outside.

In similar vein, “May he” sounds so much harder than “I hope he.” “I hope he never has another good night of sleep in his life”: wishful, impotent, meaningless “May he sleep but fitfully evermore”: a literal curse

Gavin Newsom is not going to earn the transgender vote Instead of yelling at transgender people, you can take one of two actions: 1. you can wager that your preferred candidate can win without the transgender vote or 2. you can use the two years ahead of you find a better candidate to promote

“White” homeland will always need nonwhites as servants and workers. What it can’t have is equality under the law. That’s the “homeland” they’re looking for.

he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something

posts u make when things r definitely going well

Gonna be even cooler to watch the EXACT same people who wouldn't stop whining about high gas prices under Biden take time to explain how gas rationing isn't an indicator of any fuckups whatsoever

The motto of the modern tech industry is "You can just do things to people"

The answer to this is no. The reason is that when rural folk think cities they think Black people. And they couldn’t possibly be being subsidized by Black people.

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

Does anyone in Oregon do tax policy boot camps, such that if I want to be able to make tax policy suggestions I can join a cohort and become smarter about them? I feel like that’s an area of weakness in local advocacy spaces.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

It feels like we are a decade or less from US politicians insisting that all of the hemisphere is theirs, and European Reich adherents doing the same to Africa. The transformation to imperial ethnonationalism divorced even from pretenses of democratic rights for minorities has a lot of momentum.

If progressive voters are the make or break demographic to winning national elections then national politicians should be held to account for betraying progressive values. Instead of blaming progressives for failing Kamala, reverse it. Same for Newsom or Emmanuel or whoever the DNC picks in 2028.

Portland is not a progressive city. It is a historically white reactionary city which for a time took some strides to advance racial justice out of guilt and shame versus genuine care. It was all disingenuous. Many whites turned on communities of color they spent ~15 years pretending to cherish.

Emmanuel Damas just died in ICE custody. He was repeatedly denied basic medical care and died of sepsis. This loss is unconscionable – and entirely preventable. His family deserves accountability. This rogue agency cannot be reformed, it must be abolished.

I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn

This is important because it clarifies that electeds can share factual information with one another and through intermediaries. Under our current system, effective governance is hamstrung by unworkable rules.

Hegseth had to get rid of all those guys who'd been indoctrinated with gay woke soy ideologies like "don't do dumb things that lose wars".

Slowly realizing we live in the Hunger Games and Israel is District 1

> @benstiller.redhour.com

This is essentially a tax on everyone so our president and his friends can murder more children

The Third Reich never did this stuff in WWII, but the Fourth Reich is making it standard practice in WWIII to kill unarmed people outside of the theater of war. You can’t put this cat back in this bag. Unarmed Americans are far less safe because of this.

DID YOU KNOW that the City of Portland extracts $10 million a year from downtown property owners in order to partially subsidize the city’s most active lobbying org?

Everyone's 12

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety. venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars. child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me. mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed. mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

Out: Data Center Data Farm Processor Warehouse Server Cluster In: Slop Factories Waste Generators Death Straws Brain Tainters Feed Worseners Job Compactors

This should be hideously embarrassing for Mayor Wilson and the "shelter bed cardboard novelty thermometer" community but I'm starting to think they do not experience shame.