I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

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bill maher has passed away after being made to shut up for five god damn minutes this evening. doctors say the comedian and talk show host likely died of a "broken heart" which they note was "black as coal" and "no bigger than an acorn" though it rolled under a cabinet before measurements were taken

Chesterton, maddeningly, had it right and people like that one have it completely wrong. bsky.app/profile/uber...

my literal first memory is being yelled at for being up late & the only time in my life i didn’t feel exhausted is when i got 8 hours daily, 6am-2pm, during peak pandemic when i couldn’t find work. if you’ve ever said “must be nice” to someone, know that i’ve designed a circle of hell for you.

the mariners just hit a ball over the fence. i'd imagine they have a backup baseball on hand for such occasions

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

Eugenics, by definition, involves humans. If it doesn't involve humans, it isn't eugenics. Meanwhile, selective breeding that doesn't involve humans can sound like eugenics (because it involves principles eugenicists were unscientifically abusing), but be entirely fine.

Essentially we grow up being trained to be cops who think anyone who isn't being productive enough hasn't earned the right to be treated with decency. And if you are working three jobs and still not making ends meet, you're also clearly doing it wrong.

the perfect american president would be an extracted rat brain in a jar hooked up to 4mb of RAM and no long-term storage, capable only of articulating a single priority programmed directly by whichever lobbyist has most-recently paid for a turn at the console. and we are so close to perfection

honestly cannot imagine doing everything required to rise to the very top of the US military brass and then having to fly halfway across the globe to listen to this dipshit lecture you on “the warrior ethos” or whatever the fuck

Pete the ex-minor-Fox-personality does not write history. History will write his epitaph and it will be ugly.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

It's picnic time youtu.be/0yyh2Oslesc?...

The countries where comedians can't tell jokes or mock the leader on late night TV are not really ones you want to live in.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

It’s why there are no good clips of him. Nothing in reality to back up the talk of “free speech activist” that has dominated the conversation around him recently. It is very difficult to find a clip of him saying or doing something that isn’t completely obscene to many Americans’ sensibilities.

So some deaths are funny and other are so serious that people should have their entire lives ruined because they didn’t feel sad about them

wait is jimmy kimmel not the same guy as jimmy fallon

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Honestly big endorser of giving people the same energy in death that they gave us in life

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why are you deploying chaff do you hate me do you hate my missiles

wake me up ~version one point five~ I can't wake up ~version one point five~ save meeee

Really looking forward to a somber bagpipe rendition of YMCA

Donald Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Democrats would say “he only committed murder to distract us from his failure to lower grocery bills for working families.”

Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable. Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater. Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you. www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

“Yes, Dave, I stored every user’s password and credit card number in plain text. I see now that this was an error in judgment”

We absolutely have to stop using Facebook and Twitter to warn the public about things that could kill them - and we need to do whatever it takes to help local and state government break this habit. My latest on Little Flying Robots: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/we-have-to-s...

Anyone @defector.com willing to pick this up, or perhaps a friendly outlet? NYT fed a major attack on NYC candidate Mamdani, sourced from hacked Columbia apps via white nationalist Cremieux, aka Jordan Lasker. Openly admitts a goal to move betting markets and failed www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

All their public-facing debate about whether they would ever use hacked documents, out the window as soon as they sniffed a ghost of a chance to make Zohran Mamdani look bad.

"Now, John at the bar is a total dweeb, and he gives me his lunch money." - Bully Joel

I would say an extremely strong piece of evidence for this is that the first Trump term was a fucking disaster and now he's president again

I think about this constantly. If you can be bullied into being a piece of shit, you already were one.

"Let me get this straight - you want to WIN the most important midterms in history instead of LOSING them???"

Everyone who ever visited Epstein Island assembling like Voltron to support Cuomo

"I cannot understand a text with syntax errors." - some dude who is apparently proud that his cognitive abilities are on par with a C compiler

So if you take as a starting point that they were going to do this-- and again, you should, Trump has all but bellowed it-- we are standing here having experienced the moment and risen to it, so far. The remaining question is: can we keep it up for long enough to win?

Shut up

Lmao

I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.

One in 35 Americans live in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles is America.

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.