Minivans rule. The most practical cars on the road. The Millennium Falcon of autos. "She may not look like much but she's got it where it counts, kid."

Seahawks fan here and I need somebody to explain how the 49ers just keep winning games when like half their roster is dead

Clearly this idiot didn't see the ol' "bounce a backwards two point conversion pass off the other team's helmet and pick it up off the ground in the end zone" coming smdh

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social so u taking early retirement or what

I had no idea exports were such a big part of their business and yeah, they're *screwed* screwed. Go anywhere in Latin America these days and like half the new cars are BYDs and Geelys

Gonna stab the bad guys with the flag like Mel Gibson in The Patriot

AI watch: my 5th grader is doing a school report on armor for batters (batting helmets, elbow guards etc.) and he's been asked how he would use AI. He says he won't because he asked AI what the armor is for and it told him the armor protects batters from being hit in the knee with a strawberry.

"In a brief order, the conservative majority argued... that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election" They play this card a lot but they're all over the place as to when it is or isn't too close. Is there a clear deadline or is it vibes?

Oh no, there goes all of our cocaine!

Supposedly, AI increases productivity. Put yourself in the shoes of a CEO. You need your employee to write an email. He uses ChatGPT. Now you have an email (probably full of mistakes), but also your perfectly capable employee is turning into a dumbass. Where's the productivity increase?

Compromise: $10k Chinese electric cars like the rest of the world gets to buy, then add wood paneling

IDF troops have gone out of their way to record themselves laughing while they commit atrocities, setting the videos to dance music, and putting them on TikTok for everyone to see

Too disinterested to explore this further but is the argument that the only white people in America are in the midwest?

If I ran a cartel and was looking to launder money, I can’t think of a better investment than “condos funded via untraceable transactions and managed by gullible nerds with zero common sense and more money than God and a good friend in the White House who has taken our money in the past” 28/31

For comparison, the Empire State Building has an estimated worth of $1.7B so apparently Prospera’s shitty condo is worth more than six Empire State Buildings 25/31 www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/...

BTW here is a Google Maps satellite photo of Prospera from this year, and a picture of the only building of any size in Prospera. The argument is that this isolated shitty condo is somehow worth $11B. 24/31

What’s really disheartening is that the Prospera goons started complaining right away and Biden’s people were leaning on the Honduran government to give them what they want. Trump’s definitely worse but this kind of attitude towards Latin America is fairly bipartisan 22/31

Free trade agreements typically include an Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in which any company that thinks new national policies will cut into future profits can sue the country for those lost (?) profits, in front of an arbitration board made up of corporate lawyers with no appeal 19/31

You have cartels looking to launder their money via crypto and real estate, and Trump doing a Clay Davis and wanting to be a player in all these various scams, and Juan Orlando Hernandez making it all happen. Good times for everyone involved 16/31

Trump knows all about cartels laundering money via real estate, of course, because he was getting cartel money in his Panama development. Plus he was selling condos to various crooks from Russia and everywhere else. He was fine with whoever paid him. 13/31 globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Prospera is in Honduras because in 2009 a coup installed a far right, reactionary, brutal government which stripped the country for parts. They set up what are called ZEDE zones which were places where businesses could just do what they want. Prospera is one of these. 5/31

Some of the Prospera guys also want to build floating cities in international waters. The weirder Silicon Valley prophets love it. Prospera had a talk a while back about “making death optional,” which, whatever, but if you’re into the blood of the young it probably sounds cool. 4/31

Good thread connecting Trump to the Sinaloa cartel, although I suspect the Hernandez pardon is more likely a Peter Thiel joint than a Sinaloa joint. Trump almost certainly has Sinaloa cash in his accounts though 1/31🧵 bsky.app/profile/kell...

Even leaving aside murder we can ruin anything. One of my more eye-opening realizations was that individual Buddhist monks in Nepal could be a bunch of petty bitches gossiping behind each other's backs about who's chanting wrong or who's using the wrong incense. It's just how we roll, I guess

This is madness. During the pandemic up to today, nursing shortages led to bed shortages led to people dying in the ER. It's one of the largest barriers to getting care. (Also this is definitely RFK flavored, given that chiropractors and osteopaths are still classified as professionals)

Good piece by @joshtpm.bsky.social on AI being hated by everyone. One thing missing: it's pretty clear that when the bubble they've created bursts and takes the economy down with it, the AI investors will demand a 2008-style bailout, and they'll get it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-po...

Holy crap this isn't a joke

I'm actually angry at how good this title is

The Primitive Root Weiners

Jesus, the guy's doing drive-bys now

Oh this is the good stuff

The St. Georges hotel in Beirut, only the spies are a bunch of the most annoying people on the planet

When I'm president we're getting the Master and Commander sequel, so help me God

America's elite impunity problem in a nutshell. RHCP released this record during the Reagan administration, suffered no consequences, and to this day are releasing records with names like "Return of the Dream Canteen" that go to #1. The Elliott Abrams of rock bands.

This whole thread is phenomenal but this part really sticks out for me. In American history, has there ever been a case where a federal judge puts, in writing, "this federal law enforcement agency is entirely full of shit and I don't believe anything they say"?

A LOT to unpack here (and in the similarly awful "young Jews think genocide is bad for everybody!" talk at the same conference) but both speakers are perplexed about people seeing videos of Israeli atrocities and I mean, if Israel wasn't doing what it's doing then there wouldn't be any videos?

Um, guys... Also, Elon Musk managing to fumble what was damn near a monopoly position at the same moment that the market boomed around the globe has to be one of the biggest screwups in the history of commerce, no?

OK so this is just piracy—ambulance rides in Spokane had a base cost of $975 in 2021 and will have a base cost of $5275 next year. This is per AMR, the private equity-owned company that handles 95% of ambulance transports in the county 1/ www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com had a good piece about this a while back; basically once women didn't need a husband to survive, men couldn't just rely on Being Male in order to land a wife. Us dudes need to up our game and some don't want to. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...

Jesus, Chuck Schumer. This is almost enough to make me feel sorry for the poor bastard

The narrator for the Nuzzi audiobook has to be someone who can read the sexy parts in a believable RFK Jr. voice. It's the only way to truly do justice to the story. Suggested template: m.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLq...

(cracks knuckles) better watch out blue cross, here I come

Donald Trump's social media posts were about $2000 worth of entertainment if you think about it

"Oh, you're upset when people show up without permission? You'd like us to help out with that? Huh."

Can't argue with this. Dude was honking better than any of the other ballers.

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

My people got off the boat in America and got citizenship and the attendant legal protections and voting privileges within 24 hours. No passports or visas or background checks or 20 years being undocumented and exploited and hiding from ICE. We should go back to that.

I may be imagining things but I remember watching the news as a kid in the 80s and every now and then seeing some politician or CEO do a perp walk. Savings and loan stuff maybe? Anyway, crime is good business and bribes are speech so we don't do that anymore 1/

I can't see this tonight because it's cloudy but essentially Earth is doing a care bear stare right now

Look, theocracy is generally bad, but this guy seems cool and well-grounded and he knows what moral clarity is and, given the comprehensive failures and cowardice of our ruling class, I'm open to some sort of United Papal States of America with this pope in charge