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Welcome to the weirdest week of the holiday decorating season, wherein 1/3 of the neighbors are still rocking Halloween decorations, another 1/3 immediately replaced them on 11/1 with Fall/Thanksgiving decorations, and a handful have already moved onto putting up Christmas decorations.

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

A wonderfully cogent piece by @elienyc.bsky.social that does a great job explaining in plain English why Thomas' approach to jurisprudence isn't just casual partisan hackery but an existential threat to the foundations of how the SC is supposed to function. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I guarantee that Pete "Warrior Ethos" Hegseth is the type of guy that's too embarrassed to buy tampons for his wife or daughters because he thinks it's "unmanly."

Conservatives' suggestion that comedy shows need to add right-leaning staff writers to make their jokes more "fair" completely misunderstands what's happening. The problem is isn't writer bias; comedy writers will happily skewer ANYONE for doing something dumb. See, e.g., SNL's treatment of Biden...

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

Also anyone on the right who thinks Kimmel's cancellation is fine because it's just "owning a Hollywood lib" should understand that it doesn't just punish Kimmel, it puts an entire staff/crew out of a job, and, despite what Fox News tells you, plenty of below-the-line crew types are Trump supporters

If there's any silver lining to the ABC/Kimmel debacle, I'm hoping that it's that it helped some people finally understand why capitalism's amoral emphasis on placing shareholder value on an altar above all else is not a great tenet on which to base a democracy.

I hate to link to CVLT Nation since their shtick is largely just bulk re-posting other people's content without permission, but this cache of materials from PROPAGANDA magazine is so fun to revisit. I'm pretty sure I have a number of these issues still stashed away in a box in the closet somewhere.

If you don't have at least five nicknames for your dog in addition to their actual name, can you honestly even call yourself a dog owner?

I hate that a significant contributing factor to the failure of American democracy is Democrats' unrelenting need to be liked by everyone.

The United States is the only place on earth where poor people shun unions, free healthcare, and free education because the rich tell them to.

Friends, I'm BEGGING you, do NOT take materials from people you hire to provide you w/services and upload them to ChatGPT for feedback & then expect your service provider to respond to that.

i have also asked openai to "show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" and i'm sorry but this is worth every single lake i evaporated.

one thing that's making me feel particularly insane lately is how there is no longer any limit to the amount of wrong you can be

There is a a Black-owned bookstore in Las Vegas. It is called Analog Bookstore. Please support! #Blacksky

Not that the existence of Elon Musk doesn't definitively prove this every day, but if you need it here's another great reminder that the fact someone is very rich or is a high-level corporate executive doesn't mean they're smart.

Heyyyyy. I could really use some sales so I put my shop on sale. Everything is 15% off and lots of items have free shipping. Everything is handmade/hand-painted. Surly.etsy.com If you could share this it would also help me. #ceramics #art

I think most people severely underestimated how much fascism and kleptocracy would triumph through the surrender and default of forces that should have opposed it.

The nation's fifth most populous county, San Diego, just chose its political future today—and appears to have chosen to have a Democratic local government—and it's crickets everywhere. Quite the eye-popping example of the NY/East-Coast-bias of how elections get covered.

If this isn't remembered as the darkest Supreme Court term in American history it will only be because there's no America left to remember it.

I just want someone to love me as much as the New York Times loves giving real estate to Our Foremost Promoter of Race Science

For anyone who is still hanging on to the ridiculous idea that ACB is some kind of secretly moderate swing-vote-saint: slate.com/news-and-pol...

“OMG they’re rioting in L.A.!!” Meanwhile, in the beautiful landscape that is Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles. 💙

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.

I guess Andrew Yang thinks "common sense" = nothing?

The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

Thrilled to learn from DOJ's argument that the 14th Amendment applied to the "children of former slaves, not illegal immigrants, who didn't exist as a class yet" that modern firearms are not protected by the Second Amendment!

If someone is arguing against due process, just ask them if they believe someone is innocent until proven guilty. It's the same thing.

I know what's happening in America and to the American economic seems scary right now, but it will be totally worth a second Great Depression and the total destruction of American hegemony if it stops Joe Biden from casting a trans athlete of color as the next live-action Disney princess.

Who did this?

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

Absolutely bonkers insane to think that we live in a world where there is a non-zero chance that we could end up fighting WWIII with the U.S. taking Russia's side.

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

If you have not won an election in a year that starts with a 2, I beg of you: Shut the fuck up.

Seriously though, why is every dog rescue organization on Earth run by nightmare people?

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

Sorry anti-AI bandwagonists, but counting fingers or duplicate faces isn't the tell/own you think it is. You know who else isn't great at making sure there aren't missing or extra limbs and other artifacts in images? Human Photoshop compositors, who have been making these same mistakes for decades.

Brought to you by the producers of "DEI results in unqualified hires in positions of power" and "unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats working for federal agencies are America's worst problem."

Hot on the heels of my last post, I guess add Andy Kim to disappointingly short list of Dem lawmakers who are doing more than staring into their own belly buttons while the world burns.

Seriously, where have the Dems (meaning party leaders/lawmakers, not voters) been the last 2 weeks? The only 2 I've seen say ANYTHING re: democracy's dismantling are Bernie & AOC. The others seem to think furrowing their brows @ unqualified cabinet appointees during confirmation hearings is enough.

I'm sympathetic creators who make their livelihood on TikTok and who are now scrambling to figure out what they're going to do next. At the same time, I hope this is a lesson for everyone else that building a business that relies ENTIRELY on the existence of third party is a terrible business model.