to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

One thing AI will never be able to replicate is an image of a woman with large breasts.

1. Administration of 12-year-olds. 2. Content-driven admin in it for the cruelest lulz. 3. Misogynists who believe women should literally belong to them. 4. And obviously, super fucking racist.

The current Supreme Court of the Unites States isn’t just “partisan.” SCOTUS has been captured. It is no longer adhering to the Constitution or the rule of law.

… and he SERVED ✨

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

from a state party director

It's really frustrating that a lot of the media just sort of frames the Trump admin as "wading into a hot debate over trans issues that have roiled american politics" when it's like, clear that they are motivated by a desire to demean trans people

This is beyond infuriating.

They are just. Such. Assholes.

I don’t actually, but just a little, I wish for the confidence of one of these 6–3 Supreme Court justices, who think they are supreme rulers of all the land and can just make any old decision they feel like.

The way I feel about corporate mergers in my line of work is best expressed by the tagline on the Alien Vs Predator poster

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

They could have just shorten those two paragraphs to 14 words tbh

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

Why does the tent need to include billionaires? They’re bad, and we should take back our wealth from them.

expanding the court is the moderate position

It's not just liberal judges they're doing this to. They're doing this to plenty of conservative judges too; judges who actually spent weeks and weeks poring over the details and with their arms deep in the guts of thousands of pages of documents and days of testimony. Those judges are pissed.

Frustratingly, alarmingly well put.

Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.

Right. Not enough folks have been reiterating that no drug running boat would have 11 people on board.

The first strike was murder. The second strike was more murder. That’s it. The US is not at war with Venezuela (or Colombia, where that boat was actually from). So it’s not a war crime, just a heinous regular crime.

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

We should take it.

Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers.

His politics are so inscrutable.

You know what sucks to be experienced at? Getting laid off.

"Their expertise ranges from ordering war crimes to covering up sex crimes to engaging in all manner of financial criminality. They’re a diverse bunch, from tough guys outfitted in combat gear and masks, to smooth operators in tuxedoes who mingle at state dinners." www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

But is he single?!

This is all true but 1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law 2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

Beauty in our humanity.

OAN: “Sir, are you perhaps TOO healthy?”

Bad news for cars, I guess, but great news for people!

Trump is a maximally corrupt dipshit who does crime, what’s the contradiction

I think it’s pretty telling that we all know what a corrupt cop is like, but none of us would ever imagine a corrupt firefighter.

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

I wish all International Organizations Attempting to Arrest Pete Hegseth for Murder a very He Was Killed While Attempting Escape.

Reckless.

It’s bad writing, but I do look forward to hearing it read aloud in a courtroom.

Hagueseth

I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?