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Beaker

Yeah, something like this has to be the real answer. The President can't sue an agency he currently controls, it's ridiculous.

Meme for the nerds about the gerrymandering wars (left is Dems, right is GOP)

At a time when the president is starting wars, sniping boats, taking bribes, gutting vaccines and decimating foreign aid, The Atlantic publishes two (2) articles decrying a New York Times podcast where a Twitch streamer says shoplifting isn't a huge deal.

I think the person I'm most grossed out by here is Weijia Jiang.

When Democrats are in the House majority, we will do real oversight of all illegal strikes, get justice for survivors and those who were killed, and establish guardrails to ensure adherence to international law.

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

I keep hearing otherwise normal people say things like “you know, [sex pest/internet nazi] is wrong on a lot but he’s right on [anodyne thing]” and it’s such a clear symptom of brain poisoning and really demonstrates how effective the Twitter guys have been at force-feeding bigotry to everyone

Love to take a full day off work to feel like I maybe had a half day off.

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

Syphilis is no joke - it can cause long-term neurological problems sooner than you think, it's very difficult to diagnose quickly (making partner notification difficult) and it can make reinfection difficult to diagnose for years (or life). Even for syphilis alone, DoxyPEP is a no-brainer.

the new postal truck is an extreme example, but the fundamental tradeoff between car exterior aesthetics and outward visibility is a very direct one... the black pill here is that a nonzero (though hard to calculate/estimate) number of Americans have literally died in the name of cars looking cool

my supposition is that the authors of such pieces have access to some kind of extra-dimensional technology, whereby our Trump-A can simply be swapped for a Trump-B, seemingly indistinguishable but completely different in character, ideology, and skill.

One out of every five 2024 Trump voters supports impeaching the president, per our new poll out at Strength In Numbers. I was pretty surprised by this level of defection among the president's base. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

truly MAGA is a jobs program for the illiterate

All the "free speech" folks from the last fifteen years have taken the position: "This is bad, but it's the fault of the left for going too far."

When Singal got added to GLAAD's Accountability Project in 2021, Singal was "furious" & started sealioning them. When SPLC added Genspect & SEGM as hate groups in 2024, Singal started sealioning them. Both groups wisely ignored it. My list of Singal's critics: www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

I unironically think that my experience with writing specifications for buildings has been a huge asset with AI coding. Like "you don't get what you want, you get what you put in the contract docs" is in my fucking bones.

If you want to get a sense of how thin the GOP's national security bench is, the 29-year-old CT official at DHS who was suspended for seeking sugar daddies was their first pick.

counterpoint: conservative elites, healthcare execs, etc, are fully aware that they are increasing death and suffering and rarely bother to pretend otherwise

Rufo is the epitome of a bad-faith interlocutor. If you have a tenured position, you’re representative of the fetid rot of academia. Don’t have a tenure-track job? You’re a failure. And that’s even before considering the gender angle. Why anyone engages with him as a serious critic is beyond me.

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

this headline is such a great example of “racecraft.” musk isn’t passively posting about “race,” he is actively writing psychotically racist agitprop www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This thread is wholesome and adorable and you need it.

not a coincidence that men who have healthy relationships with women also have healthier relationships with other men!

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

Elon simply CHOSE to consign a million Africans to death for really no reason but the pleasure of it and it’s barely in the public consciousness

60 minutes will also be the interval from this restaurant's grand opening to its grand closing

I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.

A good overview of what Dems were able to accomplish w/r/t forcing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's abduction onto the national agenda, beating back ICE in places like Minneapolis, and driving Trump's approval on his "best" issue into the toilet. Recall that some pundits advised Dems *not* to do any of this.

there’s a scene in the movie Margin Call, where Zach quinto’s character is in a cab and he looks out the window and is like “look at all these people, walking around with absolutely no idea what’s about to happen.” I think about that a lot these days.

it’s weirdly controversial to say it in political circles but the defining characteristic of our political era is that a shitty guy with no business being in power is the world’s most powerful man

I held back on shit-talking Mr. Beast for a long time because all I really knew about him was he had a face like a haunted doll. I didn't want to hold that against him, but it turns out he's pretty evil anyway so let's call that a W for the ol' intuition.

🚨BREAKING🚨 The dumbest people you know have threatened to stop trying to influence policy unless you agree to be nice.

It would be really nice if the people running the goddamned country understood sixth grade mathematics.

Here’s the thing about the Mr. Beast suit: there’s this cultural expectation that ”new media” and “tech” and “startup” and “younger” companies will be more freewheeling and that you have to expert more douchey guy behavior, but the law doesn’t really reflect that. /1

This is really something. Fox News poll finds a solid majority of voters say Trump lacks the mental soundness to be president.

as someone who studies a lot of disasters, natural and accidental, this is horrifying just from a safety perspective.If there's an emergency that requires evac every one of those people is dead.

If you have nice things to say about Camp of the Saints, you're a Nazi.

I think people, understandably, did not read the details of the abuse, but it's quite clear that Maxwell *participated* rather than 'just' supplying victims

my father got covid in April of 2020 and it killed him in less than 10 days. aside from some lower leg issues, he was healthy before he caught it.

This is straight up, Nazi "dual state" shit. If a naturalized citizen commits a crime, we have mechanisms in place to hold them accountable. It's called the legal system and it applies to all of us. This extra targeting of only *some* people accused of crimes is part of a broader, expulsive project.

with zero sarcasm this is good government and we should do this immediately

The implications of the world's richest man pretty much literally buying the right to do what he wanted with the federal bureaucracy for a few months before getting bored are such that I think a lot of people choose not to think about it, because if you did you'd conclude something had to be done.