“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

The “children should have freedom” post I was looking for

Thune really misread the room by getting this one in there; even Mike Johnson is like "yeah that's some corrupt self-dealing right there." Mike Johnson!

also you can probably take it with you if, for some godforsaken reason, you wanted to keep your laptop charged while camping instead of fucking around in the forest

"Computers [and phones] became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue."

So are they also going to eliminate Health Savings Accounts and other health care deductions for wealthy people? No. Then this is just way to pit one group against another (better off professionals since rich people don't get ACA subsidies)- standard GOP playbook for undermining social policy.

they put patton oswald's account into the woodchipper skeet first

“I know this is out there but this search won’t let me find it, by design” is so frustrating! Like damn I’ve worked on a reference desk in the past, I know how to make and tinker with a search string. Y’all just don’t want people to find it bc some asshole somewhere is making money this way

“One section espouses using US diplomatic leverage to convince Latin American nations and allies to open themselves up for further American corporate involvement, including in the construction of prisons.” This is insane. Pariah nation shit.

If Clinton and Trump weren’t such garbage people I would love for a Grace and Frankie situation to break out for them. Hillary and Melania could become friends. Hijinx would ensue. It could be a whole thing. Alas.

their key error: not realizing that meritless demands for massive amounts of taxpayer money are legitimate only when they come from your favorite president, mr. donald j. trump

I need to chew on this a bit, but broadly speaking, the whole thing is gross.

Democrats should be running ads every day from now until November 2028 about how Trump sued to prevent SNAP checks from going out.

Delusional people.

Working 5/7 days a week your entire life instead of being able to live your life how you want to is a cruel and unusual punishment that only the ultra wealthy get to avoid, usually by pure luck and/or pure cruelty and greed. Fuck that. UBI. I wanna sit at home and crochet.

I genuinely wonder what the point of life is if 99% of us spend the vast majority of it making a few useless, net negative people rich and comfortable. Absolute bullshit.

Empathy is conservative kryptonite.

shorter Trump

There's a real attempt by the American right to use the history of slavery outside the Americas to mitigate the awfulness of the specific horrors of slavery in the Americas, whether in the Caribbean or the American South or beyond. The traditions there developed in specific terrible ways.

Yes. They thought they would pay their tribute and then conduct business as usual. Not understanding the nature of who they are dealing with.

It’s not the biggest deal here but I think he means implying not implicating

ICE may detour from Charlotte and head to Atlanta now.

if a teenager desperate for money asks you for money you don't actually have to rape them and act like that's just a transaction, you can just give them money.

The problem is they can't replace Obamacare with a more "republican" plan that isn't a disaster, because the ACA IS the Republican option: It was Romneycare with the serial numbers filed off!

A thing that I genuinely hate for all of us is my overriding suspicion that Generation Theory is basically correct and EVERYTHING is being both *caused* and will soon be solved (one way or another) by Xers (current 'prime adult leisure-money' gen) being SMALL vs Mils/Boomers being massive ☹️

A lot of people are going to walk away from the Ghislaine Maxwell coverage with the impression that our prison system isn’t punitive enough but I’d say it highlights how most everyone else is treated with *deliberate* cruelty.

Did no one warn him the dude in charge of tos loves protecting pedophiles?

This is one of the reasons I said the Cave Caucus should have held out for at least a week, to make it clear Trump was unlawfully starving people.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

The fact that our current state of affairs can be traced back to a cult started by a Harry Potter fanfic writer is.....hard to take.

I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:

You do not have to hand it to the Catholic bishops. In the same meeting, they banned gender affirming care at all Catholic hospitals nationwide. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...

No child's access to resources should in any way depend on the economic or social status of their parents. Not just necessities. All resources.

Those of us who are SA survivors are used to the mass shrug in response to even the most overt evidence of horrific behavior. Epstein's crimes and the complicity of many influential figures involved have been known for decades (’05 to be exact). It's never mustered much interest or consequence.

I understand why it's preferable to believe that the country is being run by little Gordon Gekkos rather than little Eichmanns, because the little Gekkos can be bought off for the right price, but sorry, I need you to look these people in the eye and realize that they are little Eichmanns

Here's yesterday's federal district court opinion largely rejecting Rep. LaMonica McIver's efforts to have her criminal prosecution for her ICE visit dismissed on legislative immunity/Speech or Debate Clause and selective/vindictive prosecution grounds.

After an economic crash you always see headlines like What Was Everyone Thinking? What do you mean everyone, most of us are waving our arms and screaming every day, it's a handful of insanely rich assholes who aren't listening

A motivation-biz guy came through our office in the '90s who famously only slept 4 hours a night because life was too beautiful and amazing to sleep through it. But it turned out to just be cocaine.

Trump's national security strategy: (1) become the leader of a global fascist movement beholden to Trump; (2) betray all America's democratic allies in Europe and East Asia; and (3) reverting to gunboat diplomacy, make America the regional hegemon of the Americas (seize Canada and Greenland, too).

um can i say. awesome

George MacArthur took a 16yo girl from the Phillipines when he was Army chief of staff on WWII...(this article is awful framing but spills some dirt in several generals + Eisenhower)

NYT out here like: Editor 1: "Yesterday we were kind of embarrassed because of our reporter corresponded so much with Epstein, we gotta do something to earn back trust. " Editor 2: "I've got it. Let's blame the 17-year-old kid in the Gaetz sex scandal for upending his career." *Editors high five

This is the end of science in the US it is a MASSIVE crackdown an literally everyone this racist bullshit would stop basically all science in its tracks and allow the administration to deny funding to basically whoever they wanted to Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

the idea is that moral clarity or certainty is somehow dangerous. of course, everyone who argues this is also morally certain, just about different things. this is just a way of devolving the debate into abstraction.

ah, so Conservatism, as an ideology, is fundamentally pedophillic. and Realpolitik is just 'how can we traffic more kids for ourselves'?

Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.

If you say things on TV like "Raping an 8yo is worse than raping a 15yo" you should be launched into a volcano

call it like it is: Matt Gaetz took advantage of a child who needed money for medical care you fuckers did this.