Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”

has anybody looked for Clarence Thomas and his "they are just my friends who give me expensive gifts and pay for my racist wife" cronies in the files?

BREAKING: Newly unearthed emails appear to show that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to the Senate during his confirmation hearings about his trip to Samoa. As a result, the island’s vaccination rate plummeted from the 60-70 percent range to just 31 percent, according to Mother Jones. trib.al/H3dfFee

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!

haven't seen it in a while, but I don't think there are apes in the lion king?

aww, I can't hear the boos 😢

first of all, no. second of all, HOW CAN THEY POSSIBLY NEED MORE FUNDING????

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

it occurs to me that people like Weinstein are calculated sacrifices to maintain the integrity of the system.

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps. There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

somebody do a tally on how much a completionist fan would have to spend to acquire every single release from this album cycle. every vinyl, every bit of merch, every format. I'm desperate to know.

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

I just... she didn't have to say aaaaaaaanything. who call her name???? why are you in it???

FYI Johnson is absolutely wrong about borders in the premodern world. Wrote a bit about it in Trump 1 www.forbes.com/sites/matthe...

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st... How the Woman Who Shot Sinners Could Make History at the Oscars

This made me weepy

man with the kreyòl subs too (gonna assume they're done well, I can kinda read it but don't know it)

A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro

I hate when people do this. if that were true, we wouldn't be talking about them. we'd quickly discard them and move on. the tension exists because the work is good or presumably popular.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Whistles are highly effective for both community defense and alerting people to the fact that there's an existential risk in their communities. If you are not centering the people who are fearing for their lives. families, and communities, I am not interested in whatever you have to say.

very possibly the cutest a child has ever been. his widdle cheeeeeeeks! 😍

Shoot me

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

Every Black woman everywhere, I hope that, if nothing else, tonight you know in your heart of hearts that you are not crazy.

In light of the U of Ill ICE post: college is the MOST diverse environment a lot of white folks will EVER find themselves. But for Black folk & other PoC it's the LEAST diverse environment. That's why there's so much obsession w. elite PWIs & so little curiosity about what goes on at HBCUs.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

his cottage is called "my cottage?"

imagine the thousands and thousands of unbelievable horrors going on if we're just hearing about "regularly kidnapping legal residents, dropping them off in a different state, and telling them to deal with it"

at a certain point y'all need to start dearresting people

this is the bit that I find the most upsetting. everyday women know their reports will likely go nowhere, but in theory they can continue to escalate if they want to fight. but who do you escalate to when the ones doing the harm are the ones who are supposed to hold everyone else accountable?

The idea that no one said anything about the Obama deportations requires you to ignore the fact that he was labeled the Deporter in Chief by immigrant rights groups. This is why Biden was particularly deliberate in building relationships with many of these same groups to mute their criticism

not the first or last to say it, but we watched some 4,000 people arrested, many brutalized, on college campuses throughout 2024 as part of an anti-war movement primarily calling for their schools and government to recognize the humanity of Palestinians, seemingly now memoryholed

Amazing coda here.

Adrien Brody talking about how he hasn’t taken an acting job since he won an Oscar and then popping up in a TurboTax commercial instills me with some light despair over how far our snobs have fallen. Be more pretentious, people!!!

There should be a live “Pop-up Video” feed of the Grammys that tells you who’s performing, what their backstory is, who they’re feuding/hooking up with, etc. Turn the Grammys into a three-hour crash course in pop culture for clueless older viewers (like, um, me)***

I think we need to start making arguments for democratic self-governance on first principles again because I think people genuinely need to be convinced things can and should be regulated by a collective representation of the general will

Kendrick has won nine and counting Grammys since Drake said "Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy"

Quiet. We’re busy rebuilding Venezuelan infrastructure. And the Kennedy Center. 🤡

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

let's erase more things with his name on it

Sexual violence is used throughout to reinforce hierarchies and systems of power, including the power all men claim over all women under patriarchy, as well as within industries, communities, and groups of all kinds

The men abuse each other through hierarchies of seniority and power and these environments are rife with sexual abuse, both men abusing each other sexually and abusing women and girls sexually. Sometimes the men do it to impress each other.

Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

just now realizing I haven't paid attention to the Grammys since like 2020/2021. it wasn't even on purpose.

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