My dad sent me this

Trump being guided through a room by the Japanese PM

interesting fact about this dude: he’s never even set foot in this country it would literally be the least of his worries

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

reality is very upsetting to the right wing so they are spending a ton of time and money building an alternate reality safe space to delude themselves into believing they aren't unpopular assholes

Musk put an aside in his own online encyclopedia about how he supposedly lost 20 pounds

this is a good idea and they should do it, just so the court can expose itself again bsky.app/profile/cris...

another day, another dhs social media manager posting overly online nazi shit

Never have I witnessed so hard a “sir this is an Arby’s” moment

i once again would like to express some alarm and concern at the sheer pace of Nazi-related news updates

do you think that the literal whole-of-society effort by right wing to link immigrants to crime might have played a role here? perhaps more than a brief spike in actual crime (that was not even committed by immigrants to any large degree)

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

Gallego: "How can I negotiate? The president is in Asia for 5 days. Johnson is basically keeping the House out until January to protect pedophiles. So who am I negotiating with right now?"

It's just one of many things we'll have to do once we expel these people from power but overhauling the Hatch Act into something that actually matters will certainly be on the list. Either that or every 4-8 years Government websites will turn into extensions of political parties.

So...is Trump regularly being tested for dementia at Walter Reed?

Grandpa is confusing an IQ test with a dementia test. And he thinks a 36-year-old would have problems passing the latter. Which is definitely not a sign of cognitive decline.

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

To this point, the top eight news stories served by Google News this morning, from six sources, are all about asylum seekers. To call the British news media unfit for purpose would be charitable.

Hey honey, what if we tell everyone we’re separated? It’ll be, um, like a fake thing. Just to throw them off. It’s for you, really. Let’s just tell everyone we’re separated. For you. And safety. To be more safe, let’s tell everyone we’re divorced and you’re dead and I’m grieving my dead wife.

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Update: andruril apparently uploaded private keys to GitHub. x.com/intcyberdige...

When a European tries to tell me about trains

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

The loomer event awareness timeline (approx): ~2016 - weird video of her at a Richard Spencer neonazi event failing to seduce a nazi by talking about her 'askhenazi tits' ~2019 - chains herself to Twitter offices after ban ~2021- eating dog food for $5 on stream ~2024 - trusted advisor to POTUS

Remember the videos of Afghans desperately trying to get on departing military planes and how Biden's approval plummeted afterwards as the media blamed him for upholding Trump's negotiated withdrawal? Good times

$100 million just went poof

Cannot express enough appreciation for the teams *flying through a hurricane* while not being paid.

I hope all these farmers are begging in the street this time next year

"Muhammad came back from school with a new backpack and put his books and notepads inside it, excited to take it to school after the weekend. He ate a bit of food and then went out to watch the birds, as he liked to do. ... This time, the fourth-grader didn’t come back."

Conservatives love doing the opposite of occam's razor. "Over 10% of people are on food stamps because over 10% of people are in poverty" is too simple. It has to mean there are actually half a billion people in America.

yo, even John Yoo thinks that this shit is illegal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The former Canadian Prime Minister and the American pop star are officially an item after months of rumors.

Excited for Bluesky to become the control group in a social sciences experiment about what happens to people’s opinions when their news and entertainment feed is curated by Da Racist AI

Respectable media outlets praising Trump is basically all he’s ever wanted. And he’s going to keep the pressure on with his billionaire buddies until they all do this shit.

i don't think PoliMath understands due process

President Trump today announced a debt jubilee for sports gamblers, whose losses are to be transferred to graduate students

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

Great moments in Halloween costumes, today in San Francisco.

We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Jordan Peterson?

827th Meemaaw Artillery Brigade

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage. The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn. No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.

In Addison, Illinois an immigration agent using an American flag as a mask smashes a woman’s car window while her family sits in the vehicle. Video from social media.

Not enough. Stove touching needs to max.

this is exactly what's happening

I mean what do you even say. Ideology trumps material reality every day of the week.