Roberts and the Republican justices deserve every bit of this fucking circus since this case should never even be here.

Got to say these billionaires are doing a pretty good job radicalizing me.

evers isn’t ‘exciting’ but the fact that he followed up scott walker and helped pull wisconsin back from the brink - and is still holding the line for trans people here - is worth a whole lot he hasn’t been able to do much legislation-wise because of the GOP but he’s been a beacon of decency

they are calling it the scotus cuck chair

“To sum it up,” Pete Curran, a staff meteorologist for Watch Duty, a nonprofit that tracks wildfires live and sends updates to users in real time, and former chief of the Orange County Fire Department, put it bluntly: “We are scared shitless.” wapo.st/4uMpUd1

trump rolling up to scotus like "don't forget i own you" and then scotus going "yessir" right after 8 million people marched lmao that would be amazing. anyways, someone's already drafting the constitution of the Second Republic right

Maybe Bluesky will get mad at me for saying this, but this is a bizarre headline because if you actually read the article it says the exact opposite. Please consider reading the whole article before doom-sharing the irresponsible headline.

Trump really is the answer to “what would happen if a craven nihilist stumbled into the presidency and decided he was going to die soon anyway so why not sell the country out for personal gain?

They will stop at nothing to make money for their fossil fuel industry friends: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

yeah if you’ve never had 40-60 total strangers make weird shit up about you, it’s a very strange and bewildering experience

A person totally unfamiliar with the IRA, which made painstaking efforts to take this path and was utterly rejected for it. Following the “what about the uwu UAW jobs” path just means we end up right back where we are today in the 2030s. It’s wrecker stuff.

This makes me think priority number one for the next Dem Congress/President should be a campaign of vengeance designed to make the decision to reverse away from EVs an absolutely disastrous one.

That said I regret to inform everyone that "we won Vietnam because everything was fine when we left in 73 after both Linebackers and everything that happened after that is solely the fault of the ARVN" is an exxxxxtremely common talking point in RW circles and had been since the 80s

James Ellroy is one of those writers who I feel could only exist in the 80s and 90s. He wrote books for a specific kind of boomer and Gen X man and no one - absolutely *no one* - else. I feel he’s likely to get forgotten as time goes on, an artifact of a very specific era.

lol

supergirl movie appears to take a big risk. will moviegoers support a character who wants to fight a bunch of dog killers

this will ensure he actually does go to war, though

In many/most normal democracies, the failure of the government to pass a budget brings down the government & triggers new elections. In American "democracy," you can control both houses of Congress & fail to pass a budget indefinitely. We are a very serious polity. Please clap.

Not quite a totenkopf but seems like a normal person might have an ‘are we the baddies’ moment when they pin a noose on their lapel

lol

they are adding a sixth stage to grief called monkey mode

anyone else got anecdotes of military friends/family being deployed to iran? I know I've got 2

yeah this is blueskyism

speaking of this, if your story primarily explores the question "don't you think it's bad when people hurt animals??" then I am not going to find your story interesting because this question is not, in its own right, very nuanced, complex, etc

I am way far past playing it but I see now that a key appeal of games like Thief: The Dark Project was crawling through liminal spaces. there are now entire accounts online that just, like, compile pictures of weird, unsettling liminal spaces. but they do not give you loot goals and water arrows

catholicism is inherently liberal and progressive in that it valorizes suffering. protestantism is inherently conservative in that it demonizes pleasure.

listen if you are expecting me to be comprehensible in the spring you are way out of line. i blinked snot out of my eyes for 90 seconds this morning. my car is coated in yellow and every tissue and membrane in my fucking skull is inflamed

the issue is that we have replaced the word "politics" for "values system." when you are exploring your values system in stories and someone calls it "political," it means either "this is recycling lots of very familiar talking points" or "I am an asshole acting in incredible bad faith." or both.

Roy Cooper just waltzing into this Senate seat because the GOP isn't even bothering to try is just the funniest thing to me.

continue to think that the desire to find Weird Freaky Shit online is correlated with the rise of populism

Outting Kristi Noem's husband as a bimbo sissy on Trans Day of Visibility. I think that goes against the spirit of the holiday.

When you say “both sides are the same,” you own moments like this and are complicit in ignoring them.

Trump and Putin: the climate heroes we deserve

Feel like we're missing the big point: Why did they decide to go forward with Noem's nomination when they knew this existed? And also, who dropped the oppo to the Mail? Miller? Vance? Homan? Someone else?

Microsoft removing all doubt that it cares much, much more about headlong data center expansion than it does about its purported climate targets.

he's going to gut the VRA and then retire on a high point. court reform now. ruin the rest of his life, however much there is left.

"Republicans too radical, Democrats too woke" is the ideology of the owners of most major news outlets and many of the senior editors and reporters they have hired/promoted. This is Rahm's platform. So of course they amplifying his message. It is their message too.

masculinity is defined by forcing suffering on another being, whether it's animals or your wife and kids

When Democrats retake the majority, there will be a lot of priorities. As long as I'm in the Senate, one of those priorities will be consequences and accountability for any member of this administration that commits war crimes.

You can’t ban conversion therapy, which increases risk of suicide. But you can ban gender affirming care, which decreases risk of suicide. It’s almost like, and hear me out, they want people that they don’t think should exist to…not exist. Hell, if it does exist, will be cozier than they deserve.

* IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS SAYS THEY WILL TARGET U.S. COMPANIES IN THE REGION AS OF APRIL 1 IN RETALIATION FOR ATTACKS ON IRAN -- STATE MEDIA @reuters.com

i feel like a lot of people are asking if the trump attacks on iran are achieving some military or strategic objectives to determine if the war is a success but i don't think that matters in the slightest to the people conducting it. they care about producing badass footage of war violence

Seems Ellison’s bets aren’t going very well

this is even more amazing when you consider that these are primarily institutions *for historians*

it is weird to have so many superhero plots essentially be “but is it RIGHT to take a life???” when today we keep thinking “if that kid hadn’t missed the world would be in such a better place”

Okay folks I've responded to the data center heat island paper. It is the worst study on AI and the environment I've ever read, by far. Thank you to @beijingpalmer.bsky.social for flagging. blog.andymasley.com/p/data-cente...

Lindsey Graham being a Disney adult and also craving mass death is a fascinating juxtaposition

"if the students can use a LLM to do the task it was never really teaching critical thinking to begin with" is a very dumb take, sorry. I can bring a forklift to the gym and bench press more than Arnold. The point is not to move the weights.

I realize my Costco may be incredibly Asian, but is this maybe a sign of a new era? Are we in a “Americans learn to eat new foods” stage of economic hardship?

legitimately wild how much the ERCOT fuel mix is dominated by renewables and batteries now, would've never imagined we'd be here by now in 2010