sanctions are extremely, harmfully ineffective as a mechanism for regime change. they are reasonably effective as punitive measures against expansionism.

Good

there's a real feeling of like...if a man did something horrible to me or someone i know that guys like this just wouldn't fucking care

Antifa is a cause it is not a coherent organization with a lineage you sound like Steven fucking Miller

People defending David Miller: "there is a concerted effort to equate Miller's nuanced antizionist stance with antisemitism but..." Miller: "ITS THE JOOOOS

Truly one of the great moments of collective embarrassment in world history: www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/mil...

I think Chuck Schumer was wrong not to endorse Mamdani, who seems both totally free of antisemitism and thoroughly decent in his personal life, but Schumer's continued support for Platner in Maine makes his refusal to support his party's candidate for NYC mayor all the more indefensible.

porca miseria

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God-tier NYT correction: Correction (left), original (right) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/n...

Everything about this story is making the case for why Gender Studies is so important as an academic discipline.

Bacardi, because there might be more Platner scandals.

Mamdani hasn't been in long but so far he's basically been a competent and charismatic administrator doing infrastructure stuff and it will never stop looking absurd to me that *this* keeps generating panic reactions.

it’s because there’s raw shit in the milk. consuming cow shit can lead to illness

A movie for cats

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

"Sing to me, O Muse, of the ingenious cat that went around the neighbourhood to get many dinners..."

i'll go out and say it. you could argue that the way this leadership election is shaping up right now it's almost unfair to starmer, because they clearly want to make him the fall guy for the way the Labour Party just is, which is indeed unpopular, without changing anything about the Labour Party

Where are the 'UK sparks global concern' headlines?

for once nearly all Democrats were present to vote, to incredible returns

If only this had been foreseeable.

People will be ‘ah well Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus…’ South Carolina banned abolitionist literature *in peacetime* and South Carolinians put a bounty on David Walker’s head & Virginia tried to extradite him

Either the art directors at these right wing outlets are secret DSA members or this man has simply never had a bad photo.

… what

Klippenstein imagining Mills getting her teeth knocked out before joking about how she’s too ugly for anyone to sext her

Are they trying to give the DFL a supermajority?

British politics just lurches from one screaming fit to another. Politicians have no ideas, policies or vision but they brim with hatred, resentment and spite. I truly believe we’d be better ruled by lottery. Pull the names of 1000 citizens out of a hat and let them rule. It can’t be worse than this

This is ragingly homophobic, aside from being embarrassing.

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

The “can’t print molecules” thing has been going around in the oil industry for a couple of weeks now. Ultimately, 20% of the world’s oil is not moving anymore; all of the talk about prices and paper barrels is sort of irrelevant. You need to have the molecules in-hand.

Tilly Norwood’s most recent Instagram post, which is 2 weeks old, has 280 likes and 30 shares. No one other than reporters has any particular feeling one way or the other about Tilly Norwood.

vive la bisexualisme

woah its almost like congress has the ability to influence the executive

I think people are vastly exaggerating the moderation of Collins. She voted for RFK, Noem, etc. She's been riding in Snowe's slipstream since forever. Put another way, why does Vance campaign with her and why does she agree to have him do that?

given the higher-ed gap, women may have more, uh, literal literacy

Wow, Mikie Sherrill must be so proud of her new "partners": ICE

The spiritual and moral rot of this administration has given way to the rot of corruption that now infects the highest office in the land.

i think this is accurate and worth thinking about. A D vs D governor's race would all-but guarantee a wipeout of Rs in all the competitive House seats in CA and in a bunch of other swingy downballot races

Well this panned out depressingly well

“Members of the political class may disparage undecided voters, but we at least tend to impute to them a basic rationality. We’re giving them too much credit.” newrepublic.com/article/1867...

In a devastatingly sad day for Syrians, the National Commission for Missing Persons has issued a statement confirming the presumed death of the six children of Dr. Rania Al-Abbasi, a story that became one of the most paradigmatic examples of disappearance by the Assad regime.

Brief summary of what happened last night at Delaney Hall: At 3 pm Governor Sherrill announced with the NY AG that she was sending state police to Delaney Hall, with the posture that this was to protect protestors and kettle them away (an oxymoron). Around 9:45 pm, protestors and organizers

Perfect play Mr. Trump. Just, no words

"Wah I don't like either party now" from any trump voter is a W, we take those

I don't think you mean the same Book of the Dead as my mind imagines, but I have an appropriate reaction to people quoting that guy.

I'd rather have an anvil fall on me from the 10th floor.

Bass (center-NIMBY) is puffing up Pratt (right-NIMBY) as a way to lock Raman (left-YIMBY) out of the race, meanwhile Huang (left-NIMBY) is acting as a spoiler to divide the left vote. 3/4 candidates functionally collaborating to shut out the only one who would do something about LA's housing crisis.

Vote Raman, otherwise we're gonna get Pratt.

Banning far-right parties is just obvious, not only from a moral standpoint, but also from a security standpoint, since it's painfully obvious that they are Russia's puppets.