In the 5 months since I wrote this, things have only gotten worse, with adults stripped of their healthcare at a moment's notice, universities firing teachers & banning the mere mention of trans people, & Democrats helping pass further bans and the first discrimination & segregation laws since 1996.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

The tech world's obsession with AI just delayed Valve's Steam Machine https://kotaku.com/steam-machine-price-release-date-preorder-ai-valve-2000665802

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”

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

It’s crazy that the Hawks are going to lose this entirely because of that Woolen penalty.

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

FUCK ICE ABOLISH ICE

Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE. www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...

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There is no rebuilding the illusion of a shared vision of America from this. The racist rot that was always at the heart of Reagan’s shining city on a hill, feeding in the sewers for decades, has burst forth for all to see. All we can do is kill it with fire, & build something better in the wreckage

If you’re a 2A advocate and not meeting this moment with every gram of fury you direct at gun control advocates then you are a spineless hypocrite.

No amount of training could have stopped that trigger being pulled. This is a moral sickness. This agency is a rot and it need to be done away with. Anyone not working on that project is 100% not your ally regardless of where they claim to be on the political spectrum.

This is a good one: Coheed & Cambria My Chemical Romance Ghost Porter Robinson Bruce Cockburn

At a certain point my politics are “if we’re going to do authoritarianism either way how about we do the kind that doesn’t do this.”

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it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

For me it was a block I guess! I thought Ken was a much more engaged and open minded dude than that lol.

Every time you see these losers interact with someone it’s clear they’re idiots who have washed out of every authority position they’ve ever held. It’s clear this is their last ride to feel like they’re anything more than bumpkins with no value to society.

I don’t think the average American understands how deeply No Child Left Behind harmed (and continues to harm) a generation of people. No sympathy whatsoever for fascist thugs, but they were absolutely manufactured to be this way. This was always a potential direction for the conservative project.

I understand the desire to remain optimistic here but the Nazis lost because tens of millions of young people gave their lives to stop them.

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

The replies from prominent DC authors here are a good showing of their true colors in the face of a really shitty person getting honored.

Trump didn't even need to prime the US pundit class for months with weapons of mass destruction. Everything he's doing is illegal from bombing fishermen without evidence to invading a foreign country. Yet all the "Maduro wasn't a good guy" justifications are pouring out now

I'm seeing some comments saying stuff like "No US President has ever done anything like the kidnapping of Maduro before" and altho I relate to the outrage behind such a comment, I encourage you to look up the history of United States presidents before you post this

An exceptionally enraging and humiliating day to be an American

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

This weekend will demonstrate exactly how feckless and chickenshit out media apparatus and political machine truly is. A shameful country we are.

i’d like to just say the popular social media generating CSAM is also the leading platform for bigots to claim without evidence that trans people are a danger to children

Blue Prince is our 2025 game of the year. Here's why it's so much more than just a brilliant puzzler: https://www.eurogamer.net/blue-prince-our-game-of-the-year-is-so-much-more-than-just-a-brilliant-puzzler

NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

neighb is keeping it real

Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho.

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Harper’s writing here captures a feeling I’ve been struggling to articulate. An excellent read!

I probably would have said Hitman or Titanfall 2 then, ow it’s easily Dark Souls 3.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Dem leadership is a pathetic husk. Every single one of the worthless losers who capitulated should resign in disgrace.

The left will never find a firm foothold if the reaction to reasoned critique of our leaders is the reactionary, angry stuff in these replies. Zohran’s win is exciting, but we should hold our “good people” accountable as much as our bad, and this does appear to be a concession to the establishment.

Mamdani's first loss: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdanis-f...

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

These are… all pretty good? I’m sorry but if you’re in these comments slugging for the 90s list that includes songs like Whoomp There It Is and Ice Ice Baby over the 2000s list or 2010s list I think you may need to have a seat.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

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i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV