I love that people like Thiel and Vance are wading into Catholic waters and the literal Pope and his priests are schooling them on precisely why they're awful human beings who don't understand the fundamental tenets of the system they're espousing. No notes.

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

WARREN: Has Rubio made any request for transcom to help evacuate Americans out of Middle East? REED: State made a request on Feb 28 & we have provided some assistance W: When we called them yesterday, they said they haven't asked you for assistance. Can you explain that? R: I cannot explain that

The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The missles in this video cost more than that.

The Trump Administration appears to be trying to recreate the Millennium Challenge in real life. It was the most expensive war simulation ever ($448m). The US completely lost to a made up Gulf State (run by a US commander). So they reset the simulation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...

The richest man in the world is a gutter racist. Mainstream media and institutions treat him as a reasonable person. He is not. He has more resources at his whims than any person in history. And he's wildly, incontrovertibly racist. He and his products should be anathema to every nonracist.

Line 4. An event that relates to Black American history is labeled "DEI". I can't even begin to describe how racist this is.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

One of the best things (IMHO) MacKenzie Scott and Melinda Gates could do with their money is to set up a foundation to permanently fund an independent nonprofit news organization that could then hire all the very qualified staff that have been laid off from all the news org now run by oligarchs.

Anthropic did the right thing. But OpenAI did not. It's safe to assume now that OpenAI is willingly participating in mass surveillance of Americans.

Fuck everyone involved in this absolute barbarity.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

We're all Bloom now, eating with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. We like thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs.... Most of all we like grilled mutton kidneys which gives to our palates a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

Love this man. There's no reason politics and government can't be joyful. May our politics bend in this direction. We have the power to make it happen.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

If only we had some sort of machine that could tabulate numbers quickly. Would be amazing if companies used the machines to tabulate the tariffs they charged people. Then we could just look at those numbers and tabulate them and pay back the people who bought items. Sadly, no such machines exist.

Reporter: Do aliens exist? Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

This is so spot on

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Again it’s important to remember the context of these chats is that a woman was shot five times in her car as she was attempting to donate clothes at a church.

I know I should be happy about evangelicals cooling on Trump but I'm not. They knew what he was going to do, they just didn't understand that it would make them feel bad.

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

We're running concentration camps.

The movie they make about Tulsi Gabbard's infiltration of US intelligence is going to simultaneously be a haunting look at the most damaging intelligence failure in US history and a hilarious romp about the stupidest fucking people alive

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

Free money hack!🤑 Suppose a woman attorney makes $200K a year! Or rather, she would, if she had a flexible work schedule and affordable, high quality child care. If I pay a childcare provider $50K to take care of her kid and do drop-offs... but lawyer mom pays $60K in income tax? Free money!

The thing about Elon Musk's pop culture takes is that he's responsible for perhaps the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century and it's a societal failure that he's not already in the dock at Nuremberg 2.

“The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.” The CEO of the center: “That reminds me of Anne Frank.” [jta.org]

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

Kalen Dion is not wrong. 😳👇

“Like prime, but with human beings”

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

"There is no man smaller than a coward at a hero's wake." Irish proverb

This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm” www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...