Government run entirely by Captain Planet villains.

Like many people, I am going to say myself, but that's only because of the, like, 6 people whose names I can remember from my graduating class, to say nothing of the large blank space in my mind that might otherwise be taken up with names of people who graduated from my HIGH SCHOOL, I am most famous

If you think about it, monetizing the spread of Nazi ideas is the ONLY way to stop them

They're calling HRT a "sex-rejecting procedure" now. I guess that means my wife gives me HRT every night!

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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

With Discord's proven track record of protecting sensitive information? What could go wrong? *slowly, ever so slowly, raises finger to earpiece*

They're torture camps

I'm not an economist or a historian, but when a single technology product dominates half the Super Bowl ad block with a string of random celebrities telling you that it's *just about* to change the world, that's a good sign it's here to stay and a sound investment, right?

Did any of their songs have names?

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

I'm stoked that the Humble Bundle of my and @annaleen.bsky.social's books from Tor has raised nearly $5000 for the TGI Justice Project and Miss Major/Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center. www.humblebundle.com/books/charli... Let me tell you about when I went to the TGIJP's anniversary party

If “the urgency of normal” is a child development principle, it should apply universally. I’d welcome links if I missed it, but I haven’t seen David Leonhardt, Lucy McBride, TracyBeth Hoeg, Vinay Prasad, David Zweig, or Emily Oster say anything abt kids being denied their right to a public education

As someone who actually *sells* books for a living, I can tell you the answer: the person who wrote a book.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

The problem with bodycams is not that they will not be used. The problem with bodycams is that they *will* be used.

Have no fear, New York Times is ON IT.

centuries pass and still it sings. what a gift it is, how time flattens under the weight of a practiced voice. how irreplaceable

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

Nothing in the rulebook says a bucket of blood can't play basketball

lol

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

An unattended child (maybe 10??) just came into my store, wandered around for a while, then came up to the counter, slapped down a copy of "a Self-Defence Study Guide for Trans Women," said, "excuse me. I don't get it," and went off about how trans women don't need self defense. WTactualF??

A terrible thing about having been a Mitch Hedberg fan young and having absorbed his jokes over and over again as a kid is that now, as an adult, something like "a hippopotamus is just a really cool opotamus" will pop into your head and for a fraction of a second, you'll think you came up with it.

The Matrix (1999) Dirs: Lana and Lilly Wachowski #oneperfectshot 📽️

this is who runs this account

i hear Jaws music

There's absolutely no reason for the average person to believe these are agents of the state and not just three dudes with an Amazon account.

Sorry for not replying to your email sooner, I didn't want to.

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Marimar Martinez is a hero. She was shot 5 times by ICE. The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire. He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”. DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her. Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

If you read the thread--this isn't speculation.

Thimerosal is approved by the US FDA for use as a medical preservative and remains approved for use in medical therapeutics in the United States. To this day, no study has ever indicated any harm from this thimerosal use.

I'm starting to suspect that untangling the hedonistic, incestuous cabal of incredibly wealthy and powerful people who, together, flout the law and basic human decency is going to require a bit more effort than releasing, every decade or so, irrefutable documented proof that such a cabal exists.

this guy’s an antisemite? this guy? next you’re gonna tell me elon musk is in the epstein files

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

ME: Hey man, I live down the street. Can you please keep it down? JEFFREY EPSTEIN: bill g. has drip dick. regrettable. ME: Huh? EPSTEIN: stinky dick = evolve computers. ?? nerd consciousness. ? ME: Okay, well, it’s four in the morning. Please keep it down. EPSTEIN: dick stink. ? as scent brain

Here we see a huge pile of garbage in a tense standoff with a dumpster

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

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