fully doing the meme

Absolutely I can’t believe we are here.

Tehran is a city of nine million people, with 17 million in the larger metropolitan area. Saturday is the first day of the week for Iranians. Millions of people are at work, and children are in school.

what if the domino theory but 10x more absurd

"I didn't inhale" legacy sequel

always interesting when and how the "God said it, I believe it, that settles it!" crowd suddenly finds nuance in how biblical laws are applied to a modern context.

Pastors who have utterly lost the plot

2018 is an especially prescient moment, because it was both the year that Israel explicitly defined itself as a Jewish state at-the-expense-of-everyone-else and the year that the IDF shot hundreds of unarmed protestors in Gaza. There was also no longer the pretext of eventual negotiations.

Trans-Atlantic portents …

A reminder that the number one reason for the downturn in public perception of Israel is Israeli state behavior.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

ICE is all over TN right now, kidnapping people off roads and construction sites. Nashville's seen the most visible pushback from citizens, but it's getting essentially zero media play. Johnson City has seen a surge in the past two weeks. Today it looks like they're pushing in Chatanooga.

Buying up something like TikTok so misunderstands how things work. TikTok blew up precisely because it was an out of left field alternative. You can’t buy the future when the future wants whatever you didn’t buy

they really think that, given the choice, a huge portion of Americans would choose “anti woke Sinners” over the actual Sinners and I think that, like w the alternative Kid Rock half time show people turned on and turned off, they are gonna be very bad at making stuff ppl like

The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

whenever someone calls me a tankie

One of my favorite* things about being online is learning the name of some Neo Nazi I had never heard of before about once a month, and learning they all have a million or more followers on one site or another. *absolutely least favorite

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Thursday.

If you're tempted to call this "Bay of Pigs, but stupid" I need you to understand that the first Bay of Pigs was already incredibly stupid

I’m not in her district, but, if you are in that particular Gerrymander in Chicago, please vote for her in the primary (March 17) and the general (November 3)!

Unfortunately the reality is that cops have a history of killing people by dropping them off in inhospitable places. In Canada it’s called a “starlight tour” when cops detain an Indigenous person and then drop them off miles from home in the wilderness, sometimes causing them to freeze to death

Adorno got it right in 1945

In the criminal justice system, snowball-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Snowball Unit. These are their stories. 🚓

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org

First brutalized by ICE thugs, causing her permanent physical damage, now she's arrested for standing SILENTLY in protest to Felon45's racist comments.

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking. A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Democratic leaders think they are minority party of governing coalition, rather than opposition party to authoritarian regime.

when you're the biggest pussy in the history of the universe

“Uhhh is Cuba telling the truth or Marco Rubio I can’t tell” You should probably redacted yourself in the head

NASA Delays Space Walk After It Starts Snowing In Outer Space https://theonion.com/nasa-delays-space-walk-after-it-starts-snowing-in-outer-1848137578/

Whenever I see a politician like Gavin Newsom complain about "pronouns," I want to give a grammar lesson in reflexive pronouns: Go fuck yourself.

Arya in monochromme - #glamour #glamourmodel #photography #glamour #pinupgirl #pinupmodel #pinupfun #barefootglamour #monochrome #beautyinblackandwhite #bw

Wait, what?

As a DM/worldbuilder, I gotta say, bruh, that ithyphallos is supposed to stay in the kistē!

As I was skeeting yesterday, not that I believe in Hell, but, the earth splitting open and J Edgar Hoover dragging (sucking?) Kash-Money Patel into Perdition is fun to think about. (Oh, hi, FBI analyst! How’s that pension lookin’? Gonna ride this out for another 30-40?)

Yep, a hard subject to think about, but if you get to grips with the pathology of pedophiles and abusive men generally, you can see the psychology of capitalism mapped out for you, and understand a lot more about ordinary social life under it. Also makes you more sensitive to experiences of victims.

Probably in no small part because it casts Cannon in a terrible light.

there's more, but two big ways private equity has transformed US colleges: (i) schools endowments grow b/c of participation in private equity funds, and (ii) private equity alumni become mega-wealthy power donors/alumni. The life of the Academy has been rendered and overrun by B-School Brains.

it's hard to communicate to people without sounding like a loon or a full conspiracist, but: I need a lot of folks who grew up with warm feelings for various institutions to realize that they aren't what they seem anymore, and appeals to virtue or common purpose are not going to work well either

People really do believe, no matter whether they're christian or not in our society, that the body is stained with sin that manifests physically. Any irregularity from Beautiful Normal is an indication of a latent - at best - sin of birth, sin of nature, spiritual stain which is cleansed by removal.