reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

ah, well

is this good

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what's crazy is that if we restrict our sample size to just "the day that Charlie Kirk got shot" it remains true that right-wing extremists commit more violence

A Black student from Grenada, Trey Reed, was found dead hanging from a tree AG Delta State University in Mississippi. Authorities say "no foul play suspected" but that seems highly doubtful. www.wapt.com/article/delt...

Korean networks and dailies have noted that families and friends who greeted the returning workers remarked that they had lost a lot of weight and seemed to have aged. The workers were worried most about a pregnant woman who was detained with them. She got a first class seat on the flight home.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Lego Island 2

Charlie Kirk can rest in piss ban me

not that anyone reads my shitposts but I'm tired of repeating: FUCK Charlie Kirk I don't give a fuck that he died I don't care *how* he died political violence is disgustingly common in this godforsaken country and anyone claiming otherwise can eat a bag of dicks this was just a Wednesday fu

Wife to me after listening to my breathless, worthless 2 minute rant: Who is Ezra Klein? Who is Charlie Kirk? Honey I can't believe I'm saying this but you need to play more videogames and get off the internet

charlie kirk being our generation’s franz ferdinand is pretty goddamn funny idc

I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.

Well at least we know it’s being handled competently

Actually yes

Question: Do you know how many mass shootings there have been in America over the last 10 years? Charlie Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence? Those were his last words

Counter: We should make Ohio a national park and class its residents into wild animals.

wild that MP3 is an audio file, MP4 is a video file, but MP5 is a submachine gun. Digimon-ass evolution line.

oh my god the US government is delaying releasing the detained koreans

Pointing to the Zyrtec behind glass like it’s a fine Tiffany bracelet. “That one,” I say to the Target clerk. “Excellent choice sir,” he says while scrolling TikTok on this phone.

people are putting pop tarts on their borzois and taking pictures

Trying to imagine a world where 57-year-old Hillary Clinton drew a penis that looked like it maybe belonged to a barely-pubescent male in the birthday book of a prolific child molester and wrote a note referencing "a wonderful secret" on it

9/9/1999 A bad bitch was born

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

12 hours after Russia attacked Poland, this is all the PRESIDENT OF THE FUCKING UNITED STATES has to say about a NATO ally having its airspace violated. We are a small, weak nation under Trump.

RFK is the only person able to properly talk like that creepy text that y̵̲̹̲͌͜o̶̻͠ȗ̵͍̓ ̸̞̏ͅh̵̡̗͈̥̅a̷͇̍̊͝v̶̺͕̲͑̐ê̵̥̪ ̵̻̫̪̝̓̿ţ̵̂͋́̿ͅȯ̵͍͙̪ ̵̨̳̞̼͒g̴͚̰͆͝ǫ̴͖̫̼̇̇̆͠ ̶̡̡͓̩̾ẗ̸̛͉͌͝o̷̬̣̠̍̊̋ ̵̫̜̼̾̒͛a̸̤͒̿ͅ ̵̬̀̈́ẉ̸̦͙̀ḛ̵̲͇͓͗b̴̟̪͋̂ș̸͎̻͈͋̀i̴̛̟̞̽̀t̶̙̻̳͋ẹ̸̦̗̀͊͌ ̸̙̈́͠t̷̙̦͓̾ö̴̬̺́͒ ̶̨̰̜̋̽ṫ̵͚̝̖̎͜y̴̞̮͊̆p̴̖̫̚ě̸̢̻͍̈́ ̷̳̖͙̾̔͗ō̵̤̱ù̸̢̐͝t̴̰̻̦̎̃̅.̴̛̮͓̣̱̈́

every birthday message to epstein is like "dear jeff, you're so rich and so handsome but probably the thing about you i love most is that you're a prolific child predator. never change <3"

Other countries are foolish to “invest” in the U.S. we don’t even invest in ourselves.

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

I don’t want to pick on the person who asked this, but that’s what social media is for? When we’re communing over interests and things that make us happy, we are finding light in a dark time. Sitting in that darkness will KILL you. It’s not moral superiority. You will be crushed under the weight.

The official Trump line is that this 50th birthday letter in Trump's name to Jeffrey Epstein — produced by EPSTEIN'S ESTATE to Congress, pursuant to a subpoena — isn't Trump's, despite the uncanny signature and typeface. And that it's defamatory to suggest otherwise, to the tune of $20 billion.

Can’t quite put my finger on why, but somehow the actual doodle makes it so much worse and more disgusting.

None of this would be happening if Hillary had detonated her bomb vest during the debate

leaning over to the frog next to me: it’s getting hot as shit in this pool lately

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Eating food truck sushi in my car as far from the ocean as you can possibly get

Smartest man in the world voice: nothing bad can happen if Germany and Japan simply become more nationalistic