a “Space Force”, if you will

All mushrooms are edible. Some are only edible once.

Abject bad faith and lawlessness will continue until abject bad faith and lawlessness has personal and professional consequences.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

the reason people bought into qanon is it helped with the cognitive dissonance that they themselves were a sex pest by focusing on real and imaginary bigger sex pests

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

Proud.

Y’all want to see the saddest shit ever? Grok: "Elon crafts his own words with clarity and conviction. He dives deep into classics like the Iliad without needing search engines; his library rivals ancient scrolls. If anything, I learn from him, not the other way around."

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

Horses and humans share a special bond because we are both half centaurs

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

and like 90% of the uhh literary use of firearms in internet slang and meme stuff can be swapped for Looney Tunes violence and still preserve the intent!

Goldsmith had a decent piece a couple weeks back that pointed out all the systemic/institutional challenges towards any prosecution that would result from an OLC memo saying this I'm cooking up a framework for overcoming that, because sorry, OLC can't just legalize murder

I wish journalists could act like they weren’t born yesterday. An uncurated document dump out of an investigation shortly after focused evidence is released is an expression of panic, a desperate wish to distract, and perhaps a hope that someone will find something they haven’t yet.

Bros, when Josh Marshall’s got a list of criteria for what Democratic Senators need to stand up for or be purged from the caucus, I’d say we’ve sailed on past the Island of Wait and See.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

"Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth..." Giving the game away right there. Displaying either a complete failure to understand what a trans person *is*, or else a malicious disregard of their personhood.

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth. Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

"Trump babies." Fuck this guy. We're all allowed to have our own special personal fuck-you hobbyhorse in the midst of all this tragedy, and Dr. Oz is mine.

I'm not a Christian, but I hope to stand in these times beside the ones who mean it.

Here's the thing: To really be all-in on Trump requires someone to be at least one of (1) stupid (2) detached from reality (3) immoral, and usually some combination. But it's inherently quite hard to run a think tank where most of the personnel are (1) & (2), and without help from those factors...

I remember years ago reading an opinion that being any sort of racial supremacist is one of the most pathetic positions one can take because it's basically announcing to the world that you believe in your heart of hearts that you peaked at birth and it's all downhill from there.

Yep, this totally fixes the problem. The NYT, friends.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

a recurring problem for the U.S. hard left is 'the government is a force of pure evil, and also we think it should control much more of daily life".

to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.

Seconded

I can't believe I'm saying this but this Breitbart dude captures *a portion* of Mamdani's appeal in a way I haven't quite seen elsewhere. www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

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i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

For more posterity, Curtis Sliwa has a Chinese name that's very befitting of his brash, tough personality: 斯利瓦 means "that's really a sharp and tough piece of clay tile (the ones that can withstand decades of battering on your rooftops)" And for Cuomo... 古莫 means "not ancient". It's mostly phonetic

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North). What an absolute masterstroke.

if Teen Vogue as we know it dies today, I hope its team know in their hearts that they did more to champion democracy and freedom of speech and to mobilize citizens of all ages toward progressive causes than all the pundits at legacy outlets who sneered at the notion of wanting teens to be informed

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

The military activity in the Caribbean hits a bit different in this context.

Of all hellacious GenAI use cases, this one... doesn't bother me so much? We're already bombarded with ads, which are bullshit designed to convince me to buy stuff. Ads are already micro-targeted. If they're now going to be micro-generated, that seems like a pretty evolutionary step?

…I am absolutely convinced that being based in the Ohio/northern Kentucky area now has, for example, greatly benefited me in covering the second Trump era in ways I would rather have than still being based close to the White House

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops