We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

This is a big part of what political parties used to do, back when the local party cadres still had some actual influence.

Frankly, I have always wondered why more campaigns didn't do this. Constituent services are such an important part of good politics.

Epstein got rich by being extremely good at fraud. Which means that if you were just friends with him because of the $$$ and not the "girls," IT'S STILL REALLY BAD! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

it makes me cry every single year. merry christmas to one and all.

Turns out the Pottery Barn rule applies to the constitutional order too, Brett: you break it, you own it.

So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

I've kept telling all of you since the beginning that these fucks are going to destroy themselves, and they keep obliging. Character is destiny. The trick is trying to minimize the long-term collateral damage that hits everyone else.

Something which isn't always acknowledged is that "contrarian thinkers" are just regurgitating conventional wisdom with a little extra racism, and these forbidden views are generally expressed by the most platformed mainstream figures, like Pinker.

Somehow sending the spiked segment to Global TV is just a perfect Four Seasons Total Landscaping move, and we’re absolutely gonna win.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

ma'am its being torrented so hard right now

The revolution will not be televised, but it will damn well be posted.

you cannot stop a united army of posters.

For Willie Nelson, music is medicine. “Singing for an hour is good for you,” he says. His daughter Amy puts it more bluntly: “I think it’s literally keeping him alive.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Fhv7rE

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

If it weren't for Bari Weiss, the CECOT video wouldn't go viral as it did. Kudos, I guess.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

There should be INTERNATIONAL criminal warrants out for everybody involved. So that way if any of these people who facilitated this ever leave their home countries, they’re getting cuffed.

America desperately needs opposition politicians running on a platform of tribunals, truth & reconciliation committees, and severe punishment for the worst offenders in this administration.

DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three

47. As Amory Lovins has said for years, no one wants a lump of coal, or a barrel of oil. All we want is a hot shower and a cold beer. And if we can get that heat and light and chilling without paying for (or burning) fuel, we're all happier... with one notable exception.

Pope Leo I have the solution for you and it’s to call Whoopi Goldberg and make the third one and pay these adorable old ladies for the rights to their story, I know you saw the other two, I know you watch movies

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

I know this is something I circle back to a lot, but it honestly feels, to me, like half the attacks on our trans siblings roots back to "children aren't people." The doctor said "boy," so I get to be the parent of a boy child! Not a girl child! How dare my child want things I don't want?!

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

How come when the children put a hat on Frosty and he comes to life it’s cute and kitschy, but when I write “emet” on this lump of clay and it comes to life suddenly I’m “bringing destruction on the whole village” and I have to “make it stop??”

Having just experienced transit in 15 North American cities over the past 7 weeks I can attest that at lot of transit agencies are leaving so much money on the table by not making merch out of this stuff.

The experience of using transit is just so much better with modern technology that tells you which routes to take and how long you have to wait. I’m not that old but I remember calling numbers at bus stops to get the scheduled (not actual) arrival time!

NO QUIERO HEAR ANOTHER SINGLE FUCKIN PALABRA ABOUT CIVIL DISCOURSE AVEC LOS FUCKOS

i do not think it is a coincidence that almost everyone insisting in my mentions that being attractive doesn’t matter that much in online video is a cis white guy

I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

When I was a kid, cynics said "the president claims his war is about human rights but it's REALLY about controlling oil!". Now cynics are saying "the president claims his war is about controlling oil but it's REALLY about his own personal involvement in a mass child trafficking network!".

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Some takeaways from the Susie Wiles interview in no particular order. 1) Before anyone congratulates her on telling the truth, we must first acknowledge that when it comes to the craziest and most unqualified cabinet members...she absolutely fucking loves it because deep state something something.

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Sound off good cookbooks in the responses, everyone give someone you know a cookbook and maybe they will give you one and we can survive the cyber apocalypse

for starters, relying on the alien and sedition acts as the source for original public meaning runs into the little problem of the alien and sedition acts being so violently unpopular that they helped deliver the presidency to Jefferson and helped inaugurate the terminal decline of the federalists

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

Rob Reiner was one of the few celebs whose involvement in politics and activism felt genuine and was rooted in good faith

retvrn to mystery stories based around the actual mystery and not whether the detective is sad and/or wet

the last 24 hours have been nightmarish in their violence, and I just am so angry this is the world we are in and god damn it

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about

this is a thread of joy and literal light. 💓