great piece from @adamserwer.bsky.social on the “anti-woke” tax that americans now pay as a result of conservative identity politics run amok.

She and I have the same feelings about this week.

Three years ago today, @neildegrassetyson.com asserted on “Real Time with Bill Maher” that unlike atomic bombs, “… modern nukes [thermonuclear bombs] don’t have the radiation problem … not in the way we used to have to worry about with fallout and all the rest of that.” This is completely wrong.

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tony Montana face planting in a pile of crushed up Tylenol: “say hello to my model train!”

People should be pretty worried about this bullshit. Antifa is not actually a group and they absolutely know that. That means they are going to be able to stick the label on anyone they don't like and hit them with terror charges.

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

no one has ever deserved an Emmy more than this man

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Assassinations are not self nor community defense. This country is not at war, and we should *all* strive for it not to be. Violence begets violence and it is *never acceptable* to instigate it, and is a tragedy when it has to be done in self defense. It is to be avoided at almost all costs.

"Trump’s Vietnam meme references not just any war, but a colonial Cold War conflict in which the US invaded and occupied a distant nation. The image, then, presents Chicago as a territory to be colonized and conquered with violence, helicopters, and napalm."

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Strongly agreeing with this. Losing 2A rights would be bad enough on its own, but all of us being declared criminally mentally ill would be a crystal clear sign of even worse to come. That they are even entertaining it is spine-tingling.

Y’all seen this?

Jeffrey Esptein "ran" New Albany, you say? We need to put Leslie Wexner in prison.

JFC WOW

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

Everyone's screaming about how the left doesn't compromise and I keep saying I will vote for this guy. I am a communist who will vote for a billionaire. Centrists, tell me about even one instance when you have compromised like anything close to this. Or at all.

calling up his girlfriend from the minors

One year ago today: We successfully duped Vivek Ramaswamy into thinking he was going to meet Ohio State head football coach Ryan Day and address our beautiful local football team. Instead, he gave a speech to an empty Cane’s parking lot. www.rooster.info/p/vivek-rama...

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Once again, republicans are allowed to talk shit about entire parts of our country and get away with it. This is the president’s son. Replace this with any prominent Democrat and it would be nonstop coverage. It’s more than clear now this is a choice.

They took out the Cracker *and* the Barrel?!?!?!

Experts often talk as if there are distinct "types" of homelessness—chronic vs episodic, hidden vs visible—but they miss something crucial. Homelessness is a *spectrum of insecurity*: in a squalid motel today, on someone's couch tomorrow, in a tent next year. Sweeps do NOTHING to stop this cycle.

New in PN: Trump isn't the solution to the "crisis of manhood," he's the problem "The more obvious the alteration in a woman’s appearance — even to the point of grotesqueness — the more she's shown her commitment to serve him. No one needs to tell Noem to get back in her place. She’s already there"

Essentially, as @mildlydiverting.bsky.social points out, a lot of the use cases which techbros put forward for AI are ones which require them to develop adult skills - like knowing what to say to women. It’s a way of letting them be perpetually toddlers.

what would mister rogers do? get enraged seriously. his word choice. he gave us permission, said it's healthy:

Why. Is. Everyone. So. Dumb. When they tell you (they ALWAYS tell you) to leave your bag, LEAVE YOUR BAG. One dude brings his roller and nearly crushes his kid because he falls on top of them. Also they tell you not to stand around and film they want you to all go to one area away from the plane.

I like that people enjoy this one. Feels nice sometimes to drop the pretense and let out my genuine wish that everyone achieve some sort of security and ability to appreciate and find joy in their idiosyncracies.

It's important to remember that whenever a tragedy occurs in a red state it is not time for political finger pointing but when one happens in a blue state it is the result of the horrible communist policies of the democrats

happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

Fingers crossed for this afternoon. I really want things to go well.

I really don’t want to be here today. This job is giving me anxiety attacks and I just realized that. Ugh

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

GET YOUR WAR ON by the great David Rees, nearly 24 (!) years ago. www.mnftiu.cc/category/gyw...

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

you need to read this

The same people criticizing the protestors who protect their neighbors from violent abduction will ask “Why isn’t anyone doing anything?” This is doing something. And resistance isn’t palatable or polite. When you are resisting violence, there aren’t always nonviolent solutions

To the liberals on this site. The kids on the street fighting against federal forces are the same people you’ve been telling to enjoy the camps for the last year and a half because they were against Israel genocide in Gaza

Genuinely hate this shit the defeatism is just pure neoliberal demobilization disguised as radicalism. Yeah nobody is coming to save you it's always been like this, are you going to sit here complaining about it or are you going to fucking organize Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake