otoh if Maradona wasn't 20% cocaine by bodyweight by the late 80s, we would never have got he pre match warmup so iconic it defeated Bayern in a UEFA semi before a ball had been kicked www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU2J...

"Radical transparency [except, if we have to state the obvious & natural as if it's a caveat, for us few Superiors, who will control this network and everything else]" Even in a radically egalitarian society, with power very evenly distributed, this would be kind of a nightmare (impossible anyway)

the core of the centrist freakout is “how could voters unsatisfied with the status quo choose such an extreme ideology” and man what those voters are choosing is a lot less extreme than what republican voters did in similar circumstances so idk what you guys expected

The Knicks celebration + progressive primary wins + rent freeze seems to be hitting anti-NYCers hard on social media. It's a reminder to me that for many people, my city's function is to reassure them by serving as a semi-abstract idea of hell, and when we don't deliver that, the force is disturbed.

vindicated on my longheld belief that the dems could've won way more often even without giving lefties like me anything if they just poured money into the basic on the ground fundamentals instead of consultants and ads, but they don't, didn't, and won't

This is why I keep harping on how there is this political-news media construction that only right wingers are Real Americans--they know exactly what they're doing, and part of how it works is defining anything that those people don't like as weird, un-American, extreme.

This is almost too generous. It’s not if there IS another motive; it’s if the court can IMAGINE another motive.

I never spoke on this publicly but we were also subject to an anonymous false report— we thought it was a political attack, but it turned out it was the deranged 44 yo racist who lives downstairs with his mom. Despite clear lies (padded room, wrong gender of child), CPS “had” to investigate 🧵

"They hate The West" this alone, in 2026 from a liberal, is just amazing. Especially when the most famous young lefty politicians in the US exude a deep love for their home in its entirety. But I guess like, NY and other cities are not real America? What'll they say when a DSA-er wins in rural PA?

I think we're going to see more of this as trans people have been made to be pariahs again. Instead of it being vocally cruel and hostile, it'll be fetishizing content that treats trans people, especially trans women, as sex objects. Not that it ever wasn't always a fact of trans existence.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

I am once again saying that the people who do this are evil but the facts that cops are a loaded gun any random person on the internet can pick up and fire is a far bigger problem

Every maga thing absolutely REEKS of weakness even more than just 1 yr ago. Even purely aesthetically (which is always an outsize part of fascist movements anyway) all of the 250th stuff has this really desperate feel to it. Giant golden eagle statues that no one young or old recognizes as Americana

it is incredibly funny how centrist democrats and republicans are both panicking in the exact same ways right now

Mycroft: my sweet brother, truly the one mystery you couldn’t solve was the mystery of “two guys falling off something” Watson: my dearest friend I shall miss you, it is with warm feelings I recall our last conversation, where you revealed to me that Moriarty’s one weakness was to get his ass beat

“.. The development, confirmed to The Associated Press by a Pentagon official, comes amid a growing, weekslong, flu outbreak at the U.S. Air Force’s boot camp .. that has sickened nearly 300 people. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/pent...

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#Slop is not exclusively a product of generative AI. It‘s maybe not even primarily an effect of social media. It‘s a mode of fascist worldbuilding

bitch you can't be serious the fragility and pettiness of these people, who aren't content just to strip away people's rights they want to pretend they're Good and Just Doing Law, too, and are deeply offended when people acknowledge otherwise

the truly enraging thing is that sam alito will never face this question from a member of the public. we have allowed these people to create a wall between themselves and the people they rule over.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Today's TPS decision is so fucking cruel because Haitians and Syrians followed all the rules that they were supposed to follow and now they're all of a sudden here "illegally" because a bunch of racists said so. I'm feeling so much fury on behalf of the many Haitians I know.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

A local construction company just signed our anti-ICE pledge. It's not some hokey pokey shit, either. They've been around for about 60 or so years.

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

It's so funny that Dem leadership pussied out on really punishing Jan 6th. Of all the corruption in American life that they were complicit in, Jan 6th was the least; something for which the other party was obviously entirely to blame.

there's no example of peak 2020 woke excess that can possibly compare to the pure gutter racism pumping out of the GOP House on a daily basis and yet the broader Republican Party is almost never held to account

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

i keep seeing commercials that don’t make sense because they refer to deep lore from the other commercials in the same cinematic universe

Why does planning an essay feel like you're doing all the work before doing the work, Grammarly? Because learning the subject, figuring out what you want to say, and planning out of the structure of how to say it *IS* the vast majority of the work of writing. Any writer knows this. You do too.

If you don’t care about people dying entirely preventable deaths or you don’t think that taxes & government should work to protect citizens from preventable harms then there’s probably no point talking to you, but every 1 dollar spent on syringe service programs saves us all 7 dollars in other costs

You might remember that Elon asked the UN for a plan to eradicate global hunger and when they produced a highly-detailed plan in front of them he ghosted.

the national media will paint them as antifa terrorists because the national media is owned by the fascists now.

Benjamin "Champagne" Hanil Song was just sentenced to 100 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

“At some point we’ve got to start saying the cultural right are wrong. That their ideal of a culturally (and possibly racially) pure country, with no trans or gender non-conforming people in it, is a perverse fantasy.”

You can laugh at this but it’s fifty years of reactionary politics at a glance. Yes, they got everything they demanded; yes, they’re angrier than ever and yes, they want more cruelty, vandalism and idiocy. As I told you in the 2010s: they will always be like this, they can’t be pleased or appeased.

from the people who brought you The Iraq War

The way crime is reported-often that it is reported at all-is an integral part of why we have the pathological emphasis on policing & retribution in the US justice system that we do. People simply are not going to believe statistics when they can hear about a new horrible crime every waking moment.

People keep acting like the fascists care about "crime." THEY DO NOT. They care about domination & fear. They will fearmonger re: "crimes" committed by out groups while cheering on the "crimes" committed by "their people" Meanwhile liberals keep bleating on about hypocrisy when hierarchy matters.

www.medievalists.net/2015/05/the-... This story sounds exactly like a morality tale my very religious mom might've told me about a devout raj, or that might've appeared in like a Birbal the Wise comic

I'm imagining a blessed scenario where many millions of Americans finally start questioning other stories of widespread rampant crime like in the narratives they've been endlessly told for decades. "Could those have been lies too? By how much? When did it start being more lies than truth?"

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

i am begging everyone to go meet other human beings in real life

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The DARVO politics of the Trump admin are unmatched, down to arresting people and blaming them for the paint peeling off the bottom of the Reflecting Pool. It's basically federal policy to blame everything you screw up on someone unrelated

please tell me algae is not still a news story

when people say that there is an entire welfare network for far right cranks that are bankrolled by local car barons and billionaires, what that means is that every university is prone to opening a Center For Freedom Thoughts Studies that focuses on how to ban trans people and put migrants in camps.

Flip the colors and the headlines would read “democrats out of step with majority of Americans”