I’ve been saying this forever: How many times do I have to listen to the same shitty argument before I can no longer be accused of being in a bubble?

This is quite good. Apparently, if the "anti-ice" bullet was real, it was almost certainly a case of the shooter being an ironic edge lord, & not an actual reflection of his politics. Explaining online irony to people who aren't online is extremely difficult though

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

You see this is why I'll never make it in the podcast game. I'd just say "No it's not" and the episode would be over.

This has been one of my favorite ongoing bits to check in on lately. Lmao.

Day 38 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

It's tempting to blame the ineffective resistance of Democrats on Schumer & Jeffries (and to be clear, we need to get rid of them), but doing that alone won't fix the fundamental problem with the Democratic Party: what they're selling isn't appealing to any base of voters

Democrats: "we need to stop doing identity politics, & focus more on kitchen table issues" Me: ok, that's a false choice. You can embrace left wing economic populism without throwing marginalized groups to the wolves Democrats: "oh, we're not doing economic populism either" Me: ok then...

Question: do the pundits who constantly bitch about "Blueskyism" think that people on here are not exposed to centrist, reactionary centrist, & conservative ideas—the ones that are CONSTANTLY put forth in legacy media? Or are they just mad that we don't think they're cool?

Keep an eye on how many of these turn out to be ones that tried to unionize

Pokémon Responds To DHS' Video Using The Original Anime's Theme https://kotaku.com/pokemon-responds-to-dhs-video-using-the-original-animes-theme-2000628222

The only way to deal with bullies of this sort is to stand your ground, & if necessary, fight back (literally & figuratively).

He steps aside as the bull is coming.

If they sold them for $150, it would take about 6 million of them to finance a billion dollar new arena. So...I need 6 million of you to get your shit together & buy one.

in retrospect it's clear he meant it as a compliment

Odd to me this country has disappeared 1,800 people that were held in Alligator Alcatraz. Ice can’t/won’t say where they are and elected officials are not screaming from the rooftops. News media disinterested.

"It’s a dark, highly pessimistic scenario. The possibility of invoking the Federal Contested Elections Act makes gerrymandering seem quaint. But one lesson of this year is that whatever isn’t nailed down in advance is apt to be seized at the earliest opportunity." www.thebulwark.com/p/dirty-proc...

Coming soon to an administrative stay near you!

it's kind of funny that harris is now seemingly admitting that her position on gaza fucked her *and* continuing to blame protestors for..... something? being annoying?? i swear sometimes centrists lack the ability to recognize causal connections. everything is just a miasma of nuance

ACE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan: "Somebody chose to come in and kill these detainees while they were being processed." (Note how administration officials don't have their stories straight on this.)

These people can be stood up to, people telling you they can’t are their dupes

Just a reminder that armed, masked men snatching people up in unmarked vans on the orders of the president, the very top of the Republican Party, is political violence.

Stop disappearing people with no criminal record, stop threatening their children to lure them into being captured, stop encouraging citizens to rat each other out, stop censoring comedians and academics, stop weaponizing the law, stop whipping up hate at the most vulnerable. Then maybe.

The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing. Good luck whoever is to my right! #cars

for no reason in particular, just thinking about all those times cops claimed baristas wrote something offensive on their cup and it turned out the cop wrote it

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

lol. Lmao.

The increase in poverty after Democrats let the Child Tax Credit expire was astronomical at the time. The conclusion that poverty increased under Biden never should have been controversial.

"Why was everyone yelling at Stancil about the state of the economy & the level of poverty under Joe Biden?" Because Stancil was wrong. Now the data proves it.

A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.

I own this exact jersey I own many others, but this is the only one I find myself wearing semi-regularly. Perhaps there have been jerseys as good as this one, but none of them are better than this one

I got bitten by a radioactive HOA president and now I can see a garbage bin from a mile away

This just in. Kash Patel reports that this was also written on one of the bullets used in the Dallas ICE prison shooting. "Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me."

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

part of my brain: don't give into conspiratorial thinking. sure, these people lie all the time about everything, the dumbest shit with the most meaningless stakes, but i don't think they'd doctor evidence louder part of my brain: why not

They think we're so dumb, man. Then again, if this is just for their base, they're probably on the money.

obviously the history of cops lying about shit is extensive, but this is easily the least trustworthy they've ever been and that's a hell of a bar to clear especially bad if we're really starting to ramp up into the years of lead

it would be nice to be able to trust a god damn thing the FBI says about anything right now, just saying

Ok, FBI saying “engraved with anti-ICE messages and someone writes “Anti-ICE” on a shell in sharpie is some keystone cops business.

Yeah, this is a load of shit from law enforcement

writing "self defense" on all my ammo just in case anyone ever asks me any questions that are already answered by the ammo

It's pretty clear that LLMs have the ability to destroy the brains of certain kinds of people. I will never be able to understand how that happens to anyone though. Like...how do you spew bullshit like this & actually believe it?

It will be interesting to see how this story is covered if ICE detainees were indeed the targets of this shooting.

Wait...the Vikings playing in Dublin. They're kicking off at 8:30 am to accommodate for the local time zone. What time will it be in Dublin then? 2:30 PM I'm sorry, but what the fuck are we even doing here? If they kicked off 3.5 hours later, it would be at noon in MN, & 6:00 pm in Dublin

Sinclair doesn't own any major networks in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro...but we still have a local family of fascists who own one the local ABC affiliate. They also own the ABC affiliate for the rural area of Austin MN. Oddly, Kimmel was on the air for the Twin Cities, but not for Austin MN

An interesting thing about the Kimmel show. I’ve never watched his show. Hubbard broadcasting owns both KSTP (Twin Cities) and KAAL (Austin). They’re running the show on KSTP but not KAAL. Next time the @startribune.com or others say that city folks “other” rural folks, point to this.

Immigration agents collected DNA samples from about 2,000 U.S. citizens who were stopped at border checkpoints over a four-year period, even though hundreds were not charged, Georgetown University researchers said in a report. Its authors argued that the agents exceeded their authority.

We're about to live in even more interesting times.