“Voting is a privilege, not a right” is maybe the most axiomatically perverted thing someone can say in the context of a representative democracy. It’s not just a matter of degree, it’s that it completely inverts the source and recipient of power in a democracy.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

In other news: “Shithole countries” enters the Supreme Court record without censorship, thanks to one of the lawyers defending Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.

6-3 has become by far my least favorite combination of numbers

If you're a certain kind of power-seeker, it's really convenient that a lot of people know so little about history.

generally helpful to remember about 19th C US, like much of history: major social issues of the day were no more settled then than they are now, and contesting them took forms we'd readily recognize today

"We made this violent movie to show how violent our society is." Gee, thanks. Never would have known.

this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet

Why in my mind is "Young Walrus" potentially the name for a Svalbard rapper?

The Borough Hall rebuild is almost finished and has transformed this once bleak passage linking the 2/3 and 4/5 into something much better.

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

Some future historian will one day puzzle over the things we early-21st-century folk chose to name our soft drinks.

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

Strong "Oh yeah? Well, your FACE is wrong!" energy

I seem to have taken a wrong turn and ended up on 12-angry-men-tok. And I like it

Some very Nordic developments. Uppsala has launched a campaign to try to get people to say hi to each other. An opinion writer in the local newspaper: "I am not going to start to say hello to people".

The good news is, there are a lot of experienced, trained professionals on hand who can quickly gather all the appropriate facts and tell us exactly how this is bad news for the Democrats in the midterms.

A restaurant that served breakfast foods from around the world the entire day

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

POW/MIA ★ You are not forgotten

@peterapeel.bsky.social Elliott Gould plays Cookie Poker with Cookie Monster

It's all fun and games until another country decides to shade in *your* territory. youtu.be/N3Esp6ikwDc?...

To me, there is no more hilariously "a møøse once bit my sister!"-like phrase in Swedish than

kinda funny that I’ve gotten accused of not reading / listening to it (I did) but for some people it’s like “because you would’ve picked up on that they’re joking” and for others it’s like “because you’re not grasping the substance of the arguments”

woke 2 is a shitpost. woke 2 is a meme. no one can say what woke 2 is. and yet woke 2 is here, growing every day would you like to know more? www.liberalcurrents.com/what-is-woke...

Everyone Is 12, and it's time for a national B'nai Mitzvah already.

Talking about how heists are inherently cool and sexy is really not helping you beat the “a core problem of our age is that too many people think movies are real” charges, tbh

What obnoxiously bespoke moral codes these people have.

This is not wrong.

Well that settles that, would a problem drinker publicly rant about how unfairly he's been treated?

Lord knows we don't want any sexually explicit information in (checks notes) sex ed. 1819news.com/news/item/iv...

Let’s All Find Things to Be Mad About All the Time, Together: The Story of America Since 2016

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz: both open and closed.

This rehearsal studio understands its customers.

the nonbinary rapper who frequently gets misgendered as a man: Mx. Sir-a-Lot

Out of my cold, dead—though definitely still made of meat and bone—hands.

Sure seems like we're relearning why gambling has been considered a vice since the dawn of human civilization

Even if you disregard which "team" you're on, are these equally national concerns?

The "super-El Nino" talk is unhelpful clickbait hype. Current consensus forecast is for a Nino3.4 index of ~1.3C to materialize later this year. That's a *moderate* El Nino; pales in comparison w/ recent (e.g. 2016 & 2024) events. The truth remains bad enough! www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

look, there are only two political orientations, right wing and the exact same kind of communist as me

Never Forget variety.com/2026/film/ne...

I love having friends with art degrees.

NGL, I kinda hate this. (And by just saying that, I have broken at least two of the T.H.I.N.K. rules.)

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

We Ride at Dawn