A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.

This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.

Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world

More and more people are growing ever more ashamed and disgusted with the ICE thuggery and overreach, the affronts to civil liberties and destruction of families. But perhaps now is the time politically to credit a racist president with securing the border. Hakeem Jefferies could ruin a wet dream.

So… all the people who were telling us to stop criticizing any Dems — do you believe me that Hakeem Jeffries is a problem yet?

List of white men (and 2 women) who stood there grinning as Trump gave the most racist & xenophobic public speech in history of Oval Office.

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

also: stop giving your money to corporate media and give it to independent journalists and worker owned news organizations also a functional public media system popular in most European countries is proven to result in healthier democracies

spoiler: mass media consolidated in the hands of ad-based corporations owned by a handful of right wing billionaires is easily exploited by a wide variety of bad actors and fatal to democracy and informed consensus

it occurs to me that people who say "trans people didn't exist until the last decade or so" really only have the object permanence of a toddler where everything came into existence the moment they heard about it and not a second before

“This guy is the hardest worker in the world when he’s playing golf” is exactly the level of patronizing lie that we all deserve for being at this point in history

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

In my lifetime every time we’ve had a GOP president we have had an economic slump. Reagan-Bush, Bush II, Trump. And every time we have had a Democrat it’s been economic recovery: Clinton, Obama, Biden. Every. Time.

Republicans are terrible for business

It was so funny when that batch of Epstein emails came out and several NYT reporters came on here to tell us how it was actually great that Epstein had a catch and kill scheme run out of NYT and they covered it up when they caught wind

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

It also just says a lot about us collectively that we’re so lonely that some of us are turning to literal robots to have any kind of emotional connection. There’s no third spaces anymore. No free time. No money. No time to enjoy things. Of course we’re fucking lonely. ☹️

NYT discovering what everyone with a grandparent on the wrong side of sundown has discovered- if you start trying to cover up for the loss of filter, that soon becomes the only job

Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.

Wonder how folks involved in the boat strikes feel about a successor administration declaring presidential pardons invalid.

Bluesky, the niche website for whiny leftists that doesn’t matter in the real world, is now potentially flipping elections

Make fun all you want but you try to get a little nap time in on live TV. Bet you can’t.

NEW: Another purge of immigration judges just happened, this time in New York City. This latest purge includes one of the smartest people I know, an immigration judge who dutifully served on the bench for 10 years. She was unceremoniously fired in violation of civil service laws.

we should keep stressing out the alcoholic in charge of murdering people on the ocean

Not sure the "we're totally responsible for all the illegal murderings, except this one, which people are upset about, so we didn't order that one" is going to stick.

thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.

They're actively encouraging lawlessness by arresting people who follow the rules so they can call others who try to avoid this outcome criminals

It’s always fun to see the clips of the Sunday political shows because you get to go “yep the news lets people lie to them for an hour and airs it”

Sorry to be a broken record but it's nuts to me that the New York Times would write an entire article summarizing a court ruling and refuse to provide a link to said ruling. This is a disservice to readers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n... Here's the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Calling the newspaper because I'm flunking social studies.

Happy "let's circle back in the New Year" season to all who celebrate.

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

the pardon power as it currently exists has to go, man, there just isn’t any way that the way which trump has used it can be consistent with small-d democratic governance, it just can’t.

it's really bothered me for quite a while that all it would really take is like 5 republicans in congress to grow a sac and this whole thing starts to get gummed up. just like a handful of sinemas

I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

For the journalist who finally asks him “how does that 700% reduction work?” I will make a contribution to the charity of that reporter’s choice. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

enjoy being whilst becoming

The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of: -ABC, which bribed the president -CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans -WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor Fools.

Anyway, enough distractions, it‘s time to get serious and debate rural healthcare policy

Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.

just gonna keep self-RTing this one until it’s no longer relevant

In the last week, Donald Trump has called for the murder of Congressional Democrats and threatened to unilaterally declare an invasion of Venezuela. If Congressional Republicans followed the Constitution, both of these would be removable offenses. But, they’re loyal to Trump, not the constitution.

I’m sorry… this is crazy

The president is mentally unwell and just says things. He is going to arrest Biden for perjury! He is going to invade Nigeria! He is going to abolish income tax! The press just ignores this because it isn't serious. But it robs the public of a chance to see how broken everything is.