Joe Lonsdale is the key billionaire behind the Bari Weiss faux uni of Austin.

I don't really know what the administration hopes to gain by picking fights with the most well-liked pop artists in the United States. You're just generating backlash for no discernible reason outside of owning the libs.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

these stupid assholes think they’re going to be able to have a firefight in the morning, walk away from a cool explosion at lunch and take the family out to chili’s for dinner and I cannot stress enough that is not what civil war looks like

controversial opinion: movie studios should not be be owned by guys who's dream is every living person watching Stranger Things Fireplace For Your Home 24/7

160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified. People say it abolished slavery, but it didn’t. Slavery still exists as a punishment for a crime. Alabama fast food restaurants have incarcerated people working for little to no money. The Louisiana State Penitentiary has inmates in fields.

trump stripped of fifa peace prize after routine military invasion of oberlin college descends into lurid massacre

On January 1st, 2026, the Scrungology Department will unveil a world-changing study which will completely change the way the scientific world regards Anthropoda's most scuffed genus. With an astonishing 61 samples, this will be the most comprehensive review of the material since 1987

I’VE BEEN SAYING

Focusing on a single incident makes it resonate with the public more. It doesn't somehow justify the other killings, it illustrates the larger problem. The right is good at this, sometimes in bad faith. For example, Laken Riley. Basically "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."

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Is it frowned upon for journalists to reprint paragraphs from their articles nearly verbatim in their books? nymag.com/intelligence...

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back. Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance. Be a housing fan.

I promise I will stop soon but I have to share this insane three-page sequence about immigration policy with a payoff you will absolutely not see coming.

Writing a book about my love affair with a sentient misogynist piece of beef jerky, including a random paragraph about some raccoon, as you do. Which raccoon? You know, the one, right?

Marveling at how this book appears to be designed in a lab to infuriate me specifically

Siccing dogs on people is a slave tracker thing, a Bull Connor thing, a police brutality thing, a jackboot thug thing, an evil abuse of both dog and man which only a fully corrupted spirit could enact.

Most accurate post about Trump remains that Reddit post that was like “Stupid Americans are the new Irish Americans and Trump is their JFK”

The man leaned toward the officer like wheatgrass in a blustery spring. His arms stretched downward, toward the soil, as if pulling at the firmament of the nation itself. Finally from his lips, a plaintive query: "What are thoooooose?"

If you want to notice how dry the air in your apartment is, return home from England

I love to drive my wife insane by reading Nuzzi excerpts, and when we got to the one with the "A blue blue," part she just blurted out the Mr. Krabs "A smell, a smelly smell, a smelly smell that... smells..." lmaooooooo

Truly sorry to keep posting these but I cannot believe this book is real.

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

Is there anywhere in New York City where you could look down and "dozens and dozens" of cockroaches would be at your feet?

I haven't been able to backstop this number but I have seen some reasonable ish estimates for $20B/yr. The per year part is really important.

Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

My dedication to popularism requires me to recommend that Democrats pledge to imprison Joe Biden

*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud *More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job *37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate *36% believe NASA faked the moon landing *1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism

Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

This is bizarre but also an example of how the US corporate media as a whole treats Trump. They seem compelled by a kind of submissive herd instinct to be his stenographers and loud hailers. Somehow he fascinates them.

screw it this is a for the emperor-the traitor’s hand livetweet thread now

This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

This was the "more important thing" he was so busy with he didn't have time to work on child safety btw so that was time well spent

t’s obvious the artist had never seen a real dragon

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

MASSIVE attack on Ukraine right now

Louisiana paroled nine prisoners to deport them. We found that at least two have been deported, while two others are being held at a new immigration detention facility. But neither ICE nor the Landry admin would answer questions about the other five. With @veritenews.org

4/ GOP Chair Wicker and Ranking Member Reed, Senate Armed Services, "requested copies of the execute orders related to the strikes in September, without success. ... Bradley supported sharing the materials when asked by lawmakers Thursday but noted that he alone was not authorized to release them."

The story of Albany, Georgia, is the story of American health care. Sick in a Hospital Town, a new series from ProPublica, debuts Sunday, Dec. 7. Sign up to get it in your inbox: https://propub.li/4avwBsi

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

So not only were we busy telling the world what we were doing on insecure Signal chats, we were shooting down our own people at the same time. It has costs to put incompetent people in charge of national security, and I fear we are just beginning to pay them. www.businessinsider.com/navy-warship...

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along

Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max. This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else. Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.