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Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

not only can they not believe someone could be this stupid, they cannot believe they themselves would have been stupid enough to vote for someone this stupid, so there must be some kind of twelve dimensional chess going on with respect to the emperor and his clothes

Who came out on top in the negotiations between President Trump and China's Xi Jinping? We asked four unvaccinated Buffalo Sabres fans who'd been ejected from an NHL playoff game.

Reminder of something Trump doesn't know but other people should: -Treason carries death penalty -Thus Trump effectively saying NYT people should be executed -Press gaggle response='oh that wacky Trump' -Couldn't *someone* follow up w "Sir, since treason is a capital offense, are you saying..." ?

the Democratic party would enjoy much broader support if they stopped cloning The Dad From 'Get Out' to flood everyone's mentions with smuggest, most self congratulatory dogshit takes the world has ever seen

Great sign for the GOP in the midterms when they'd rather talk about skyrocketing gas prices than Trump's cult-leader blasphemy

Duck feeds grain from the tray to the fishes instead of eating alone. 😍

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

TPUSA was promoting an anti-trans event on Juniper's campus when she was stabbed to death Sunday. I'm pretty well-informed + I only heard about this today on the "It Could Happen Here" podcast. Violence against trans and nonbinary people has skyrocketed in recent years. Media coverage is dismal.

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

Just...I need everyone to realize how far we have fallen. This is, like, the sixth thing Trump said in this presser that would have been career-ending for any politician of 20 years ago.

I’m getting a puppy next week!

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

the internet used to be mostly images like this

Markwayne is saying arrests at the World Cup are “not off the table” while saying the Gestapo won’t have a presence there out the other side of his face. DO NOT COME HERE IT IS NOT SAFE!!!!

Peekaboo

And here I am struggling every day with imposter syndrome

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

the two genders:

memory is a superpower

*wearily* They have to work together, but The Fantastic Pho

Someone check my math here - back of the envelope, I come up with this being around 6x higher compensation for Jan 6 participants as compared to the 9/11 victims fund.

Keeping the payees Anonymous, and the 5 member deciding board ENTIRELY unaccountable to anyone, including Congress, makes this expenditure seem like a blatant money grab, that they KNOW is wrong/illegal, so they're making sure there's no trail for investigators to follow later. 🤬

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

A mom in a Toyota Sienna pulls a Cybertruck out of a treacherous sandpit

I love that medication just keeps becoming legal and illegal and legal to ship every 15 minutes, great for our emotional regulation

here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Perfect metaphor. Twitter has fully morphed into a Habermosh-pit at a neo-Nazi skinhead concert. Niche platforms like Bluesky will never match the reach of Twitter or Facebook at their peak, but that doesn't mean it can't be a pleasant place to hang out, talk about cool shit, and learn new things.

This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America

the crimes of this era are nigh innumerable but what the united states has done to the global south will live forever in infamy

There was this guy driving me nuts at work because he was always going on about potholes. The other day I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine and infodumped on him about air filters for an hour. He loved it. We're best friends now

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

... You can see that he is using the example of a 100MW centre (which he considers, I think correctly, to be much bigger than the average). He gets an estimate of the heat Island effect in the region 0.2-0.5°C over a one mile radius. But this is a 16GW centre - it's 160 times the energy!

As a lawyer who debated the Federalist Society (and never lost), this is so true.

Turns out that Americans get really, really, REALLY excited about good government, taxing the rich, and balanced budgets. Who’da thunk it?

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

To the Epstein adjacent billionaire absolute freaks pushing this dogshit on all of us, chatbots sound normal. Chatbots just sound like literally every single person they have talked to for *years* as they go about their day living in a potemkin village of simpering sycophancy.

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.