i do not think that nonhuman things have feelings to be hurt but i do think the intent to hurt feelings is bad for a person notwithstanding whether the object of their sadism is real

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realizing that I do, under these specific circumstances, gotta hand it to Durbin

i need someone with access to democratic senators to get a THEY BREAK UPON US going in the group chat

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

SALUTE/ACTUAR!

impossible, I was repeatedly assured by people on this site that the dems can never do anything and were not only definitely going to give in but would probably also offer to kick a bunch of puppies while they were at it

the last couple of seconds, where he’s clearly expecting cheers and applause and realizes they’re not coming, should be in a museum. if he were almost anyone else on earth the secondhand embarrassment would make this completely unwatchable for me. incredible.

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

like, the fact that they felt this spectacle was necessary is itself evidence that they don't have the military support that they want

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

if I were trying to build a thousand-year reich I would simply not force my entire military leadership to take time out of their busy schedules and fly in for a meeting at short notice, then spend the entire time telling them they're all fat woke losers for whom I have nothing but contempt

tapping my "intentionally exposing yourself to content online that you know is going to enrage/trigger/terrify/otherwise severely distress you can and often does constitute self-harm, and sharing said content is passing that harm onto others" sign

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

Look, this is fine. They’re in the endgame and they’re all playing parts to posture in advance of a shutdown should it happen, so that the other guys get blamed. We’re not the audience.

the continuing resolution does not create any substantive policies that are not in the BBB, which does not have anti-trans stuff itself because of the work of Sarah McBride and Tammy Baldwin in removing it please stop letting idiots rile you up with panic

the article going around saying that Dems are negotiating banning transgender healthcare cites two sources: Trump talking about "trans surgeries for everybody," and a Reddit thread from someone who is confusing the FY2026 budget and the continuing resolution

continuing resolution /= FY2026 budget the anti-trans provisions people are freaking their shit about are in the FY2026 budget, the continuing resolution is what's being negotiated over ostensibly. the FY2026 budget is not anywhere near passing and Dems have not offered to negotiate passing it.

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

actually, no, that's not fair, not everything your classmates didn't like in 2002 was deemed "gay"; they also used the r-word.

everything your classmates didn't like was "gay" and if you were in a relatively liberal area (i.e. one where being out sucked but didn't endanger your life) and tried to point out the problem with this, the best you could hope for was people saying they didn't mean it like THAT, just, yknow, gay.

shoutout to everyone who was living in the dc area in 2002 and hadn't noticed until someone else pointed it out that when you stop to fill up your car you still spend as little time outside the car as possible

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

truly nothing to say but lol, lmao

some days you ask a question and have 15 experts breaking it down for you in concert. in exchange every other day you will get intrusive thoughts like “ACAB includes ghostbusters. post it. post it right now. right fucking now.”

Posting is a Faustian bargain where in exchange for degrading your mental health you intermittently get access to a far smarter meta-brain.

space noir Mass Effect spinoff series centered on Gianna Parisini. I am no longer asking 🔫

It’s why you don’t let the cranks get into power, but now we gotta deal with it, and I think there’s going to be a fair amount of us sitting down and shutting up when institutions say something we’re mostly on board with but have mild disagreements on.

One puzzle we’re going to have to solve after Trump is how to rebuild trust in institutions. You can and should say “don’t listen to the CDC here”, but that’s also undermine trust in institutions, which is also part of their agenda. It’s a nasty little trap and I don’t know how to get out of it.

I don’t know that “vegan leather” is my MOST beloathed marketing euphemism, but it’s definitely high on the list

it turns out it is extraordinarily difficult to save the lives of millions without generating some soft power

He thinks the T stands for Tylenol

everybody wants to debate whether it would be ethical to use time travel to kill Hitler and nobody wants to talk about whether it was ethical to destroy the freeze ray the Anti-Time Rangers gave Sherman during the Atlanta Offensive of the Hundred Years/Twenty Seconds War

may be scarce for a day or two due to holiday stuff but shanah tovah, friends, and here’s to making the world better in 5786 🥂🍎🍯💚💚💚

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

the context for this is SO good

if you have the great misfortune of being on linkedin: settings > data privacy > data for generative AI improvement > off

my mom just learned about Ea-Nasir and she is having a very good time

We appreciate being in conversation and community with y’all. From Chicago to LA ✊🏾

Imagining being the military governor of Alabama and the first day on the job you catch Osama bin Laden and his friends. You're about to execute them but then Godzilla attacks and they get away. Also, you almost executed bin Laden's innocent pizza guy by accident and the pizza guy is actually Jesus.

"Well, well, well, look who's back. Not so easy to find salt of the earth country folk who don't suck shit, is it?"

let me live my life with the boundless joy and delight of the baby on this bus, who is tapping any nearby surface and managing an approximation of “knock knock”, and let me live it also with the tender and endless patience of her mother, who says “who’s there?” every time

put too much juice in my midmorning smoothie so it's thinner than I like. but I'm being so brave about it

I am not the first person to say some variation on this, but it bears reiterating: society if Trump had gone into musical theater instead of real estate

This is flatly untrue. There wasn’t even a recorded vote.

There was no vote on this, what are we doing here

more and more people are saying it

In an age where Americans sell their souls for the thinnest of reasons, justice called for the thickest of men.

it’s actually pretty decent of the dept head to try and rotate venues for our monthly in-person meeting so no one person is always screwed commute-wise, but today it’s the space near O’Hare and thus it is my turn, along with the couple other people on the south side, to be screwed commute-wise