Comparing the US and an EU country on social safety net spending is massively misleading, because the EU has, as just one example, much stronger unions, so corporations pay there instead of in taxes.

why I've become against 'directionally correct' lies. you can't control where this shit goes. here the misapprehension that defense is half the budget is being used (not by OP) to partially *justify* invasion and imperialism. I know it kinda sucks to be the 'actually' guy, but the truth does matter

maybe another way to frame it: is there any part or tactic of the 10s social justice movements that failed to achieve their goals, and participants need to reconsider, or all the shortcomings and missteps due to environmental conditions that have now changed?

have seen some folks mention or contemplate that there were parts of “Woke 1.0” that were inept, too much, ham-fisted, etc. Without putting anyone on the spot, has anyone more concretely described what, exactly, they think were the inept or too much parts?

Stephen Miller is there to remind us of the dignity & class of Nixon's criminals.

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to memory-hole Jan. 6, thousands of videos from the riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. Additionally, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. (Published Jan. 2025)

Kids these days.... Creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

The 7-year “Weston Whopper” saga grinds on. A Superior Court judge has rejected the Weston ZBA’s appeal, upholding the State’s Housing Appeal Committee’s approval of a 180-unit Chapter 40B project on 10 acres. This was originally filed in 2019 with 275-units. 📍Weston, MA

Disgusting ... but also evidence Trump & Co would readily attack Congress again, if necessary www.cnn.com/2026/01/06/p...

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

he should be impeached for this alone

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

For the record: the American military was the world's strongest, most lethal fighting force decades before Kamala Harris uttered the phrase as a 2024 presidential candidate. Speaking those words does not prove she would've wielded that power as impulsively and recklessly as the guy you helped win.

Remember that account on here last week saying "California is trying to take away your cars."

I'm pretty fucking cranky about people shadowboxing against imaginary "liberals" who somehow aren't concerned or frightened by what's going on

Huge tell: he's all by himself. ICE never shows up unless they're flooding the zone with multiple agents.

Wait, I wasn't up to speed. I believe this is their official Twitter account. They booted the hotel for refusing to comply.

Rep. Raskin: "Republicans today are observing this solemn anniversary by doing exactly nothing. They've even refused to hang up the plaque, which a bipartisan congressional majority voted to put up to honor the officers who defended the Capitol & the peaceful transfer of power."

lmao CNN

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

American conservatives and centrists have come together to destroy academic freedom in the most simple direct way there is, by dictating what material can be taught in university classrooms.

Bryan Fleming, founder of stalkerware company pcTattletale has pled guilty to charges of computer hacking, the sale and advertising of surveillance software for unlawful uses, and conspiracy. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and I get to do a little dance. techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/f...

Wikipedia says it has mostly favorable reviews, which is nice.

It's not much comfort, but sooner or later you have to imagine that someone is going to have these posts shown to them by their job's HR rep, who's got security on speed dial

telling yourself that jan 6th was a successful coup and thats why we are where we are is lying to yourself we are where we are because we keep electing republicans

The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...

I might watch Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn opine and die as Robin and Marian. Didn't they do that? I kind of remember seeing that once, I think I checked it out a library as a teenager.

I'm so tired of grimdark Medieval Myth. I would like technicolor men in tights again please.

If any one person saved our republic during the 21st century it was Eugene Goodman and I am sure that he hasn’t been thanked enough.

Somehow I think an entire summer of Grim Joyless Slogs through Antique and Medieval Myth isn't going to pack theaters the way Hollywood seems to be hoping. Seriously, why is A24 remaking "Robin and Marian" as a grimdark stabbing flick? Who asked for this?

I do think we underrate how much work “Elizabeth Warren reminds me of my mom” and “Secretary Mayor Pete reminds me of a guy I didn’t like in college” have been doing in a lot of this dumb Online Left discourse

when i was a sophomore in high school i struck out the county player of the year. he called me "a little shithead." i hit him with the first pitch of his next three at-bats. i don't think i was "ejected" but the umpire and my coach were very much in agreement that i shouldn't be in the game anymore

Something interesting we're seeing in Massachusetts is that ICE is using more innocuous vehicles to blend in, likely in response to watch efforts. For example, I've seen a Dodge Caravan and Hyundai Sonata recently. The caveat is that Massachusetts is not seeing as much of a militarized presence.

I love how Blue Velvet becomes David Lynch's version of a "coming of age" story. You imagine that you're all grown up and then you go on a joyride with Frank Booth and learn that adulthood is a parade of countless unknowable and bizarre cruelties. Your childhood hometown is full of severed ears.

An explanation: You’re protecting pedophiles, jacking up prices, and spending taxpayer dollars to bomb foreign countries. Americans are sick of your shit.

Throughout all this Balboa Park parking stuff, I’ve never seen it mentioned by anyone - reporters, the City, Park institutions/organizations, even MTS - that there are buses both directions ever 3-5 minutes (7 minutes weekends) on Park Blvd and every 8 minutes (15 minutes weekends) on 4th/5th Aves.

If you are willing to yell at your GOP electeds in a good cause, here is one:

Was Selma the original femcel?

And they say bike lanes and walkability are social engineering.

What's funny here is even normies know exactly what they saw on J6. Trump is specifically changing this story in places normal humans don't bother to look while he rewrites history. No ordinary taxpayer is logging on to Whitehouse dot gov to see what he's doing and Jabba knows it

David Frum "translates" Hegseth: "Our lawyers advise that we will humiliatingly lose any attempted court martial based upon our ridiculous claims, so I'm instead going to test whether I can reduce a retired naval officer's pension by administrative action to punish him for hurting my feelings."

The White House's constant need to rewrite history is a tremendous admission of weakness.

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

BY THE WAY it can be super nice to have a big bag of cheese powder in your pantry. Box-style mac n cheese with any pasta you have on hand! Add some to bread dough for yummy cheesy bread! Sprinkle it on popcorn! You just can't lose.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

it also elides the genuinely interesting and important reasons why british food WAS bad for a long time

In Massachusetts, our vaccine recommendations are rooted in science. Washington politics won’t change that—families here will have access to the vaccines their children need.

Contender for gothiest space entity... www.popsci.com/science/new-...