In part due to the fact Sacramento is a city filled with civil servants and good government nerds, our city subreddit is obsessed with a parking enforcement worker named “Nakamura” who apparently nails mfs left and right who are illegally parked.

There’s this feeling that if gay Palestinians are murdered for the immutable characteristic of being gay then that’s reprehensible, but if they’re murdered go the immutable characteristic of being Palestinian that’s fine

They should be villanised because they're fucking idiots.

if youre any kind of woman you have to contend with insane beauty standards and if youre a gay man that is somehow turned up to eleven but if youre a straight man all that is asked of you is to look like A Guy and have a vaguely person-shaped soul and somehow even that much is a challenge

So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.

Nicotine patch in my cloaca, 4loko enteric dialysis tube through nose the real triple decking

India Habitat Centre - Eco Brutalism in New Delhi, India (1993) r/brutalism

please stop treating us like we’re dumb bsky.app/profile/eshe...

If China bombed a school on a military base in Honolulu and assassinated the president and major Republicans *and also* Schumer, Harris, Sanders, AOC, etc. in the name of No Kings, how exactly do you think that would affect the liberal opposition in America?

Since I am stuck trying to increase turn out to stop a concentration camp opening this Tuesday, here’s a free investigative idea: how can we confirm if OpenAI or Anthropic have contracts with GEO group or CoreCivic (lol)

I can't take credit for these words, by the way. They were first uttered by the sitting Home Secretary.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Charlie Kirk was awfully silent during the recent primaries. Wonder why he didn’t endorse anyone and stick his neck out for them

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

I'd happily join the fedayeen for any Dem that promises to regulate AI into nothingness, imprison all tech CEOs, abolish ICE, cut the military budget to 25% current level (sorry we clearly can't be trusted with it) and sanction Israel and the UAE as much as we sanction Russia

So MattY, the Pod Bros, Gallego... Is anyone else noticing that a *lot* of folks who've had rumors of cocaine/stimulant abuse swirl around them are all ride-or-die for a guy who's been rumored to have dealt cocaine in DC right when they were all up-&-comers in town?

There are 350 North Atlantic Right Whales left. Their primary method of death is ship strikes. Since these protections were implemented in 2020 the population grew by around 5% - 7%. This rollback will be catastrophic.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The Artistic Journey: 2021: celebrated as I published one of the best books of my career. 2025: watched Anthropic steal it, with millions of others, to train its model, without compensation. 2026: watched Anthropic sell that model, an AI killing machine, to the US government. Human progress!

legitimately i don't think that any of these people actually think continuing unconditional support is actually going to do anything good. they are lying to you about their preferences.

"Relentlessly lethal" yes, agreed, to little Iranian girls, troops sitting in a trailer like 2 feet away from the Iranian border, F-15s, and also oh yeah the entire regional security architecture of the Middle East and maybe world

I think the only way to square this circle is to be critical of other states for doing the same bad things that Israel does, and to criticize Israel for doing the same bad things other states do.

What I disagree with is letting the often misguided views of such people dictate what you as an American should believe and advocate about a war your country is now a party to.

When you want to avoid “getting exposed to geopolitics,” you move to the office on the body of water that the country on one side of it calls one thing and the countries on the other side of it call another thing, that has multiple wars named after it

The veterans suicide crisis really striking all the wrong victims damn

I expect them not to fire missiles on civilian fishing boats. Details can be negotiated. If you support trained professionals knowingly pressing the civilian-killing button under any circumstances, then this is not a discussion I wish to have with you.

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

Okay but there was no way for them to know this was what their job might involve unless they did a google search or watched one of several hundred movies

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

Let's say I'm at a settlement conference with a racist slumlord. The slumlord has harmed lots of people. Halfway through the conference, I suddenly whip out an AK-47 and kill the slumlord and half his tenants. "I liberated you," I say to the survivors. "How dare you oppose me!" Got it now?

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Once again going to observe how weird Pahlavi-ism is. The Pahalavis have produced precisely two Iranian leaders, both overthrown. They’re aren’t some ancient dynasty, they were fairly obscure before Reza Khan worked his way up from the Cavalry

this is a world designed to make us all go insane

this place already forgot how mad it was at Anthropic when it pirated all those books and songs huh

KC DSA is launching the Kansas Trans ID Access Fund as a direct assistance initiative of Kansas City DSA designed to ensure that trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Kansans can obtain and maintain valid state issued identification. 🧵(1/3)

>be founded in your current form by a diaspora army >be the victims of a terrible genocide >leverage international guilt about terrible genocide to commit ethnic cleansings >insane siege mentality >engage in empire-building in the name of security >be rwanda >pic unrelated

You open a new tab on Edge at work and you see national headlines from NY Post. Your doctor’s office is a Sinclair owned local station or Fox (or soon CNN). TikTok and Meta algos have been skewed. It’s the oxygen, and sets the frame for how normal people process events and just general disposition

before this even gets to a point where ICE is leaving Shah Alam to freeze to death, why was the Erie County DA, Democrat Michael Keane, trying to prosecute a blind refugee for being tasered and beaten by police because he didn’t drop the curtain rod he used as a walking stick

The saddest and most frustrating part about this is that the US has all the resources and talent to build what makes Europe attractive inside of a decade. However, we never will because we're slaves to an archaic, undemocratic and absurd political system. We're a supercomputer that runs Windows Me.

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I don’t agree with this in a pretty major way. The point of the argument online isn’t to win the other guy over, it’s to make your points to bystanders to prevent them from being won over by the other guy and to give them new ways to argue back.

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good players to not play tit-for-tat