This fucking site declares a Thousand Year Cultural Victory every time they see a picture of a guy in a camo hat at a protest somewhere.

I really do like Whiplash. 'Abuse may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people play more technically proficient jazz, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not' is an amazing thesis for a film to have

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

“Epstein sent racist podcasts to Noam Chomsky” sure is an English language construction

This is Noam Chomsky talking about Cambodian refugees accurately describing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge that they’d escaped from. This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.

Harper's Letter signatory Noam Chomsky

"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky sucks shit actually

The intention of a system of oppression is its predictable effects, like this. Racist terror.

the state is a machine which kills people and martyrs are throwing themselves in its gears

i get that people are angry that we are reduced to this but we are genuinely reduced to it

yeah and they're going to keep doing it because they won control of the state. like the only thing to be happy about now is the prospect that we will win at some point in the future.

Guy who spent a decade taking a six figure salary from the reactionary disinformation factory has thoughts about how liberals are pathetic sellouts who allowed fascism to happen.

Bad Bunny: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE out. We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

We violated the law and lost anyway is not really a convincing case for maintaining a pro Israel position in 2028.

Wonder why he said this if he knew it violated the law?

To my knowledge the first official to outright admit that Biden violated the law.

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.

here's a picture i took at work nine years ago, during the airport protests after the muslim ban. anyone who showed up to an event like this at google today would be fired.

Very hard to quantify the damage that his money, invested by his ex-wife into RFK, Jr., has done to the country. Even if he personally hadn’t made a horrible heel turn, his inability to keep his dick in his pants fucked the country incomprehensibly.

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

Incredibly depressing

Glory to the heroes of the Republic 🫡

Is it the unitary executive when POTUS sues the executive branch?

In fact, roughly five million Palestinians who live under Israeli military dictatorship for the better part of three quarters of a century cannot become citizens because of their race.

I cannot become an Israeli citizen under any circumstances and it is because *of my race*.

it's like either an embrace of overt evil, or media illiteracy at an unimaginable level. that clip is HARROWING www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTU...

good GRIEF man bsky.app/profile/jive...

ok this is the second time I'm seen an apparent reference to that Werner Herzog clip about the insane penguin. what the fuck is going on over there

Also: it’s not quite as simple as “Republican leaning personality types love to be told that they’re winning all the time even when it’s not true” and “Democratic leaning personality types love to be told that they’re losing all the time even when it’s not true” but it’s not… not the case either

Dems are now the party of high trust and high education voters and those voters are immediately repelled by anything which is too *overtly* propagandistic in a Fox manner (though they have all sorts of other biases)

I honestly think a basic issue here is that partisan sorting has made this effectively impossible. There is just a much, much smaller audience for an ecosystem that just relentlessly churns out pro Democratic Party propaganda

The "MAGA" brand definitionally means self-centered boors who are incapable of behaving civilly, and so you have to let them break any rules about decency or ethical behavior because otherwise you would have no MAGA commentators and thus be "biased" and unfair

**FOUR** black journalists were abducted by Trump’s Gestapo for the crime of journalism

Can somebody who wants to bomb Iran lay out the following: -What is the process for regime change that isn't "step 1: bomb, step 2: ???, step 3: Abraham Accords" -What will this new regime do to address the economic, political, and environmental issues that are the primary concerns for normal ppl?

MAGA is essentially defined by its ideological incoherence. These people share very few common beliefs. But you can broadly categorize every action Trump 2.0 has taken as anti-civilizational. Not a single pro-human policy in the whole program.

Multiple people have told me "They should use Signal instead" Folks. No one is posting home addresses here. And "Fed agents infiltrated/subpoena'd the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School PTA discord" is the kind of headline that generates exactly the response in voters that you want

How did people who work for the government of the United States of America ever come to believe this kind of behavior was OK? They had to have been encouraged to do this for NO LAW ENFORCEMENT agency in the US operates this way. bsky.app/profile/stat...

If I had to guess, the relevant Signal group chats have been infiltrated by useless hamsicks who are using this opportunity to grind their axes for Stancil

This is not Tsarist Russia. Stop being fucking stupid. Your favorite revolutionaries would have killed for a ride-along with The Atlantic And I don't care how stupid that sounds, because it's just fucking true, shut the fuck up all of you, preemptively

Reporter: What do you think about the UK getting into business with China? Trump: Very dangerous and it’s more dangerous for Canada to do that. Canada is doing very poorly. The first thing they're going to do is say you are not allowed to play ice hockey anymore. That's not good.

I feel like I cut the NYT more slack than a lot of folks on here because they do stuff like, e.g., the photo analysis of Pretti’s murder that’s very valuable. But this is pure Vichy shit right here

bruce wayne if his parents didn't die

gavin newsom is like if chuck schumer knew what the internet is