“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.

one of the funnier bits about moving from a blue state to a red state is that red states still need money to run things and will often just collect it via fees instead so you pay less in taxes but everything else is more expensive and you don’t actually come out much better

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

In Male Fantasies (1977), Klaus Theweleit read personal letters of Freikorps members to show how the violence at the core of fascist masculinity escalates as their fear of losing control grows. They get more extreme when confronted with potential “feminized” accountability for violent domination.

US Coast Guard responds to Russian military ship near waters off Oahu reut.rs/47PGCiB

Waging war without congressional approval to distract from the Epstein emails was on my bingo card. Entirely expected.

Cue the war to distract from the pedophilia

Iran faces its worst drought in six decades, considers 'evacuating Tehran'

Like this shit: CA voters, 2:1, voted for Prop 50. But Trump DOJ says nope. While 3 GOP states "have not faced federal legal action after revamping district lines following Trump’s call for new maps to expand GOP numbers in the House." apnews.com/article/cali...

I know people have become numb to the hypocrisy of it all, but I would like to see all the things GOP complain the Dems do (that they actually do not do) and then line it up with the GOP doing those exact things. Probably enough to fill a whole magazine.

The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇

For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

If they really are cooking up new war plans, it’s probably because of this.

Texas A&M University adopts a policy requiring professors to get approval from the school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

This is a great point. Trump hasn’t posted anything to Truth Social today, which is extremely unusual.

It’s started.

New research highlighted by AFP: DNA tests on Hitler’s blood point to Kallmann Syndrome, which means he also had a micro-penis. Maybe there’s something in the tiny dick-fascism crossover, idk, just spitballing.

Oh, really? Tell me more.... 😮 Hey, @suesswassersee.bsky.social, did you know about this?

Trump administration revokes Biden-era limits on Alaska oil drilling reut.rs/3JXfvJ7

Here’s the underlying Epstein bill. For this to have legal force — as opposed to just messaging value: 1. House must pass it. (Discharge petition can only to force a vote.) 2. Senate must pass it. 3. Either Trump signs it or Congress overrides his veto. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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My kingdom to never see “underage women” in a news item again. Teenagers are still children. Sorry if that makes you uncomfortable but too bad!! It’s true.

For those who wished M3GAN was an aspirational, feel-good story of capitalism done right, well...

Statement from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on the passing of Larry Brooks. https://media.nhl.com/public/news/19283

This really only matters if John Thune allows a Senate vote. And THEN the discharge petition goes to (checks notes)...Donald Trump.

Jesus. This is life in the Trump generation and the manosphere, I guess

I would be utterly thrilled to rid the Democratic Party of everyone who was pals with Jeffrey fucking Epstein why exactly would I want a child abuser to make government policy

The House has voted to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history, sending the legislation to President Trump for his signature.

after reading how all these rich folks write i think i understand why they believe everyone else needs a chatbot to write everything from emails and text message to novels

68%!

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.

people gotta lose their positions of power and influence people gotta be shunned from their prestigious social circles above all, people gotta go to jail

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

Peter Thiel. bsky.app/profile/timd...

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

tick tock, here we go curious how many R defections there will be on the actual floor vote, I'm sure the white house wants johnson to whip against it but I don't think he will - it's going to pass and nobody in a purple district wants ads running against them using this vote

Everything is Connected.

Obviously the Epstein Files are bad and should be treated seriously, but what should also be treated seriously are the the concentration camps, the overt bribery in exchange for pardons, the looting of the public treasury, and the perversion of the justice system to persecute political enemies.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

none of these people are as smart as they pretend to be they’re just creepy old men, every last one of them, trying to dress it up with their own prestige

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

Sikorski: “We will eat grass rather than become a Russian colony again.”

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski: “Ukraine is planning for a three-year war, and these colonial wars usually take about a decade. “I don’t think Putin can sustain it for another three years.”

I don't think we have any right to criticize anyone for anything at the moment....

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

SCOTUS agreed to hear arguments in a GOP-led lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s law allowing a five-day grace period for late-arriving ballots mailed by Election Day. If the court delivers a Republican ruling, mail voting in 16 states could be upended. https://bit.ly/47AbVO7