Have we already forgotten what happened in Iraq? Over 8,000 Americans killed. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Trillions of dollars spent. Nobody has explained how a war with Iran helps America. Because it won't.

Pokopia looks so much like the Dragon Quest Builders free build mode I could weep. I'm so ready for this game.

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

Breaking — Planned ICE concentration camp near Nashville canceled!!!!

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Rolled credits on ff7 remake because I'm home sick today. (Tooth issues, yay scheduling a root canal for Friday 😭) Anyway, got to credits, and wtf Superman and Lois's Superman was Sephiroth? Lol I did not clock that.

.......shit like this shouldn't even be a question, ffs.

"As Trump prepares his State of the Union address, he's facing a 19-point drop in approval among Latinos and an 18-point drop among Americans younger than 45. Among independents, his approval rating has dropped 15 points over the past year to 26%, the lowest it’s been in either of his terms..."

I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.

I said what I said

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

So I had a crazy car thing happen last night so got home late and had to wake up this morning and deal with the fallout. Just catching up with the Xbox news. The "Phil wanted to retire for a year" news seems sus especially when paired with Sara Bond exiting. My experience with executive exits 1/

any joke you might make about the kinda thing this dude would say he just says it

I think about Vonnegut constantly now. It's so ... Something. Idk. Sad? Freighting? Idk but I was thinking about The Big Trip Up Yonder just earlier this week.

Saw a dude with a shirt on Tuesday that said "support your local ice raid". So...yeah. he had rune knuckle tattoos. I made a few assumptions.

if anyone is tempted to briefly hand it to John Roberts remember that he is about to finish his life’s work of destroying the Voting Rights Act and save yourself the trouble

will the prices that went up because of tariffs now go right back down? or are we now living with higher prices on some goods because of this unconstitutional decision?

If you can’t draw the line at genocide, then how can voters trust you to draw the line anywhere?

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

All to distract from the Trump-Epstein files.

We could have photos like this too if peole gave a shit about men raping kids in this country

It's giving every single image of every single authoritarian ever. It's just the straight up embodiment of the stereotype.

Yeah that's how I felt when I woke up this morning.

I didn’t even know misconduct in public office was a crime here 💀 You’re telling me that’s been illegal this whole time??!

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If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

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my whole thing about "the left won't engage with AI" is like, how tf do you expect that to look? what do you want "the left" to do with it?

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

it’s insane that a decade ago we all agreed that giving mass shooters the attention they desired was a bad thing but now because rightwingers will quite literally lie about the shooter every single time we all have to be acutely aware of the shooters intentions and ideology

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

Girl you have a woman running around who is proud about shooting a puppy. You don't want to bring dogs into this.

It wasn’t so long ago that CNN sat down for a serious conversation with these guys. One of them is Pete Hegseth’s pastor. Pretending these assholes are still ‘fringe’ is a dangerous mistake bsky.app/profile/seth...

Doesn't even have enough of an idea to write a prompt, still will probably call himself a filmmaker 🙄

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

whoever runs in the Biden lane in the 2028 primary is going to get obliterated

Florida: we deported all your hard working employees, but have no fear, we're bringing back child labor to fix it. Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here

Anyone have a fun @stoat.chat server to join? I want to see what it's like to see if it's my offramp

Truly the most stupid timeline. At a point in time where renewable energy has tipped into genuine widespread viability, capital invents whole new ways to fabricate waste and scarcity.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

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

Waking up to news about Rev Jesse Jackson wasn't fun. RIP and my sorrows for the sorrows of his loved ones.

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

Other countries can do it, why can’t we? www.france24.com/en/live-news...

....fuck right off, I need that baseball documentary in my life so bad.

I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it. This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.

It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?

Wealth inequality has set the stage for our current political condition. The billionaires stay in power by dividing the groups who might otherwise unite and oust them from power. The race baiting, xenophobia, homophobia, and faux religious pandering is all part of the strategy. We shall overcome.