As we see American cities overrun by masked men with little accountability the boom in private security post-2020 is a haunting lesson. This is what happens when men are given big money to treat citizens protesting like insurgents. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here, watch some music www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJYw...

I just don't understand the theory that removing some of the time pressure will magically transmit knowledge to someone's brain If you don't know the material, all the time in the world won't help you! bsky.app/profile/mada...

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Trump & Epstein were named as co-defendants in a lawsuit accusing them of raping 13 year old Katie Johnson. She ended up dropping the lawsuit after receiving death threats for her & her family. This is not new evidence. This cannot be covered up. #PedoPresident

HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS

The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark

A perfect example of capitalist incentives leading to worse outcomes is checked baggage on planes. To squeeze more money out of passengers, airlines now charge exorbitant fees for checked bags – so everyone brings carry-on rollers instead, so there’s never enough room in the overhead bins.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

Wife: It is interesting that the biggest papers and networks burned decades of hard work by others who built up their brands to bend over immediately for Donald Trump because they thought he would be a successful dictator and 10 months in he's flailing. Those people have the worst business instincts

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY. CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY. I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

I swear there’s someone in Toronto teaching drivers that the brake is the button in the middle of the steering wheel

People post so much randomly silly shit, 🤣.

What I’ve seen so many people say and what I can’t get over is how many of them don’t seem to get that the Epstein story and affordability *are in fact the same goddamn issue*, which is that this wildly corrupt man thinks he can exploit and prey on people and get away with everything

This whole thread is gold. Read the alt-text! It's magnificent! 🤣

amazing q&a with paul krugman

NO. Dems do not get to back down on this or I will ask for my corpse to be cut into a gazillion pieces and mailed to each one. The "usual suspects" are carrying water for pedophiles. And if the pedos wanted to hide, they should have hid behind SNAP and the ACA. Because now they and we have nothing.

Best literary analysis ever

Speaking of Wu-Tang, a new family moved into the neighborhood and put this in their yard. I’m gonna fry up a pound of Bacon and give it to them as a housewarming gift.

this rocks so hard

The one email in that Epstein trove that has really taken off online.

Jesus Christ.

Huh, still a buck for a coffee

Seems like this is circling around the argument that raping white children is worse than raping children of color.

He did a LOT. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

If the pope keeps doing nice stuff and treating people with dignity the Catholic Church is going to alienate all of the weird adult converts and the evangelicals who joined on accident

Amazing how many people at networks and universities still haven't learned that you never, ever, ever give in to Trump in any way at any time for any reason ever. The moment you do, he sees weakness and he wants more. He's a shark, and it's blood. You have to fight back and never stop fighting back.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

One urban tree photo a day, all month. 15. Sony a7ii, Leica Elmarit 90mm f/2.8. Scott Street, Toronto (seen from my apartment window).

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

okay so why is this post still up & account still existing? actual question. the account isn’t even verified like some of the other fed gov accounts either, but also it shouldn’t matter when they post “we will kill you” along with videos of them killing people.

Re. the Epstein stuff and Trump. It’s worth remembering that the only thing Americans love more than avidly following the careers of celebrities they admire, is watching those same celebrities crash and burn.

What I want to say about Alice is this: we have not decided as a society that we want people like her to live as human beings. Currently, the regime under which she lived & died is closing off the elements that made her extraordinary life possible. Her work is literally being erased.

I could not get my old job back. Riot had forced me into unemployment in what we now know to be the worst job market in industry history. I finally found Riot’s Head of People on LinkedIn and sent her a 2000-word message explaining in detail how badly they had fucked me and asked them to explain.

Truly can’t wait until there are no more dats when the grotesque fraud says asinine things into the microphone that the CBC News just can’t resist leading off with. Why are news orgs addicted to his obvious lies and chaos.

so much of the advertised uses for genAI are to opt out of the human experience. opt out of communicating with others using a tool that writes meaningless emails. opt out of grief with a digital simulacrum of your loved one. opt out of dating with an AI gf/bf. opt out of thinking. opt out of living.

So wait, I'm trying to figure this out. You can't play trumps in Magic The Gathering?

The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column. www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...

Just wanted to say re cool names... My WINZ case officer when I was getting the student unemployment bennie over summers back in the day was named Gay Pride. She was awesome, I kept her card in my wallet for years and years.

Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels

One of the most stunning movies I've ever seen. Also a movie that teaches you the virtue of taking time.