When someone tells me how old their child is I say "that's such a fun age" even if it's 37

Before her retirement, this judge oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail. In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist. Revisit our 2021 story with @wpln.bsky.social:

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Hokkun is a minimalistic orange mascot from Shimonoseki City, inspired by the oranges and sunsets there.

Yes they should.

Pronouncing pivot like bidet because its usually asswater

i feel like we've had a good enough sample size for like two decades on whether or not body cameras on cops do anything whatsoever to stop them from killing people. the guy that murdered renee good was filming it on his phone for fun!

the problem is that entire generation of dems and their younger disciples are all elitist pricks who think one of their main jobs is to discipline their base, NOT reflect that base's policy preferences. which is why we need to kick every last one of them out of office

Wow, Trump isn’t paying someone. Someone get me my smelling salts.

He’s trying so hard to post through it

Is Elon a pedo? We couldn't say. Did Elon repeatedly try to invite himself to Epstein's pedo island 5 years after Epstein served time and registered as a sex offender? Yep, he sure did. Do people who aren't pedos beg to party on pedo island? 🤔 #TeslaTakedown

Ok but consider what if it happened twice

all these people have to be purged but also, all the people not currently purging them have to be purged

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Twenty Pilots

Eric is wayyy better at this than his brother Tony

"Dictator for life" Ahem. And how long was that, exactly? A long time? It was definitely worth starting a civil war bc he lived for a long long time?

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

wow really helpful, thank you new york times

really aggravating that the NYT has a huge pack of the best journalists on the planet, and then nearly all of the key decisions regarding attention, framing, and overall coverage are driven by a crypto right wing nepo baby and a dozen-ish of his toadies

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Ive never seen a Stancil take I agreed with or one that made me feel. It's like a guy shouting about how good Raisins are. Not really, but also, I don't wanna die taking on the dried fruit fandom. It's fine.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

In all cultures throughout all of history, people have loved turning things into little guys

Why stop there? Bumblebird. Bumbletree. Bumblebear. Bumblehund.

I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

H.P. Lovecraft was terrified of Shibboleths but he didn't invent them. They're real and in the bible.

I've never purchased a solo board game because something about the experience feels inherently wrong. The table empty without comrades. A "journalling game" where I'm expected to tell half the story myself? Hmph! Anyway here's my Baldur's Gate 3 OC backstory....

it's like one of those 'heartwarming: toddler raises lunch money' stories but actually good this time, this is what electing Democrats should get you

I was just talking to friends about how Hitchhiker's is a universe defined by obliviousness and apathy. Consumer goods and political processes alike suck, not because because the people in charge are evil (though they are) but mostly just bad at their jobs. Elon read it and BECAME a torment nexus.

Simply halfass your job and say its because AI. Now you're producing the same volume and quality while building SOME skills.

Did you know that Ursula K Le Guin had a lot of her best ideas while chatting with one of her trans friends? Just goes to show you have to crack a few eggs to get an Omelas

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Yeah I'd happily live in an apartment if it were soundproofed. Hell, I'd appreciate if my standalone had thicker walls.

Also, along with institutional reform, the platform must be “We are resetting everything to January 20, 2025 by repealing every illegal Trump EO on Day 1, & many senior Trump government & DOGE criminals are going to jail for the rest of their lives.”

Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.

words, what do they mean www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

We regret to inform you that Ron Paul is entirely correct here.

Uh, I accept those congratulations. Forcing a university to act to discipline a professor who evidently harassed colleague and possibly students - under the advice of a notorious sexual predator, even! - is Good, Actually.

“What if Chicago is uninhabited because it was hit with bioweapons (more than once I believe)”

I can't get over how the right-wing doesn't understand modern militaries, with the majority serving non-combat roles. You think the best IT security & logistics personnel spends two hours in the gym every day to look like the cast of 300? They're at furry conventions and model train shows.

I really relate to this because I'm also still mad at a major awful OSR figure from a decade ago less because they were awful and more because I can't get over how bad the argument was

Some of you guys need to learn to like things without having to make them communist. “Pickup basketball in my neighborhood after work provides a space free of the extractive logic of capital” no it doesn’t.

An excellent summary of key points that you would think would already be more widely understood than they in fact are.

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