These figures show trans suicides amongst minors went from 5 and 4 per annum to (at least) 22. The only explanation for the media not reporting that four or five fold surge is because it doesn't want to. And it doesn't want to because its trans panic was a cause of that surge.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Post a ship that's not Star Trek or Star Wars.

tfw you leave Plato’s cave awfulannouncing.com/nfl/pat-mcaf...

This is genuinely shocking while somehow also not at all surprising? Mass Market books feel like ubiquitous objects to me, but on reflection I probably haven't bought one in at least a decade.

I occasionally consider hosting a super bowl party purely to show off my snack game.

This honestly makes a lot of sense if you grew up in a winter climate.

How can you possibly, POSSIBLY believe that this is a winning strategy?

“I couldn’t afford a free ballpoint and a stack of dollar store paper, so I am paying a monthly fee for my AI service” is quite a take. They’re lazy. And lack the humility to accept their beginner status. It’s not the money, it’s their unpleasant personality

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Hm I wonder if there's something they could learn from this

[Deep sigh] the dementia didn't make trump racist, he was always racist. The dementia is fucking with his behavioral filters, which is also why hes gotten way more profane in public lately. Happens all the time!

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Holy shit it’s not great political strategy to constantly denounce your own voters?!

"No one saw this crash coming"

James Joyce, writing Ulysses:

Perfect opportunity for the Dems to look smart by holding their ground and making the shutdown the Republicans' fault, let's see if they take it.

Mind you, the culture war that filled MAGA's sails started with the lie that people in my profession no longer teach Shakespeare. And you can be sure this washes over every single one of those hypocrite 'defenders of the West' as it would performed for a dog alacritously nosing its own shit.

what if you just invested in basic direct voter organization and outreach again you stupid pieces of shit. what if you took the budget you put on consultants to make shit like this and put it into the fundamentals like 'making sure people have transportation to get to the polls'. you assholes.

Their entire position is “you cannot stop me from doing whatever the fuck I want” How do you negotiate with that???? By inventing new rules for them to break and giving them new toys? How stupid does one have to be

Anyway a new law is gonna go like this Law: You cannot wear masks Them:

How... How would we know?

They are designating the protesters terrorist groups.

I'm gonna be super honest, here: I never pictured Musk as a "Caffeine-Free" guy.

"Chump Schumer." Is that anything?

EVERYBODY: Abolish ICE! DEMOCRATS: How about we ask ICE to take off their masks instead? ICE: No, fuck off. DEMOCRATS: At least wear them in a fashionable manner.

I'll tell you what's not funny: Right now, Elon Musk is in his private jet crying like a little girl!

"I eventually stopped begging to go to Pedophile Island, please praise me."

You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.

Truly incredible how impossible it is to find a non-photogenic image of the guy.

Appalled at what's happening to the Washington Post. Honestly I'm surprised that it took Bezos this long to gut it. If on the ground foreign reporting is no longer justifiable as an expense, then what the hell is a newspaper *for*? What distinguishes a newspaper from the morass of online opinion?

If this is true, it kinda seems like the planned MO must be to steal photos posted to social media.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Could not be clearer that, when he says "Democrats," he does not mean his constituents - the people he claims to represent. He means the party leadership and his friends in congress. Poll after poll has shown that Democrats writ large do not, in fact, want ICE at all.

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

Not a great look that so many university libraries are promoting AI. Libraries have always been a space for valuing authors' work and showing how to locate and properly cite sources--not encouraging tech that steals from authors and produces slop.

In honour of Melania, here's a reminder that the thing Kane is applauding in this popular gif isn't good. It's very bad! It's his wife singing poorly in an opera he paid for.

And because I am an internet dinosaur I can honestly say there's a 30 year online harassment thru line from AOL chat rooms and fan forums to Gamergate to here. The bot accounts that harassed on Twitter during Comicsgate & Gamergate were run by people who tried to bully women out of TV show fandoms

I've said it for years and years, but the way a lot of tech people keep their jobs is by needlessly tinkering with shit that's already good.

I mean yeah.

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

there are a lot of reasons to want schumer out. but even if this is not a major issue for you, claiming that your role as leader during a fascist putsch is to preserve a policy favored by the fascist and opposed by your party's voters is disqualifying. schumer cannot continue to lead the democrats

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Kind of insane we got the poo tape before the pee tape.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Every time I see images of tear gas filling the streets, I think about how it has been linked to spontaneous abortion. Fascists will prevent people from getting abortions while endangering wanted pregnancies. It’s reproductive control and coercion. www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

There is so much precedent for this. If you listen to the back alley abortion stories pre roe v wade it is a horrific example of exactly this. But there are also a lot of abusive drs out there today generally - Larry Nasser and Columbia’s gross obgyn are just the ones that got caught recently.

performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties