It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration. It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.

y’all keep making fun of trump’s shitting video but it takes a strong man to admit that he’s reached the stage of life where he has no control of his bowels

Centrism is a hell of a take these days. We aren't talking about "How should we split this tax revenue between infrastructure and services" anymore, we're talking about "Should this class of people have less rights and privileges than this other class of people."

Maybe Ezra Klein should have asked Ben Shapiro about his friend and fellow Daily Wire podcaster, Matt Walsh, who is calling for the death of everyone on the left and LGBTQ people.

The judge spurned the Trump administration's expedited removal policy, calling out their violation of immigrants' rights in a mad dash to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda. We celebrate this victory and we'll keep fighting to defend immigrants' fundamental right to due process.

Yes.

After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.

Visual-artist-using-genAI-to-make-music-because-they-can't-get-paying-work-thanks-to-genAI has been a thing for awhile. I knew this person 25+ years ago and only incidentally found them again while doing research for an article I'm writing on job loss due to genAI. www.youtube.com/@BurnoutKeep...

“They cannot even enjoy a public spectacle because of their anger, or a bath or drinking party or a trip with any sort of people whatever or any of the things considered pleasurable, but in everything their irritations are mixed in because of a nod, a whisper, a laugh…” (Philodemus, Col. 25.15-35)

Something that gives me some small comfort today is the number of Nazi party members that killed themselves at the end of the war (and continually thereafter) because they couldn't carry the burden of their antisocial thoughts and actions even when they escaped justice. History will repeat itself.

Dems' messaging nerds need to be bullied more.

Timely drop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBnc...

Doomscrolling Reminder Lady also highly recommends muting, unfollowing and blocking people who annoy you; as well as an offline hobby and time with animals, who can't read and don't know what social media is at all.

So hang on…. Trump is going to offer to open up FUKKIN ALASKA TO THE RUSSIANS?? Wow. Let’s see republicans defend this

A recent large deportation flight to Southeast Asia likely cost around $1.5 million to operate, to give you some sense of how expensive these are.

Oh please spare me this fucking bull shit, I’m not turning Gavin into anything, WTF is wrong with you? Who else do you see standing up, Pritzker Illinois, Hochul New York, Who else? I already said he’s got issues, Did you not read that? I’m not putting those issues before our Democracy, STFU &🥊

Pardon my French, but fuck this soft-brained, five-headed, two-shirted, four-times married P.O.S. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

If you think people are voting against their self interest you probably misunderstand their interests ie their ability to stop their wife from divorcing them, or valuing ability to say racial slurs over economic policies

Feels like "payment processor Stripe admits to being an anti LGBTQ hate group" should be an actual headline somewhere.

Since I looked it up: The Bismarck was laid down by the Nazi government in 1936, christened by Hitler himself on Valentine’s Day 1939, and damaged so badly in battle by the Royal Navy in 1941 that the Nazis scuttled her. The ship never saw any other government of Germany.

Trump and Putin are meeting on US soil because a country lawless enough not to arrest Trump is lawless enough not to arrest Putin. www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1...

I've been saying this literally for years. It's a whole mass social engineering scheme to make people dependent in ways that con-men could only dream of. This is the most dangerous con ever released on the public.

I'm going to remember the term "Phantom lib syndrome." Also, Charlie Kirk played the mainstream media for suckers. I never thought the faux lib outrage over Sidney Sweeney's jeans ad was real, but I'm not a complete idiot, or on a MSM TV "news" show. They're hired by billionaires to distract you.

Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

You got a fucking free, fully furnished house and you're still complaining about not having a servant. I despise these people.

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

THIS The level of disassociation it takes to engage in society is astronomical

As a friend recently posted, "They're building bases on the moon."

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

The most interesting thing about the Sidney Sweeney jeans ad is that Trump trafficked and raped little girls and his entire administration is covering it up for him.

the problem with letting democrats backslide their support of trans rights whether it be trans in sports or using bathrooms is we’ve seen “compromise” in the UK labor party. they gave into “reasonable” TERF demands and it destroyed the labor party and all rights for trans people

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either This is why we fight for *everyone*

I started writing an essay about the fact that people [online and offline] get mad at me for consistently saying that you do in fact have to get to know your neighbors... [notice that I didn't say you had to become friends with them]. But then I decided that I don't want to get yelled at again, lol.

13 Circuits, 13 Justices

Yet again these folks have no clue who was president in 2020 www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

Mentoring others in your passions/fields of endeavor when you're 50+ is normal. Most professional orgs have a pipeline for this. Sometimes I find people who haven't received this memo, so here it is. 😂

Burying the lede? This guy dug a hole to China. The reason progressives don't talk about men getting laid is because that's not their primary problem, they suffer from not having /any/healthy relationships. Socialization is a critical skill for happiness and it should be taught early and often.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

Simulation "theory" isn't new, it's just another example in a long line of miserable examples of people dreaming of another ideal world because they think this one is irreparably broken. There is nothing in it that is necessary to explain anything that exists nor any prescription for what ails us.

Doggo is home from surgery. Vet made a joke about waiting until after the next surgery to file bankruptcy. I'm not sure we're going to be able to wait that long! They had to shorten one of the ligaments keeping her patella in place while they did her TPLO which was an unexpected additional cost.

I think @keithedwards.bsky.social nails it here, with the next step being Republicans like MTG and Burchett rallying around Trump for "exposing the Democrats."

Being deeply religious must be a comfort. If your ignorance about a subject causes you fear you can just say "it's demons all the way down" and that's it, no more thinking necessary. Do your rituals and wear your gris-gris to ward off evil instead of doing the work of studying the nature of things.

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

This but entirely seriously.

I'll take an FBI agent over CBP any day of the week. "Bring it, and get fucked in the meantime" would be my response to a threat like that. I'd rather (not) talk to an educated fed than a racist clown with daddy issues. You produced the hoop, now jump through it.

Convergence 7 Twitch raid train

Despite promising not to hike prices, Amazon has raised the cost of at least 1,200 essential items by 19% to 136%. (Wall Street Journal)