This country is teetering on the abyss man.

In 1964, women typically needed a male co-signer for bank loans.

Hmmm... Siri, define "Native Populations"

I would like people to clock that this is the future of the party and it's a far bigger threat than Trump unless they lose and lose badly

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

They’re really open about being villains. Just oppressively awful all the time. Someone should literally just ask them at a press conference: Why are you guys such assholes?

Anyway, I wrote this about pharma's silence about the FDA upheaval back in April and I think it holds up.

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

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Writing that, letting it get published, and not disclosing the fact that you hung out with the guy is actually mind-boggling when you think about it.

Right to lifers at work. Killing as many children as possible while mandating protections for the fetus. Thank the lying "christian" republicans.

For the last few months, I've been working on a story about January's crash near Washington, D.C. What I learned was that it was simply an accident waiting to happen. Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...

Can judges not put people in jail? Cuz we're coming up to the point where this will be solve by violence if not by the justice system... people are going to crack. i'm surprised they haven't already, which largely proves that they are largely innocent victims.

Full Nuremberg for every government employee involved

Prince George's County getting hit real hard. Please tell everyone of color you know to avoid 295/BWI parkway where federal park police cooperate with ICE. Any parkway under federal rather than local police.

The war on the merely unusual, continues.

holy shit it actually is the physics thing

One of the primary reasons I've ditched Facebook. Tired of looking at the turd that is the stupid question bar on mobile.

There are real, boring uses for AI, but everyone can tell that executives don’t care about any of them except for the “fire everyone and rule the wreckage” parts, and they’re being way too obvious and gross about it. They are just so out of touch now, isolated by their money.

Extra insulting to hear this nonsense about an immutable gender binary coming from a guy who looks like the SNL "It's Pat" character

it is kind of incredible how totally out of their depth both ellison and weiss are with this shit. the audience for this is, like, maybe half the subscribers to the free press.

Merry Christmas everyone. ICE enter Columbus, Ohio today. The Mayor speaks 👇

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the EXACT location of the LARGEST crime spree to EVER occur in the history of our country.

Trump has called for at least three of these senators to be thrown in prison. And they’re still voting for his agenda.

The sooner we all go: “Fuck you. They’re not hurting anybody. Leave ‘em alone.” the sooner Consevatives have to scramble for a new target. And whoever they go after next, we’ll defend them, too.

Just musing on the steps through which Koch painfully and methodically walked to prove that he'd identified the tuberculosis bacillus.

David Brooks is now the third alleged Jeffery Epstein associate at the New York Times. This potentially includes A.G. Sulzberger, the current chairman of the NYT board. The NYT published this piece by David Brooks about Epstein less than a month ago. Why did their executive leadership allow this?

In 34 paragraphs total, Dan Shapiro devotes exactly one (1) of them to what Israel's responsibilities are in order to keep Democrats from becoming more pro-Palestine. Here's his suggestions:

Robert Lipsyte at TomDispatch today: In a Trumpian world where White Christian males have renewed their manifest destiny of ruling over everything, sports as we once imagined it is gone.

We're all stuck in the Guyana jungle now.

Under the proposed rule issued by the Trump Administration today, any Medicare- or Medicaid-participating hospital would be barred from providing gender-affirming care to *any child*, even if the care is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23465.pdf

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

So what we are seeing is a playbook that was honed on efforts to punish organizations that provide women with vital health care, now being used to punish organizations that provide trans kids with vital health care. And push these services further out of reach for all.

Crazy how Trump is flailing, Epstein files are coming out, the economy is going to shit, and Republicans are defecting and the first thing his admin does is pivot to attacking trans people. It's all they know. Just distract everyone from what's important by attacking a vulnerable minority group.

If you think I'm going to pay $80k a year in tuition you better believe I want my kid taught by an underpaid human TA who is slowly beating eaten alive by ennui and his marinating feelings of grievance over the impossibility of ever landing a tenure track job.

The Nazi doctor of Nazi doctors. What's being demonstrated is obedience and conformity. This is all that this adminstration is. This is the result of decades of evangelicals training people by the millions to be obedient, rather than thinking and demanding a reality check.

Because the president says they're doing genital surgery on children, at school, during the school day.

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Fantastic piece.

The Hunger Games Virus. From a first waver: 0/0. Do not recommend. Avoid like the plague.

Marco Rubio is the first real boy to turn into a wooden puppet.

everything is so fucking stupid

Why was there an old man yelling on my TV tonight?

Goddammit I hate this shit so much. These miserable fucks can't find empathy for human beings but are ready to declare the software that agrees with you no matter what sentient beings.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...