What gets me about the escalator freakout is how much it illustrates that these guys really will not feel safe or satisfied until nothing ever goes wrong for them no matter what. Jesus didn't get that deal and He is the son of God who is also God. Like, fuck, you can't surrender to that, literally.

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

very amused that to some folks this meme is my greatest contribution to game design

yeah man great optics. just keep standing in front of that armored van that you're using to disappear people and say the word 'Nazi' as many times as possible.

How is long Covid going today? Well, just added vanilla to the list of food allergies, which is now over 60 foods I used to eat daily. Don’t get long covid.

I am shocked, shocked, that GWAR has become political and strayed so far from its roots laid down by Nippleus Erectus and Balsac the Jaws of Death. Would Slymenstra Hymen have stood for this tasteless display of beheading? Look in the mirror, GWAR, and consider. www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

Boycotting Sinclair's advertisers is probably something that should have been done long ago.

It's important to note that Ezra Klein and his merry band of centrist clowns very often are just plain MISINFORMED. They don't understand the history and politics behind the garbage ideas they push. Vibes-based fascism support from the "left" is not only morally abhorrent, it's deeply ignorant.

Twitter, so full of lies it bends reality.

this is the kind of stuff I’d be significantly more concerned about than bluesky posts or email signups, and that’s all I have to say on the discourse.

chicago folks, for us, this is WGN.

imagine joking “i wouldnt give speeches in utah right now”

"You can't make us bake gay wedding cakes, but we can literally prosecute you for not printing propaganda from this one specific private citizen we like."

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten… every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

NEW: AP reports all 14 men have now been deported to their home countries by Ghana, in direct violation of international law. A court in the US determined each person would be persecuted or tortured in their home countries. We sent them to Ghana, which quickly deported them to their home countries.

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I'm so sorry everyone, I got that monkey's paw in 2015 and the guy I bought it from said I could just make an innocent wish and I was like, sometimes there's not enough interesting things happening

I have a lot of feelings about how transitioning jobs almost always means a stressful "I can't afford to fall down the stairs right now" month on top of everything else

Got mine with the flu shot yesterday so I could spend Saturday resting and hydrating. Got some mild symptoms, not at 100%.

I think we should start using the term "long gamergate"

Other networks have fired people, including very recently, for saying things that don’t come anywhere close to this level of violence and inhumanity. But this is Fox News. So it’s entirely possible he was told to say it, to test the reaction and continue the normalization of the monstrous.

It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."

I have a lot, but think about this one often

Okay, I'm as sick of this guy in my feed as the rest of you. But you may want to bookmark this moment of jaw-dropping tone-deaf shit to toss into an online argument. When pressed "How do you fix this country at a moment like this?" Trump responds, "I couldn't care less." www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

what

My advice to people, as it has been since the USENET days, is simply this: Everything that can be made public on the Internet one day will be made public. Say what you want and what you feel is necessary, and remember it will be found.

4 months back would be May. Just keeping a watch on this prediction... I don't make many.

“you mock this man in death? well fuck the first amendment”

MUST BE NICE. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

I see the Right, in a combination of stupidity and dishonesty and self-blindness, is leaning heavily into “this happened because the Marxist subhuman terrorist scum of Left keeps escalating the rhetoric!”

It was bad enough when the campaign rhetoric of the 2000s was basically a team sport but with lawyers. We are rapidly heading towards the "team sport, but with guns" territory. Enough politicians saying "we are at war with Them and always have been" was all that it took in Bosnia-Herzegovnia.

One of the surreal things about all this is that CNN is running an update with the POTUS saying "Charlie Kirk has died" and Twitter's News says "he's hospitalized with a condition that is serious but not life-threatening" and neither source is reliable enough for me to draw any kind of conclusion.

Hmm, so we can take advantage of the good years and economy in the 90s, and screw over a politician once we no longer need him? Isn’t that just a tiny step towards karma for all the times the reverse has happened? Oh, and if he fucked little girls, some justice is due anyway. To hell with him.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"And this man will know, for that one last moment, that he is not forgotten.” Worth a read.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I know Biden wasn't perfect but I sure miss being able to go 3 days without the President making me go 'what in the actual fuck'

To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.

Wow I can’t believe the FBI would burn one of their own informants like this

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

We've had the #Iliad told by Briseis ("Daughter of Troy") Helen (TV miniseries "Helen of Troy"), Patroclus ("Song of Achilles") ensemble movie ("Troy") but Balios and Xanthos? Achilles' horses? Narratively unmined, despite the Iliad mentioning them as actual talking horses. The time has come.

I haven’t seen major conversation about this in a minute, but having a studio in a state that bans abortion and has criminally prosecuted people for having miscarriages without a remote option sends the message that you value low taxes over your employee’s lives. It’s misogyny, plain and simple.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable