When a head of state declares that he doesn't want a specific racialized group in the country, and his newly expanded paramilitary force prepares to target that group... There are terms for that.

Huge pandemic scam in MN proves Somali culture is inferior to ours, in which we elevate our scammers to higher office.

Submitted without comment, because the comments on the post are so much funnier than anything I'd write: www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...

But what about the charming, dashing, gorgeous, suave, debonair, and stunning newcomer to town, Monsieur Roget?

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

I think we also have to have a much much stronger “tally around the target” response If this was a racist professor put on leave for failing a student and calling them a slur the conservatives would have raised $100k and gotten them a book deal We leave our own out to dry

Somebody needs to point a webcam at that plaque at West Point.

reverse advent calendar where I scream a little scream into each tiny box and close it up tight

Oh fucking hell, I should have known the War Crimes Are OK If You're American Act was passed right before the Iraq War. (I thought it was older.) "Hegseth will be tried at the Hague" -- no he won't. Worth asking prospective candidates what they think of this. www.congress.gov/bill/107th-c...

He's really going to fabricate an entire war out of absolutely nothing. There probably should have been consequences for the people who lied us into war in 2003, huh www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

If US News & World Report and their ilk had any integrity, they'd drop any university that bribes Trump from their ranking lists.

well, fuck

Trek fans in 1995: We need to learn from this so we never have the Bell Riots Trek fans in 2025: God, I wish we’d had the Bell Riots

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

"It's just about using our energy as efficiently as possible for the revolution, but women who dance are all like this."

There was a fish in the percolator, Charlie Brown

here you go, enjoy this leaf sheep of good luck and success

only 98 democrats are not absolute cowards and can explain that to their constituents, all the others need to go, and ofc all GOPers, thats 75% of the House that are gaslighting grifters

Amazing how many criminals get together and decide the first order of business is emailing each other about the crimes every three minutes

Vance shares a strange immunity with Trump. The press cannot or will not pierce through his rhetoric to see the what-should-be-obvious danger of the man. This includes: 1. Vance follows lots of neo-Nazis on X 2. His championing of Germany's far right 3. HE'S WELCOMING HITLER LOVERS INTO THE GOP

no way

If you're the GOP, you gotta love not only the cave itself, but also the way that the story has now become about "Democratic infighting" rather than Republicans hurting people

Every disaffected Dem & swing focus group we do begins with people asking what's real. They hear, at times, this is authoritarian takeover threatening lives & livelihoods. But perceive most "leaders" not acting as if this were so.

the story of this shutdown is that Trump and the Republicans have played the politics significantly worse than Chuck Schumer and folks that's a genuine accomplishment

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Folks, this is not MTG becoming more reasonable, this is not reaching across the aisle, this is a slap at Mike Johnson for being too incompetent to deliver what she expected. You do not, under any circumstances, etc.

Judge, sighing: no, you can't return a verdict of "What the everloving fuck?" go back and try again

Imagine if Schumer dies and you know about it precisely when it happens because a racist married couple from Long Island starts talking in your head and saying that since Chuck died you're responsible for them now

My tea journey this afternoon: 1. Boil water, forget about it. 2. Boil water, forget about it. 3. Boil water, put tea bag in, set timer. I'm so organized! Surely this time I'll end up with tea. 4. Timer goes off while I'm in the middle of writing an email. Shut timer off.

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse. I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

*ushering a group of tourists into the next room of their Vatican tour* "and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled" "were these donated by some wealthy collector?" "nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"

This should get him on the no-fly list

How the actual fuck did I get subscribed to Shaun King's Substack? It just showed up in my inbox, make it stop

"Understanding the American Voter"

The entire rest of the world on Nov. 5, 2024:

Just setup a recurring donation to ICIRR because of this post. Encourage anyone who can to do the same. ICE has been on my block this week with spotters hot on their heels blowing their whistles.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Beyond the costumes at No Kings, Democratic leadership may want to check the signs to understand the vibe of their base right now (hint: it’s not health care)

oh.

I truly envy the commenters on this post who don't know that "blue hair" isn't a swipe at old ladies but at younger women with dyed hair. Right wing manosphere types get really upset about that because it doesn't fit their beauty standard and therefore women shouldn't be doing it.

Hostile, and terrified.

Meanwhile in #Portland

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this shit is why I despise the terms masculine and feminine

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

It's the same with wealth distribution. People think wealth is far less concentrated than it really is, and they want it to be even less concentrated than that.