the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

I think the biggest change the Donald Trump years have wrought on my political outlook is moving me from generally descriptivist ("I don't agree, but it takes all kinds") to a very radical perscriptivist ("See this gun? Le Wokisme is now mandatory")

After receiving a commendation for exceptional services to the Russian state from President Putin, Biden accuser Tara Reade—seen here in her luxury Moscow condo—has now become a citizen of the Russian Federation... молодец!

Didn't they have all sorts of shenanigans in Ohio in 2004? Long queues at polling booths, restricted number of polling booths, closing down polling booths with voters still waiting, tens of thousands of votes for Kerry allocated to Bush by faulty voting machines.

If you want a several-thousand word, heavy-with-citations take on why the "problem" of small schools is a failure of political and institutional leadership to think about resource distribution, equity, transport, zoning, and planning melissa-schober.medium.com/a-broken-pro...

May we all endeavor to be more woke. May we all strive towards greater empathy, stronger love, and joyful compassion. May forgiveness and mercy be in our right hand, and may justice and the law be in our left. May all of this be so for the greater good of us all.

(I am including social media, polling, the whole lot in "media" here, very much not just the news, to be clear)

Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted

Noting in the final section that Kavanaugh went out of his way to disclaim "Kavanaugh stops." In other words, the repeated, pointed and personalized criticism has gotten to him

Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space www.wired.com/story/behold...

I do support simping Social control of production Intuitive tax systems Municipally-owned utilities Payroll tax-funded social insurance Implementing a social wealth fund National health insurance Guaranteed housing

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Fox celebrated this a few months back actually.

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

This Christmas season, I pray God makes something in my heart that Luke's shepherds might flock to and observe and return home very hopeful about

Every Christmas season I post the wonderful Christmas meditation by the great theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/int...

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

Democrats should go all in on blasting this out, both as a story about brutal injustice against migrants and about oligarchy and corruption in media

A libertarian who believes that uncompensated care labor is violence Is that a type of guy?

The way for foreigners to understand the US is that we're a household of 2 parents and 3 children. Sometimes, the kids vote themselves in charge, but after eating dinner ice cream for a few weeks, the power gets turned off. Then, the oldest kid gets scared and votes mom and dad back into power.

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I know institutions in meatspace cannot move as fast as geist moves on the internet but surely by 2028, the absolute miserable crashing failure of Starmerism will have discredited the “you can infinitely abuse your base in pursuit of voters across the aisle” school of MVT-uber-alles politics?

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

Business environment where money was basically growing on trees to one of the worst labor markets we’ve had since 2009

in retrospect there's some ominous foreshadowing from my middle school lunch table debate days whenever the Republican kids would argue that Sweden's universal healthcare only worked because they were "homogenous societies"

Like 20 years ago I got mailed an ad for audio cassettes to teach me about religion. They offered like a dozen about Christianity, one about Judaism, and one about all other religions in the world. This is now the mindset informing all US foreign policy.

And a happy feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe to you too.

“Rather than articulate a tight…solution, [for von Balthasar] drama presents an alternative framework that holds fate and freedom in the dramatic tension of providential love. The confrontation between fate and freedom happens in God’s action toward and for the world.” (133).

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

“Why won’t my coalition, dedicated to tearing down the notion of society, engage in pro-social behavior?”

Also truly insane how Russia captured the US politically and it won't do them any good and China out-maneuvered the US economically and it won't do them any good

Russia is attempting attacks on the US that are the same as jihadist terrorism in tactics and targets; this is another "the system was blinking red" moment giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Donald Trump ordered a gang of white trash ogres to block a bunch of wonderful people from their citizenship ceremonies solely and exclusively because they weren't white. people.com/immigrants-a...

Dan Sturman details in an NYT op-ed how Nixon solicited a CIA profile showing that Daniel Ellsberg was a nutcase, but the CIA psychiatrists concluded he was a person of "dazzling brilliance" who was motivated by a high order of patriotism.

"Citizenship, which is to be free and equal"

He's our Stephen Douglas

To teach Gen Alpha about consent, they ought to update The Spin Doctors - Two Princes for the digital age

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he has the kamala harris thing of spending his whole life preparing to run for president in a political climate that ended 15 years ago. kinda sad as a personal story but not my problem.

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

Oh man so this thing was just a slush fund too lmao. Shit never gonna be built he's gonna leave with a suitcase full of dollars flying out like a cartoon character

Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball

What fresh horrors

The tech industry to itself

And even if Dems manage to get a half- or quarter-loaf passed into law (like the ACA or IRA), they still get blamed for the shitty state of the country, leading electorate to swing back to the GOP because it's desperate for change of any kind

Wife and I started watching Finding Mr. Christmas on the Hallmark Channel. Ten handsome men with chiseled jaws and abs attempting to do arts and crafts and crying every episode as one of the bros is kicked out of the Hallmark house. Exquisite television