“He gotta know how to dress” No he don’t… You looking for someone that spends their free time fantasizing about chivalry and saving the day That’s the one that’s gonna pay off a mortgage

Once in a while, I see a car with a Blue Lives Matter flag and a Punisher decal. And I think, whoever owns that car is probably racist. Because:

To stop this senseless war ye see, ye must answer these riddles three

why do you expect an empire to behave rationally? why do you expect institutions to be any more rational than people? like every empire the american empire is racist; like every racist it imagines a hierarchy of races & would rather collapse with its favored races than exist with the ones it hates

My only issue with this is that it's not just the Roberts court

Sure would be nice if someone could attempt explain why a bunch of innocent kids have to die. Or American service members. Iran has allegedly been 5 minutes from getting a nuclear weapon for th last 30 years or longer. Kinda think if that's what they wanted they'd have them by now.

Horses can get any job they want now, haven't you heard. My dental hygienist is a horse

What is Wunmi Mosaku address? apple.news/AljsxQ8nIS0e...

I realize everyone on this website is 38, but if anyone is, say, 60+, how much time did you personally spend worrying about nuclear war? Just watched Threads and it seems Barry Hines took it very seriously indeed. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads...

Part of the reason it’s been so hard to get any traction on anti-ICE legislation - or even people in power openly criticising their actions - is because it’s basically impossible to thread the needle of condemning their brutality and cruelty while “supporting law enforcement” since cops do the same.

Okay. I've had it. Muting "Gavin Newsome" forever. I invite everyone to join me, including Gavin Newsome

There are three legs of media distrust 1) News outlets are owned by plutocrats 2) plutocracy has no interest in a well informed electorate 3) a media class more interested in affluence and access than journalistic integrity

If there's one thing I'm learning from The Rediscovery of America it's that the US federal government has a centuries-long history of caving to extremist pressure, or simply doing nothing to enforce its anti-extremist laws. No one's stopping Trump the way no one stopped Jackson.

Damn where was this insight 10 years ago, or 11 years ago, or 12 years ago

Alien: Earth does some overdue things with the franchise and has strong performances, but I'm really surprised they played the Replicants and Ultra-Rich Genius tropes straight. LLMs and Elon/Bezos/Trump point to class issues which I think the original film would have had a ball with.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

Our lord and savior Beyoncé Giselle Knowles didn’t suffer blood upon the cross for you to turn the other cheek

If that weakness is in you? Then they will chase you off of any term that you find that is effective. Any. Term. The problem is the weakness, not the term. And if they do let you stick with a term? It's probably because that term was completely ineffective.

MAGA ideology *requires* that the Army Tough Guys and Real Men In Uniform are (secretly?) undyingly loyal to Trump and MAGA. The ideology *requires* that liberals are decadent, soft, weak and unwilling to risk or endure hardship. It *requires* that a majority of 'real Americans' support it.

They're gonna wind up killing everybody in the concentration camps when they see their time is running out. We need to get them out before then.

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Hold on guys I think I found the new moderate position

Democrats spanning from Jim McGovern to Seth Moulton have publicly called for abolishing ICE and there are clearly Dem votes for a shutdown so naturally "why aren't Dems saying anything?" remains the easiest way for low-effort clout chasers that don't pay attention to anything to rack up RTs

Chuck, maybe you could call your Senator about it? The Senate switchboard can be reached at (202) 224-3121. If the Senior Senator from New York and Senate Minority Leader isn't in, leave a recorded message.

I'm thinking through Walz invoking the national guard in Minneapolis. He should do it, I think:

the 45,000 gun deaths we suffer each year are just the price we pay to live in a society made safe from government tyranny by an armed populace

it doesn't matter if you don't want to have this fight, it doesn't even matter if it's not politically optimal to have this fight the fight is here and sitting it out is not an option if you can't see that get out of the way

They want everyone to be forced to like/respect/fear/love them, not understanding that with affection coercion renders the gesture meaningless, and the fear they seek demands a lack of contempt they ultimately cannot compel

We need to reform the Nazgûl, it would be too extreme to abolish them

This is fake, this is not happening. This originated from a parody account.

Either you gone lose your values or learn to fight for them

The agent who shot Renee was hired during the Obama/Biden Administration, and his agency was given record levels of funding by the Biden/Harris administration, with Harris promising to go further if she won.

I am but a lowly civil right litigator, but I am *begging* people to be clear about different immunities in civil litigation. Qualified immunity is a SCOTUS made doctrine that only matters in a constitutional claim, which you can't bring anymore against federal officers. +

Furiously sewing a bulletproof vest made of mail-in ballots

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

in a very real sense the average medieval peasant had a better and more realistic sense of what the law meant than the average american does now, and they certainly had a better idea of what to do about it. if the ruling order is just violence there's only one way to fight it

we don't have a representative government and we never did. the sooner people accept this the sooner we can figure out what to do about it, but pretending that the ceremony of an election means we somehow control our rulers is a farcical delusion that allows them to rule us in the first place

For all the Joseph Campbell fans out there

Christians are a box using people

This goes to my current theory of elites, which is that there will be virtually no consequences for any of this, because there have to be consequences for their being no consequences. It's a recursive problem. Go find your local dog catcher and punch them until they catch a dog, build from there

How in the world is this not a hoax? I'm not saying it is, but do we KNOW DOJ released this? Did Epstein know Nassar? Everything else about 2025 has been the most hack writing imaginable so maybe this is real but it seems a new depth of hack.

While we’re all talking about the CECOT story, it’s probably worth noting that what Trump is doing differs only in scale from the extraordinary rendition program executed by Bush 43’s administration.

Man, Apple, can you have a feature in your iOS upgrades where I can just choose to maintain my old UI? Just updated to iOS 26.1 and it looks like every icon got coated in a thin layer of transparent slime

This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.

I've said a LOT recently that the problem with American elites is that they refuse to impose any consequences on each other. But Marco is 100% right in this thread: that's for *WHITE* elites. White Supremacy is really just White We're-Gonna-Cover-Up-Your-Total-Incompetency.

The schools teach rapacious imperial murder (derogatory) instead of rapacious imperial murder (laudatory)

I appreciate the joke being made here, but the recipe specifically is talking about Korean-American comfort food recipes. And it tastes pretty good!

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This is correct, but boy, nobody wants to hear it