[Darth Vader when he strikes Obi-Wan down and he disappears leaving only his robes behind] Damn that’s… that’s not what happened to all those kids

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She's no progressive, but her background and some of what she has said has been interesting with this district. An interview I listened to she talked about how she's worried that her kids won't be able to do as well as she did. She needs to use that more.

It struck me the other day that they spent ~$12,000 in taxpayer money to replace these banners just to change the logo from America 250 (the real bipartisan effort) to Freedom 250 (the trumpy one)

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

CNN, CBS, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Facebook, Twitter, and Roku are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires. Here’s why the media has a liberal bias.

These people are not fit to govern. They are either incredibly stupid or so disingenuous it’s evil. She got an abortion after helping ban them. She blamed Dems for the struggle she had to get one even though it’s what she has pushed for. And she doesn't want interviews talking about it to be public

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NBD - it's just the US Pardon Attorney and US Ambassador and Chief of Protocol talking about how the CIA framed Nixon for the Watergate break-in and it was all a hoax.

the supposedly "originalist" unitary executive theory has led us to a point where the president is claiming the sovereign authority to force all institutions, public or private, to bend to his will or suffer the consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

Currently at my shrine sacrificing a fast fashion shirt to try to summon @dieworkwear.bsky.social

What goes unsaid in these heinous stories about denying essential aid is that a 28-year-old DOGE lackey with zero experience named Jeremy Lewin was named Acting Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance in April 2025 and still hasn’t had a confirmation hearing.

this is news new york times reporters had months ago, but they suppressed it and kept it out of the paper so they could goose book sales. this should be a scandal but its how modern journalism is conducted now.

If that is the actual image they used to make this announcement, it's a fascinatingly accurate picture of the Obama era. The growth of social media that would then subsequently be used to usher in reactionaries.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

I mean, this sucks. And this isn't to defend what Xbox seems to be doing, but South of Midnight and We Happy Few both seemed to disappoint sales wise. Again, this isn't a defense, but jeez. This whomps.

Yeah, this is very much the thing I think about. Trump, fundamentally doesn't have a core, he just wants power and praise. Vance is a true believer, he'd slot in nicely with 20th century authoritarians.

I have a feeling that Newsome already went through, speed ran, his 2024 DeSantis arc.

I just realized something I hate about this admin so much. Nothing is important any more. Nothing has weight or meaning or history. Nothing has honor or pride. They just pervert everything that we are for cheap, crappy optics. They ruin who we are to our core.

Yeah, all the people who are like "Look at what Rogan is saying about Trump!" Look like, predictably, morons. People like him will always kowtow, always come back to serve these terrible people.

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

The 250th Celebration Planning is a Hot Mess! “This is straight out of It’s a Wonderful Life, when Henry Potter steals George Bailey’s money...” ―America250 Comr. “This administration will not light taxpayer money on fire. Full stop.” ―DOI press office. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... #PINKS

There’s been a big, big infection, all across the spectrum, from far left to far right, over the last decade, of people deciding that actually the way Donald Trump does politics is good and correct, and we just need to do it but for good. No. Stop it. Destroy that impulse.

I have been represented by Nancy Mace, and I have nothing good to say about her. I am utterly and completely relishing her loss.

in honor of nancy mace losing her bid for governor

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

"I did what any rational journalism-averse person would do. I blamed everything on woke. On cancel. On not listening enough to diverse voices, like fascists. I forged ahead to build a new media empire, one built on complete editorial independence and millions of dollars from venture capitalists"

hey its actually a gigantic problem that 1 of the 2 major political parties in this country are consistently claiming any election they dont win has been “stolen” or “rigged”

It's been a long time since I've been to New York, over a decade, and yet... youtu.be/Ufi3xwtrZKk?...

To be honest, the one thing that more American sports fans need to take from soccer/futbol/wrestling is the chanting. It's much harder to disguise an entire stadium of people chanting something very, very distinctive vs noise and jeers and boos.

Honest to goodness, there was a time not so long ago when this would have been a massive scandal.

Yeesh

When does it become art direction by AI when you are using it like this? It's dumb and bad. I've seen other people, whose work I enjoyed, succumb to this thing where they start using AI and what they do is more influenced by the output of stolen art and soulless algorithms. It sucks!

no no you don’t understand, we only used AI for the part of the production pipeline where we didn’t want to pay employees, it’s different

This must be what it’s like to have a king. His office doesn’t exist to serve society. Society exists to serve him. He can pluck whatever he wants from it and your job is get out of the way.

I hate this so much. There are other people I have followed on platforms who have started doing junk like this. What they do, create becomes more directed by what some ai outputs, rather than what they can create. Taking the soul out of it.

Wor to those that are felled by the words of the Lord of menswear.

Tbh I think we actually need to think about this in terms of what we value in our education system.

How many "catalysts for the American revolution" have right wingers had in the last decade?

I marvel at how Jim Henson’s brain worked. This was a presentation piece to the executives at CBS when he was trying to get them, ultimately unsuccessfully, to pick up THE MUPPET SHOW... But if you’re a TV executive sitting in a boardroom watching this, there’s no way it’s not leaving an impression.

National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe... That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington

After finally playing some of Marathon due to the free week trial, I completely understand why this game isn't huge. It doesn't do a lot to explain what you are trying to do, to loot, and just dumps you into a pretty hostile game with no hand holding. We need games like that, but boy it's tough.

@jeffgerstmann.com if you need more....

My grandma would drive me around Yakima in her 1969 VW Beetle and tell me how much better the New Deal - Social Security in particular - made her life. Politics can help real people and that’s the lesson these assholes want us all to forget

Here's Justice Kavanaugh saying Purcell applies to SCOTUS. Oh well. www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

“She managed to destroy ‘60 Minutes’ in three days. There should be some kind of medal for that. In the end, this is what Trump wanted. The Ellisons and Bari Weiss have delivered to Trump exactly what he asked them for.” On Scott Pelley's firing by @oliverdarcy.bsky.social via @status.news.

between purcell and the mountain of evidence that using the 2023 map would cause massive disruption to the alabama election system, dropping an unsigned stay is roberts wiping his ass with his own ostensible jurisprudence in favor of maximum partisan advantage unacceptable and untenable