Thinking about the guy who crossed the US-Mexico border without papers to claim asylum, then immediately spun around and told Fox News: Damn you guys need a wall.

I don't have much to add to the specifics of the ACA discourse except to say Obamacare is probably the most moral and pro-human legislation of my lifetime and, like so many projects done in the name of the public good, it's easy to take for granted because you've become a spoiled little shit.

In my psych program, we didn't have any outright communists or anarchists. Plenty of liberals, some further left Then again, psych doesn't require innovative work to mean "Marxist interpretation of X" so that eliminates some of the selection pressure Also we were in the South so...

its always steam

We stole the sun from the sky To power the Machines of our invention And spite the Gods that abandoned us

I stared into The Abyss and The Abyss stared back. Now we're married with a kid and another on the way.

"The value of a life is not in the years you live, but in how you lived those years," I say to my friend after they tell me not to follow the eerily pale woman into her tarp covered basement.

gaming setting in which after an apocalyptic event every possible sleeping monarch/prophesied messiah returns to lead their nation: Arthur in Britain, Sebastian in Brazil/Portugal, Constantine XI in Byzantium, John Frum in Papua New Guinea, Barbarossa in Germany, Genghis Khan in Mongolia ...

I realized I should have ordered the Thaddeus Stevens t-shirt for the protest today. Well, I did it now

I'll see y'all out there today, upholding two and a half centuries of American tradition, treading in the footsteps of generations of Americans who went before: No Kings. www.nokings.org

Ok. Time to go Outside

Advice to Americans on what to wear to the protests today:

they're desperate, they're mad, and they know that nobody, not even their base, likes them. they know most of their behavior is prosecutable and not even argentina will take them consider simply Not Engaging with the sadsacks being not-paid by their own boss to try to get you mad on the internet

"If God cared about the poor, why did he make them poor? Checkmate libs."

A story in three parts

LBJ would have been so funny in the 2010s. He would have broken the brains of so many people on tumblr by enshrining rights of the people he only referred to by slurs

Thanks to Obamacare health insurers can no longer refuse to sell you health insurance nor deny coverage for your illnesses discovered in the 2-3 years before you got insurance. But you can't wait until you're super sick to buy insurance. You have to buy in during open enrollment. Here's how to pick.

the obvious solution to the naming question is Columbo Day, a celebration of a genuinely great American.

Good news: You won't need to worry about food and shelter Bad news: ...Because you'll be in jail

Getting isekai'd into a former fantasy world where it's modern day and everyone has a normal job. And Aqua forgot to give you identification papers or teach you the language. She did give you a magic Sword of Repel Evil or whatever, but the police have guns and questions.

One thing I hate about posts like this (besides the bad history) is that in a time of rising fascism its a bad strategy to dismiss, downplay or even lie about the one time America allied itself with communists to kill fascists with bullets and bombs.

I am forever grateful to the friends who stuck by me when I was in the worst of my depression and part of that gratitude is from realizing they had every right to walk away to protect themselves.

Depression dinner before traveling was a mistake

If you set out to take revenge, dig two graves, because it's going to be so much fun you're going to want to do it twice.

ACAB includes Detective Pikachu

Been reading about the mathematician on Scott's Antarctic mission. Horrible man, apparently. Very cold and calculating

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power." —John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

This sounds like something Amy Pohler would say as a bit

Gundam pilots are horse girls send tweet

King: Confucius, I need some advice about how to run my government Confucius: You will have a good government when the king is the king, the minister is the minister, and the father is the father. King: Ok, but I was asking about optimal tax policy

him and a gazillion others, like 3/4ths of this country is descended from people like "guy who got kicked out of Belfast for gambling crimes and ended up mayor of Duluth" bsky.app/profile/nval...

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

JUST IN: CBS News rebranding to drop 'News' from its name

Comparisons to the Onion are overdone, but "Why America should legalize horse slaughter" IS an Onion ass letter to the editor

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

Your waifu is a girl who should earn you a visit from local law enforcement My waifu is Commodore Matthew Perry We are not the same

since January 20, 2025, a man who is constitutionally ineligible has purported to hold the office of President of the United States

Dems- don't engage "you want healthcare for undocumented immigrants." Reply with "The shutdown is for one reason only- to hide the Epstein evidence that is so damaging to the White House." Every interview, every comment, every time. Learn how to win in the court of public opinion one goddam time.

these are the crimes we had a whole fucking revolution about

Followed my former faculty advisor under this account as a joke

“Newsom declared that the state of California will pull funding from any university that caves to Trump’s extortion gambit. This is the right path for Democrats. Where they control levers of power, they should use them to create counterincentives.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Also I have no idea why we are mad at the mods but splintering leftist groups because the mods did or did not ban someone is a time honored tradition.

Yes, but I don't think he can walk up stairs

"Freedom. Equality. Democracy. I don't really care how well these poll. They're the truth. That truth is worth fighting for." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

They are barreling towards facing the demographic struggles of Japan while still having all the economic struggles of a Caribbean island, and that seems like a recipe for spiraling into total collapse and disaster. Next POTUS who gives a damn about foreign aid needs to piss off a bunch of Miamians

He does what now!?