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Glad the WSJ didn't rush to report inflammatory claims backed by no evidence whatsoever at an incredibly sensitive time.

These are very easy things to say: I am against gun violence, no matter who is the victim or perpetrator. I am against genocide, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. I am against child abuse, no matter who is the victim or the perpetrator. Please let's choose love over fear.

If the U.S. military isn't going to release details on the justification for killing 11 civilians in a civilian boat who weren't posing a threat to anyone, then we have to conclude the "justification" is: the U.S. military is willing to kill civilians to give Trump social media content.

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

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Any chance someone could release a new single player Command and Conquer game for the Apple iPad please? (And no micro-transactions!)

Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

Every democrat has to throw this in the face of every republican for the rest of time. Republicans are ALL complicit, if not actively participating.

The IRS's free tax filing tool is now reportedly "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief. This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

Elephants are born weighing 250 lbs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for motorists when they see a bike lane

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

This is the creation of the American NKVD, Stasi, Gestapo. I know it sounds like hyperbole. But how is it not? They have infinite resources to grab people off the street, with no due process, and disappear them. That is what secret police do.

I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

It's definitely coming. And with this clown court, the racists will win (as long as they frame it as religious belief.)

Do what you love for a living, and you will never have a day off for the rest of your life.

I am getting increasingly excited for the Highlander reboot. Chad Stahelski will shoot the hell out of it. I was already on board with Henry Cavill as the Highlander (all that dude knows how to do is COMMIT) and now Russell Crowe as Ramirez (or whatever the character is called now)? I'm in!

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value.

I wish this meant he was uniquely awful, but this kind of garbage is table stakes to be in the Trump administration.

Truth rings eternal.

How to be a baddie: Do your hair good, and have a not-bad face. -my 12-yr-old son. Dude is the rizzler.

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After reading the new Texas Monthly top 50, and seeing all the gulf coast joints on the list, I have a proposal: Rename the Gulf of Mexico/America the Gulf of BBQ. This is the kind of bipartisanship we need in America.

I care far more about the Texas Monthly top 50 BBQ list than I should. But the new list dropped. And I just spent an hour reading it. And planning a road trip. And maybe a gulf coast sailing trip.

We need more YIMBY stuff like this, nationwide. The anti-landlord messaging works better in NY than it would in Provo, but there is pro-infill messaging that works, even for single-family homeowners.

This is a bribe. Everyone, on both sides of this (Paramount, Trump and his cronies) should go to prison.

Scientific insiders hold power for a reason. Cause they know shit. The idea that there is something wrong with our best and brightest holding power is how we get idiots who run our country into the ground. Absurd

I've seen a lot of folks dunking on this idea for a while, but we didn't lose the election because Harris was the weaker candidate - we lost a propaganda war because we thought we could fight lies with simple truth. If the left doesn't get serious about ramping up message amplification, we're cooked

The next president has to do two things: 1) right the wrongs of Trump and go after those who broke the law and were corrupt. 2). Then spend time divesting power from the presidency and building real guardrails and passing laws like, “the president is not immune” etc. And get the money out

So, this is strange. I have 8,000+ followers on the old bird app. 2,000+ on the sewing app. I know I haven't been very active here, but I haven't even cracked 200 yet. It's weird. Kinda nice, if I'm honest. But weird.

@ioniqguy.bsky.social Any news on '25 Ioniq 5 supporting turn-by-turn from Apple Maps the way Genesis does?

Todd out here doing the Lord’s work. VFX are awesome and should be celebrated.

My thought of the Qatari jet is that the moment Trump is out of office, the net president ought to seize it and sell it on the grounds that based on the emoluments clause, it could never have been a gift to Trump personally and so must have been a gift to the federal government.

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

The savvy will scoff, but I am completely serious about this. Congressional Dems should introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the pardon power and force votes on it whenever they can. Dem presidential wannabes should endorse the idea. Blue states should signal support.

This is law. The law of the millennium.

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Says a guy with the beet red glow of an old man using so much T-booster he’s basically a walking (unregulated) pharmacy. The nerve of this f-ing incompetent moron. I hope the brain worms finish up soon.

The US is a consumption economy because we’re so much richer than the rest of the world. We’re rich precisely because we DON’T build things. We design them, service them, and create new science and ideas and art. Might as well say: Make America Poor Again.

This is, I think, the single greatest problem with the media's coverage of the last nine years of US politics. Democrats are broadly assumed to be the adults in the room, and as a result, Democrats and Republicans are held to *wildly* different standards of behavior by the media.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless