A jury said otherwise.

a rehabbed rapist, assuming such a thing exists, would not seek power or leadership because they would understand that they shouldn't be trusted with that. people who use power to abuse the powerless should not be allowed power, and the sign that one is reformed is that they don't seek it.

Trump is a rapist. Most of the people he's appointed to his cabinet and nominated to the Supreme Court face credible accusations of sexual harassment. He, his VP, and his sons are actively defending Andrew Tate from prosecution for sex trafficking and rape. Just some things I think about sometimes.

It's the singular thing about him that's extraordinary

By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.

I’m not even ON threads but I’ve seen this more than once, and this is exactly it

The agent who told me that my book was sellable as it was, but I should try to make some changes she suggested. Which I did, and then she came back to me after 4 months of silence and said actually this book isn't sellable at all and I needed to find a new agent. Does that count?

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is designed to be interactive, but damn, Trump thinks Teddy is alive.

There is a room with a TR avatar. There’s footage out there of Trump having this conversation with him as though he’s real.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

IF ONLY the Swedes had a melancholy pop song they could console themselves with in this moment about a victor seizing everything while the defeated party is left feeling diminished. #WorldCup

congratulations, transphobes: the biggest perverts you know will be doing genital inspections on your children

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

Oh just one other final thing: Rapidly decarbonizing electricity supply while simultaneously electrifying end uses -- ie, "electrify everything" -- makes *everything* better. It makes every problem, including cooling, easier to solve. Everyone should agree on & prioritize it. Everyone!

you can’t just do a few good things and throw up your hands and go see! we’re done here! you do those smaller good things and you show people, look, we are making things better, you can trust us to take the next steps and you keep taking those steps until you’ve actually transformed things

You didn’t write shakespeare’s plays. You didn’t paint the sistine chapel. Those are not “your” accomplishments because you share a skin color with the person who actually did them.

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?

To make this obvious: I WANT more left-wing politicians to win real political power. I also believe it is our profound moral obligation to rebuild and improve the U.S. aid system. Therefore, I am going to be vocal about why I hate seeing leftists hold cruel, brain-dead opinions about aid.

Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum. The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out.

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

Side Effect xkcd.com/3261/

Hey Ireland, look at this.

"A solar farm on a rewetted peatland is home to more types of bird than drained agricultural fields nearby, suggesting that land used for renewable energy can make money for landowners, lock away carbon and boost biodiversity at the same time."

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

If these AI services were so good, tech companies wouldn't have to turn them on surreptitiously. They'd sell them to us, and we'd buy them. But they're not good or useful or desirable, so they're given to us "for free" without anyone actively choosing them.

The ark fantasy of saving the worthy few is inseparable from the flood fantasy of exterminating the unworthy many.

Musk deserves more ire than he's gotten, not less. But there's plenty to go around, and much of it should be directed at the army of sensible, respectable suits who've nodded along while fascists flood the zone with racist bile, eagerly sanitising their talking points for as long as I've been alive.

Correct

I don't want to see a young Scooby Doo. I want to see an old Scooby Doo bravely facing the end of his life with his friend Shaggy by his side.

“I didn’t get the letters my children wrote for me - that’s all I have from them, the letters that they wrote for me, 3 years ago before I moved here, when I was leaving them. I only got my passport, laptop & uniform- because I have to work” Ugandan student nurse burnt out of her house in Belfast

SF are *not* a left wing party, Gavan. They're a nationalist party with Left AND Right wing members. Soc Dems are the leading party of the left, and increasing as more people realise that SF are not a left wing party.

Strangely, this attack failed to provoke nationwide anti-white arson and pogroms, nor did multiple MPs express their concern. Happened just around the corner from me.

The president’s allies responded to an election loss by storming the Capitol and trying to overturn election results. And yet it’s liberals who are everywhere called on to work to show they can be trusted to accept results, & to accept to change the rules of elections accordingly.

It boggles my mind, that media presents Trump as a real serious official, political scientists discuss his decisions, pundits talk about his policies. Meanwhile he loudly declared to the world he made an amazing discovery that "dumb" has a "b" in it.

Ireland on fire: With hill fires devastating habitats in dry spells, we need tougher enforcement, restored peatlands and a new approach to managing uplands... jrnl.ie/7060104

of course they never cared about Pride, but the world in which they pretend to care is vastly better than the one in which they don't pretend and we are seeing it in real time we want the money to think there's more profit in being performatively woke than performatively bigoted

Rightly angry piece from @iandunt.bsky.social about the Populist Right BS that followed the awful Henry Nowak murder case and how the media/national conversation has been drawn into it. iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Ah, come on now. We're clearly living in a simulation. If this happened in a real world, the guy would be out on his ear within an hour.

My friend. here!

Just a reminder that when huge swathes of media were pretending that all Gen Z boys/men were into far right politics it was presented as a phenomenon we were supposed to examine very earnestly to understand their concerns and challenges….

We need to see long term planning of how public money is raised and spent. But FF/FG don't seem interested in anything beyond getting re-elected in the next few years. We’re not in this for easy wins and quick fixes, we’re in it to change Ireland for the better for now, and for the future.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands