fellas, is it good when the ruling party requires public institutions to recruit for ideological youth cadres

Not true! They also want to fuck teenagers

The craziest thing about the Metaverse was, the concept of virtual/VR social spaces IS Not New and also Definitely Works. VRChat has at LEAST hundreds of thousands of users. Second Life peaked at a million! The template was right there to crib from, all he had to do was Apple that Pebble Watch!

Judge Tung got his judicial commission a month ago. Literally. Judge Bybee (who has his many, many issues) has been on the bench for two decades.

RISE AND RESIST, the beloved activist group, stunned tourists and locals alike with a demonstration of love and acceptance on the steps of the iconic Saint Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Ave. in New York. @riseandresist.bsky.social

Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away

LOL at the fucking "What if Mary got an abortion?" dipshits. Well, Jesus would still have died for our sins, AND the Bible would be a lot shorter. So win-win.

In general, the aesthetics of Trump II remind me a lot of post-Soviet authoritarianism in Turkmenistan. You can just imagine Trump commissioning a statue exactly like this to stand outside the East Wing ballroom. www.rferl.org/a/meet_the_n...

The economy is FAR WORSE than the government is acknowledging. This holiday season, if you know folks struggling, don't be afraid to leave a mystery box of groceries or some gifts from Santa for the kids on their porch. Maybe drop a grocery store gift card in their mailbox. Be the Christmas magic.

but also, let this be a lesson to everyone; time & energy is finite, nobody owes anyone attention, engagement or an argument there’s so many bad faith attempts at “debate” or whatever & it almost always ends with the one arguing looking afool & showing their ass

Law school cost me $190,000. I have paid $206,000 since graduation. I now owe $223,000. I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more. I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

The judge saw an internal dispute between DOT and FDNY and rather than deferring to the city’s judgment (FDNY misunderstood the design and status quo, DOT is right on the engineering merits) as judges typically do, she naively decided FDNY can be trusted to understand the basics here

The untold story of the ruling in which Justice Chereé Buggs kills the 31st St. bike lane is that FDNY sabotaged it by deciding, inexplicably, that they can’t stage ladder trucks in a bike lane that was designed for them to be wide enough for exactly that s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

oh hey look it’s the thing literally everyone said would happen

Thing is, you flirt with white supremacy, you get a big hit of publicity & approval from the white supremacist media network that sprawls across this country. It's heady. But then you leave that bubble & encounter the larger public & realize, oh, huh, they're not into this garbage, oops.

Just noodling on an idea—US power in the world for nearly a century has been military, sure, as well as economic, but both of those were based on technical and scientific skill. Ability to maintain weapons and build new stuff. And we're nixing all of that. Bill's gonna come due.

how are you gonna tell me trans women aren't women when every single one i've complimented on a cute outfit has come back with THANKS GIRL IT'S GOT POCKETS

They're all pieces of shit and, if any are replaced they'll be replaced by pieces of shit. I am, however, greatly looking forward to the diva shit that she and Patel and Hegseth and whoever else gets canned pull when they're forced to give up their military housing and cars and planes and shit.

god this is a satisfying sentence

By the way, my story is free to read for everyone today, no subscription required, as part of a new feature The Verge introduced :-)

the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

New in PN: Let's call Trump's anti-Somali hate for what it is It's not "heated" or "divisive." It's Nazi stuff.

If Democrats were smart, they'd find ways to give ICE the USAID treatment while putting CBP under the jurisdiction of DOJ instead of DHS since it technically is law enforcement. Also, potentially spinning of ICE-HSI versus ICE-ERO.

Sadly, Trump saying that word would always going to open up the floodgates. When Trump won, FT quoted a banker saying he felt "liberated" to say "pussy and retard." When Trump said the word, Jack Posobiec said "Trump just officially gave us the word retard back." www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

i miss the old days, when weirdo billionaires were relatively harmless, holed up in las vegas penthouses, storing their urine in jars

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Not to worry, I'm sure the Trump Administration's antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto and coming up with measures to counteract this trend.

I will literally give a reporter $1,000 bucks if they ask Elon Musk how it felt to be a DEI admit at UPENN

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.

Lot of rain last night some localised flooding. Driving through the village saw 2 kids in full waterproofs waiting patiently by a massive puddle. So I slowed and drove around the puddle looking in my mirrors to see the disappointment.

I give it six months before he’s donning a military uniform and giving four-hour speeches from balconies.

Trump Awarded Hormel Peace Prize thehardtimes.net/breaking/tru...

how are you gonna tell me trans women aren't women when every single one i've complimented on a cute outfit has come back with THANKS GIRL IT'S GOT POCKETS

Fun that that this country is burning down because a handful of emotionally stunted dudes were furious they can’t get laid without living up to the low bar standard of “don’t be a fucking weirdo”

Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies. Either way, never trust them again.

It’s a great tweet because it illustrates how building clout in the right, as far back as 2015, was so much about being racist that this guy made up a racist tradition to farm likes bsky.app/profile/jess...

my wife: oh look they can meet asian santa! me: why would you want to do that asian santa is probably disappointed in them but will shower and spoil them with gifts if they've reached unattainable standards in academic achievement relative to their asian peers i thought we were breaking this cycle

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921