I'm going to be thinking about the cold open of that Pluribus finale for awhile.

Step 1: Manhattan. Step 2: Everywhere else.

People have historically, and rightfully, seen the evil of Guantanamo, Abu Gharib, and now CECOT for what it is, but I wish more people would also see the evil in our domestic prisons too. How we treat our most vulnerable, including prisoners, really sets the tone for our whole society.

Oh shit

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

False alarm. It's some other service called hoopla that's logo looks almost exactly the same that I got subscribed to at some point. Very confusing.

I got an email today from Hoopla that they’re shutting down at the end of this week and it’s hard not to think that that’s tied to libraries losing funding and cutting back on services like theirs.

Look I’m not a “fuck your feelings” person…except when it comes to people doing horrendous shit like sending people to torture prisons. Then truly, seriously: fuck your feelings. I don’t get care if you feel bad about it. You should’ve thought of that before you sent people to a torture prisons

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

Love that tracking helicopters flying over our neighborhoods is just a regular practice for us Chicagoans now. What a time to be alive.

Me: I'm on vacation now. I can relax and decompress from a busy weekend. Also me: Fuck! I forgot I have to write a play by 2pm tomorrow.

This list is also a great way to find local groups that might need volunteer help. It's how I've found orgs that I've worked with in the past year.

And i’ve said before, guilt is useless and can easily curdle into resentment. A sense of moral obligation and solidarity on the other hand, can be productive.

Mads Mikkelsen reveals he helped his brother Lars Mikkelsen (Thrawn in AHSOKA) build a LEGO Death Star for Christmas.

This is fantastic news, a triumph of medicine! And the overall cervical cancer rate in Oz is dropping, too, almost certainly due to HPV vaccinations. And exactly the sort of progress RFK Jr. is trying to kill. Along with killing our citizens.

Goldman joined with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib—the only Palestinian American member of Congress—for speaking out against the Israeli government's genocide in Gaza. So it's pretty fucking rich for him to whine about someone "attacking their own" now.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

State run media censors exposé of state run concentration camp

Pretty sure I've *never* had to apologize for being white, but then again I can't recall doing anything that drew attention to that other than occasionally clapping on the 1 and 3.

Watch Tangerine. For the holidays. Because it’s great. And for James Ransone, who is goddamn great in it. RIP.

I think the reason I never hated Ziggy is because I saw Generation Kill before The Wire and I was already so attached to Ransone after that.

What a loss. Such a talent that brought so much vulnerability to his work.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

All the Black Americans who are *also* descendants of the Founders, but for very different reasons, should come out and rickroll these idiots

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

I’ve unlocked a new perimenopause symptom this week and come to the conclusion that we should be getting merit badges for these things and pretty sashes to display them so people understand what we’re going through.

Not me feeling like I got an early holiday gift because Tiny Bookshop added hundreds more books (including The Enchanted Forest Chronicles) to its library. I'm such a dork.

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

I wish folks that were very cop-pilled would look at the high-profile crimes this year and take note that calls/tips from normal humans are why major perpetrators were identified and not that magical police work that copaganda has taught us exists.

The thing white (and non-Black) people need to understand is that the past was exponentially more racist than we are allowed to understand in present day. Why is everything about race? Because white people put race into *everything.* You don’t know because it was too embarrassing to explain.

Put the Christ back in Christmas except for stuff that Christ would say we are canonically/biblically evil for doing

Seems terrifying.

Just because they are capable of walking off the plane does not mean they are able-bodied, you ableist fuckwads.

Fuck off. Stop assuming shit. I sometimes get wheeled on planes because I cannot predict if/when my legs become frozen and I don’t want to risk not making my flight

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Look, I have a lot of training with Highlights magazines in my background and I can actually "use my eyes" and see multiple differences outside of "removing the blur."

Just bringing that strong "I know you are but what am I energy" to policies that impact people's lives.

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Every trans person--including every trans child--deserves the chance to be fully themselves. I'm so sick of seeing trans folks harmed repeatedly and unrelentingly, against all reason and scientific precedent. To my trans friends--I'm so sorry the world keeps trying to dim your light.

The situation right now is developing fast; Border Patrol is detaining people across SW side. Community members are following their caravan. Agents are threatening people who film with pepper ball and tear gas dispensers. It's going to take time for rapid response to tally arrest totals.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

it’s the ur-conspiracy at the base of them all and it’s why even “fun” conspiracies can be a slippery slope because the more you get into conspiratorial thinking the more likely you are to arrive at the same conclusion: everything is because of The Jews