I really liked Predator: Badlands, but just once I'd like to see the Weyland/Yutani Corporation catch a break. Won't someone please think of the shareholders.

Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, demolishing the White House, and blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

The Choke

Almost completely, every single problem with higher education that folks think is mainly about something else is <primarily> about the massive decline in state public funding since the 1980s. Yes, including everyone's obsession with getting their kid into the "right" college:

Take a fucking bus you cowards

Donald Trump’s approval rating has tanked and Republican suffered heavy losses in last week’s elections. There’s never been a better time for Senate Democrats to cave on the ACA extension.

My deep concern about this approach is that it’s teaching the Trump administration that the path to get Democrats to cave is to inflict maximum pain. It means if we do this again in January, he’s going to try and find new and creative ways to hurt more people faster to get Democrats to cave

Spotted a Novint Falcon randomly on an office worker's desk in this episode of Soulmates, making the setup look futuristic with a device discontinued over a decade before they filmed the show.

I know everyone is still holding out hope that Axios is wrong but there have been so many other reports from a variety of sources now. Nothing is done yet, but it seems like the Dems are preparing to fold for peanuts.

Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).

Even the corporatist Hill reporters are gobsmacked by how complete @schumer.senate.gov's collapse is: "And this does absolutely zero on Obamacare. The most Democrats get is a Senate vote. After 40 days."

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Starting to suspect anyone vowing to abolish ICE and prosecute these fuckers would win in a historic landslide

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

The Senate is literally the most racist structure of our government, and proves the central thesis of Critical Race Theory nymag.com/intelligence...

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

I'm delighted to be part of this volume with a plethora of awesome people. The immediate paperback edition is an additional nice touch.

I like "audio documentary" thank you for listening!

"How are so many people not seeing the role Big Tech has played in bringing the media in particular, and in a lot of ways the U.S. as a whole, to this moment in time?" drilled.ghost.io/make-media-b... Make Media Brave Again by Amy Westervelt @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Love this tagline from the NYRB's review of the current Godot: "One last thing: I respect bold staging choices but if you’re going to do Waiting for Godot there really has to be a tree." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

amazing how quickly Bezos has turned the WaPo editorial page from a well respected institution to a low rent clownshow that somehow makes the WSJ editorial page look sober and reasonable

Not sure who was clamouring for Icon of Coil to do a full album remixing songs from 25 years ago but whenever you freaks are I hope it makes you happy

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

Her name was Anna Bertha Röntgen and when she saw the photo she said "I have seen my death" but in German.

i put balatro on my oscilloscope

Salk's act was altruism. A better example is WWI: the US nationalized Marconi's patents and assigned to GE to ensure unified military communications. This led to the NBC networks monopoly that was later broken up to restore competition. Socialism is an essential part of healthy government.

This isn’t a small note. I don’t hate Biden with the intensity so many on here do (and not looking to relitigate that here). But he was always really conservative on policing, and he hadn’t really changed, and lots of changes he could have at least started never happened, and that’s really bad.

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

All this pain and suffering because a loose affiliation of religious crazies, Nazi freaks, and wealthy creeps want to prevent an 80 year old sociopathic con artist from facing public retribution for raping some kids

Funny that MAGA is such a stickler for legality when it comes to people entering the country illegally that they will cheer a convicted but unpunished felon as he deliberately and flagrantly breaks scores of laws on a massive scale to remove them.

get rid of qualified immunity and you will quickly break law enforcement that doesn’t know or can’t be bothered to learn the law and civil rights

Voting with your ears.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

In "We Were The Lucky Ones" (true story of a Jewish family in Poland in WW2) the daughter learns her father has been detained. She puts on her most respectable dress to speak to camp guards, so they'll tell her the truth about if he's there. Look at this man, in his suit. How is this happening.

Nations ofc, are no more a feature of nature than gender is, which is why the Supreme Court fears the questioning of one will lead to the undoing of another. “Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth”

brb ripping up my degree

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible. There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month: “.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”

Cornell University has agreed to pay (the Extortion amount of) $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws there, fixed your headline for you

Caving to Trump before November 5th, 2025 could have been strategic cowardice. Now, you’re just pledging allegiance to authoritarianism.

A fine for what? What does capitulation do except invite more abuse of power? Come on Cornell.

Afghan immigrant who helped U.S. military fight Taliban arrested by ICE

Bumping this for the Friday crowd: we're hiring an Industry Assistant Professor in the Integrated Design & Media program at NYU Tandon!

New York's Democratic Party will leave NY a red state outside the cities before long. Jacobs's tantrum and Schumer & Gillibrand's betrayals are just the rotten head of a badly decomposed fish.

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