Really cool that Biden's DOJ handled everything to do with investigating and eventually prosecuting Trump with extra soft kid gloves so that they could avoid looking "political" only to have Trump re-elected so that he could launch investigations of...Barack Obama Nice work. Good job all around

Called my both of my US Senators to express my opinion that they should demand Schumer and Durbin step down from their leadership positions immediately. You can do the same by dialing the US Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. An operator will connect you directly with your Senator's office.

Sounds about right…

lol she got his ass and he knows it

POS who used bankruptcy court six separate times to avoid paying millions to contractors, is now using the Supreme Court to avoid paying SNAP benefits to families with children. His demise can’t come soon enough.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

We’re 36 days into the longest shutdown in American history. All it would take to end this shutdown is for Republicans to agree to extend ACA tax credits, something that would directly help millions of Americans. It’s way past time to get to the negotiating table and end this.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

So Trump says he knows nothing about the pardon he issued for a billionaire who just so happened to make his family a fortune in crypto. This clip is going viral for a reason. Don’t underestimate a struggling American public’s slowly building intolerance for this kind of blatant corruption.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

It seems some are under the impression that the war continues because Ukraine keeps hoping to liberate its territories, whereas it continues because Russia keeps hoping to occupy all of Ukraine.

Florence + the Machine: Everybody Scream review – alt-rock survivor surveys her kingdom with swagger

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

The Toronto Blue Jays hit the first back-to-back homers to begin a game in World Series history. Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. connected on the first and third pitches by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Blake Snell.

Stunning banner cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar. Credit: Met Office Gibraltar

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand. All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front. He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you. Fuck 'em.

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

It's been 32 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Yep...

With its history, you'd think that the White House would be protected somehow from this kind of intentional destruction... 🤔

Pros and Cons of AI in my particular field of work: CONS: Undermined the functionality of internet research, flooded search results with fake historical photos, buried our videos with content-mill imitators, made spell check and autocorrect unreliable, stolen my work to feed LLMs. PROS: …

Trump Extorts DOJ for $230M While Gov’t Workers Scramble to Make Ends Meet youtu.be/RtSVBbf_khE

I'll cautiously say I've noticed more skepticism about AI in the corporate world and it's mostly because people's coworkers are creating extra work for them. They don't have the vocabulary to describe it yet but it's basically the "Why should I read what you couldn't be bothered to write" thing

This is important

The GOP is such a party of craven toadies that they are 100% fronting for a guy who declares himself king while also apparently having such a devastating association with Epstein that they have to keep Congress shut down to hide it.

Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

‘No Kings’ protest live updates: millions expected to gather across the US for anti-Trump protests

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday denounced the use of hunger as a weapon of war as he urged world leaders to act responsibly and focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery. https://to.pbs.org/4o4PqGP

Last surviving member of first team to conquer Everest dies aged 92

I know where MAGA is on this but how about it “conservatives”? At what point is giving up every ideal worth “winning”?

Oh god just saw this OpenAI generated video someone posted to Reddit of ‘A girl knocks on your door at 3am’ and this may be the least mentally healthy product on the planet it not most terrifying

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Impech Mike Johnson! This obstruction constitutes an abuse of power/dereliction of duty, which are grounds for impeachment proceedings by the House under Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution, which empowers each Chamber to judge Johnson's qualifications/conduct.

I think it’s reached the point where if a studio hired Jared Leto for a movie they should be investigated for insurance fraud because it’s some The Producers bullshit for sure

Momentum is building to use Russia’s frozen central bank reserves to fund Ukraine's war effort. The recent proposal, distributed to EU ambassadors in September and seen by the Kyiv Independent, outlines an innovative legal and financial plan to lend €140 billion of the frozen assets to Ukraine.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

“Who do you think you are? Killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism. You’re making life for Jews miserable.” Netanyahu makes a South Park appearance

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

So here's the monologue they want to punish Kimmel for. Let's Streisand Effect it.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.