Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.

new york city at inauguration time on thursday

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Huge win for Richard Noticias LA, TikTok journalist shot by ICE. Criminal charges dismissed with prejudice, meaning can’t be refiled. ICE did him DIRTY. Repeatedly. Inhumane treatment, basically medical torture. Still in ICE custody on immigration case. They owe him unconditional release.

Baby formula kills babies? Charge the CEOs Bridge collapses due to shoddy materials? Charge the CEOs Worker dies of heat exhaustion? Charge the CEOs Software encourages user to suicide? CHARGE THE CEOS

“These robots love my shit.”

No lie I feel like a ton of people come in with this mentality.

Despite threats, billionaires don't leave the largest population centers, because it's where there is the most money to be had from the collective value generated by human beings, and despite what they insist, they don't generate wealth; they collect it.

I assume this sort of thing is true of every single ICE employee.

It's crazy that in Pokemon all the Pokemons absolutely love beating the shit out of each other for the amusement of children, canonically. It's like their favorite thing.

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

[twirling hair thoughtfully while blowing a big pink chewing gum bubble] “hmmm if i were playing civilization and unlocked capitalism on the tech tree and in 50 turns i got ‘asmall network of pedophiles destroys all life on earth’ i *would* actually choose a different path the next game.”

To recap: *The Trump administration illegally renamed the Kennedy Center. They broke the law. *Now they are suing a guy who refused to perform because of the name change for $1 million.

The musician worked with the Kennedy Center for 20 yrs. Now they are suing him, while complaining of bullying. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Well I'm glad *someone* realizes how terrible these are

The reason is because all of the right wing assholes Brooks loves figured out that atomized angry white guys vote Republican in between doing mass shootings

Level-5 CEO doesn't want my money

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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

They didn't like Biden and sought out stories to hurt him. By contrast they like Trump so try to bury negative stories about him and minimize them

The period between Christmas and New Year's is one big week-long liminal space

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

The interesting thing about having a real grownup job is that Bari Weiss can't indefinitely hide behind "they're trying to pogrom me" as an excuse. This really only works at Substack-level scale as a niche brand hack

Conservative American Jews are coming to understand the problem of empowering the absolute worst strains of American Christianity. I’m not sure conservative American Christians, especially Catholics, have gotten there yet.

You ever been in a small Southern town with like five or six different Baptist churches?

And if there's one thing we learn from US religious history, it's that American Protestants always find it very easy to work together and never bitterly fall out with each other over matters that seem trivial to outsiders. s/

if politicians start helping out their constituents, then those constituents are going to start asking for more from politicians

Glo DJs will come loaded with full folders of sonic battle chips. Expect hip-hop, Future Funk, Baile, Hardcore, Footwork, UKG, and high-octane club mixed with the VGM you'd expect from MAGFest!

It's like something out of a surreal children's book. An irritating product nobody likes, nobody needs, which does not work as intended, is cooking the planet alive, because rich people want to pretend to be good investors.

we are ruled by morons

we’ve been over this we just did this in Massachusetts they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving

I'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.

1. End Citizens United 2. Tax the rich 3. Prosecute wage theft 4. Pass Medicare for All 5. Vote out bought, corrupt politicians

"Big man on campus." Herblock, February 1967. In 1966 Reagan promised that, if elected California governor, he would set up a commission to investigate why “the campus has become a rallying point for Communism and a center of sexual misconduct.”

I have placed Tiny Tim in a box with an unstable nuclear isotope and will release a deadly toxin if the isotope decays. Tiny Tim will be simultaneously dead and alive until someone opens the box and checks on him, collapsing the wave function.

this is demonic. sorry to say but if you do this you should be shipped to a desert island away from the rest of us who still have human souls

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Have you noticed? When someone points to our responsibility—individual and personal, or collective and societal—to end an abuse, the question asked next is very rarely about *how* to do it, but how to *prevent* us from doing it, for fear of doing it the wrong way. www.the-reframe.com/f/

Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law

COLUMBIA, TN — 🏳️‍🌈 man chased by a man in a pickup truck harassing him for years. At one point the man in the pickup stopped and grabbed him but he got away. He calls the police- thankfully his 🎥 recorded it. The man was charged with aggravated assault. original post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ymM19V/

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

If anyone tried this on my mother I would end up in jail.

Donald Trump spent Christmas: - Referring to millions of Americans as “scum” - Bombing another country without congressional authorization - Defending Jeffrey Epstein - Threatening it “may be our last Christmas ever” Just an absolutely deranged person with advancing dementia!