I would mint a challenge coin that just reads “challenge coins are fucking weird”

people lost their jobs over this fucking guy

If you’re looking for an actress that’s a virgin might I suggest an up and coming actress: Nonya Bizness

So no Dems or major news media are going to treat the more than a thousand people disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz as a story worthy of persistent pressure? Got it.

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Look, I have my criticisms of Obamacare. But you can't say this stuff for 10 years now and, whenever you're asked what your concrete alternative is, keep saying "oh, we'll announce that two weeks from now, and you'll really love it". Either you have a plan or you don't. (They don't).

This is a lot of desperate dancing but the funniest thing is these jokers spent the 25 years since 9/11 militarizing the police and now they’re like, yeah they suck at keeping us safe call in the troops

What’s significant about this is it isn’t even like people snapped over the preventable mass deaths, the lingering discontent seems to be centered on the inconvenience. And it wasn’t even that long term. We’re not talking about Great Depression or WWII levels of mass sacrifice here.

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I’d like one newspaper to try out the headline “Republicans fail to attract Democratic votes they need to end shutdown” as a little treat.

A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

researchers: i have made Artificial Intelligence engineers: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it’s got anxiety​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

did you know gaslighting isn’t actually a word

President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way. By Ezra Klein

We don't talk enough about how mockery and humiliation are tools of resistance. Toss out your obligations to social decorum. Belittle them. They're stupid, ugly, they have ED, no one respects them, whatever. Undercut their claims to authority as often as you can. Make them out to be clowns.

I do not like this man Ted Cruz I do not like him in the news I will say it again I kid you not This man Ted Cruz, he is a twat.

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Why is it called a chest freezer when it will fit limbs and heads, too?

👇👇👇👇👇👇

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

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they're gonna turn every remaining facet of government interface into a manosphere podcast, ie, a dumb white guy telling everyone who ostensibly works for him that they're gross pieces of shit who deserve all the bad stuff in their lives because they jack off too much

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

behold, your new cult leader

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

So exhausting..

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

"So, AI has a huge cost and doesn't really help much. At any rate, we will now force you to use AI for everything."

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

Fine, I’ll do it.

“Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?” Every viewer of Fox News or their ilk needs to ask this whenever Portland or Seattle comes up. I get treated like I escaped from Fallujah every time I visit Red State family.

Ugh. In-laws, amirite?

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

if you simply do not like the vibe on this website, that's fine. i'm not a big fan of the "open cesspool of neo-nazis" vibe on X: The Everything App. but this ideologically-driven desire to present every person who uses this app as hysterical and unreasonable is kind of pathetic