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The problem here is that a lot of Americans secretly (or not even secretly) admire this. To them it’s is a sign of how smart their president is to rip us all off and there not being anything that can stop him. Genius. You go, sir! They also think it’s super cool none of these guys pay taxes.

The Trump-IRS settlement talks are blatant corruption being laundered through the legal system in broad daylight. A president suing his own government. Kleptocracy usually requires some effort to hide. Resist the temptation to normalize this. Authoritarians have routinely been overthrown for less.

This 80 second clip of Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement will send shivers down your spine. Commit it to memory like the Gettysberg address. It’s even more important than Lincoln’s speech because we forgot his words the first time. We can’t promise “never again” if we don’t remember.

Für Männer (in Berlin), die am Vatertag/Herrentag/Himmelfahrt besseres tun wollen, als sich "wie ein Mann" zu besaufen: Um 14 beginnt am Brandenburger Tor die Demonstration "Männer gegen Gewalt". taz.de/Maenner-Demo...

I sometimes wonder, dollar for dollar, isn't streaming music effectively JUST as damaging for the industry as just... File sharing was? Just with a veneer / sanction of legality, while the artists themselves basically end up getting just as much money as they used to from tanking record sales?

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While people are arguing whether or not they should accept Marjorie Taylor Greene into their tent, she's over in the nazi bar calling Laura Loomer "Larry" as a transphobic slur & accusing Benny Johnson of being gay.

Executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated more than $1.7 million to 168 members of Congress over the 3 most recent election cycles. Find out if your representatives are among them with our new searchable database built in partnership with @inthesetimes.com theappeal.org/congress-ice...

We need to understand a few things that allowed Covid to become the species-altering event that it is. And I think the most important factor is that it is quite contagious, and quite lethal, but not lethal ENOUGH to make people worried and aware of its impact.

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

Your regular reminder that “remigration” is far right code for the forced expulsion of ethnic undesirables in order to "purify" the nation. White House comms division showing their white nationalist stripes.

Holy shit the Counterterrorism operating strategy--with its tagline, "We will Find You and We Will Kill You"-- is explicitly targeting pro-trans rights groups. Trans rights are human rights. There's no radical pro-trans ideology beyond "let them live".

Evergreen, but also of the moment: Sometimes ethical stewardship of data means not having it. Including deleting it. Even at personal cost.

This would *immediately* sink a Democratic administration.

In honor of 'Easy A's ruining education,' here is, in its entirety, JFK's successful admission essay for Harvard.

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

maybe she's born with it. maybe it's deadly rat flu.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

we need an equivalent of Godwin's Law, except it involves the probability of Kennedy discussing teenage sperm.

Man ist nicht Antifaschist, weil man mit den Grünen oder Linken sympathisiert. Man ist auch nicht Antifaschist, weil man rechte Ideologien oder Parteien ablehnt. Antifaschist ist man, weil man über ein Mindestmaß an Anstand verfügt.

reupping because I feel passionate about sharing this with the uninitiated

Me: Here is a sunset Bluesky: THERE'S A GOT DANG CHEETO IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

This applies to much more than things visual

Happy Mother's Day

Babies will die but when a death cult put you back in office you don't care about trivial details like that.

It is now common for GOP Reps and Sens to refuse to meet with constituents, to be MIA at town hall meetings, to pass legislation to remove the voter's right to submit initiatives, and to actively work to reverse issues passed by voters. (Even by large majorities.) That's not representation.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

Her husband wrote an entire book telling people not to go to college like him.

This is exactly right, with one caveat: the reason "no it'll never fucking happen" is there (I bet) is to try (probably not successfully) to stave off dozens of annoying people replying just that. Except that impossible things become possible all the time, and it starts with saying what should be.

This explains why everybody on the Left gets along with each other so famously.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a terrible video game and it being commonly accepted as one of the best games ever made is a damning indictment of the medium at large.

Lifelong Nazi spots a new revenue spigot, adjusts their ideology by 5%, says they were only a lifelong Nazi because they were hypnotized by you-know-who. The finest minds online: 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

RFK’s approach to public health is in fact one of malice, conspiracism, and bigotry. I feel no hesitation or compunction about comparing it to Nazi science.

This is true. Obviously people of all social classes vote for all parties but *in general* the base for fascism isn't the actual working class but small business owners and retirees.

I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community.

“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”

“Sick of his racism being called out, racist man votes for racism”

Every day we wake up to talk of a peace deal, and every day an oil trader makes money off it.

The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

"No decision can erase what Virginians made clear at the ballot box," is a crazy thing to say when a decision literally erased what Virginians made clear at the ballot box.

The most hilarious part of this is that the recall only affects 173 total vehicles, because that's all Tesla's sold of its rear wheel drive model.

Elon is a genocidal demon and any Democrat who refuses to call him what he is a useless quisling. Any defense of that creature who has the blood of millions of children on his hands is flatly and totally intolerable among civilized people.

me sleeping seven hours vs. me sleeping six hours and 42 minutes

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Uh, the court just said FUCK THE VOTERS AND WHAT THEY WANT. So maybe get some new god damn material?