By and large, they don’t. They are profoundly self-absorbed, egocentric people who have no morals, no ethics, and no idea that anyone else has value. To me, they are utterly worthless. I don’t care what is their credit rating. They are worth nothing.

100% THIS!!!!

Indeed. My depression and the covert abuse being engaged in by my family when I was a kid was ignored because my dad made good money and we had nice things. There's a persistent societal attitude that all unfit parents are either poor or are physically violent which gaslights people into denial.

The most anti-free speech administration in American history strikes again. And btw, before you yell, please know that’s it’s perfectly legal to publicly post the location of any ICE raid or ICE activities. That’s protected speech.

Trump: "Linda, how about it? We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don't negotiate, Linda. They've been very bad."

Doug Weaver here explains really well how idiots vote away the rights of others they hate which takes away everyone's rights if they deny due process to some it can happen to anyone. " The country is only as free as the freedoms available to the least free individual" #BlueCrew

Relatives of hostages call for workers to strike across Israel in protest over Gaza war https://twp.ai/4ipJJw

Victims of child rape have risked their mental health and lives to testify against Ghislaine Maxwell and also testify against Donald Trump for violent sexual assault as women. Yet GROWN ADULTS are too afraid of risking their proximity to power to demand the Epstein files or to directly condemn Trump

Trump didn’t “call for” the head of the BLS to be fired. He *actually fired her. Let’s get it right, people.

Visitors should keep putting post-its over that, correcting it.

What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant. "Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

A few thoughts about the NYT critics shakeup: Theater is one of the hardest of all disciplines to cover as a critic (or reporter). You need to know its language and history. And there's a ton you can and should do to educate yourself. But you can never "catch up." You can't see what you didn't see.>

They let you maintain the first polite fiction: he didn't *know*. But they uphold the idea that there is something out there *to* know— a fact about the intersubjectively shared language beyond what happens to be going on in the person's head. 3/3

Trump is Putin's closest & most effective ally. Trump tries to do this quietly because a big majority of the republicans support military aid to Ukraine & sanctions on Russia. Trump's undermining of sanctions on Russia & refusal to even sell arms to Ukraine must stop!

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(🚨) WAIT... WHAT?? Agents of Red Sea co-conspirators and Trump business partners MBS, MBZ, and el-Sisi were secretly in the White House as Trump agreed to go to war with their enemy Iran? How is this not the big news right now? How is this not bigger than every other story major media is covering?

If I’m a little boy watching my dad get manhandled and deported by ICE to some f*cking gulag I’m spending the rest of my days hunting the mfkers that did that to him…..Just sayin’.

Trump staging a parade to celebrate the military is like Trump staging a parade to celebrate monogamy

We laugh at his failed Birthday. But what if the point was making the US Military look pathetic?

One thing Newsom has shown is key to effectively deal with Trump & the MAGA propaganda machine: You must respond immediately & call out the lies. You can’t wait until hours/days later, then answer in a press conference, statement, scripted speech. All Dems should learn from it.

If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he'll let you know in his dating app profile picture.

Insurrectile Dysfunction (LA City Limits)

Overheard: Apparently Zelenskyy had some cards, and he didn’t need a suit.

📌The Cabinet of the United States of America is a collection of the worst, most incompetent morons in history, and we are supposed to just suffer through it as if it was just another cloudy day.

Marcella Hazan’s bolognese has been called “the gold standard” and has more than 20,000 5-star reviews. Try it and see for yourself. nyti.ms/4dv1kW6

The presumption that he is a huge liar does a lot to insulate Trump from questions about whether his various erroneous statements indicate confusion or mental infirmity.

Maggie Haberman Says Trump Was ‘Riled Up’ in Bonkers Oval Scene Until ‘White Billionaire’ Calmed Him Down https://twp.ai/4imoTv

Nine people killed, four more injured: Russia attacked a civilian bus in Sumy region with a Lancet drone. According to local authorities, passengers were evacuating from Bilopillia as it is constantly attacked by Russia. Russian terror on Ukrainian civilians continues.

In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

hear me out what if we *neither* unconstitutionally accepted jets from a foreign nation *nor* kept throwing the jets we already have in the ocean?

#Ukrainian children who are 3-4 years old do not remember their life without war. Russia took away their childhood. 📹: land1k/Instagram

So many left/progressive orgs are permanently poisoned by short term electoral thinking that is all about making sure that people think they are cool and making sure they don't get made fun of. Nah. Build with sincere, kind weirdos who show up. That's where it's at.

And at the point of middle age, I have the longitudinal experience to know that formal organizations come and go but networked movement relationships between kind weirdos who step up and show up are the real sort of teamwork that makes the dream work.

I wonder if he knows there were other wars, or if this is his way of slapping all current veterans and service members in the face?

this is one of the fatal flaws of Elon Musk journalism that has kept this grotesque charade going on far too long: breathlessly covering the shiny new bailout, while ignoring the profound failure that makes it necessary that the bailout comes from DC now instead of Wall Street is a mere detail

I don’t wanna hear shit from the MAGAt media about Jasmine Crockett’s manner of speaking when they constantly celebrate John Kennedy, who sounds like Foghorn Leghorn fucked a shoebox full of Gary Busey quotes.

Michael Waltz embarrassed himself as National Security Adviser. Here's why he should be the next UN Ambassador.

Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

America must embrace the traditional masculinity of right-wing incels living in their parents' basement, and reject the soft and feminine lifestyles of professional football players who protest social injustice.

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

Asking around at the punk show to see if anyone has floss

Sen Warnock has the best line — Jesus Christ is the biggest victim of identity theft in America

Here is a baby otter to make you feel better about everything.