Radio Free America

guys is it just me or does it feel like things fall apart

That was specifically new information, or at minimum, less-than-widely-disseminated information, compared to a lot of what was in there, too. Journalism, what is it? Bari Weiss doesn’t know.

USS Defiant???? man FUCK all of you

better version than @jasonparis.bsky.social’s cam job (still much appreciated!)

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

relevant.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

“the torture was never-ending. they would take you there and beat you for hours, and leave you locked in there for days” if these people are not held accountable, it will be the end of the country. nobody should have to respect us ever again.

I was waiting for this leak, thank you whoever did this, whether by accident or by “accident”

too many ppl at the top seem neither to understand the stakes nor value them

they’re talking about this bsky.app/profile/rmac... evil but also dumb, dumb but also evil

Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.

aha, well, that’s just great

attempting to make lies look truthful and murder respectable, and give the appearance of solidity to pure wind

It’s one thing to believe in the abstract that authoritarian, fascist, or personalist regimes displace expertise for loyalty, it’s entirely a different thing to watch it happen all over the place in your country.

voice—bagman John Malone—asked CEO David Zaslav to spike the anticipated blockbuster movie Batgirl after filming was finished. Was it bad? No, just pro-LGBT, and spiking a *popular, beloved, anticipated* LGBT product is much, much more important than making money.

extent to which students use it to get out of work testifies to its utility in at least one arena. but that’s a social ill—they’re not learning anymore at that point

Sort of. New Atheism was popular in 2000s Israel; it's much easier to modify "religion is bad, lol @ Jesus" to "religion is bad, lol @ Tanakh" when your framework for religious Jews is the Rabbinate, the Haredi parties, the settler movement, and bans on public transport on Saturdays.

“political divisions within the country” what does this even mean, man

many of the people that benefit the most from the subway’s existence are also its biggest haters. sad, really.

The Official Apparel Partner of Evelyn Normielib 🫡

OPTO is permitted under the current contract on some lines running shorter trainsets, mostly on nights and weekends. The vetoed law would have overridden this and required a second conductor to be put on all trains, even if they have safely been run under OPTO for over 20 years.

Impersonal bureaucratic systems are liberation from the tyranny of the village and the tribe. Long live modernity

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

as a sort of corollary to this observation, Dem fundraising going to bend inexorably towards small donors as Anglosphere rich people go more and more insane

As I've said before. You believe in something? Welcome to being a left wing radical. Yes, we all hate it too.

this is embarrassing for us.

Biden ran a point and a half ahead of House Dems generally. But more relevant: you know what winning a seat by 13 points instead of 8 points gets you? Absolutely nothing. Even if Casten traded away a few points he didn't need anyway in order to go further on whatever issue, that's rational behavior!

it’s extremely stupid, and some of them internalize this. it is strange to have to tell someone, no, you are a New Yorker, too, actually

🎶 how I wish I were in shreveport now 🎶

i don’t know if they believe in anything, tbqh, other than the satisfaction of thinking they’re right

data is important, measurement of public opinion is important, but politics also isn't a machine. there are a vast number of qualitative factors at work. and people themselves are unpredictable.

The Free Press in a lot of ways does resemble an especially toxic student newspaper

this. Not unrelatedly, perhaps even more fundamental to the rich or rich-adjacent

i wonder how sentiment would have changed if the signs said "jobs available"

a neat detail from the Rockman pitch docs, as photographed at Capcom's latest art exhibition (https://xcancel.com/kangyaku/status/2002170653118767439): Guts man was originally "Gantz Man"—seeing it written makes the influence kinda obvious (Gantz-sensei from Ganbare! Robocon)

the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back with a flamethrower

The fact it is 2025 and Candace is more popular than ever and people still have no idea how influential she is on the far right is truly so frustrating.

ITT: the most stereotypically gay-looking straight dude alive, apparently?

College Republicans are just Nazis now.

would make this a second pin if I could

The thing about this specific claim, from Wagner, is that...... I dunno man, "America Bad" is never going to be the official position of the United States federal government?????

Its also like not that really. The American left has a bad habit of plastering their sentiments towards the US onto others. The United States is broadly popular internationally.

it’s all people knew for a very long time. they want zirp with low-inflation, but will still complain about the downsides of that

Anyone born after 2005 watching the NBA would have a stroke if they watched any clips of the 2004 Pistons

Can I just say? What a grotesque thing this is, quite apart from it being Palmer freaking Luckey

borgicize me cap’n

add to this scores upon scores of negatively polarized gits who still think of this as the domain of crunchy libs. that Chinese solar panels have been eating our lunch activates a similar impulse in the same people