Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

Incredible. Totally oblivious to the fact that some of us have been doing this intensively since last November. And in fact some of us have been doing this for decades.

I in general love how living a transnational life is arguably more common than ever but policymakers still treat your needs, desires and concerns as essentially mythological middle class nonsense

He's the last person who still watches network tv

The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House. Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.

It would be racist terrorism even if he wasn't

I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.

too real lol

Immigration raids in Hawaiʻi are especially ironic since the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi was illegally overthrown and the Hawaiian Islands annexed by the United States against the will of the people.

Matt Gaetz raped a 17 year old child after exploiting her healthcare needs for money and this is how the NY Times is framing it. "ended up having sex with powerful men" Literally whitewashing child rape. Corporate media is dead. Stop subscribing to it. This is beyond saving.

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do people actually converse with their home wiretaps? if this is anything close to real practice then i am understanding why people get into LLMs. natural progression of... whatever the fuck this is

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

I've been meaning to switch off T-Mobile for years anyway because of their huge dead zone in the Mission, so I let this boycott effort push me over the edge.

putting white collar criminals in a public zoo so the public can throw trash and piss buckets at them, that's my political platform

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

The historical lesson of Nazism is to destroy Nazis before they get control of the government. We should actually follow the lesson, but we are not.

Its wild to see Olivia Nuzzi get this treatment while if I break the ethics rules of my profession I'll never be a CPA again

The NYT yearns for pedophiles and rapists (this article is a who's who of sexual assaulters)

Brazil president Lula has vowed that Indigenous perspectives are a priority at COP30, but will they be heard and considered by negotiators? On Tues, 100s of Indigenous protestors stormed the conference venue saying more needs to be done to include them in negotiations. By @mandymagnani.bsky.social:

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

My wife pointed out a couple of years ago how Epstein is always identified on first reference as "disgraced financier" instead of, ya know, "convicted sex trafficker." It's always been a nice way to keep what's most important to the in-group front and center.

Remember if you truly despise GenAI and its outputs you need to put a lot more time celebrating and lifting all the artists not using it and trying there best and learning. Share their art like that art and just talk about the stuff you like and enjoy. Don’t let the anger of GenAi stop that.

indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better. we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...

Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do

Epstein was convicted in 2008. This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power. There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.

I know theres a narrative around wearing a mask to protect disabled people. I'm going to be real for a second. That's not why I wear a mask. I wear a kn95 or a kf94 to protect myself. That I might also be protecting others is just a side benefit.

the reason you don’t chase reactionaries is they’ll demand you make your platform worse and then vote for someone even worse than that anyway, the best you can ask is that they stay home the people who want to leave the cult, those you can give a cookie and a trans rights manifesto

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

I feel like the attitude of, we were fooled and we were wrong no harm no foul, was a worthwhile sentiment in Trump 1 and 2020 but isn't now that Trump's been re-elected. No one was fooled this time save fools

i mean i'm rarely shocked by how empty the NY Times is but writing a RETVRN piece about JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S NYC is really just fucking crazy

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

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In one way or another, cars are responsible for most of the sludge. Ground up tires and asphalt, brake dust, tailpipe hydrocarbons. Jet exhaust and pollution from oil/gas wells or refineries are other sources

Do you see the sludge in the buckets? That's stuff that was deposited with the rain or washed off the roof with a few grains of composite roof material. Mostly air pollution. During the 9-10 month dry season in SoCal, the black stuff builds up on leaves. We give our trees & shrubs occasional showers

“You’ve learned some flashy tricks, your holiness, but you’ve forgotten the essence of the game … it’s about the cones. I move my abbot to the ocean hex, which moves my brinksman to the devil's lair, and pushes my farmer, yes, my humble farmer, directly into the central cone.

I am really sick of making plans with people who bail at the last minute. Not only is it rude but this shit is expensive!

What if "Wag the Dog" but with a real war.

The only people who can use this bench now are secret agents

Whenever it rains in LA, I always think about the “Emerald Necklace Vision Plan”, which, if implemented, would result in expanded parks and green space along several waterways in the area.

I think that's part of it, but also I think they just genuinely felt that an anti-gay, anti-abortion church with a male-only hierarchy ruled by an infallible dictator WOULD OF COURSE align with their fascist project. And forgot to, you know, check.

Good answers here to a question I was wondering.