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Everybody wants to talk about how “addictive” porn is while Kalshi, Polymarket and Draftkings are sponsoring & advertising at every major media event, targeting primarily men, and bankruptcy rates have risen 30% since online betting was legalized

screw worm vs feral hogs who will win?

judge has collapsed the entire spectrum of civil disobedience if you treat vandalism the same as political assassinations, guess what that incentivizes? either doing nothing, or assassinations the fascists think they can flagellate their population into doing nothing; history says theyre mistaken

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

Congress should be able to negotiate directly with Iran This is an illegal war that Trump started, without direction from Congress Just as Congress has war powers, it was treaty powers as well it cannot be that a war illegally started by a rogue president can only be concluded by that president

eventually, american media will have to outwardly admit the supreme court just makes shit up

Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.

Interesting twist to “people are policy” in that it was everyone around Biden and his cabinet (especially all the younger dem staffers) that would’ve prevented him from fully participating, while bibis dream team is Biden leading trumps hawk cabinet and their red pill staffers

All of Iran could have been avoided if even a fraction of the army had kept faith with the constitution. Blame trump, but also blame every officer who followed illegal orders. Trump massacred a school, but so did a pilot and their chain of command.

Truly amazing that Israel worked their asses off to oust Joe Biden (probably the best friend they’ve ever had in the White House) in favor of a guy who would follow a bee out of a penthouse window if he thought it liked him.

this is, in a very real sense, the most correct post of all time, insofar as it captures the full essence of Officially Sanctioned Reality

I fear we, as a civilization, moved on from the fact Grok is the most prolific producer of child sexual abuse material in history a bit too quickly. In any normal society, xAI and SpaceX would not be IPOing, they’d be sued into oblivion, all officers arrested, and all remaining assets nationalized.

Trump has spent trillions of taxpayer dollars learning 20th century governance from first principals. Not only are we a quarter century behind our peers in modern energy and transportation, we’re going to have to rebuild very basic state capacity.

FT is for business elites who actually realize they do in fact live in a society

Yeah I was there in Harlem. Then deafening cheers at every metro stop back to midtown. Then joyous anarchy on 40th.

Walked out of I love boosters to theatre hop into ads before backrooms, and immediately watched a couple Pfizer and Walmart skinsuits tell me that the only thing worse than cancer is not getting to work while having cancer because they love working so much and so should you.

Douglas Adams: > Anything in the world when you're born is normal, ordinary and a natural part of the world. Anything invented between when you’re 15-35 is new, exciting and revolutionary and you can get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. 1/

What I have for you is *political* advice. To restore the beams and beat back entropy again, we need a better *system*, not more virtuous individuals. If you feel - as I do - that "the world has moved on," then to wrench it back, you will have to join a *polity*. 83/

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

84% of Democrats believe abortion should be legal, as do 63% of conservatives (Pew, 2026). The NYT is inventing a debate where there isn't one, laundering reactionary fever dreams into what they want you to think is reality.

everything about this blows carte blanche for nypd to search everyone and gather huge amounts of information on who you are, where you're going, and where you're coming from, probably biometric data as well ruining everyone's night so dear leader can sleep through a basketball game

The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery, except “as a punishment for crime.” But people in immigration detention haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.

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ALWAYS always always read and listen to everything Asli Bali does. www.bostonreview.net/articles/obj...

Democrats should have a public list of names and addresses of each person they’re going to indict for corruption when they retake power

I don’t care what a cabal of millionaire fellaters call me. I’m going to continue to advocate Elon musk goes to a gulag and breaks rocks until the end of his artificially inflated lifespan

I actually don’t know how a mayor goes about disciplining the nypd It has the resources and capabilities of a Balkan country’s secret police. It can wiretap, blackmail, threaten anyone in the world with impunity. You’re going to war with your own kgb, but you don’t get to have a red army

vote blue, yet who is it that always ends up providing the necessary soldiers for fascism www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

I did not cry during sheep detectives ending but I did cry during I love boosters ending

Walked out of I love boosters to theatre hop into ads before backrooms, and immediately watched a couple Pfizer and Walmart skinsuits tell me that the only thing worse than cancer is not getting to work while having cancer because they love working so much and so should you.

FIRE is a right-wing dark money outfit. Let’s be absolutely clear about this. It presents as libertarian, but its real agenda is imposing right-wing ideology on schools.

"Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

yet more orwellian remarks from trump administration "defensive strikes" during "ceasefire" in an aggressive war of choice

The opposite of criti-hype is *materialistic* criticism, grounded in independently verifiable claims about how these scams work. 15/

I like this site and I think people who have a really hard time here are kind of babies. Sometimes I get yelled at on here and some of those times people don’t have a point, but who cares? If anything, I should evangelize for this site more as the last place on the internet I still learn stuff.

Thalidomide a fascinating story of nazi science, unmitigated capitalism, the pharmaceutical industry, and the necessity of government.

O3 making like 70k to play call of duty and then have clippy tell him how he played. No wonder we haven’t won a war in almost a century news.vt.edu/articles/202...

best way to make money in this country is collect rent on capital you already own or attempt to violently overthrow the government

My wrestling hot take is its weird that Wikipedia treats their WWE win-loss records and ‘championship’ wins as something other than meaningless. How is Wrestlemania treated the same as someone’s olympics records? Wins in WWE has no reflection on someone’s abilities, only on writer’s room

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

They mistakenly believe there is a vas deferens between what the Constitution doesn’t authorize and what it expressly prohibits.

"Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"

doing whatever it takes to make jodie foster think you’re cool

democrats, you're getting your asses handed to you schumer and jeffries have led your party into a crisis they refuse to treat as acute schumer has been around for three decades, and so far gop has president, house, senate, scotus, circuits, state houses, and governors apnews.com/article/alab...

The hinge in this article is not the fact Canadians are travelling to US less but the surveillance used to gather these findings: "A new research tool that tracks cell phone activity has found a 42% drop in visitors from Canada to big metropolitan areas.." 1/6 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

recession/fascism indicator that no one has the time nor inclination to barbenheimer these two

author of famed sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus blamed for creation of Torment Nexus

washington elite incapable of connecting twenty years of america using a bomb to deal with every international issue with an america looking internally now primed to use a bullet