everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

Greatest living lyricist? Probably Tupac Shakur.

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Is this building up to an excuse for anti-Semitism?

No incarnation of any political party at any time in any country on earth has ever spent so much time thinking about children’s genitals.

Ok, I know this is terrible, but... The guy thinks he's safe in the League Of Evil Guys and instead finds out that there's always a more evil guy to come after him... That will always be funny. The last line of the poem is a little bit satisfying if you're in any of the previous lines.

I'm cracking down on my consumption of junk food and it sucks.

New Quinnipiac poll of New York City: Mamdani 46% Cuomo 33% Sliwa 15% (A month ago, it was Mamdani 45%, Cuomo 23%, Sliwa 15%, Adams 12%.) One obstacle to Cuomo rising much higher: Mamdani's favorability rating is 43/35, but Cuomo's is 37/52. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

You guys ever think about various blows to the head and periods of depression in your past and wonder if you would even realize it if the cumulative effect of the brain damage affected your ability to think?

This sounds terrible.

Longhorns have an open letter they can sign here bit.ly/nodealtexas

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

They’re working their way back to a Redemption Era if not antebellum theory of society.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

It's @ingforart.bsky.social's theory of Antifascist Clowns. Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either. They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Every part of this sentence describes an abomination before God. People are going to hell for this.

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

A different kind of self-deporting. I love the caption under the header image here: "Curtis Yarvin fears American democracy will survive Donald Trump."

Six former surgeons general appointed by every President since George HW Bush warn that RFK Jr. is endangering the health of the nation, calling his policies/positions a “profound, immediate + unprecedented threat” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

They also paid for the hospital bill when Julia Roberts was born

Star Trek being the only show Dr. King and Coretta let the kids stay up to watch is a personal fave of mine

There's definitely something to the idea that sports gambling and gacha games and LLM usage are connected, all preying on the same quirk of human psychology

Power outages are top 10 on the list of things I hate about living in Texas.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Is this a real thing? I feel like it would be better known if it was real.

Videos where a puppy bites an adult dog on the balls will ALWAYS get a belly laugh out of me.

According to Axios, the money the Trump Administration took from families was fine and then giving that money back to them is a favor from Trump. You are dogshit

There have been many movies with the "guy's mistresses discover each other, fight, them team up to ruin him." Never has it been 17 mistresses and never has it been a bishop. This is going to end up a movie.

Yikes. The sooner we are rid of fossil fuel dependence, the better. abcnews.go.com/Health/expos...

It’s genuinely amazing that we live in a world where people act as if we somehow haven’t tried to be “tough on crime” and people lend it any credence whatsoever.

Japan has strict gun control laws, and the United States incarcerates more people than anyone else, but somehow it’s always the xenophobia they fetishize.

Yeah, I think we can look at Charlie Kirk’s words around Black pilots when we’re considering what “trust” means to many people who use it in that manner.

See also: people who say we must "restore trust in higher ed"

Lmaoooo sorry but that's amazing and kinda gives away the plan to, you know, not pay anyone

this may sound moralizing, or quixotic, or anti-modern, but it's my view that any historian who publishes AI-produced work has no place in the profession

One of the small handful of things that triggers my anxiety is when I've gone out on a limb via text and someone doesn't respond to me. Thankfully, it is usually possible to ignore it, but it's THE WORST when it is triggered because there's nothing at all I can do to make it better, only worse.