And if this turns out to be what it seems to be, call your reps and demand they impeach. reps.fyi

just thinking about every american media outlet that said something along the lines of "legal experts say there is likely no legal basis for bombing venezuelan boats" and not HEY THIS IS FUCKING ILLEGAL AND AGGRESSIVE

This feels like a culmination of several deep pathologies: congressional passivity, executive aggrandizement, national security exceptionalism, politics as theater, war as theater.

going to call my senators back and tell them to put the child porno machine on the back burner for now and focus on the undeclared war of aggression

no creature is more dangerous than a man who has deluded himself into believing reality does not apply to him: the entire leadership of the U.S. government now consists entirely of these horrifically destructive freaks

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

The idea is to have the officeholder take an oath that is meaningful them with the highest level of allegiance & promise. You can take an oath or simply “affirm,” just as witnesses in court can “affirm” rather than swear on a bible.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

in anything resembling a just world there will be nothing left of this administration but a federal cell block every day these people are allowed to live free is a categorical failure of the most basic rule of law

i hope at some point in the near future you also get to feel this comfy cozy and loved

I think about this one a lot

Hi! Are you doomscrolling? Max loves you and believes you deserve time to rest and recover.

Neither grok nor x apologized in any official statement. The screenshotted “apology from grok” was created by a user who prompted it to issue an apology for creating a specific CSAM image of girls who were 12-14 years old (by grok’s estimation). He prompted grok multiple times to get this “apology.”

UofT students: I'm offering a Black Radical Theory from the Global South class, JAA 377H on Tuesdays. We'll be reading folks like Neville Alexander, Keguro Macharia, Beatriz Nascimento, Grace Musila, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Wangui Kimari etc...

Personally reading this t-shirt in the style of Live Laugh Love

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

the brand is strong

Sure lost or damaged items should be paid for (lowest price matched and forgiveness are good to keep in mind) but late return fines are so punitive and run counter to providing access to all

Begging, pleading. Especially sequels that come out more than a year from the last one. I cannot retain all the details of the plot for that long. I read 150+ books a year. You're lucky if I even remember who the MC is.

Useful. Intuitive. Mobile-friendly on web. Treats Blacksky as 1st party. I'm a fan 👏🏾

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo

also you don't need to include your hobbies unless relevant.

A cover letter is also distinct from a school application letter

*pinches bridge of nose* Educators, GLAM folks, if you have students PLEASE tell them that a cover letter is not a narrative version of a CV/resume. #librarianproblems

I am so ready for the Reagan era to finally end

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welcome 2026!

Mary Sheffield was sworn in as Detroit’s 76th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the office in the city's 324-year history

Jack Smith only confirming what we already knew and tried to warn people about: Trump ran for president to so he could win and kill the investigations that were bound to send him to jail.

i can’t believe it has been 2016 for ten years

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

One last fucked up 2025 scoop—FEMA has begun issuing termination notices to CORE staff (appointed under the Stafford Act, ordinarily extended for 2 years) effective Jan 2, agency sources tell me. Sr leadership was asked if they could be given more notice but Acting Administrator Karen Evans said no.

Called out

A reminder that if your company matches donations of any kind - go do that! Donate their money! Are you not sure who to give to? I can find you an organization that will make your (and their) year.

For folks still struggling with the math: There are ~345 million US citizens. There are ~245 million white US citizens. This is what they mean by "Peaceful ethnic cleansing." Their plan ends with deporting all non-white people. Not "undocumented criminals." Not even "all undocumented people."

Thank you to those who have donated. We're $1800 away from 50% of this fundraiser for Black Zine Fair.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

It fucking well better be.

Time zones are weird. Just fundamentally. The International date line. What’s that all about.

They loved that Bernie mostly dodged the issues of race and gender, they loved a vision of the left where they wouldn't have to worry about that and could be stars without having to share the stage with Black people and women, among others.

the fellowship of the arts: thread

this new years eve I'm reminded of an old Soviet toast: Here's to another average year - worse than the one before it, but better than the one ahead

But Dag! They didn’t know and are bamboozled and it’s not white supremacy !!!!!

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Opinion | I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then I realized that if I joined the Federalist Society I could be a federal judge by the time I was 35.

The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.