All due respect, I am in favor of not electing/appointing anyone from an Ivy for at least a decade. They’ve done so much harm, we need a pause. I personally think it’s a built-in personality defect that’s getting worse. Extreme hubris mixed with a lot of Dunning-Krueger.

Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes” Question: “And do you tell him that?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along.

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How badly did Los Angeles fumble? How about we had a public transportation system that was the envy of the world and we ripped it up so Ford, Firestone and Standard Oil could sell us all cars, tires and gas. We could have a proper, world-class city, instead we have a city designed for cars.

The thing is they built nearly an entire administration out of people who qualified by being the crassest, most overt grifters imaginable who would toe whatever nonsense line the president chose today

Democratic socialists meet in Spain. "Spain’s Pedro Sanchez & Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will spearhead gatherings of the global left in Barcelona ‌[this weekend].... South African Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa… will attend, ‌as will Mexico’s Pres. Claudia Sheinbaum..." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

no wonder tmz is in dc even Hollywood aint this fucked up

Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s. No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable. The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.

Oh damn

That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!

Videos of the property of these white collar criminals being confiscated and arrest videos of the men who victimized the women in the Epstein files would provide ideal social media content for a future Democratic administration...the flip side to the sadistic ICE sizzle reels produced by this one.

Meanwhile, in Houston, gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is talking about Greg Abbott trafficking people into Texas’s private prisons and detention centers so that his donors will profit, and I really appreciate her for it.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Dad pun of the year so far, imo

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

First sexual harassment suit against AI incoming.

The right got all the juice squeezed out today, so they're flopping hard on the rinds of a culture war they've lost

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Benefits from DEI: NASA’s first crewed mission around the Moon in 50+ years included… ✅Christina Koch (first woman on a lunar mission) ✅Victor Glover (first Black astronaut on a lunar mission) ✅Reid Wiseman (single Dad) ✅Jeremy Hansen (first Canadian headed to the Moon). Not “woke,” PROGRESS.👇

JACK LEMMON totally has one of the best gravestones. Jack died of cancer in 2001 and is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in California near the grave of his buddy and ‘Odd Couple’ co-star Walter Matthau.

the funny thing about sending jd vance out to do sensitive diplomatic negotiations is he has literally no experience. like, none whatsoever. he doesn't even have related experience in lawmaking or some executive role.

I love that Trump is trying to bully a nation of 91 million people like it’s a Long Island dry wall contractor he’s trying to stiff because his friend in the sanitation industry gave him blackmail material on the guy. I’m sure the art of the deal magic will kick in any minute now.

was once New Amsterdam.

I think if this modern era has taught us anything, it's that all the power and money in the world - whether of techbro or would-be autocrat - cannot disguise the deep, powerful, elemental loser energy pulsating off these dweebs.

. Norway is actually protecting the US by monitoring Russian nuclear weapons bases. If something serious happens, Norway will let us know, but Trump complains and scolds, trusting Putin more than his own old allies.

This is nothing new. For as long as I remember the USA has had no regard for other nations, acting as if they were “better than”. Arrogant pricks!

"Why didn't they come forward earlier?" Why don't you shut the fuck up

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first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

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Food for thought: Being uncritical parrots of government press releases is not a good way to earn the trust of science skeptics or build trust with communities that have been harmed by (militarized) science 🧪

We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Another shout out to Victor Glover as Artemis II's pilot. While coming back in for their re-entry, NASA mentioned repeatedly how clean and perfect their trajectory was.

Also at the risk of Catholic splaining on main - the reason lots of cradle Catholics are lapsed is simply because they found their ethics out of step with the church (esp on stuff like LGBTQ+ rights and abortion/birth control) Overall my k-12 Catholic education was fine.

This is my justification for spending the day reading … I am saving civilisation.

THEY SENT FOUR HUMAN BEINGS 252,756 MILES AWAY, WENT FULLY AROUND THE MOON AND BROUGHT THEM BACK TO LAND IN THE PRECISE LOCATION THEY WANTED EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS IS THE COOLEST PERSON ON EARTH

So...Netanyahu approached 3 other US Presidents to attack Iran and they all said no.

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

USA - note how Ireland is reacting over gasoline & Diesel prices. On the streets. For days.

I actually think they should try to pass articles of impeachment on a daily basis for literally everything he does that breaks that law. Like, instead of pretending it's not political, use it as a vehicle to make it clear just how extraordinarily corrupt this asshole is.

NEW: The Biden administration sued a Texas land developer accused of duping tens of thousands of Hispanic residents. Trump’s DOJ is now offering an unprecedented settlement that experts say could target the very people who were harmed by the developer. w/ @texastribune.org

Our Haitian neighbors are deeply rooted in our communities and essential to our economy. And terminating TPS for Haiti would be devastating & destabilizing, especially in Boston. That's why we're fighting hard to extend Haiti TPS and we're closer than ever to getting it done.

What's even the point of being the labor secretary if you can't get your employees to do off the books domestic labor for you?

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

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