My daily routine: - Wake up - Realize that I haven't been raptured

Yes, YOU.

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BREAKING: American comedian rehabilitated.

Trump hyped a huge autism announcement for months then followed through today with a press conference where his brain leaked out of his ears for an hour while he couldn't pronounce "acetaminophen" and yelled "DON'T TAKE ASPIRIN" over and over. Congratulations, America.

An incredible Idea.

I live in Seattle. I drink Starbucks. I won't cross a picket line.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. When I next see my doctor if there's a question about a medication or procedure I may ask for them to talk about what the UK, AUS & CAN govt agencies say about it, along w/the relevant medical boards. I'm pretty much discounting anything HHS says at this point.

Woo-hoo!!!

Too late. My lady & I have already reallocated that $ to PBS & NPR.

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On the surface this seems like a marketing gimmick, which will have some - probably limited - effect on the policies' poll numbers. But the really cynical ploy is how they're not adjusting the withholding amounts in people's paychecks to match the new rates. This means bigger tax returns next year.

Also: Consider including NPR. Just $15/month ($7 to PBS + $8 to NPR) makes you a supporter and gets you access to their respective streaming libraries. Pretty amazing deal, IMO.

Canceling Disney+/Hulu? Here's a great place to shift those $.

It says a lot that Emmy voters chose any show other than the explicitly anti-fascist one to win Best Drama.

Conservatives love to vilify folks who want to "Defund the Police" but what they really mean is that they don't like which police you want to defund. IRS folks cracking down on tax cheats? FBI agents investating corruption? Nah. Rounding up brown folks? That's the priority.

I like the City On A Hill or the Mayflower. The turkey feathers suck.

My refusal to use Tik Tok is based on the fcat that I've got relationships in China + want to go back there. So I've had reason to care about whether they're actively monitoring me. But for most people in the US it's probably better that a foreign govt is tracking you than your own.

Since I lived in China I've stayed away from Tim Tok b/c I know how much influence the Chinese govt has over what you see there & how they track you. But if this sale goes through I'd advise foks to migrate to the Chinese version ASAP. At least the Chinese govt can't throw you in jail.

Larry Flynt jerked off so the rest of us could fly.

Larry Flynt’s greatest legacy was making sure the First Amendment covers both Shakespeare and fart jokes.

All the super straight, Christian, MAGA warriors broke down Grindr, the gay dating/sex app, yet again. The last time it broke down...the RNC in Wisconsin.

Generative AI is a product that can never, by definition, do what it's supposed to do. Investments in this field are literally the only thing keeping the economy afloat right now. The US economy is essentially AI slop right now.

One damp, rainy day and they're all swigging pumpkin spice & bustin' out their cable knit sweaters.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

This is fascism.

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You can have some war, and you can have some war, and you can have some war… Lots of chickens waiting to come home to roost, MAGA voters.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

This is indicative of where we are as a country right now. If we can't agree on whether or not it's OK for the government to blackmail companies into doing its bidding, or if extrajudicial killings of civilians in international waters is OK, then we ain't getting back to the moon anytime soon.

We can put a man on the moon, but we can't put a man on the moon.

"Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they were actually really nice."

Just happily canceled my Disney+/Hulu subscription. Good riddance.

Don't just cancel Disney/Hulu. Cancel Disney/Hulu and support independent outlets and entertainers instead. 🙌

"Facism is a temper tantrum disguised as ideology."

There's always a Seattle angle.

One of the reasons that I don't watch broadcast TV anymore. Though, tbf, I stopped watching most broadcast TV back in the early 00's. Then moving to China cut me off completely. Torrents FTW!!

I'm subtweeting you.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Canada's secret weapon.

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

What in the actual fuck?

The fact that the cost of living is the #1 issue for voters in America tells you all that you need to know about Americans. And, well, humans, tbh.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet