This came to me in a dream

Like, Jar-Jar? Obviously a vicious stereotype of Black people from the Caribbean. The Neimoidians? Obviously a vicious stereotype of East Asians. But Watto? Is he a vicious stereotype of Jews? Italians? Armenians? Greeks? Nigerians? All of these theories have been put forward; all are correct

For a festive laugh, enjoy these two idiots failing to play Candyland youtu.be/hkUYGT-S5R8?...

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

Why the fuck are we all so violently allergic to proven and successful policy, why do we insist on punching ourselves in the face over and over and calling it success It could all be so much BETTER www.boston.com/news/busines...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

But the memes are somehow still worth it right gang

Coming for @msrachelforlittles instead of actual neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes is like coming for Mr. Rogers instead of Dr. Mengele

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.

This is truly a journey

As food prices remain high, the Trump administration has made it easier for farmers to hire foreign guest workers and to pay them less. Now, other industries with large immigrant workforces also are asking for relief. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/04/r...

My latest: "It is possible there are more ways to abuse the pardon power than Trump has found so far, but we would be hard pressed to think what they would be." www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-par...

im a little christmas boy

✶ Christmas Candles ✶ #art

this is cold blooded, calculated murder and Bradley should be court martialed and jailed for it

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I'm sorry, what?

I genuinely said "OH, NO." out loud

New video today! Why Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other wanna-be Silicon Valley gods love to cosplay Star Trek, all while stealing the very future they idolize from us all. “How Tech Billionaires Turn Star Trek into Fascism” youtu.be/V-7Spf1cLpU

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."

Tom Cotton, pictured here dressed to go aggressively Christmas Caroling at a local synagogue, articulates his enthusiasm for the Trump administration‘s secret unreviewable power to kill anyone they want.

“So now you can see if you were the #1 fan of ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ or the key figure in The Death of a Russian Conscript.”

Trump just pardoned ANOTHER alleged white collar crook — live entertainment executive Timothy Leiweke — who was indicted by Trump's own DOJ this past July for conspiring to rig a bidding process. A new Golden Age for corporate crimes.

Horrifying story: Chicago promoted two police officers even after investigators found they engaged in sexual misconduct. That’s because the Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. w/ @invisible.institute

This is probably the thing that’s driven me most to distraction and despair, even more than how infuriatingly committed the leadership is to ideological centrism and how unwilling they are to think big with policy The Biden administration was a case study in lethal naivety in regard to power

President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc. If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he’d be a free man in Trump’s America.

The guidance includes a provision denying H-1B visas to anyone who has ever used social media to describe members of the administration as "sweaty bald wannabee-goebbels racist-ass wormtongue fucks," though a spokesperson for State denied the provision was in reference to any specific individual.

If you're the opposition party you should have a team whose full time job is devising ironic punishments for every villain in this administration

Tech bros want to believe in a world where nurture and environment don’t matter, because that’s gay shit for libs, or whatever. They believe in a technocratic solution for every problem No no, don’t do communism! Free healthcare sucks. What you need to do is genetically modify your white offspring.

The problem with betting markets is that the rich can manipulate them for personal reasons and it looks like public consensus.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Controversial take but: I don’t find it unthinkable to imagine an American citizen should be able to make the informed decision to purchase and use cocaine in a harm reducing environment, and the fact that it is nearly unthinkable in public discourse speaks to our implicit authoritarianism

Part of my job was to dream up weird prop bets for Bodog back in 2007 and it’s genuinely insane how pervasive this shit is. It’s everywhere, people bet on individual skirmishes in active wars.

Are we in a game of chicken to see how far a handful of freaks can push things until we bring back consequences and / or guillotines? How have we hyper-normalized them saying this shit out loud in public?

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

So basically it's just a way for the gop to take money away from sex workers because everyone but sex workers should get the "no tax on tips" benefit from the "big beautiful bill" Once again the gop going out of their way to terrorize the sex work community.

im working on my next shop update (Friday?) and nima(spouse) keeps telling me to post previews of these little turned wood mushroom ornaments im making as part of another ornament batch so here are two of them

this is 100000000000% a (non-consensual) kink thing

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors." 1/🧵

Make it cost them real money to have abandoned the trans community. This is the language they speak - this is how you speak back to them. Cost them money and time. This is how you sting something much larger and stronger than you. Keep stinging.

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.