I'd say I hope it burdens your soul but I think you surrendered yours a long time ago.

So many of you good liberal Democrats conspired to bring us to this point. Equating any criticism of Israel's ongoing genocide with terrorism. Tossed our country's bedrock principles about speech into the shitter so Israel could go on killing. Calling peaceful protests anti semitic.

making peace with the taco salad i ordered when another table's fajitas arrive

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Huh, weird

Of course Schumer had to horn in on the moment.

I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.

The thing about what Cory Booker is doing is that it SHOULD be “the least the Democrats can do” and spark a real change in strategy and messaging. But you just know there are party elders calling him a grandstanding jerk under their breath.

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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

This. There's a thin but important line between "Everything sucks and always will" and "Everything sucks and I don't know if I can do anything about it but I'm going to try anyway because otherwise that abyss sure is staring right back at me."

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

Absent from this list: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries

Seriously. Don't post "AI images of me in the style of ____". AI is theft. AI is also trying to steal artist's jobs. It is a horrible look.

i miss when i could google things

Maryland-Florida is fun because either you can root for the coach who ghosted his team right before its biggest game in like two decades or you can root for the coach with credible swept-under-the-rug sexual harassment allegations.

There are a lot of reasons why baseball is dying and this isn't the biggest one but it's indicative: It's 2025, it's Opening Day, and I can't watch or listen to my favorite team's game because I'm not in my home and haven't paid for an over-the-top service ON TOP OF the RSN I already pay for.

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

The most effective statement that Senate Democrats could make right now would be removing Chuck Schumer as the minority leader. Get real about fighting back or shut the fuck up.

This is the op-ed she's been disappeared for. These motherfuckers. All of you motherfuckers. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

None of this shit even has the pretense of “homeland security” or whatever other lies they would typically tell. It is specifically for protesting another country’s genocide. Not violently. Not even all that aggressively. Just saying please stop killing.

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

Due process is the notion that the state has an evidentiary burden to overcome if it intends to imprison or punish someone, and if it gets to ignore that sometimes, then it's all fake for everyone

They can and will do this to anyone they don't like simply by asserting that they do not have citizenship. Because at what point are you given the chance to prove anything or dispute their claims? They do it this way to prevent that from ever happening

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

"Why are you hiding your faces?"

Pretty cool how the bulk of the media ecosystem refused to utter words like "fascist" in order to maintain a sober appearance of impartiality and now we have the Stasi kidnapping people in broad daylight

You asking me and the boys to look into it? Who are you talking to man?

Congrats to Iowa on making the 2027 Final Four.

Cannot recommend highly enough having your bracket blown to smithereens by 4 on the first Saturday so you can just enjoy the games the rest of the way.

I can’t compete with this

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

I'm depressed at how many people, including people I know and love and admire...cheerfully use AI to do their thinking. To write the silly email that would take 30 seconds. To write the outline. To do the thinking. I get life sucks right now. But damn, there's FREEDOM in thinking.

The party that has never done anything but seek the center continues to insist that they need to stop catering to the extreme left—something they have never ever done—and continue doing what they have always done, which is continue to seek a center that will always track us further into a nightmare.

The thing about the center is, it isn’t anywhere in particular. It’s just the point between two other points. if your purpose is only to find the center, then you stand for nothing and you have no vision. It’s a total loser; not even a moral victory, because it’s a fundamentally amoral perspective.

The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*

Lot of people making fun of the Big XII tournament court, but I think they’re just salty because they can’t see the sailboat.

Gavin Newsom: The tragedy of this year’s wildfires cannot be overstated. The Palisades Fire alone burned 36.5 square miles of the Santa Monica Mountains, destroying large areas of Malibu, Topanga, and Pacific Palisades. Today on the pod, we’ll— Palisades Fire: Is this my water or yours?

How have the Oklahoma City Thunder existed for nearly 20 years and never had a single good uniform

If you share a single Aaron Parnas TikTok with me I will rain hellfire on you

We should have evolved past the need for the Lincoln projects and meidas touches of the world. Please log off and read any book about Weimar era Germany instead

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

You can’t even be a red blooded American sonumabich and sit down with the fellas and watch Emilia Pérez anymore

You don’t have to share screenshots of every moron still posting on the other site.

There has been no official word that Gene Hackman's wife was actually dead for a week before he passed, yet the NYT and AP are reporting it as fact, with only the flimsy evidence of "she hadn't sent any emails or appeared on surveillance cameras" to back it up.

remember when the us government made tiktok illegal and then literally nothing happened that was weird

All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this