lying is not morally neutral

Vance should not be accorded the same leeway ("he's not a fool") that Trump enjoyed for years. Vance is not playing 4D chess, using truth as some pawn in a larger strategy. He's not subtle or smart. He's just a shameless fucking liar spewing hate. That's been obvious now for years.

Wokeness is honestly just believing in decency and being a good person at this point. Wokeness is not being a Nazi-loving, immigrant-kidnapping, prostrate-yourself-at-the-altar-of-billionaires loser piece of shit.

School lunch debt - the idea of it, the reality of it, all of it - is an abomination and should be abolished. Make school lunch (and breakfast) free for every child!

Working class solidarity is inherently leftist which is why billionaires invested so heavily in racism and xenophobia.

Branding agencies aghast at how much they've undercharged clients.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

I love this.

We need a new word for the rage-coated gut-wrenching feeling of seeing so many people post precisely how much their health insurance premiums are increasing.

Appreciate that Kyle rightly refers to all these ICE/CBP actions as kidnappings.

Pleased to report I loved it. (He will always be Rowdy Roddy Piper to me, ever since I used to come home from my job at the bike shop, make ramen noodles, and watch WWF on summer vacation.)

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Just evil.

The guy at 1:30 who just got his citizenship: I burst into tears.

OREO! OREOOREO! RE! ORE! OREORE! OREOREOREOREORE! [youtube.com]

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

This is so infuriating. Filing one's taxes, a legal obligation, should be free, not another corporate (read: GOP pal's) profit center.

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

Josh Hawley is so out of touch he's still using dog whistles like "believe in our culture." Doesn't he know Republicans are now saying the quiet parts out loud?

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Andrew Cuomo gave more money in taxpayer subsidies to Elon Musk than the entire cost of Zohran Mamdani’s free bus plan. It’s not unreasonable or radical to want our tax dollars to go to programs that help us, instead of as giveaways to billionaires.

What's happening is that these commentators adopt Republican talking points about the Democratic agenda. That's it, that's the whole story. Their source of information about Democrats and Democratic priorities is Republicans and Republican-aligned media

All great literature depends on the specificity of detail.

I've said it before and I'll say it again now: Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.

This is absolutely a hill I — a person without kids — will die on.

She didn't resist arrest. She resisted being abducted.

Anyone who's been on the fence about Blue Lights and who maybe was also a college radio DJ sometime between 1994-2006: there's an ep in s2 where a Jackson Frank track is put to lovely use, and maybe that's the nudge you need to see one of the best shows to come out of the UK in the last 10 years.

Absolutely savage. Love to see it from a Democrat.

Although we were 3,000 miles apart at the time, the Cubs winning in the 10th of game 7 of the 2016 World Series was the first in a string of pivotal moments that led to @ruinista.bsky.social and I getting married four years later. I wish the same for some couple watching tonight.

In fairness we were too busy being told to worry about Biden's age.

"If you take away my biliions of dollars, you're also taking away my expensive toys" is not the argument he thinks it is.

Our 3rd annual Candy or Potato Halloween begins now!

I've been thinking about a midlife career change but I never thought Museum Thief would be such a viable option.

"[Trump] has tried to do everything that he can to make it as an unpainless as possible." These fucking shitheads.

To all staff, I hope this email finds you well. Just a note to let you know Ozymandias is no longer with the command team here at KingWorks. We appreciate the passion he brought to the role of pharaoh and wish him well in his future at Boundless, Sand & Decay. (Almost. I tried.)

This is incredible.

Playing politics with Americans who are hungry. Mike Johnson is a ghoul.

Milky Wad

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But of course none of this applies to whites who move in to immigrant neighborhoods. Gentrification for me but not for thee.

When compounded bullshit is a force multiplier, "design" edition. I guess all those executive creatives and global storytellers and maker-synthesizer-challengers (EYE ROLL) reach a ceiling too, and there's nowhere to go but to huddle together yapping away about "curated tribes."

Just a reminder that the Trump admin is not against illegal immigration. It is against all immigration.

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Every headline about a third term must must must include the word "unconstitutional." Well done, @us.theguardian.com

The major platforms (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, etc) have actively and dishonestly fostered this misunderstanding by folding LLMs into search. AI is presented as "results" just like old-fashioned search. (Tech journal should obviously know better.)

The candy drive breaks my heart.