They generally aren’t aware of how much they get. Nobody has made the social contract clear for decades and decades.

"Father says" Dating myself here but I remember when the paper of record had investigative journalists who could verify basic facts as well as most high school journalism interns, instead of hedging the shit out of anything they say that might contradict the ruling regime.

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Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.

A Numenorean SDR (Sauron Defense Review) spending many pages on the potential for a Ring Gap and need for strategic investments with key partners in the DIB, calling out Annatar in particular

Mass firings, critical agencies gutted, exposed personal data, life-saving international aid cut. DOGE wasn’t efficient, it was reckless. Tell Members of Congress: Lead Investigations into Musk & DOGE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

still thinking about how nothing makes any fucking sense anymore, tank bottoms at the end of May in some places and NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED. "look for July being a problem in the US" still fucking waiting. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/25/o...

right-wing reactionaries always get the rules changed and the goalposts moved for them while the rest of us are ordered to politely appease them I think part of why this is so satisfying, even for people with zero affection for or relationship to the church, is just anyone saying "fuck you" to that

and it's always about permission to keep hating the people they used to get to hate with impunity "we are the preservers of cultural purity, you are the filthy heretical schismatics, tainted by association with gays and Jews and divorced people. we don't want your Vatican II cooties on our Mass"

J6 felt like it *was* going to be one of those, in that i can remember exactly where i was when it happened, but then..... nothing really sorta came of it and we seemed to choose to repress that it ever happened

The world simply was not the same before and after and it’s impossible to explain it to anyone who wasn’t there and I don’t think any of the other historical comparisons other than Covid can be compared. And Covid was a different kind of brainfuck, but similar magnitude and slower

The way that everything tech guys name after Lord of the Rings is obviously evil

this is also the state party which controls the Senate caucus, the House caucus, and the DSCC. a state party so obsessed with protecting its own antidemocratic succession mechanism that it declines to endorse its own candidates.

The Maritime Museum of San Diego will permanently close its 18th century replica frigate the HMS Surprise on Aug. 1, 2027, following an assessment that keeping the ship at the museum is no longer financially viable.

I think it’s important to interpret these comments from Trump in the context of him clearly wanting to use the nukes but having been dissuaded from using the nukes

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

"As a realist, I am shocked to hear the middle powers are rearming and discussing power balancing when China, Russia, and the United States all have openly have imperial ambitions."

grandpa just says things but its really remarkable the extent to which he does not realize he's potentially fucking with the entire global economy here

It has been pretty amazing, hasn't it?

pete hegseth believes in a white man's military

Do you guys wanna see a baby peacock

(1) MAGA still exists (2) half the reason the establishment is on the backfoot is because they haven't actually demonstrated any ability to survive basic political competitions

Marco Rubio oversaw the closure of USAID with no input from Congress, and this is how they are using taxpayer money

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

We can stop this. We can stop so much of it. We must get the power to never let it happen again.

The thing about companies nowadays I’ve come to accept is that a lot of them don’t care how their decisions will be received. They just expect a bit of backlash followed by infinite money forever because nothing will ever stop them from getting what they want

Straightforwardly, we should reallocate a lot of money away from rural and exurban subsidies and towards cities, because the status quo has prosperous, tolerant places heavily subsidizing places that hate and oppress them. I think we should stop doing that.

zero shots on goal for France at the 70 minute mark is insane work

Gosh. It's almost as if ICE has gotten the message that they can get away with murder and there will be zero consequences, and the media will call it an "ICE-involved" death rather than murder.

Comrade Mbappe and the glorious revolution being sabotaged by the FIFA bourgeoisie and Spanish passing machine

Spain is dominating France holy shit

man the overall quality of this game is so much higher than most of the tournament, this is a joy to watch

Oooof, France are in real trouble

"There's no 'they,' so it's up to us" vs. "There is no 'they,' so let's see what I can get by with."

Your retired 3rd grade teacher who posts cat gifs on Facebook is chanting the Battle Hymn of the Republic’s fourth verse like it’s the fucking Shahada.

Get rid of your imposter syndrome (which tends to afflict smart people more than dumb people anyway). NO ONE is a "real expert." You have every right to be there. And you can make an enormous difference if you're in the room at the right time. Get involved. Participate. You can matter.

But perhaps more importantly: a strong personality in one of these rooms full of frauds & dipshits & fake experts can make an *enormous* difference. Much of what smart people imagine as deep structural forces unfolding is just the right (or wrong) people happening to be in the room when it matters.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

Covering immigration the past two years has really taught me “undocumented” is a vast gray area, not a binary state.

this incredible article from Katelyn Vue at Sahan Journal (published in MinnPost) has some explanation. www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

Another wild scandal that would have consumed any other president’s second term for the growing pile

A person who wants to have a child but is unable to because they cannot afford to have and raise a child in this economy is, in an important sense, being deprived of one of the most fundamental and meaningful experiences in their lives due to governmental policy failure. That’s bad!

My view is that a lot of ostensibly pro-natalist policies (mandatory insurance coverage of IVF, mandatory maternity & paternity leave, child allowances and $ transfer payments) are good-in-themselves, irrespective of whether they raise the birth rate in aggregate, because it’s reproductive choice

I suppose my take on the birth rates is: 1.) anyone who can read a graph can see it’s a problem 2.) there is overwhelming evidence work from home can help solve the problem 3.) the fact most self-described pro-natalists focus on brood mare fantasies instead suggests they are not serious people

I like Canadians and I do not like that our stupid president keeps talking about taking them over

The great lesson of the French Revolution is that there are never quite enough guillotines to give you justice, & that is neither a sufficient defense against revolution, nor a sufficient excuse for revolution's failure