POTUS: - stops $ to buy US farmers' products for hungry Americans shrinking farmers' domestic market - vaporizes US farmers' foreign markets via tariffs - sends billions tax $ to Argentina to bail out Trump donors while Argentina boosts its farmers sales to US farmers' former customers

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Grok now cites Aporia, a white nationalist journal, when making arguments. It has been lobotomized to treat race science as true, which causes answers on racial questions to degenerate into word salad where it always rotates back to defending white supremacists viewpoints and sources.

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A non-zero part of it is that Maine is over 90% white and people there just don't think statements like "black people don't tip" are any kind of big deal. "Oh how would anyone know that's a Nazi tattoo" - people who don't have to worry about how a person with Nazi tattoos might treat them.

wait, graham platner's "oyster farm" _only_ supplies his mother's restaurant and two other places?

From 1941 to about 2015, this kind of headline/subhed combo would have gotten the writer and editor blacklisted from polite society. We need to find a way back.

Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.

happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is udanoceratops, a ceratopsian from late cretaceous mongolia. although herbivorous, its huge beak was likely powerful enough to cut bone, and a scar on the holotype’s mandible may be evidence of this (art by hank sharpe)

well this kicks ass www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The only part of this deal that Trump cares about is CNN. He wants another (overtly) right-wing billionaire there to turn it into Fox News 2.

Like do the straights not know that if the relationship is making one or both parties miserable you can just, like, stop doing it? Or at least take a break and get some distance? If you can both be moderately mature and respectful about it, you can often even manage to be friends afterwards.

So I 100% respect the right of people of all genders to manage their hormone levels as they see fit, but reading this story it's hard for me not to focus on the various glimpses and hints of the horrors of heterosexual culture.

Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K

VACCINES ROCK www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

People keep saying it's privately funded. That's misleading. "Privately funded" is when foundations and wealthy individuals pay for it. At least half a dozen of these donors are major federal contractors dependent on U.S. taxpayers. This is money laundering.

"By assigning lower rankings to schools with disruptive protests -and failing to account for the integral role of such protests in our First Amendment tradition-the FIRE rankings provide fodder for government attacks on campus protests," writes Charles Walker: www.chronicle.com/article/fire...

The total amount of SNAP received in a month in Massachusetts is $240 million. This is both a staggering amount of money and less than the cost of a single F-22 fighter. It is also incidentally just north of the amount Trump is attempting to extort from his own DOJ right now during the shutdown.

When humans were evolving on the veldt, we never encountered any crappy evolutionary psychology arguments. That's why we never evolved defenses against them.

Making An Example Of Him is reason enough to oppose Platner.

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

Transphobia is a totalizing ideology that destroys lives and consumes every community that flirts with it.

Ezra Klein defends liberal transphobia by saying that public opinion is very mildly transphobic on youth sports. But, public opinion did not support interracial marriage until the late 90s. The public was wrong. Carving out a trans exception for human rights denatures human rights as an idea.

everything the Trump II admin puts out as agitprop:

”My swastika tattoo now has a tattoo of an arrow pointing at it with scroll that reads ‘Actually It’s An Ancient Buddhist Symbol’”

you can take lots of people's help rowing without letting them steer

Ok, smartguy. So what're we supposed to do? Find a qualified American without a history of sexual misconduct who wants to run for office but doesn't want to feed us all bit by bit to the great god Moloch AND has cool tattoos that don't have anything to do with NAZIs? You just hate to win, don't you?

Liberals when candidates defend trans people: "We can't do this, it's too unpopular." Liberals when candidates have a nazi ss tattoo: "it's ok, not all candidates are perfect." Do y'all hear yourselves?!

It’s certainly the case that there’s a degree of Nazi rot in the scout snipers and the military more generally, but cmon that’s never ever been a norm to be upheld. It’s the kind of breakdown in standards that leads to fools getting the totenkopf tattooed on their chest. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

More here on how Democrats are dealing with Graham Platner and how it reflects a larger problem: their voters want anti-establishment candidates. But at what cost? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Bernie about Platner, “In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?" When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not." Bernie: "Ok"

If he had integrity he'd listen to what many of followers have said and retire himself. If he had integrity he'd have stayed in DC and protested on behalf of the thousands of federal workers who have lost/will lose their jobs instead of going on yet another self-promotional tour.

whomst amongst us

motherfuckers are always dreaming about fabricating a domed civic paradise with flying taxis but won't even pay to put utilities underground

ICE’s own policies say the agency should not detain pregnant, postpartum or nursing individuals. It’s doing so anyway. Immigrants’ health is suffering. Congress has abandoned a requirement that ICE make public how many such immigrants have been detained. 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

It's hard to lead an organization when most of the people at the organization regard you as fundamentally unqualified, and they're the people essential to the basic day-to-day function of that organization.

frantically dialing 1-800-AREYOUMADATME. the operator informs me that that's way too many numbers. oh fuck. she's mad at me

we are in a self-awareness crisis

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"X Protest is useless it does not challenge power" can be criticized from the left. When you see a mobilization of millions from a cross section of society, contrasting one side (typical citizens), and another (cops and rich hecklers), a marxist asks—how did this happen and how do we GAS this grill!

Imagine being a teen egg and your dad, Columbo, finds your trans furry alt on Bluesky I like to think he'd create his own burner account to post occasional support beneath your takes and never mention that he knew Then when you "came out," he'd smack his forehead in delighted faux-surprise

WHAT A HEADLINE

TRILLION dollar tax increase, with a 'T'

And to be clear, this design existed long before Kirk died and isn’t the result of the Posobiec/Neff takeover or anything. They’ve been handing out this sticker/poster combo for years now.

Wow. Mamdani really missed an opportunity here, he could have said he’d march in a hypothetical magic parade that summons the Dragon of Prosperity to bless New Yorkers’ crops.