Can't they just fucking end world hunger or something that people actually want to happen

Every day in America, we get closer to President Nuggan and Executive Orders against left-handed people, inciting emotions, and mustard. Closer, if we're not there already.

You've all read Pratchett's MONSTROUS REGIMENT, I expect? Do you recall the Abominations issued by the god Nuggan? Nuggan issued Abominations against chocolate, cats, dwarfs, the color blue, garlic, crop rotation, the smell of beets, and much more, and the reader sees that Nuggan is clearly mad.

If we sacrifice enough doves, the dove carcasses will achieve superintelligence. If we… stack… enough cans of… beans… the beans will… become… superintel…ligent…uhh… fortune.com/2025/09/24/s...

Tulips.

If anything seems really scary right now you can just ask yourself, "What would a dumb insecure larping dork do in this situation" and that generally provides a pretty reliable forecast of what you can expect

If we ever want to be at least a semblance of a democracy again, there must be a reckoning with what ICE has been empowered to do, and with all the people who empowered them to do it.

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Screaming Sneakers -- Violent Days [Florida Pop Punk] (1982) https://redd.it/7g3554 https://youtu.be/pPVu0RdzyoU

:is instantly twenty again: youtu.be/v_wsgIbfosY?...

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

I’m reasonably certain that if you cut something’s price by 1500% then the buyer gets paid fourteen times the original price, which is extremely weird but acceptable from the buyer’s standpoint.

My true fear is that the next crop of Democrats will be as fucked as the current crop of Labour. :knocks on wood: :gets sigil tattoo:

Last repost was a funny John Cage joke, but ofc 4’33 is simply JC pranking the audience into doing a five-minute listening meditation, which IS funny but it’s funny because a bunch of squares in the fifties went into the concert thinking they were getting Beethoven and instead got mindfulness.

CHOTINER: JOHN CAGE: CHOTINER: CAGE: CHOTINER: ? CAGE: This interview is over.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Remember too that we are not dealing with one intelligent entity with a master plan to authoritarianism. We're dealing with who, he's on first, and I don't know is running around here somewhere after what. clown car levels of stoplight fire drills. Endless palace intrigues. There is no right hand.

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

I firmly believe in the Netherlands solution in residential areas: every crossing is a speed bump. The sidewalk does not come down to meet the road; the road goes up and over the sidewalk. If you blow out your tires doing 40 mph over them, well, slow the fuck down.

The trouble with irony poisoned nihilism is that it refuses to acknowledge that goodness rarely happens spontaneously, it is cultivated and protected. This is work. Work we owe each other. And it's fucking fulfilling.

Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

Chotiner: and then you didn't send him to jail, and he ran again? USA: I mean yes but we do have pretty robust institutions, you know, the supreme court and so on Chotiner: I see. So they were able to stop the worst of it? USA: Well now it um the thing you have to understand

Could someone with the right background please explain to reporters how this is a very intentional attempt to reverse the traditionally strongly anti-tech and anti-surveillance aspects of Christian millenarianism, because I‘m afraid it may matter.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

I infer that if you never experience consequences for anything, that feels like being right about everything.

Reminder that the primary diagnostic tool for Dunning-Kruger is the subject's response to the verbal prompt, "Isaac Chotiner for you on line one"

Can you IMAGINE the arrogance and hubris required to agree to an interview with Chotiner?

It's amazing that people act like Isaac Chotiner has superpowers simply because he is the only journalist who has object permanence. The only journalist who doesn't freak out in a tantrum when mommy covers her face with her hands, and people are like holy shit this guy is basically Columbo

One difference I notice between the US and UK is the lack of an opposition leader. In the UK, the opposition would be doing stuff like snap polls for "if the election were held tomorrow, who would you vote for?" and absolutely nailing the Trump admin. The Dems have... whatever this is.

A bunch of tile taggers appear to have picked up where Invader left off

"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.