Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

It’ll be the air traffic controllers who end this. Just like they ended the last one. Flights are going to be canceled starting Friday. This is going to end real quick once US airspace starts to shut down.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

of what

I hope the takeaway from tonight is that most people really hate this shit and want it over with. It would be nice if leadership from both parties, especially the leaders of the ostensible opposition party, to process that and act accordingly.

When Biden passes away, no Republican will ever credit his "strong liberal values," mostly because Republicans are consistent in stating that liberals have no values. There's no evidence Dems speaking positively about Reps (esp .known bad actors) makes Republicans less radicalized against us.

This is the whole story. I hate it but it's true.

Trump is denying a court order to release money that's been allocated to feed the populace that's on SNAP. HOW MANY DIFFERENT WAYS DO YOU NEED PROOF THAT THIS VICHY PIECE OF SHIT HATES ANYONE WITH LESS THAN 4 COMMAS IN THEIR BANK ACCOUNT?!

My dude is running a literal banana republic. 🍌

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Trump and his lackeys treat the Constitution of the United States like toilet paper. The only thing they respect or care about is their own dictatorial power, and wielding it in the most needlessly cruel ways imaginable

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

She’s doing the South Park bit, folks. Only plot change is that kids trying to spend an evening with Dora the Explorer is being replaced with kids Trick or Treating in Chicago. Same bat time, same melty face.

You don’t fight a fire with a prayer. You fight it with a back burn. Sometimes it’s the only option. badfaithtimes.com/a-fire-to-st...

we live in a society where we pay police $200k a year to violently assault poor people who aren't able to afford food, and also defunding the police is supposedly the extreme position?

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the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

“I’M THE DUDE PLAYING THE DUDE DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DUDE!”

Six Cava bags, half a dozen Herr’s Sour cream & onion chips bags. I’ll see myself out now

It also ignores that leaving was a form of influence! Millions sent a clear message about the minimum standards of fairness and respect we believe are foundational for civic conversation. Their obsession with our departure makes clear it was effectively communicated; they just don't like it

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Over 12 years too. It’s wild how unpopular he is overall, but still has institutions cowed just because the majority of white people still support him Don’t let anyone tell you white privilege isn’t real

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

they know we'll celebrate and they want to be ready

i do think that at least a part of all this is them practicing for when Trump dies

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

This is 🔑.The 🇺🇸 adversarial system was (is!) not equipped to handle a president who uses his lawyers as co-conspirators/accessories to his crimes. Resulting privilege fights slow things down as @emptywheel.bsky.social has been saying forever. Complaining/comparing 🇺🇸’s CJ system to 🇧🇷’s doesn’t help.

So they caught Kirk’s k*ller and now JBP forced 🍊 to back down on going into Chicago (going to Memphis instead). Looks like 🍊 avoided Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo by the skin of his teeth and is now content with his admin playing “Dumb Nixon” for the foreseeable future. It’s good, amirite?

IS YOU TAKING NOTES ON A CRIMINAL F*CKING CONSPIRACY???

They could get rid of several NFL teams and just have The Four AFC Teams Who Do This Kind Of Thing To Each Other Every Time play like five round robins a year and call that the NFL

Cracker Barrel was founded in 1969 by a sales rep for Shell Oil, who developed the restaurant + gift store concept as a plan to improve gasoline sales. Locations in the early 1970s leased land on gas station sites near interstate highways for this purpose

Some states passed laws to prevent white women from being penalised for beating their husbands’ mixed-race children to death

Black women face an uphill battle in the workplace. They are hyper-visible and invisible. They are promoted and then dismissed. They are disrespected. Constantly. This is what is happening to Representative Nicole Collier. This is #TheDoubleTax.

I do not think that people who weren’t alive for it really understand how entirely fucked 2007-2009 was

This type of restaurant is just a sparkling American restaurant unless it’s located in Michigan, then it’s called a Coney Island lol

Here's the thing about claims that "history will remember." History doesn't remember. *People* remember. Reconstruction ended ~150 years ago. For most of that time, Americans have misunderstood, misremembered, & willfully misrepresented it - despite a vast historical record to the contrary.

the non-ironic, casual deployment of the white usage of "woke" in news articles and opinion pieces makes me want to scream

this made me laugh so much

He bought Twitter so he'd have people to talk to. He bought the POTUS so he'd have people cheer for him. He'd have had both if he'd just chosen to be the world's greatest philanthropist instead of a mass murderer. But the richest man in the world is a pathetic lonely, needy, broken, dangerous man.

the entire "scandal" is based on the presumption that being black is some sort of social cheat code that gets you elite status, free admission to college, makes you cool. so race-faking for that status is a terrible sin that must be punished. it's a bizarre fantasy used to justify white supremacy

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Great example of a great candidate not going into an election with the electorate he has, but instead actively working to change the electorate into the one he wants/needs.

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature