Well, unfortunately

the “axios is fake news trying to stir shit, dems aren’t gonna cave” to “the dem deal is actually good and smart and savvy” pipeline is real and best explained not be rational trains of thought but fear and cognitive dissonance

Richest nation in human history

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What keeps me so cynical is that you can't really vote to unfuck the media and its Orbanization. You can't vote the oligarchs out. Trump will be gone eventually but the money behind him won't be. The controlled media will be entrenched and it could take generations to fix.

I think what I hate most is knowing * that billionaire shits know it's a bubble, but * when it pops, they'll keep their earnings, while * explaining to us that everything costs more now, because we didn't AI hard enough Not enough aneurysms among the parasites these days.

I truly can't imagine the judge who would be fine with this. Judges usually like their orders ALL the way obeyed. This smacks of impudence and insolence, and even when judges don't care about cruelty (which... yeah), they normally care very much about being disrespected.

And if he doesn't...? Judges have ruled against his jackassery pretty often. Hasn't slowed him down noticeably. Keep feeding your neighbors, if you're doing that; start doing that, if you aren't.

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Here’s what they actually thought: they’ll just go after the left wing Bad Jews (who aren’t really Jews so it’s ok) but we’re the Good Jews so it will be fine. joelhs.bsky.social/post/3m4gzansohs2a

"I'll see you in Hell!" —Han Solo www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Merrick Garland is a bigger traitor to our Republic than even John Roberts.

When they scrawl the names of who destroyed America in the bombed out rubble, Merrick Garland will be right at the top www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Wife left you? Nobody likes you? Bottled rage that needs to go somewhere, anwhere, soon? Sexually dead and racist as hell? JOIN ICE

zohran is auntifa

Guinea, most likely 1974. In the last quarter of my book, The Second Emancipation, I spend a lot of time discussing this era of thick relationships between Africans and African Americans, during which a host of the latter, famous and ordinary, established new lives for themselves on the continent.

Bournemouth moves to 2nd in the table, just like most of us expected at the start of the season.

federal intervention? what the fuck

I would laugh my ass off if Merrick Garland got indicted. Fuck that guy forever. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

LEWIS: Then the children meet Santa. The jolly old elf- TOLKIEN: Disgusting. Elves should be autistic war criminals who set off an apocalyptic chain of events that end with a moody twink stabbing Satan at the end of time. LEWIS: So you say. TOLKIEN: But my editor said to stick to hobbits.

The idea that these are public resources over which he has been improvidently granted a limited and temporary stewardship role is totally alien to him. As far as he is concerned, they’re his personal chattels.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

The East Wing of the White House sat atop the Presidential Emergency Operations Center--the president's underground bunker, originally constructed in 1942 under FDR. So... I wonder how much of this present activity concerns wanting a ballroom, versus wanting to spiff up and fortify that bunker?

Every single US admin somehow always acts surprised when they find out Netanyahu is like this

a friend is a college prof and what he says is the top 20% of his students are so smart it blows him away and the bottom 50% are basically illiterate

If you are arresting someone for playing the Imperial March you are literally a stormtrooper!

China's 5 year plans to improve living conditions and expand infrastructure America's 5 year plans of more Marvel slop for Phase 9-10-11 of the cinematic slopiverse

Oh hell yeah!

1. People can be angered/saddened/disgusted/[your emotion here] by multiple events. 2. If you're looking to the press to save us, keep looking. Sick of people crying "distraction!" at each other. $100 to anyone who can name one tangible benefit of this activity. Smug satisfaction does not qualify.

It's tempting to idealize the power of the dollar, but consumer pressure has never improved working conditions for anyone employed by the industries serving them. Farm workers, Congolese miners, FoxConn employees--none of them have benefited from affluent white people wanting to pay less for shit.

To use a reduction-sauce analogy: Why does every white liberal man boil down to Matt Yglesias. Like only the speed of the process varies. But in the end, you always wind up with a spoon-coating drizzle of "We should call in expired tags u guys." It's a little depressing, not gonna lie.

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

Empathy keeps you young

🧵 Suppose you are playing tug-of-war. On the right, the tug-of-war is considered life or death, and this team wants the other side to taste death. They have hate on their side. They're pulling hard. On the left, your team, the tug-of-war is seen as literal life or death, but only by half the team.

“Development and abandonment of critical technologies has been a consistent pattern in recent U.S. history, across solar panels and batteries and semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. We have been committed to nothing so much as not producing anything.” prospect.org/world/2025-1...

I don't see the data center water-guzzling aspect of AI talked about nearly enough, but I know this: Gonna be too late to do anything about it but talk and die of dehydration if we let this continue. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/t...

This article goes into something I’ve always wondered about: all the passive investors using index funds and the like. www.marketwatch.com/story/this-i...

If a paper has been pure dogshit practically since its founding, should we still treat it with sadface and gentle disappointment when it's dogshit now? www.nytimes.com/1938/03/20/a...

I can tell who's never reckoned up how many hours it'd take them to hustle at multiple jobs to keep a roof overhead. It's plain who can't imagine life without the privileges with which they began it. "People lazy, prefer screens to real life" is itself a lazy, victim-blaming take. Lazy? No. TIRED.

1. NO ONE ON EARTH should be capable of dismissing the loss of "a couple of hundred billion dollars." No one should have so much in the first place. 2. If this doesn't make clear how eagerly they're all salivating at the prospect of worldwide slavery, I don't know what will. They keep telling you!

I mean, say you're a football fan & you hear a TV commentator say "they should have the wide receiver stand in the end zone & throw it to them as soon as they hike the ball." You'd think "why is this person on my TV?" That's what every historian & poli sci prof thinks when Trump speaks.

“ICE needs to go into Chicago because the Chicago police are incapable of protecting the city but ICE can’t protect themselves so the Chicago police must protect them” God I hate fascism so much

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

Much as I wish it were true, billionaires aren't stupid. They aren't as smart as the media lining up to fellate them report, either--but they aren't stupid. They think WE are. When Andreesen & Co. word-salad about AI making everything free, they do so because they know we'll buy that nonsense.

still thinking about how Charlie Kirk said that Michelle Obama's position as the president's wife was a DEI hire. "He's not really dead as long as we remember him." -- Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

lmao this dolt is beyond parody. yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

It’s kinda hilarious how even with unequal exchange with the global south the capitalists are just so greedy that it doesn’t work. Oh well. Anyway

I can’t believe how many of y’all didn’t know she dated Kate McKinnon 😂