"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." -Omar El Akkad

We got a fucking show here guys

Weekend war criming from the blanket fort at Mar-a-Lago.

if you are a bigot or support bigotry or act in a movie built on the profits of hate, people are allowed to not like you 1. because bigotry is bad and 2. because people generally DONT LIKE THINGS THAT HURT THEM. like this is so obvious. it is not 'canceling' it is an exercise in basic human autonomy

They only get 2 minutes before he demands turning back to the gorilla channel.

This is probably the most succinct description of what rattles around in my head every day.

Really bears repeating that Republicans are spineless oathbreakers who created this entire situation by letting a TV idiot run for president and they sustain it by refusing to remove the guy, which they could do today

A thing that’s fun to think about is that when it happens it will be a GLOBAL celebration. Like there will be video from around the world of people dancing and laughing and singing

So if AI Psychosis is a thing that happens because the human mind breaks when it's trapped by a sycophant who affirms every thought, agrees with every delusion - does this give us a window into what's been happening into the ultra rich , and why they're such broken people?

Happy 250th birthday to a beautifully penned gentleman’s agreement it turns out everyone can just decide not to enforce at all

It seems like a problem not to know where the head of the National Counterterrorism Center was getting his information.

Search your camera roll for ‘hell’

This whole cycle of white collar grifting from DC during the week, waiting for the weekend when the markets close to fly to Florida and do some unhinged war crimes from a blanket fort next to the omelet station is seriously bumming me out.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "I am going to dig these dead people up and punch their skeletons."

New in PN: The worst cabinet in history "Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one govt has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence."

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

I’m just going to assume any of the posts that include “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” were written by Miller or that other bald deputy ghoul.

No, you can’t fool me. I’ve seen Scooby Doo. That part of the wall is a secret door.

Ayatollah Khamenei appears to have been replaced with Ayatollah Khamenei, so…

Every damn day.

Corn flakes are for curbing libido, and man puffs or whatever are for fuckin’

Just World Theory is a helluva drug.

I know it smell crazy in there.

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but the tools to correct literally all of this nonsense are sitting in the toolbox just the distance of a couple of spines to uphold a sworn oath away.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

Maybe it will happen today.

the Black Panthers were right

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Sick of this dystopian tech overlord men with no panache and bad haircuts enabling a pants shitting president and bald hitler wannabe trying to undo things that can’t be undone ass reality we are living. They are so tedious and venal. It’s galling.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)

The sanewashing is part 2 in the one-two punch of abuser bullshit we live under constantly.

"When it comes time to produce something vaguely resembling a policy blueprint, Trump steps aside & the right-wing ideologues who surround him take over. His only job is to record a brief video, try to stay awake through a White House event on the subject, & then go back to not talking about it."

Harry Enten has so much faith in poll numbers, it’s honestly adorable. If laws don’t mean anything to them, polls don’t either.

Every damn day.

The minute a computer is able to a) reliably transcript names and cursive documents, b) fix labels previously entered by humans that are incorrect, and c) use context clues to be able to reliably chain them together, is the minute I worry about my job security.

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

“Joyce Carol Oates”

Then just give us the same healthcare you have, bud.

I'm gonna be honest, I think "Venezuela stole the oil in the ground in Venezuela from the US" is going to be a hard sell even for the faithful

You know what? “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is actually unhinged nonsense. This is literally my egg basket, why would I put eggs anywhere else?

Maybe it will happen before Christmas. Maybe it will happen tomorrow.

Name your fav Tom Hanks film