you know i totally would but there's this other thing where i'm banned because of my gender ideology

[ID: Trump approval polling. Mar 2025: Approve 47%, Disapprove 41% Mar 2026: Approve 36%, Disapprove 62%] apparently "don't know/don't care" went from 12% to 2%. welcome to the apocalypse, fuckos, don't say you weren't warned

THE OFFSHORE WIND FARM JUST GOT 10 FEET HIGHER

this quote post is an endorsement

"what you made with sora mattered" is like hallmark llm sycophancy

apparently i'm young at heart

DOGE-boys-to-prison pipeline needs to happen

i need to read more on the term "rape culture" which comes up constantly when i read about "AI"

A computer can never pack a bowl therefore a computer must never make a playlist

the year is 2033. president rogan demands that republicans kill the filibuster to keep up funding for the department of torture. democrats hold the line that the department must sterilize its torture tools before torturing people. anybody with a functioning brain has killed it to survive

if there's one thing i'm definitely never doing again, it's "man up"

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

Wild that we allow nine random lawyers in a nation of 325,000,000 to set national policy by just making up whatever facts they want to fit their ideological priors. And we have not bothered to really think about how to stop them from doing that.

Conservative jurists like to say that many laws are "stupid but constitutional" or "awful but lawful" to explain that courts can't just strike down policies they deem unwise. Today the Republican-appointed justices repeatedly criticized mail voting POLICIES without identifying a real legal defect.

There are going to be a lot of people saying that the just submitted post-election day mail-in ballots case could be 5-4 on the side of democracy and counting ballots. Years ago, I might have been one of the hopefuls. Now, I just can't "predict" anything but "6-3 for Trump" until proven otherwise.

when was the news not like this

baby (21 months) is screaming as her brother (4) does the robot in front of her and I said bub im not sure that’s helping and he said im not TRYING to help! I’m TRYING to dance 🕺

americans past: i want my kids to have a better life than i had. i hope they don't need to work so much. god it would be great if they also didn't break their bodies doing it modern visionaries: your email job pays too much, and you better not try to do it in 32 hours a week

i would love to live in a system where "the people who love me most are on board" is not a rebuttal to "right but most people hate you"

Just to be clear, Tucker Carlson has: - repeatedly advocated for the racist Great Replacement Theory - called Iraqis “semi literate primitive monkeys” - said it’s ok for 27-year-olds to marry 16-year-olds - framed trans people as inherently violent - defended a man who killed a BLM protester

ICE has, predictably, become Trump's all purpose internal intimidation force. As I discussed last summer, when the GOP funded this massive Praetorian Thug Guard, Americans can't accept it.

One of the fascinating aspects of Trump 2.0 has been the way the media elites who engineered his 2024 victory by, basically, **lying** about his plans and fitness for office, seemed to expect that the **reality** of Trump 2.0 would be broadly popular.

a comprehensive plan of action, you say? maybe we could do it jointly with somebody

whenever the senate votes to fund a war they should have to pick one of the yea's to pick up a gun and go first

lindsey graham’s endless desire to send other people off to die for him because he’s insecure about his masculinity in a party that hates him will never stop being infuriating

If ICE in the airports does materialize this should be yet another sign to journalists to stop using terms like "immigration enforcement" or "immigration crackdown" with regard to ICE. They are merely Trump's paramilitary force to be used as he pleases.

who could have predicted this except anyone with a working theory of mind

i award the senate democratic caucus one W

perhaps we were wrong to take it, folks, but it's dangerous to give it up now. very dangerous, like the democrats or windmills. anyway here's some more danger just for fun

Here’s my faculty argument for my “right to refuse AI”: I have academic freedom. I’m not fucking doing that. Thank you.

just informed my dog that she has never turned a profit. she seemed nonplussed

robert mueller tried and failed to hold trump accountable. trump still hates him for trying, i hate him for failing

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

the last eleven years have been just absolute fucking torture for people that are fundamentally good and honest. i like to think of myself as one of those people, but even if i’m not, it’s been absolute fucking torture for those people.

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

Putting together an analysis of all the anti trans laws over the last few years and there's never been anything like this in US history. The total number of state laws passed in 5 years (300+) approaches the total number of Jim Crow laws (400+) passed over a 100 years.

People keep saying the Constitution was set up specifically to stop tyrants and mad kings, but the thing most of the notably unusual features of our Constitution were actually designed to do was protect slavery.

instructions unclear, i'm working slower, driving less, and flying from home

I don’t remember who coined it first or how exactly it was said, but whoever said that transphobia is basically an early symptom of unfettered psychosis is completely correct

even if you came up with the terribly clever 'zio' all by your little selves, people are using it as a slur for Jews, and it has been a slur for Jews for decades, and a minority group that literally needs security on its community centers and places of worship is telling you not to use it.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

my partner really likes Graeber. i couldn't finish Bullshit Jobs

if your critique of israel leads you to use antisemitic dog whistles, fix your fucking heart

At the end of the day, if your criticism of a nation-state cause you to start using terms coined by the former grand wizard of the KKK, you need to log off, get some perspective, and stop fucking talking for however long it takes for you to figure out where you went wrong.

Dear Elizabeth Warren: FUCK YOU FOREVER

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

just really worth emphasizing how totally unnecessary and pointless and above all avoidable the Hormuz Crisis was

i like this trump guy. he KNOWS no limits. he TELLS IT like it IS. he SECRETLY HOLDS my very specific positions shared by almost no one in the electorate

snuck up on my girlfriend, stuck a pen cap in her back, and said "THIS IS A BIC-UP! GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY" she was too turned on to laugh at my bit, i'm sad to say

Deep respect for Tony Moore.