I just want to point out that this question could also be directed at the news media, which saw the Republican Party call for what would be, if their plans went through, the largest forcible movement of human beings since the Holocaust and debated its merits as a plan to bring down housing costs.

well, apparently i need to be concerned about being stabbed on the streets of my home so i once again ask you if you should... i dunno... say or do something about that?

Every bastion of US hegemony is crumbling or under growing pressure. It's systemic. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

Trump wants $100M for his golf outings. Remember when he made such a big deal about donating his salary? The president earns $400,000 per year. His golf outings cost taxpayers 250 times as much as the salary he claims to forgo.

Yep. And they can tell by Democratic strategy that most of the people “fighting” them are cosplaying Their strategy is racism , homophobia , grift and isolation And everytime one of these fools opens their mouth to say “ well if that’s what mainstream wants.. “ They know they’ll win

right it's a flex. that's why the whole 'trump said this but is doing the opposite!' is so tiring. they know it's hypocrisy and they know that we know it. it's a game to them.

The only thing they believe in is power . Hypocrisy isn’t just a virtue . It’s a reminder of their dominance

I don't care the bigot felt really bad when the students said she was a bigot, I don't understand why we should care about her private feelings. You can't make me care. I deny this premise just as I deny any attention to the bad feelings of racists and antisemites

Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.

Lying is a virtue to fascists. Cruelty is a virtue to fascists. Violence is a virtue to fascists. Killing is a virtue to fascists. It's not inconsistent at all; it's all very consistent to the one true belief of fascists, which is domination.

"How dare you be analytical about a tragedy!?" is a prime reason why tragedies keep happening.

Also: those deals so many people want the library to make, where we pay all the publishing fees for you? Those are a big part of why publishers have ramped up the "Publish moar articles! Review them less!" engines that are exacerbating the AI problems. We do NOT want to be making those deals.

Anyway, I have been unofficially adopted into the Morton extended family. The moral of the story is always cite your sources, because you never know if one of their nieces is going to show up at your book signing. (?/FIN)

"The Story of Webster's Third'? *That* Morton??" "You know it?" "Of course! I cite it in both of my books! Everyone who works on dictionaries knows his book!" She clasped both her hands to her chest and shouted, "YOU KNOW ABOUT UNCLE HERBIE??" Reader: boy did I. 3/n

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

this is an absolutely extraordinary scoop by Guardian: Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

You're telling me Arif Ahmed, connected to Peter Thiel, the eugenicist and reactionary magazine Quillette, and Jordan B Peterson, with a questionable MBE (for 'education'!) and somehow appointed by Badenoch to the EHRC Board (left after six months for the OfS) might be bad for the OfS?

Okay! The unspoken tea tho is that those queer men still put masc “straight” presenting men at the top of their desire hierarchy and feel all the shame from their internalized homophobia/misogyny about the idea of other people seeing them as “weak” for letting a “femme” man top them.

💀💀💀💀 why does this concept short circuit SOOO many?... Is the dick any less good if your top bottomed for another? Chile if one of my closest friend ever called me about some Bs like this I'd hang up

Just piss off, whydontcha

Self-deprecate? I thought I read self-defecate. Looks like I shit the bed twice here.

A real banger from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/o...

I know Orwell is deeply unfashionable with the left these days, not without some good reason, but if you want to understand how power thinks and talks, and how it makes ordinary people think and talk, there is no better book than Nineteen Eighty-Four. The concept of Doublethink is INDISPENSIBLE.

Some of the Democratic senators are either mindbogglingly stupid, or completely disconnected from reality of what their constituents really need.

Politics quiz [Impossible level] Wait which one is Elissa Slotkin and which one Elise Stafanik again? And are either of them Democrats?

Chiffren der gegenwart: "Die East German Beauties haben versucht dieses (...) Macker-Gehabe zu unterbinden und werden jetzt dafür von peinlichen KI Bands (...) als Antisemiten bezeichnet."

This is at least the second trial where a large number of jurors personally disliked Musk this much — earlier this year the Twitter investor suit ran into the same issue

I had a school steal my online class (by which I mean have someone other than me teach it without my consent) over a decade ago. Unfortunately, this has always been an implicit threat of online education.

Palestinian Football Association VP Susan Shalabi on football in Gaza after the athleticide: "We lost so many hundreds of footballers; we lost most ​of them children. So football now in Gaza, there is no football at all." www.reuters.com/sports/socce...

let's remember the real victims here, though: white men who every day have to hear absolutely scarring stuff like 'please don't use racial slurs.'

If you want to know why so many important public institutions - the BBC, the NHS - are active participants in the war against trans people it's because they are run by people appointed to do exactly that job. Indeed, Kemi Badenoch explicitly told us as much.

The dreadful OFS has had its terrible decision regarding "gender critical" reactionary Kathleen Stock quashed by the High Court. Will have more thoughts once I have read the judgment.

Watching some of these uses of AI, I think of a recent video by the physicist Professor Brian Cox, where he said something like "we have great intelligence, but not much wisdom". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The word ‘deserve’ serves almost zero functional purpose in my worldview. I am concerned about addressing need.

Hard agree. Deserving is a way to externalize our own desire for justice while perpetuating injustice as an arbitrary moral judgement about who is included and who is excluded.

Like the weak SPLC and Comey cases, the best way to think about this is an attempt to sync up law enforcement with the right-wing media narrative machine.

Israeli forces killed 37-year-old Palestinian Abdul Halim Hammad and abducted his father and brother during a raid in Silwad, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Y'all. We raised A LOT of money yesterday for providing free healthcare. 🥹 Thank you so much to everyone who helped. We take care of us. 🩷

The most infuriating thing about this is that his entire campaign was him saying “this time I’m going to be so much worse, you fuckers have no idea how shitty I’m gonna be”

Damn.

your honor, my client is an enormous piece of shit who makes being an enormous piece of shit the center of everyone's attention daily, and the problem is the people who've noticed that

Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.

Stress from racism may help explain why black women more likely to die in childbirth, study finds

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

Another one. Reform’s candidate for Tooting Broadway in the Wandsworth Council local elections on May 7 Stephanie Dearden has a history of vile social media posts. Almost like there’s a pattern.

a lot of Anglosphere politics makes sense when you realize every party is attempting to appeal to a class bloc and political economy that no longer exists

a good name for a horse would be Kris Klipclopperston

theres this girl who keeps asking me to hang out but only if drive her around in her fuck ass car made of logs and stone cylinders using just my bare feet.. i think im being fredzoned

When voting in the local elections, please judge Reform on our record so far: -over 75 councillors sacked, resigned or defected -every council raised council tax after promising to cut it -Staffordshire sacked two leaders for racism -Nottinghamshire spent £70k putting flags up