“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative

There’s a bunch of research demonstrating that shorter hours and work weeks don’t harm productivity even vs. the 40-hour week, so it’s funny that the people who consider themselves the most rational evaluators of fact alive still just want to dominate their workers for purely ideological reasons

Many of my liberal peers see clearly how mainstream outlets have ruined their already imperiled businesses by capitulating to bad-faith right-wing criticism. They have a harder time seeing that the Democratic Party has fallen victim to the same kind of self-sabotage.

"The amount of grain needed to fill the tank of an SUV with ethanol just once can feed one person for an entire year." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

people think this isn't feasible but the average american spends ~20% of their income on car-related expenses and in your wildest dreams you can not even imagine how much public transportation that could build

You can now watch Oscar Award winning documentary No Other Land in the United States of America. Link below.

Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days. That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

thinking about the early pandemic 10 person anti-mask protests that made national headlines and received endless coverage

NEW: The FTC is removing blog posts, authored by Lina Khan, including some that articulate the potential risks that commercial AI tools pose to consumers.

I will bring it up every chance I get but Jake Tapper and Dana Bash made up a quote of Rashida Tlaib's out of thin air, did over a dozen segments about it combined over the course of a week and a half, and then both were forced to retract it and offer up a weak apology after threats of being sued.

exclusive picture of cat turd two taken 20 minutes after trump posted The Video

grok is this true

NEW: I uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts. From a Long Island interior design store to the Baltics / www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate shorturl.at/OFfig

Translation: the UK government is doing everything possible to entice tourism dollars from genocidaires

Lmao this is not a bit it is a verbatim transcript

A really interesting, fundamental conceit of all these AI enthusiasts is that the ideas they have are great and all they need is this magic box to execute them. As pedestrian as these people‘s brains are for anything except self aggrandizement, I kind of doubt that’s what’s holding them back.

Filipovic is just listing Muslim countries that have little in common with each other other than being Muslim. This is an incredibly racist and ignorant post, and these are our liberal luminaries.

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

I'll always remember Suzy Weiss as the high school student who wrote a racist anti-diversity letter to colleges (that her sister, then an editor at WSJ, got published in the newspaper), where she came off spoiled and entitled.

I love this man so much

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

'Meanwhile, another neighbour has even claimed that the track’s installation has “ruined” their quality of life, while fearing that it will “attract the wrong type of people”. “It’s ruined living here and devalued our houses massively.”' 🤣🤣🤣

Ever wonder why so few athletes in North America have spoken about Israel's genocide in Gaza? We did too... so we asked some to find out. Answers include "fear of losing sponsorships," "the McCarthyist response from government,” and “Zionists gaslighting and doxxing people."

israel

It is impossible to understand the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act cases without the context that John Roberts has hated the Voting Rights Act since he was working to water it down as a 26-year-old Reagan staffer. This is his life’s work, and he can’t wait to finish the job.

The Zionists honor the ceasefire in Gaza by firing artillery shells into Gaza City

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

Glorification of aesthetics leads devaluation of human experiences and is a large part of the social disconnect that people feel We arent authentic and then wonder why we feel empty. This applies from everything from food to cinema to Instagram filters

a rare crossover event: 1) bring back shame 2) I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

An ICE agent argued that taking upskirt photos of a flight attendant wasn’t a crime because he was sneaky. Um, no, says the 11th Circuit, which upheld his conviction reason.com/2025/10/16/i...

could have easily just left it and i think 99 percent of buckaroos would never notice, but this is something i care about a lot. there are authors i will not name that i get tagged with all the time who proudly slop around with their AI, and i will never do that. the soul of these books is not theft

This is why "all of the above" energy is not a climate solution. Record amounts of clean energy were built in 2024, but since we're still building out fossil fuels—indeed, since we're still just *using* fossil fuels—the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still going up, cooking us. 1/n

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement." (Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.) www.wired.com/story/owning...

people keep pulling the same handful of quotes out of here but nobody is talking about the guy who said his least favorite part of the cybertruck is how he can't see out of the windshield

think about the branching, exponential, massive, deadly impact of the near-total dismantling of labor rights, consumer protection, regulatory independence, and corporate oversight we're taking decades of injury, death, and harm. Find me ONE mainstream U.S. outlet that has been a dog on this bone

the press doesn't seem to understand that we genuinely no longer have functional federal regulators or corporate oversight in any serious form across labor, financial, public safety, and consumer protection it's kind of a big story, but they're so cowed by ownership they genuinely don't care

it's going to be a 20+ year orgy of dysfunction and financial fraud painfully illustrating why functioning regulators are important completely avoidable, but we all have to suffer in perpetuity because eggheads like Andreessen got mad because a female antitrust reformer briefly ran the FTC

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

doing journalism

If we are being honest the shift in culture has to do with the fact that all the people that are richer than god are massively anti social nerds

A thing I really believe about gay rights is that we didn’t win by changing everybody’s minds, we won by getting the very large contingent of fence sitters to actually pick a side, and outnumbering the ride-or-die homophobes to the point that they finally had to shut up.

Even with the backsliding of the last few years they’re still outnumbered, but the people who hate us still very much hate us. And always did and always will. And it’s just a question of what they’re comfortable saying in public vs. only in private.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

important note from libcrusher:

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.