New study finds people tend to overestimate how negatively their political group will react if they change their mind, which makes them stay silent more often than necessary. Reminding people of their past loyalty to the group reduces this fear and encourages more open disagreement.

Killing people and destroying things “just for fun” is psychopathic behavior and even saying it is something only a psychopath would do and every U.S. news organization should be shouting that from the rooftops. Editors: Rise to the challenge of truth-telling or make room for someone who will.

Don't wire up claude to use qwen 3 tts to clone joe biden's voice to remind you to take your meds because if you mess up datetimes he screams "YOU ARE CRITICALLY OVERDUE ON YOUR ESTRADIOL! THIS IS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY!" At 4 am.

Solitary confinement is a form of torture. The US is torturing a foreign head of state.

using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

None of them can talk coherently about strategy or goals but they are completely in sync in all their macho posturing because that is all they’re really focused on. Everything else is just whatever limply offered fiction is convenient to them at the time.

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

I really thought adult life in the city would let me say "follow that cab, and step on it" at least once, but most millenials are all "follow me on myspace"

gross...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - President Dwight D. Eisenhower

i *will* sell out for a corvette

trump is taking political hits on iran is because he is now undermining his supporters' ability to win online arguments. you can just own them ruthlessly on the iran thing now for being dumdums. and this they cannot bear. they can tolerate any amount of murder and mayhem, but not being owned online

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

NANCY WISHES YOU A HAPPY FRIDAY

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Look at my counterterrorism chief, dawg www.propublica.org/article/trum...

once you speak transphobia you cant speak anything but transphobia, just like posting

Lol, I think these two replies say it all

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

The wife of the Iraqi President (both her and the President being Kurdish politicians with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party), releases a statement saying "leave the Kurds alone" citing various historical events, including "we saw what happened . . . in Rojava"

To a significant degree, I think, even people who sharply oppose Israel in American politics understate how deeply violent and cruel they have become.

NEW: We filed a motion to prevent the Department of Justice from accessing New Jersey voters' personal data. This is another dangerous attempt by the Trump administration to disenfranchise voters.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

AI has caused a lot of problems, but the petty one that bugs me is how it killed perfectly good meme slang like "chef's kiss" and "that's just tuesday."

and “the libs have the money” is something the business community knew until they talked themselves out of it in group chats! there’s a reason basically every commercial pre-2024 was a sanitized smiling multicultural rainbow capitalist tableau

wine moms are our strongest soldiers and also the engine of American consumption and you alienate them from your stores at your peril

just remarkable how much the executive class of this country misread a complete cultural shift into a tiny popular vote victory largely based on a backlash to inflation because of their own biases

That's right. You got no leg to stand on, Newsom supporters. Shut your hole. We don't need anti trans anti homeless greaseball shit. North Carolina is purple, it's not some blue stronghold.

I have a whole file of these stories that I point to whenever someone responds to allegations of domestic abuse/violence with "If it was so serious, why didn't she call the cops?"

the seemingly inexorable march of antisemitism into the very heart of US politics from both the left and right is pretty depressing

i must not watch short form video content. short form video content is the mind killer. short form video content is the little death that brings total obliteration.

If you can’t identify “Nazis openly posting on a website that has direct ties to the US government” as violence against Jewish people, I simply do not consider you my ally

honestly i think the people who made those bets deserve this

I was literally pulling up the FBI indictments of the Iranian hackers two days ago for a forthcoming article ab this 🫠 Trump dismantled the entire infrastructure that disrupted this op! Kate and Stamos and I were sued by America First Legal — case is entering its 3rd year. These fucking hacks.

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default “I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

All true but it's frustrating that we might have been spared a lot of this but for the Lancet publishing Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study in 1998

i'm not the arbiter of foreign policy, i do not have the most knowledge of how Iran operates as a state, but this is so fucking wrong. when you're dead you don't come back. they made a bunch of kids dead. the entire administration is a war tribunal waiting to happen.

too many people are being waaaayyyy too consent manufacturing shaped right now dawg. they fucking blew up kids. if your gut reaction to what's going on right now is anything less than "holy hell this should never have happened and it needs to stop immediately" you need to do a lot of self reflection

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

the scotus tariff decision was only a week ago

Congrats to President Trump! He is the first ever FIFA Peace Prize winner to launch an illegal war of choice. I can’t wait for the World Cup. 😊