an entire website that doesn’t understand the is-ought problem

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

This story is total BS, the claim is completely false- they aren't trying to stop the vote, in fact the committee she refers to is working to build support for the resolution. Her sourcing for the story if you read it is one anonymous staffer speculating about another staffer's whip count guess

many authoritarians are drawn to the absolutism of the Catholic Church but hate it because it’s not as reactionary as them. they’re drawn like moths to a flame to dictatorial systems, even if it burns them. my two cents anyways

#LAFD takes down @bmkibler.bsky.social in a battle to the death he hopped out of the truck to issue the challenge while they were passing fighter practice at the park

I hate how much this is me lol

Hasan is now glazing North Korea. abolish all streamers tbh. i guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that the type of person who thinks that they should broadcast their entire life to the world is a narcissistic weirdo with unhinged politics

Knitting 2 things together here. Andrea Pritzer reminding us that Dachau was an ordinary little town before it’s name became synonymous with “Nazi death camp.” Don’t let your town become an American Dachau. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Heteroflexible people would rather live and die in Los Angeles than go to therapy

yeah, sorry, but whatever their many flaws (and they are many tbc), the dems - to their very real credit - have held up pretty well on trans rights. lot of that "left" people jerk off to in europe would be infinitely better if they could even get halfway to the average dem position

this site has a real fucking problem with "gender is a treat that we can take away if there's the slightest ideological transgression"

LETS FUCKING GOOOO

we love redboxing don’t we folks? god our campaign finance and communications laws need to be stronger

seeing some pro-2A discourse here today. just gonna go out and say many of the horrific tyrannies of the 20th century were overthrown by a population subject to strict gun control. permissive gun laws do not protect the people or deter oppression. it just leads to a lot of dead kids.

don’t like that we live in the world where The 120 Days of Sodom is apparently our most explanatory polisci text!

oh hey i wonder who that sign is for www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla

Imagine being a 400th generation rat, thinking you are the apex predator, and then along comes fuzzy Godzilla. sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/c...

the irony of course was that this was the Woke Dystopia where masked police were under threat from white supremacists

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

Mental illness is not a dark chapter on your life that you move past completely. It is often a lifelong, treated and managed condition in a best case scenario. And a lot of "mental health advocates" assume that if you aren't instantly cured by therapy, you're doing something wrong. (Link below)

This Postman Situation is CONCERNING

real power isnt a bomb, a plane, a gun its friends

i love this gif so i added sfx to it

glory to the machine, for it lacks the meat and chemicals that push me to ordering wendies

one thing that is difficult to talk about regarding the "New Deal Coalition" is the extent to which it was possible only due to a deeply corrupt, semi-democratic political system that was rapidly discredited in the post-War era and reformed out of existence by a public that viewed it as untenable

on one hand we have the unfathomable logistical, operational and political task of canceling american elections, on the other hand we have the ravings of a demented old man who can't even pacify a mid-sized midwestern city. and i'm the silly one? i'm the irrational one?

Rather than a religious text, newly-minted New Jersey Assemblywoman Katie Brennan, a progressive who beat a million-dollar spending disadvantage and the full force of the Hudson County machine, was sworn in on a printout of her district's entire universe of registered voters

The current politics in the United States can best be understood as a basic distinction between people who have sincere ethical and moral beliefs about the dignity of others—and are willing to act on that—and those who see the State as a tool to enact pain on enemies. You're otherwise just LARPing.

The distinction between identifying as liberal, leftist, or anti-MAGA conservative functionally means literally nothing. It has basically no bearing on someone's commitment to sets of ethical values and their willingness to act on them as it relates to the current domestic situation of America.

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

For my entire 15 years in NYC, this ****ing ramp has been my go-to example of how stupid the bike "infrastructure" that has actually been built in the city is. And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social just went out and fixed it on day 6. I feel so represented I could cry.

xavier renegade angel dialogue

Okay. Well I guess I’ll go stand around angrily at the White House.

Of all the flagrant and atrocious violations of American law this admin has prosecuted, this might be the most flagrantly unconstitutional and illegal.

COMMISSION FOR @zoeydogy.com 🐕🚗💨

a response to the jeffersonian ideal of education promoting virtue that still haunts me is that there were men who recited goethe in the morning, quoted hegel in the afternoon, and played mozart in the evening with still enough time to run a death camp

with how much Fascism 1 loved radio, i feel like the main factor is new forms of media/communication emerging in a population with no immunity to it yet

a solid 25% of generative ai responses are "how would tom waits answer this question"

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

yeah i think it might be well and truly over

Such a treat to speak with @volts.wtf about social identity and the epistemic crisis. David is really sharp and does a fantastic interview - no small feat to make a plodding academic sound like a lively conversationalist! Highly recommend the podcast to anyone (like me) who didn't know it before.