"average texan commits 3 crimes per year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average texan commits 0 crimes per year. Crimes Paxton, who is attorney general (??) and commits 10,000 crimes per day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

The horse is a Jan 6er.

Not a fan of children's books serving as obvious replacements for the author's therapeutic needs.

Western civilization is saved.

It's too bad that Jake Tapper is gone. This was one of his main brats.

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You ever see the back of a twenty-dollar bill . . . on AI!?

Leo's Tolkien quote is for dudes like JD.

It does beat Iran launching drones at their oil infrastructure.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

The Internet is dying. Are you a Bad Enough Dude to log onto the Nazi microblogging site to save it?

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

If it's Saturday, that means the US has made a peace proposal.

I don't read every source I cite in its entirety, but I do make a good faith effort to confirm that it says what I claim it does!

GLP-1s are like LLMs in that people have wildly off base opinions about them rooted in moral intuitions and preconceived ideas

The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”

For me, it was the part of the video for Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More" where they slice up Alice's body like cake and eat her.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

That dude was a notorious atheist.

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

Similar to Taylor Lorenz saying that refusing to mask inside is genocide, yet appearing in public indoors alongside people who aren't wearing masks.

Eating quinoa really do just be woke transmisandry

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

How is it that there's no jazz tune called "All Day I Dream About Sax"?

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Two types I find myself blocking on here, which has improved my experience: Replying "false equivalence!" without qualification when someone says behavior x is similar to commonly condemned behavior y. Complaining someone didn't use the magic word in their condemnation of Israel's actions in Gaza.

The ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest And visit their graves on holidays at best The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please If it's any consolation I don't begin to understand them

A lot of the left obsesses over winning back white working-class voters for no other reason that that a united working class is a requirement to fulfill the essentially religious Hegelian teleology of Karl Marx, which of course is a really fundamentally dumb value to bring to electoral politics.

If it's Saturday, that means the US has made a peace proposal.

There’s a segment of the left that is just traditional male chauvinism but couched in left-wing aesthetics as camouflage, and it’s really easy to spot.

Why did they call it Bluesky and not…

Canvas rn

i would be the Baby Yoda of spanking homoflexible chavs

There's been a running theme in Roberts & co's thought wherein the political process is corrupt and distasteful and the judicial process is not.

A friend found this in the wild.

Staten Island is the Wuhan of MAGA

Just finished a section on the AIDS crisis in my bioethics course, and only one student knew anything about DOGE, let alone ending PEPFAR. We really inhabit a different universe on here.

Also a socialist government in the UK that resisted Iranian demands for better pay and work conditions, and then of course deposed Mossadegh rather than acquiesce to nationalization of Iranian oil.

Criticizing Israel and its behavior and policies, even very sharply, isn’t bigoted. Reflexively responding to any mention of Jews, Judaism, Jewish history or culture, or the Jewish community with demands to denounce Israel is absolutely bigoted and also unhinged.

If COVID taught us anything, it's that an outbreak starting in this facility most likely first spread to somewhere on the other side of town.

You're wishing people "May the Fourth Be with You," in English? Do you know where English comes from?

SHAFT

Normal thoughts on a normal website.

I saw Goody Stancil sharing opsec with the devil!

If you're a political scientist complaining that the NYT should fire columnists who make provably false claims, I'm afraid it's you who does not understand the purpose of the NYT opinion columns.