Best wishes to Chris Evert, in her fight against cancer for the 3rd time. Grew up watching her battles with Martina. A legend of the game

I find it interesting that Stephen Miller, a proud Jewish man with nationalist views, hasn’t ever publicly stated his stance on Israel. Why is that?

One of the most important things I learned between 2020 and today is that basically every political bloc you could think of has some very prominent people in it who believe that all you need to do to win is say some nice, magic words

For those without Kentuckian friends or relatives, the Bevin scandal is nuts. Like, he dumped his son in a Jamaican death camp and refused to pick him up or some shit.

looking forward to friends visiting and going on the World's Worst Monument Walk where half the mall is tarped off and it's lethally hot out

The Times' op-ed section was really eager to work with me when I got laid off at Vox, and I wrote a few pieces for them. I am proud of those pieces, and the editors I worked with were fantastic. And also any time I pitched a piece on queer or trans life, it got turned down or ignored. Ah well!

in the late 2000s people used to say "the Internet is forever" meaning online evidence of wrongdoing never fades, but that turned out to be very wrong. this shit is mad ephemeral. I executed a family of six with a claw hammer in 2013 and there's no evidence because I uploaded the vid in flash player

(looking backwards and forwards simultaneously through time and speaking as one voice across a hundred hundred generations): i should have brought my butt pillow

matsui spending a mil of her own money to try and knock vang out is never going to stop being funny. i want to tell her lady you’re 80 years old, you have enough, go retire and enjoy life!

this is, relatedly, an insane thing for Black Democrats to believe, but it helps them defend their fiefdoms and that's all they seem to care about

Was? Anywhere north of Tuscany, any given Italian will point south and say Africa begins there. Then there's Trentino-Alto Adige who do not believe they are part of Italy at all!

This goes some way toward explaining why Iron Eyes Cody decided neither to assimilate into white anglo society nor to claim his parents' Italian heritage, but just become Indian. Probably the most sane option, really.

We gotta do more than expand the court two years from now. Congress can impeach corrupt justices and strip jurisdiction. It is time to step up and reboot democracy.

Between the tornados, earthquakes (even where you don't expect them, aka New Madrid), and hurricanes, a significant amount of USA building norms involve 'how much can we increase the chance of getting someone out alive if the structure partially fails'. 'Unreinforced Masonry' is a problem here.

Gun fact: the record coldest it has ever been in England is the same record cold it has ever been in Louisiana. The hottest it has ever been in England is about the same as the hottest it has ever been in Alaska. America is huge and our weather is extreme and Europe has no frame of reference

The Sheridan/Yellowstone shows are awful, but I did like the plot point in 1923 of 3 upper crust Brits trying to drive through Montana in a snowstorm being like “we have brandy and fur coats tut tut, we know cold.” And then they ALL DIED IN A BLIZZARD because it’s way colder than they could fathom.

There’s a whole thing where people assume you can’t have a bias against the US, and often when you dig a little, they reveal that they see it as a country of the sons and cousins who were sent to the US to work. It’s hard for them to accept that it’s a diverse, different country, not Lesser Europe.

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Nazbols, Juche, Strasserists, Khmer Rouge--take your pick. Nationialist authoritarians with social-democratic pretensions are definitely a thing. Is that what Platner is? I don't know.

Ya know, maybe we shouldn't hold up John Landis as the standard for "getting it done" in filmmaking.

News Non-Shocker: independent UN commission said Tuesday the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide, and in the West Bank, amounting to war crimes

When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.

@lizplank.bsky.social's realization while watching World Cup: "Every single one of these countries gives new moms some kind of leave after they have a baby... Literally all 48 teams come from countries that figured this out. Except the one hosting the whole thing. Us."

Remember after the VRA case when I said that eliminating "disparate impact" tests for discrimination was the worst thing SCOTUS could do to US law? Today's TPS decision is an example of what civil rights and antidiscrimination law look like without disparate impact.

The United States for two years now has only let in white asylum seekers, which would’ve been insanely racist even in like 1912. And it’s barely been a story

I was barely out of college when I attended a Democratic Party caucus in the Massachusetts ward I was living in at the time. It was right after Reagan's victory, and I warned them that moving right to win votes would simply lose Democrats their distinctive identitly. 22-year-old me was right.

“I must not [read Politico or The Hill]. [Reading Politico or The Hill] is the mind-killer. [Reading Politico or The Hill] is the little-death that brings total obliteration." -The Litany Against Rat-Fuckery

This! Seriously ?? MORE GUNS? This Court is a Hollywood Western from the 1950s! apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores and hotels

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

BREAKING: AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet. 💪 I support this 💯 U.S. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS

It's interesting how common it is for people who claim to believe in democracy to actually loudly prefer stability and continuity, across the political spectrum.

A lot of Dems are going to learn very quickly that big chunks of the primary base do in fact care about this stuff and change their stance on it and many other Dems are going to just get very huffy and bitter about their own electorate before they get turfed out. It's going to get weird.

Like I said. Pay attention to who is telling you "AI is inevitable." It's either a con man hoping you're stupid and will actually believe it or someone stupid enough to believe what a con man says.

Skill issue. Not only am I employed full-time, have 2 kids, am trying for a third with my husband, AND getting my Masters, but LLMs are losing money and are going away very soon. You're gonna have to learn it either way, kiddo, unless you wanna pay Sam Altman thousands a month for New Claude ;)

Trump and his team inspired the real republicans: the racists, the misogynists, the hateful, the ignorant, the greedy, the religious fanatics, the evil. New leaders need to inspire the real democrats: the justice warriors, the liberals, the fighters for equity and equality, the true believers.

establishment demands an apology from the people winning elections as an express rejection of the establishment

One would think!

The Zionist occupation is moving their genocidal mperialist ethnic cleansing lenensraum campaign forward with “Project Crimson Thread”. Here’s what it is:

I’m seeing many posts lament that “Dan Goldman is such a good guy with integrity and class—it’s sad that he lost his seat.” Men with integrity don’t deny genocide and don’t fund countries that mass murder children. NY got that. It’s why they elected Brad Lander—a true leader with integrity & class.

🥳🥳🥳🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 GO BAFANA BAFANA

The advances in cancer have been so fast that if you’re a doctor who doesn’t specialize in cancer, you simply can’t keep up. There are cancers that I learned are incurable in med school (‘98-2002) that are now cured or managed as long-term issues. Insane levels of ignorance from Peter Thiel 😳

I have similarly decided, 25 years after getting my webelos badge and never going to a meeting again, that I no longer wish to be associated with the boy scouts of america

If this worked on you, your bloodline is weak and you won't survive the winter. Let's go Mets, goddamn it

Dodgers fullfill $1 million pledge in response to ICE raids. Owners divest from prison group. Free and unlocked here: www.aol.com/sports/dodge...

half of them lose because they can't even bring themselves to repeat what the crowd is chanting for or change it halfway through

Hunter speaks! Dems need to listen. 🙌🔥

Has anyone written about how Trump is a phenomenon of an aging society where the median voter no longer wants a brighter future but for the world they remember from being 23 to remain frozen in amber forever

you ever think we're ngmi