The only time I've ever wished I lived in Alabama

Every vote matters

This is so accurate

Obvious attack on the First Amendment, and also--importantly--an attack on the second amendment One asshole did a stupid thing, and the completely legal firearms owned by other protesters became evidence of domestic terrorism

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between who’s kidding and who’s stupid

Just so that we are clear, Israel drops criminal charges on five Israeli soldiers who were caught on camera sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. But Israel will keep kids in prison for decades because they were throwing rocks? Make it make sense 🤦🏽‍♀️

Kash Patel confirms oil drillers will train NASA astronauts this week, calling it a "historic opportunity"

WWII historians:

crime dog you gotta find some better wording for this

Conservatives were on the record in January 2023 in the NYT saying explicitly that they targeted trans youth to be able to ban transitioning for everyone. They admitted it but then every dumb centrist was like "but what about the evidence on trans youth." And here we are.

not the onion

OMG HE'S BACK IN STOCK

"Mistake."

Nah bro - we're going to make one big war. Across the whole globe, maybe! If only there was a phrase to describe such a war.

Axios is LYING. Like, bald-faced full-on knowingly dishonest bullshit lying about this. The boycott is not over, the organizers have not said they are ending the boycott. staging.blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Jail.

This is cruel and unusual punishment.

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing. "But I don't think they make that much!" Halve that. Halve it again.

I had a Papa John's coupon, decided to use it. Their website kept giving error messages with the order (coupon or not) so I tried phoning in the order. Discovered my local Papa John's outsourced the calls...to an overseas call center. The enshitification is just sad.

leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

Truly a perfect news alert

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Unfortunately, Trump’s version of “crushing healthcare” involves historic gutting of Medicaid and pushing health plans with $31,000 deductibles.

i don't give a rip who the CEO is i will use this website until the day it shows me one single advertisement and then none of you will ever see me again

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

oh sure but when the mom dies in the opening 5 minutes of every film that's fine and I don't need to pry my shrieking child out of the AMC bathroom stall

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

the dumbest form of politics is yelling at voters after you lose. if you lose it is *always* your fault. every confounding factor in the universe is your job to overcome. if you take a position that is unpopular and don't adjust to learning that, you are bad at running for office.

"They tried shooting the scientists developing vaccines."

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

It's hard seeing others live your dream and not even appreciate it

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

not the woman in front of me at the shop handing her cigs back to the cashier and asking for one with a less scary picture on it

A new lawsuit is alleging that Google's Gemini chatbot convinced a 36-year old man to take his own life. This case serves as a reminder that Big Tech companies are recklessly prioritizing profits over human lives. How many more lives must be lost before this tech is properly regulated?

He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

I wish people would remember that Noem wasn’t fired because of the concentration camps, kidnappings, murders, or blatant disregard for the law. She got fired because Trump was embarrassed that her vanity made her look like an idiot. Mullin is Trump doubling down on every awful thing Noem has done.