The only two options are “rich people can’t fly private planes anymore” or “dam the Bering Strait” so you see what a difficult choice we must make

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If you were Splinter, what would you name the four turtles? Wrong answers only. Joel, Tom, Frank, & Crow T. Robot

Thinking about the ACAB Includes Commander Shepherd discourse (it does!) and why The Expanse's Amos is such a great and beloved character. Amos is all renegade interrupts. But he does them so that people better than him can remain good. And he makes sure it's those better people calling his shots.

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.

If you were Splinter, what would you name the four turtles? Wrong answers only. Joel, Tom, Frank, & Crow T. Robot

James Murphy called it “borrowed nostalgia for the unremebered 80’s” in Losing My Edge and that his stuck with me for the last 20 years, which is why the nostalgia’s for the 90’s and 2000’s now and not the 70’s and 80’s.

Just thinkin' about the ultimate Bethesda storytelling moment from FO3: "I would never deny you your destiny of a horrible, painful death while completing the life work of the father who abandoned you." --Fawkes, super mutant companion who could do the thing at literally zero risk to themself.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

As some of you may know, I was previously the Editor-in-Chief of GameLuster before it was acquired by new site owners. Unfortunately I have an update on that below:

Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?

Hey now the Founders did a pretty good job for a bunch of slave-owning, patriarchal, patrician, colonizers working under extreme pressure and with limited practical examples to model. Sincerely. But we can do a lot better now. And, to their credit, the Founders said we should do exactly that*.

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

Really whiffing on this rare opportunity to blame Jimmy Carter.

#ICYMI: Another disruptive nationwide ruling from the Fifth Circuit last night—this one to require, on a *nationwide* basis, that any dispensation of mifepristone be after an *in-person* doctor visit. Danco Labs has already sought emergency relief from the full Fifth Circuit, so this'll move fast:

Discourse has reminded that Mass Effect: Andromeda was possibly the most disappointing major game release in my life. The *exactly* correct premise for a Mass Effect sequel (not to mention sidestepping the ME3 ending), squandered on the worst possible version of its story.

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

This is a huge political miscalculation. Biden won because people were tired of thinking of Trump (at that time) and Biden literally told him to shut up. There is absolutely a base of Trump meme obsessed democrats eating this shit up but it has a hard, low ceiling. Normal people are tired of this.

Many liberals had long hoped for deescalation, because gerrymandering is bad. But watching Rs openly vow to seize on SCOTUS ruling to maximally gerrymander makes it clear those hopes are dead. The option of deescalation is always there, but it must be mutual. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

I guess I just don't understand the point Sagal is making here. The primary complaint about Platner is that he is a nepo-baby, ex-mercenary, slur-happy, and until very recently, Nazi-tattooed chud. These are just things about him. And it's totally understandable to not like him for these reasons.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

CEO pay rose 20x faster than worker pay in 2025, and adjusted for inflation, workers’ wages have fallen 12% since 2019. On May Day, a reminder that the drastic gap between workers and C-suite executives is itself a policy choice.

look i was a bernie supporter so i've had to reconcile the fact that a lot of his online supporters were dumb as rocks but certain platner enthusiasts are really not doing their candidate any favors by advancing the "all american men have a nazi phase" argument

It is with great regret I report that the gas leaf blowers have returned after a brief hiatus. To which I say: Enjoy your fines. Whether I'm working from home or headed into the office, I'm making my morning coffee during leaf blowing hours every day.

How to be helpful: Irish diaspora edition. Follow these do's and don'ts!

I love my Kona EV, but it's an [honest] 250-mile range car. Which in practice is 220. And if you're fast charging is closer to 180. I don't have range anxiety. It's perfect for my urban life. But I rent a gas car to drive home for the holidays. I won't buy a new EV with less range than 350.

Until the GOP and SCOTUS can agree to end gerrymandering blue states can't let a single Republican leaning district exist. It is bad for democracy and representation BUT way better than the alternative.

Trump’s border wall construction has now damaged a 200-foot-long Indigenous etching in Arizona believed to be at least 1,000 years old.

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

Now do stocks.

So in the end Schumer never endorsed the cosmopolitan left-liberal Muslim who made basic criticisms of Israel but has decided to endorse the rich young Obergruppenfuehrer who spent his youth killing Arabs in an imperialist wars before deciding it was the international bankers who made him do it.

I can't help but wonder where the Board of Peace is as conflicts in the Middle East continue to spiral out of control. Was this not supposed to be their wheelhouse?

I can't help but wonder where the Board of Peace is as conflicts in the Middle East continue to spiral out of control. Was this not supposed to be their wheelhouse?

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. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

What @elienyc.bsky.social says is the way:

6. Republicans will use Callais to give themselves up to 19 more seats in the House of Representatives (probably fewer; I'd guess closer to 10). But Democrats can use it to "unpack" their VRA districts and flip a bunch of red districts. In fact, courts might force them to. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Another situation in which the presumption of regularity regarding the government is leading to unfair consequences for those outside the government.

If we had taken all the money we put into AI and put it into trains, we would have such great trains. What a waste.

Is that a lot?

"unelected" is key not because the record broadly of elected judges is better but to emphasize that no legal mechanism beyond impeachment exists for ending lifetime appointments, and that *these particular* judges have been nothing shy of disastrous and will be for as long as they reign.

Yes after a hard day the thing that will most lift my spirits is several hours of watching an alternate reality me whose life doesn't suck. That sounds very enjoyable and not at all like a way to psychically break myself.

"Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles: Civil liberty concerns spur FAA to revise drone no-fly zones near ICE vehicles."

Having finally won my battle to get the municipal code banning gas leaf blowers enforced at the car dealership next to my apartment: Anyone who tells you electric leaf blowers are just as loud as gas leaf blowers is full of shit.

Here is the menu. The minimum ante now is totally revamping SCOTUS. But the rest of this list, aside from wholesale reform of the Senate, can also be done by normal legislation (not Constitutional amendments) & needs to be adopted if we're going to stop living under competitive authoritarianism.

Thinking of offering a new product to the world: artisan emails. Handcrafted by unemployed PhDs to your precise specifications and with that human touch that shows you're a person of distinction and taste. For extra they'll put in quotations from non-digitised texts as proof you own books.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Honestly I just need Sports and Remember Sports to go on tour together, with the set order.