One of the saddest things I’ve heard from Syrian and Lebanese friends is how painful it felt when supporters of Palestinian liberation dismissed their own legitimate grievances under the so-called Axis of Resistance. As if Beirut and Damascus exist only as supply lines for that.

Why not build the AI Satellite Factory™️on top of Mt Everest? That's closer to orbit than most launchpads on Earth and also helps address some of the supply chain issues. A "happy medium."

The thing about all the Newsom posting is that people are giving themselves negative feelings about the party as a whole based on something at best hypothetical (more likely imaginary) and after the thing doesn’t come to pass, those negative feelings will remain, searching for justification.

This is actually a very good question: "Why would voting for a Trump to a legislative body be harm reduction if he had a 'D' next to his name?" And the answer to that is that it's a pledge to vote for a Democratic Speaker or Senate Majority leader. A Collins with an R is a pledge for the opposite.

Those contradictions won't heighten themselves, comrade.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States.

Never forget what Debbie Wasserman-Schultz took from us

I maintain my theory it’s not just in-group signaling it’s also cause Trump has bad terrible eyesight and needs people with huge exaggerated features like kabuki masks to read them as faces

People were always flabbergasted when they found out a math degree but hated arithmetic. There are whole fields of math that don’t use numbers at all, really. Those are the ones I like the most.

Boring normies hit the Up or Down button, but I drew a circle on the wall next to the elevator with a Sharpie and hit that instead.

AI skeptics massively underrate the value of LLM systems. Also, AI boosters don't understand expertise. Autopilot technology revolutionized aviation but you still need a pilot.

He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

I never noticed this either.

When mine was little we received the d'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths and Book of Greek Myths, which are amazing. I wanted to make sure he wasn't culturally illiterate, so tried to find a Book of Christian Myths, but ran into obvious problems. (1/n)

Carve it into my tombstone: I have learned that being politically correct is lost on haters so I speak the language that they understand

Wilder thing is that you can grab a Big Mac and Fries from the same exact spot Mussolini and Wife were hung from. That Esso station morphed into a friggin' McDonalds. Because the Golden Arches are freaky like that (even if their restaurants are soulless husks now).

There's no rage more pure than the anger folks on the far-left feel when a progressive shows they can win a Democratic primary.

I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort: Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them. They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._

I must be living right.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

panic! at the gestapo

Anyone using "Truly, what's the worst that could happen?" as a reason to vote for someone for *any* political office in 2026 is a fucking wrecker.

pretending things are worse than they actually are to justify a violent revolution far left 🤝 far right

All the things in public life that people on this site are upset about are being perpetrated and supported by people who will never directly encounter anything anyone on this site says. Thus the feeling of madness.

Ready to elect this guy president.

It's hilarious that Trump is lazily going through the motions of the National Prayer Breakfast as his cult is planning to erect a literal golden idol of him.

Also I think a bunch about how the lone genius frame of software convinces us this is the only way to succeed, so everyone is jamming their brain around trying to do the impossible in isolation, when a social frame means we can actually scaffold what each other knows

Two of America's greatest contemporary intellectuals. Wish I could go!

Sarah Taber's video is magnificent, and will explain to you the difference between selling a farm experience and raising beef.

the omnicause exists basically exclusively as a structure of demanded dominance-display; it is not about convincing anyone of anything, it is and has always been and has only ever always been an expectation of future submissive posturing as an epistemic fact-claim in every direction

RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype

Damn, when did Al Franken get back to Congress?

The Post seems to mostly exist now for its opinion and politics pages, which Bezos can use to advance his own agendas.

Everyone dumb.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

O, that I were as great As is my grief, or lesser than my name! Or that I could forget what I have been, Or not remember what I must be now.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

you ever see a wojak so impossibly niche that you know whoever made it was absolutely shaking in anger

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

stephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

"i mean we *also* hate the people on the outside, but that's not the *reason* we're putting them in concentration camps. we're doing that because of the love thing"

Most normies won't pick up on the fact that this is pretty much just straight Christian Nationalist dogma... blog.martyduren.com/2025/07/29/t...

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Yes winning primaries is how things get done and we should do more of it rather than compla about Congressional leadership

The "Cunning-Duger" effect is a cognitive bias where people with low ability in a specific area can more easily see the value of LLMs and AI more generally, while those with high ability often fail to see any value at all.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.