A former Al Qaeda commander sitting quietly listening to Missy Elliot at a basketball game.

This reads like a parody, but nope it's a real LinkedIn post

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

A man with Coprolaliac Tourette’s Syndrome (award-nominated for a film about his disorder) yelling the N-word at Black actors on stage, is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. A trolley problem for a new era. It’s a Woke 2.0 cosmic test of some kind. Too on the nose to engage with.

do you use a washing machine

this is the sort of thing people mean when they talk about Trump degrading the national character

Show this to anyone who says "What are we supposed to do, VOTE HARDER??"

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Hi, my name is Alex Goldman and I host the @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social I used to host the Reply All podcast, and I have found that so many people who liked Reply All have no idea Hyperfixed exists. It's super frustrating because I have no idea how to reach those people.

Here’s a key reason why it’s very bad that we keep losing big, well-funded media outlets that publish real journalism: Only those organizations have the money and heft to protect reporters from inevitable legal battles with powerful people (like, say, sex offender politicians and tech CEOs).

I know the team @bsky.app gets a lot of flak from a lot of flak from a small, but very vocal part of the website and I just want to show my appreciation for what they accomplish. Is it perfect? No. But it’s genuinely one of the best online experiences I’ve had, it feels much more human and genuine.

The government loses yet another case against protesters/bystanders accused of assaulting federal officers during ICE raids and protests in California last summer

I'm not being funny but there was a term for nimbies in the Soviet Union. It was "political prisoners"

This is the best Bluesky post of all time imo

Here's the really bad part. Over time, this leads to bigger and bigger crises, because the markets are updating about TACO, so it will take more extreme action to make markets thing he may not actually TACO.

This may be the most baffling unexplained aside in a review I have ever read:

There’s a strange political horseshoe between left-influencers and the likes of Yglesias who seem to think (or wish) they are in a parliamentary system where a powerful party leader can set the national policy platform and install or remove candidates

“Is Barack Obama a popular political figure” might be the single most efficient touch-grass heuristic on this website

Google AI is having stroke

I have read this several times and I still cannot conceive, no matter how busy I was, of the idea of showing up to a court argument not having read the other side's brief on the issue I am arguing. Just, what?

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In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

there was a whole scandal about trump just MEETING with us attorney nominees during the first trump administration newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/ho...

you can easily condemn Israel and its commission of war crimes and ethnic cleansing & genocide without endorsing baseless conspiracy theories that antisemitic violence targeting Jewish synagogues/ambulances/schools in Canada/the US/the UK are false flags staged by Jews to gain public sympathy!

Some Trvth Nvkes •Puerto Rican areas in HD51 flipped back Dem after going Trump in 2024 •We absolutely didn’t win SD14/HD87 through turnout, we won through persuasion

Look I'm seeing these takes increasingly on here, and if you can't point to any reason it'd actually be bad other than the candidate's age then it actually is just ageism and that's just wrong.

This has 1.4K RTs and 3.7K Likes, but the only thing here that bears any resemblance at all to the JCPOA is No. 6. 1, 4 & 5 were not addressed, and 2 & 3 were permitted. I doubt Iran will agree, which is why Obama focused on getting the most favorable terms on 2, 3 & 6. But this is just wrong.

Friend on discord showed me this and I thought a few people who enjoyed this person's comics might like to know how they post over on the Hitler site.

public disorder is such a stupid topic online because there's a moron polarization between "someone jacking off next to you on public transit is just da' big city baby" and "I was made a to see a disheveled person. liquidate the vermin classes in camps."

The Kobayashi Maru Training Exercise for people with "In This House We Believe" signs in their yard.

oh god we're doing it again aren't we

Trump’s witch hunt for 2020 election fraud in Georgia is going as one would expect

Not how non-violence works. People went onto that bridge in Selma expecting to get seriously hurt; the spectacle of police brutalizing innocent people for doing nothing wrong was supposed to reach and radicalize the public. As it is doing now, in fact.

Who did this? Because I fucking love it and I want to shake your hand, sir (not gender specific)

“Six Dems voted for an apparently unobjectionable nominee to run DoD hospitals who was going to get confirmed anyway” apparently means the party is fascist, we do not however care at all that Dems kept the vote from happening for almost a full calendar year

"REPORTS HE SLIPPED IN THE SHOWER AND A SHAMPOO BOTTLE WENT INTO HIS RECTUM" David Beckham: Be honest…. "STATES HE WAS IN THE SHOWER 'WAS BORED' WHEN PT PLACED SHAMPOO BOTTLE INTO RECTUM"

i posted this to badsite on 2018-07-28: "I've been mulling for the last two years the idea that the GOP's Southern Strategy was like the Bene Gesserit's Kwisatz Haderach breeding program and Trump is Paul Atreides fucking it up for them and they don't know how to put the sandtrout back in the qanat"

As always when Sri Thanedar comes up, I invite you to guess how old he is then look it up.