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Art detectives have always fascinated me. It gives me hope that there is a law enforcement department that is dedicated to protecting and preserving art in a world that increasingly dismisses art as worthless.
all I know is that if I killed 11 people and was working out the reason why it was totally legal to do so a day later, nobody would have any trouble calling that precisely what it was
Not to be that guy but this was literally my first assumption
Once Epstein's survivors start naming powerful men, including Donald Trump, it's going to be hell for Republicans who are stalling their own radicalized base that demands answers and release of the files. They can't keep distracting.
Boy, 2025 has really obliterated that quaint idea that bad people get what they deserve.
I think a lot about how weâve had just a constant deluge of consensus-reality destabilizing developments from all sides since about 2011 or so - social media, AI, the existence of Donald Trump
I told him no more treats today as he's getting a little chub around the middle, so now he's miffed.
Boy, oh boy, it is not great for Trump that Dems, progressives, "normal" Republicans, and MAGA in Congress are all on the same page about this.
I said this about all the Democratic "data gurus" who don't have backgrounds in statistical analysis or research design and I'll say it about Gladwell: He's not a social scientist! He's a guy with a BA in History pretending to be a social scientist!
We do. And that includes establishment Dems who are embarrassingly unequipped to successfully navigate this moment. That would be you.
Itâs exhausting seeing peopleâs hard work and knowledge being stolen, and then redeployed against them by this bullshit AI scourge
Spoilers: not in a positive way!
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." âWeâre not going away. Weâre not staying quiet. Weâre not going to give up.â Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
Been here for at least 3 cycles of âBluesky is doomedâ by now (late 2023, mid 2024, now) Chill. Itâs fine
Sometimes when I think back on everything she did to me, it strikes me just how psycho she was.
They both have spoken out against Trump at length, including in his first term, so I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about here.
We'll see.
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
the thing is that by getting out in front of this instead of waiting for it to happen Pritzker might actually short circuit the whole thing. Texas is already issuing denials.
I'm sorry to crush your career B-plan dreams like this.
No one is running yet, but it's becoming clearer which people are likely to throw their hats in the ring first.
Pritzker is a literal billionaire.
I lived there for a year and it was largely a nightmare experience due to my roommate being a psycho, but the city was great.
I regret to inform you...
Congrats on your bigoted, fatphobic bullshit.
And yet, some people sued Trump in civil court for the pain and suffering he caused on Jan. 6th, one of whom was Adam Kinzinger. So there is precedent.
That's exactly what I'm wondering. If it's not criminal charges - though I'd argue more than a few of them should be arrested and tried on numerous felonies - then a civil class-action lawsuit would be the next best thing. But is that even realistic? Or legal?
I keep using one particular word to describe the Trump 2.0. The word is "evil." This administration is pure evil.
Being the bestest goodest boy who definitely wasn't chewing on a shoe or peeing in your closet.
I'd argue it's that they just don't care what kind of signifier it is. The masks are off. They no longer have to hide.
Gavin Newsom this, Gavin Newsom that. If anyone is paying attention, it's clear that Pritzker is the (very early) frontrunner to be the Dem nominee in 2028.
To clarify, I know that this is what voting them out is supposed to do. But I'd argue that at this point, this dereliction of duty (and active malicious harm in the case of Republicans) crosses the line into potential criminality.
Oh, I understand that. I mean that at this point, one could argue that it's not enough for these guys to just get voted out. Almost the entirety of Congress is criminally derelict in their duties at the moment, and the Republicans are actively maliciously harmful. It's crossed the line to criminal.
So, I realize this is galaxy-brain thinking, but I'm genuinely curious: Is there anything in the Constitution that prohibits a class action lawsuit against individual senators/reps for endangering their constituents, or against specific political parties for utterly failing to do their job?
It's just called Rock Identifier lol - not much to go on
Dare you to find a more fitting metaphor for America right now.
Word on the street is that it's just that he's moving Space Force from Chicago and NORAD to Alabama. And maybe claiming that he's renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Which he can't do without Congressional approval, but hey, it's not like they're stopping him.
It's about the dumb Space Force shit, that's all.
On my phone, I now have identification apps for birds, plants, rocks, and bugs. I also purposely stopped by the store the other day to see if they had the Werther's Originals limited-edition caramel apple candy. My youth, as the kids say, is cooked.
There are a lot of things he wasn't supposed to be able to do without Congress, but Republicans have abdicated their duties and Democrats are useless.
Always a distraction with him.
If the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, then the mass of women and nonbinary folks lead lives of simmering rage.
Either way, I regret to inform everyone that today's announcement will not be the one we're all hoping for.
Wait, is this it? How stupid.
How much you guys want to bet today's little announcement isn't about him stepping down, but about him mobilizing the National Guard nationwide or pretending there was evidence of election tampering from Democrats or that he's getting rid of all mail-in ballots and electronic voting booths?
Sometimes, as it turns out, there *are* stupid questions.
Someone asked me why sharks stick their dorsal fins out of the water. The answer is simple. Sharksâ dorsal fins stick out of the water sometimes because their fins are on top of and therefore higher than the rest of their body, and sometimes their body is near the surface of the water.
I'm not going to call it pathetic, but I do agree that everyone need to read more (and that literacy rates are abysmal in this country), and I also hate watching a video for something I could read.
So is Cosmic Book News, a right-wing sewage pit of a geek site.
Cosmic Book News is a right-wing cesspool of a site.
The morons of the regime said weeks ago that they want to replicate the success of Alligator Auschwitz. Merch was sold. Money was thrown at it. It's been a disaster from day one and it's now a doomed boondoggle. Let's not let them forget they sang its praises. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Perhaps at a few schools but that's not true everywhere.
Ah, that's fair. This school appears to, however.
Democrats want to retreat to the only place where they are politically comfortable: disavowing the left
"But Democrats say 'defund the police'" has become the new "but her emails." No, they f'ing don't. They haven't since a few months in 2020, five years ago.
A legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general, and unions has frustrated Trumpâs ambitions. @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports on the one anti-Trump resistance movement thatâs actually working:
What happened to kids taking the bus ffs?
Couldn't ask for a better bean as my insomnia buddy â¤ď¸
...so this dude is absolutely dead or stepping down, right?
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the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Goddamn, not Graham Greene.
I didn't say all of them.
He does, but to be fair, I think that angle's just extreme. He's lost a considerable amount of weight, but the angle and the lighting there make it seem far starker than it is.
I mean, he's been pretty open about the weight loss and why he did it.
Fair, but that doesn't mean his ideas weren't sound, whether in Walden or other writings.
The Smashing Machine, a biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr
Please see point 3.
Him: What are you thinking about? Me: "Walden" is unquestionably Thoreau's most famous work, but the passage about the mass of men leading lives of quiet desperation that people (mis)quote the most is from his "Civil Disobedience" essay, which is about rising up against an unjust government.
1. It's for a movie 2. He's fine 3. Don't be gross and speculate about his health 4. It's for a movie 5. He's fine
It's for a movie. He's fine.
It genuinely is shocking to me how unseriously everyone still on Twitter seems to take the idea that the platform (under current ownership and with current userbase composition) might be feeding them a warped version of the discourse and that distortion is in turn impacting their views.
All this money for a house that still looks cheap as shit. Nouveau riche people are wild.
Well, yeah. First thing you do when a ship is sinking is throw out any extra weight.
I love that show, and I will defend it. If you watch it long enough and actually pay attention, you'll see there's deep love there between Al and Peg and there are so many episodes where they rally together as a family.
"How's your mental state?" Well, let's see, it's the first day of my period, I saw a video of an immigrant crying & asking why President Trump hates them, explaining he's now homeless because he hasn't been able to work in 6 months & he's terrified of ICE. I sat on the toilet and sobbed.
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
That absolutely does not surprise me.
I mean if that show is true to life, there's a reason LI doesn't have a great reputation.
There is a reason no one likes Long Island.
Yes, of course. That show is supposed to be. And you can tell there's still deep love there between the characters. That doesn't exist here.
To this day, I still think Everybody Loves Raymond is one of the most mean-spirited sitcoms ever made. Everyone is so awful to each other.
I just taught my nephews how to make a fire in the fire pit. I may regret this. At least one of them is too hyperactive ADHD to be around open flames.
JUST IN: DOJ says all children on planes that were supposed to fly to Guatemala today have been unloaded and are being returned to custody of HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. Drew Ensign says missed deadline earlier was bc DOJ wasn't aware. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
New copypasta just dropped.
The police version of the crash, as relayed by a local Manchester reporter, is unsurprisingly quite different from what Giuliani's spokesman says. The whole thing is even more murky now, however. manchester.inklink.news/rudy-giulian...
The longer you stare at this statement, the weirder it gets.
They do, but the point here is that Republicans don't even believe in the mental health aspect, no matter who it's coming from. They don't care.
It's cheap and it's fast and please don't call the normal people left in the government trying to hold it together for the rest of us stormtroopers.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
Though I think the simpler message is: literally no one is safe. There is nothing you can do to earn your place here. It doesnât matter if youâre literally fighting fires, we will still come for you. No amount of service or heroism can make you an American in their eyes.
Tracking the spike in pizza deliveries in D.C. last night, likely to government offices, indicating a late night across the city.
Nothing is a better shot of adrenaline than driving home late at night, zoning out, then catching the shape of deer standing right next to the road like suicidal ghosts.
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