The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Don't shake hands with Nazis.
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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Really good thread here
‘While running for Congress last year, Republican Rob Bresnahan hated the idea of lawmakers making money by trading individual stocks in elected office and said he wanted to ban the practice. Now a congressman, Bresnahan is one of the most active traders in Congress.’ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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I am not a legal beagle or an expert on obedience and illegal orders, but we have reached and perhaps surpassed a critical juncture: the US military is following illegal orders. I think a bit about this and what it portends here saideman.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #CivMilSky
Frog could just lick himself and get high
Look if you’re not a neocorporatist shitlib running around parroting your DNC talking points you’d understand that the only social media sites you should use are ones owned by one of the ten richest men on earth for their own personal pleasure and glorification
every single one of us expending the vast sum of our collective energy hoping that beyond all realistic possibility we find out tomorrow trump is somehow secretly dead still amounts to a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of the amount that vance is praying for the same
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
McDonald's used to have the option to put green chiles on the burgers in New Mexico. Don't know if they still do, but I liked them pretty well.
The thing about McDonald's is they have world class food scientists. And you can tell because if you go to a McDonald's anywhere that isn't the United States and try the local variation it's amazing. But they have determined probably correctly, that Americans have terrible taste.
There's something really funny about how Gen Z has realised that all you have to do is film yourself making shocked faces and mouthing WOOOOW to hit songs from the 70s and 80s and put it on YT and it's basically a free money transfer service from boomers
Like, all that mullet-ty hair in the back is gone
Has his head been shaved? Where did his hair go?
Ace and Gary
It wouldn't even take that. Just a braggadocious jog across a putting green might get him.
It's a beautiful Trump world. No need to regulate anything ever
Can you imagine how long the line’s gonna be to take a piss on that grave
You don't say
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
Trump.
BROW EXTREMELY FURROWED!
I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.
I keep wondering about Cheryl Hines. Is she really ok with her spouse causing so many needless innocent deaths? Has she really drank the same Kool-aid?
Well isn't that nice. No need for him to run really since he can just refuse to step down.
Something's gotta change. Our American electoral system has us consistently electing the dumbest possible humans to lead us. This guy literally believes that the Smithsonian is hiding the bones of giants to make the Bible look bad. meidasnews.com/news/gop-ove...
Trump hates brown people so much that he'll arrest them while they're working hard fighting fires.
“Heterosexuality is not normal, it’s just common.” HBD, the peerless Dorothy Parker … 📷Jacob Lofman, 1937
John Bolton refused to testify at Trump's impeachment, preferring to sacrifice national security to make money with his book. He could have helped bring accountability and erode the mafia state, enduring that Trump and his cohort could not return. He did not, so now the mafia state comes for him.
Leftist: Yes, Trump’s kind of a fascist. Now let me get back to my obsession, re-litigating fights with Democratic centrists from a decade or two ago. Centrist: Yes, there are signs of fascism. Now let me get back to complaining a lefty used some woke terms a few years ago. American democracy: 🤯🤯🤯
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Snark also feels like resistance when top Democrat leadership are barely resisting at all.
1/5 I have wondered which particular groups of progressives would be thrown under the bus to make it so that Democrats could grab enough votes from the center to win future national control. It's clear by now that we have our answers. We fight against a Republican party that enjoys a growing
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
5/5 and it is horrific for the future of our democracy generally.
4/5 Democrats are too progressive. Republican control of media will make sure of this. I don't know what to do about it. I hate the idea of voting for Gavin too. This whole unfortunate situation is extremely sad to me, and it is horrific for every marginalized group in this country,
3/5 also clear that there are no longer enough real progressives to win control nationally. About a third of people who would otherwise vote Democrat are going to stay home, either because the party has abandoned their minority group, or because centrists/Republicans have convinced them that
2/5 permanent advantage with their dominant political misinformation machinery, their dominant control of social media, their dominant control of traditional media, their increasingly effective voter suppression, their gerrymandering, and Trump's now gargantuan personal secret police force. It's
1/5 I have wondered which particular groups of progressives would be thrown under the bus to make it so that Democrats could grab enough votes from the center to win future national control. It's clear by now that we have our answers. We fight against a Republican party that enjoys a growing
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
This is exactly the kind of communist central planning the Republicans have always wanted, and
I know we now live in John Roberts’ Land of No Settled Law or Precedent at Variance with Cheeto Jesus’s Merest Whim, but I’d really like to see the written “contract” granting 10% of Intel shares to (who: Donald Trump; the United States?) for no consideration and hear it litigated in court.
This is actually a pretty great illustration of what the remnants of Twitter are doing to a bunch of otherwise-normal people right now. This is the stuff being pushed through its algorithms, so now *the guy with the Democrats account password* feels the need to weigh in on garbage discourse.
"If we abandon the Nazi Party, then the Nazi Party will swing even further to the right without our moderating voices, and..."
Eric Owens: "I assert that mass murdering natives so that we could steal their land was in fact a good and holy cause for us white men, and so was repeatedly lying to the ones left alive so that we could take their land too, and anyway this is not genocide if you rly think about it, and..."
Democrat Party now helping out Republican Party with its strategic messaging. How wonderful.
That path was already paved for him by Greenspan, who made a career out of it. "I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
Wow
From a torts professor: "if you have something to say, say it. If you say nothing, you have nothing to say."
From New Yorker
True, but it's just a city, and 100% of its power and laws comes from the state. I too loved Boise when I lived there, but I'll never visit any place in Idaho again. Progressives should not be so anxious to normalize and support fascism with their tourism dollars.
If you eliminate roid ragers, how far back do you have to go to see 30?
I keep being amazed that Republicans prefer crony capitalism to free markets. Their whole "free market" ideology is apparently a huge lie.
and two days later Putin bombed and killed more innocent children
lol what a tool
Apparently 20 years ago we wrote a headline about this website.
Hertz will absolutely assault you up the ass if given the chance. Never rent a car from Hertz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuA...
3. this tweet remains deeply emblematic of Dem politics and the redistricting push Newsom is doing is one of the only examples I can remember of a Dem going "fuck you, we're sending out our own dog to dunk the basketball" if Rs are going to throw out the rulebook so should Dems
This is beyond Oscar-worthy
All for this guy:
🤣🤣
Why I do not listen to podcasts or watch video articles: 1) I read faster than you talk 2) I don’t care what you think about last night’s sportsball 3) You’re really not that attractive to look at 4) Your banter with your co-host bores me 5) I can’t random-access your points like I can with print
please listen to this woman
Why does Vince McMahon look like he’s about to tell Beetlejuice he needs a dinner jacket to dine here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=69YN...
Holy shit he looks like those puppets in the Land of Confusion video
"When experts talk about competitive authoritarianism, they are usually referring to countries like Hungary and Turkey. A leader is elected in a more or less democratic system — and then starts to work to break the democracy that put them in power."
This is from only *17 days* ago: a CPJ warning that Israel's smear campaign against Anas al-Sharif was a precursor to his assassination.
Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.
Bill McBride, 2013, @calculatedrisk.bsky.social : "Each new generation of Wall Street wizards figures out a new way to turn lead into gold, and to become wealthy while damaging the financial system. Some of these wizards are probably perfecting their financial alchemy right now." Bill now:
Republicans will not let this happen, ever.
I think the reason I love autumn so much is because I hate winter so much
I only speak good of the dead. He’s dead. Good.
If there is any job on this planet as dangerous as covering Israeli atrocities, I don't know what it is
Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
A number of FEMA employees were told via email that they would be reassigned to ICE. Here's the kicker: If they don’t accept the new position, they could be fired. The priorities of Trump's administration have never been clearer. Remove immigrants at all costs, disasters be damned. trib.al/PKgSf2I
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
The moderator of a 2052 presidential debate is probably putting out Labubu content on Instagram/TikTok right now.
Sometimes I think everything sucks, and other times I know it’s just most things, and other times I’m asleep. Life is a rich tapestry
I genuinely wonder if Putin were to invade Alaska, if Murkowski or Trump would do anything to slow it.
The most regressive thing I believe is that a firm, stinging slap to the face is the most effective means of regulating a straight man when he gets out of line. You want to play hierarchy? Here, have a backhand across the mouth.
The last time a President (Nixon) pressured the Fed Chair (Burns) to lower rates (when not appropriate) was in '71-'72. In real terms, the S&P500 peaked in '72 and didn't return to that height until '87 (15 years). In nominal terms, the S&P peaked in '72 and reached a new high in 1980. Beware.
Even if they knew he fucked little girls with Epstein, 47% of Republicans would still vote for Trump. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
Lol nice
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
"Gemini, tell my wife I love her in a way that sounds personal"
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
I'll never forgive that worm for not burrowing its way into RFK Jr's brainstem, the part of the brain that controls vital bodily functions like breathing and heart rate.
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
The people who enabled this situation will act surprised one day if the full truth ever becomes publicly known.
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Columbia and Brown helping Trump make lists! They take your money and if you do enough homework they give you a piece of paper saying you did your homework and then they tell Trump where to find you. Higher Ed is gonna be destroyed by the people who run it.
Guilty confession: sometimes i feel like a total asshole for even having this thought but whenever i come across the "it costs $0 to retweet this" posts i think "it also costs $0 to not retweet"
…kept gushing about how nice the carpet on the floor was. It was very weird. Anyway, my guess (and no I’m not reporting I’m just posting here) is he’s a remodeling addict and is just checking it out, pretending this is work
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