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The KGB scorpion and the fat orange frog
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)? Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...
Watch the idiots go from “freedom isn’t free” to “freedom isn’t important “.
Democrats: What do we need to do to win back disillusioned voters? Voters: Stand up to Trump and fight him like our lives depend on it. Democrats: Alienate our base while we chase bros who will never vote for us. Got it. Voters: That's not- Democrats: Can you give us five dollars right now?
Is you ̶t̶a̶k̶i̶n̶’̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ writing poems about a criminal fucking conspiracy?
Obviously, it should be Crossfire reboot/parody with Colbert doing his old faux right-wing shtick, and Stewart being himself, because nobody wants him to act like Paul Begala.
"We here at the New York Times take pride in our ability to start national conversations on important subjects, such as 'What the fuck is going on at the New York Times?' and 'Is there lead in their drinking water?' or 'Maybe it's a gas leak?'"
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
war, economic anxiety, existential dread — and still no pop punk revival???? smh
Ender’s Game had something that seemed kind of like an iPad connected to Usenet forums.
Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.
“I want a Winnebago” enters my consciousness every time I see one on the freeway.
i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.
It shouldn’t be, but it is.
Newsom: "The notion that the US active duty Marines, these heroes, would be used to militarized the streets of an American city is an abomination. The Founding Fathers did not live and die to see that happen in this country for no reason whatsoever than vanity."
Powerful statement by Sen. Alex Padilla. Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked. In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question. Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?
Here is Senator Alex Padilla's entire full statement after being detained by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security. Like he said, if they're doing this to a sitting Senator, imagine what they're doing to other people. Unconscionable.
The correct response to state violence is more protest, more people. Make it clear that a free people cannot and will not be oppressed.
Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"
Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
My Roomba gets stuck on the legs of the same end table every night. I don’t want to attach a machine gun to it and send it to war.
That’s apparently the explanation for the end of Sweet Child o’ Mine, where Axel Rose keeps saying “where do we go, where do we go now” because he didn’t know how to end the song. Sometimes it pays to stop working and say, “this is good enough.”
Just found out today that Kokomo is not a real place. I just thought we were picking the wrong cruise itineraries.
Stop buying coffee from El Salvador
The worst part about seeing myself in the rear facing camera is realizing that I’m a lot taller than my wife and kids, so that’s how they see me all the time.
🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.
It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
“Where it’s camouflaged with the dumpsters”? This has to be a (truly excellent) troll post…
Is his password his first wife’s initials and birthdate?
Resign.
Never mind, it’s all of us.
Rubio is not “good on TV.”
Is it doing a great job with comparisons, or does it just seem like it? When I ask questions about technical subjects for which I have a college level understanding, it seems right. But when I ask about things within my area of expertise, I frequently spot inaccuracies and hallucinations.
It gives me hope—if it kills that fast, it should be more difficult for it to spread widely.
Not sure about in the Simpsons universe, but there are definitely IRL humans with > 10 digits in their hands (polydactyly). But it’s very rare, so the mean still rounds to 10 (or 8 in the Simpsons), even when you factor in people who have fewer due to injuries or genetics.
It’s not money, and there is virtually no information that could come out about Trump that would change people’s minds—except maybe that Musk really did manipulate the election results for Trump. That’s the only reason I can think of that would make Trump let Elon cuckhold him like this.
Part of me thinks they’re doing the skimming operation from Office Space / Superman 3. Applied to the US treasury, it’s an infinite money glitch.
Nah, basically all of the Greatest generation that actually fought the Nazis has died off. Even Chuck Grassley is too young to have fought in WWII.
The focus group thought it was catchier than “Democracy is Dead”
None of the links in this thread appear to work—all go to 404 pages. Or is something wrong with my data, and I’m the lady with Covid complaining that candles don’t smell?
Maybe not true power metal, but always great: youtu.be/kO_EdmtR5Ck?...
I’m ̶S̶p̶a̶r̶t̶a̶c̶u̶s̶ Adrian Dittmann!
I feel like the Simpsons universe should use base 8 numbering. Do they ever address this? Or maybe in Futurama? There’s nothing special about 10, except for our mean number of fingers, right?
“I’m learning Thai, so I can go to Thailand for … a thing.” youtu.be/ctDjnG8J9cY?...
As a lawyer, Google Doc’s autocorrection of “cite check” to “cute check” is upsetting.
Is a “not” missing from the Bluesky email?
Just realized that there is a difference between the Assassin’s Creed logo and the Volcom logo. I had thought there were a bunch of middle aged dudes who like videogames.
Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?
That would be unusual. Even when a case is very impactful, the decision to settle is likely going to be made by the CEO with the GC’s advice.
His eyebrows do not look as well-maintained as the shooter’s.
I’m not sure I’m a responsible enough adult to live this close to a Taco Bell.
Agreed it will increase construction costs, but won’t it also decrease demand for housing if we deport millions of families? It seems tough to predict how it will play out (other than being a humanitarian catastrophe), and may be very different in different regions.
I’m buying another one! My wife can’t say no!
It seems like the ways in which she would be catastrophic are likely to be non-public, however terrible they are for America, and so I’m not sure she’s going to flame out if confirmed.
It was both a blessing and a curse to learn that I can get a replacement remote for my TV for like $5 overnighted to my house. Now, when I give up on trying to find where my kids hid the remote, I buy a new one. Inevitably, I find the old one just before the new one arrives.
Looking at my 4th grader’s class picture, it’s encouraging to see that less than half of them know how to smile for pictures. It’s not just my kid. When do people figure that out?
The biggest loser in the 2024 election might be Grover Cleveland: the “first” president to serve non-consecutive terms is not all that interesting. Will kids even learn about him in school anymore?
Playing Horizon: Forbidden West and Fallout 4 to distract myself from politics, and the post-apocalyptic themes are feeling much less like fantasy than they used to…
It’s really strange watching Twitter effectively go down on the same day Reddit shut down third party apps. Like, the internet hasn’t felt this hard to use and devoid of easily accessible, useful information since the early 2000s.
Me at everyday at lunch: *open non-dairy yogurt and take a bite* *check expiration date* “I guess that’s what it’s supposed to taste like…”
As bad as the new methods of teaching math may be, I feel even less equipped to help my kids identify what is a fruit and what is a vegetable. Nothing they told us when we were kids was correct.
This immediately came to mind: https://giphy.com/gifs/season-5-the-simpsons-5x9-l2Je32tSSrSv8wz3q
80+ shrines into TOTK and I still hit Up to switch abilities instead of L at least 75% of the time. Relatedly, I reach for the non-existent stick every time I try to change gears when I borrow my wife’s car.
It’s a short book! (Not my joke, it came from the bird site long ago).
Playing TOTK with my 6 y/o, just like I played the original Zelda with my dad when I was 6…about 36 years ago. I wish I could share it with him, too.
Wise words: “a falling knife has no handle.” Less profound words that apparently still needed to be said to me: “Don’t try to stop a falling plate with your foot; let it break.”
The best part of the MCU is that it helped me convince my son that Shawarma is amazing. Also, the scene where the Guardians find Thor floating in space.
Translating my 6-year old: “Leprechaun Trap Day” = St. Patrick’s Day.
Ed Balls, the former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer?
