Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
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Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
A Chinese scientist was just arrested in Houston Texas for uploading some of his own research to chinas version of Google drive
Medicare will start requiring prior approval for certain procedures — and will hire private AI companies to determine if patients are covered, per NYT
Let's knock out general election fundraising before the summer ends. zohranfornyc.com/donate
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
He's gonna make kids go to work camps because he can atmospherically deduce chakra misalignment.
That brick walkway looks like shit. I don’t know how to bricklay at all but God damn
“Identify or die”, that was the mindset of a terrified Texas homeowner as masked men in tactical gear tried to raid his house. The intruders ended up dead after a fatal shootout. Police later confirmed they were not #ICE or law enforcement officers.
I think people need to understand that without universal phone bans, as per a meta study done, about half of teachers grade 6 and up can't actually get kids to put their phones away during class and they end up having to decide whether it's worth engaging disciplinary action or to continue teaching.
Trump’s claim that he’s invading Democratic cities and militarily occupying them to “fight crime” is no different than Bush’s claim he was militarily occupying Iraq to “find WMD.” And much of the media is still mindlessly repeating the bullshit premise as if it’s real.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
The trans community has stood up for Palestinians & objected to genocide harder than any other community...even when people told them they'll "lose rights if they'll make genocide their red line". I'll never vote for anybody who sacrifices trans rights & that's the sentiment among all my US friends.
This is right. The core of Trumpism, the attraction of Trumpism, is abuse. It's a politics for abusers, but of a particular kind: abuse bound up in status anxiety. It appeals to men who don't like that others are rising, because they know, even unconsciously, that they're not good enough to compete.
Just in case you needed another reason to hate Crisp Ratt (I sure didn’t). What an incorrigible piece of Hollywood shit
The sugar cube variety of cantaloupe is a godly experience. I cannot express enough how u have not tasted cantaloupe until you've tried this one
In Crescent Park, Palo Alto, neighbors say peace vanished when Mark Zuckerberg moved in—buying 11 homes, building a secretive compound, running an unpermitted school & bringing 8 years of noise, parties & heavy security. He sent neighbors noise canceling headphones.
in case you think this is just about porn, authors have obscenity clauses in their US contracts and if they broaden the definition of obscenity, guess what happens to queer romances? we should fight for porn regardless, but don’t be fooled into thinking this was about anything but erasing queerness
This is sick. We’ve literally killed the solution to create a market for “treatments.”
In 1990, Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov popularized the term "mankurt": a former human with an enslaved mind. Big Tech wants to make us mankurts and AI is their weapon. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
It's murdering for its own sake
Sigh. NPR just quoted Trump saying tariffs mean “billions of dollars will be flowing into the U.S.” without any indication that this is a lie. Zero dollars “flow into the U.S.” because of tariffs.
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
"stick to menswear"
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"
Henri Rousseau, French (1844-1910), Surprised!, 1891, oil on canvas 129.8 x 161.9 cm, The National Gallery, London, England
let me sum this piece up for you: “hey, it’s me zaid jilani! you might remember me from my credulous profile of josh hawley, published the literal day before january 6. well now i have another credulous take, the time on another far-right maniac. i am definitely not an idiot.”
"NYC cops did a work stop, yet crime dropped" "One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police" "Arrests at End of Shifts to Rake In Overtime Pay" "Police solve just 2% of all major crimes" 10,000 family dogs are killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic") NYPD $11B a year
It's because American elites are the most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization.
So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed
jesus christ at the "accuser and tranny" just casually dropped in the first sentence this is why i treat all big journalism people with absolute suspicion
It’s been 2 months since it came out that a bunch of NYPD cops, including one of Adams’ bodyguards, helped torture that Italian guy for his crypto wallet.
i need cis alíes to understand that things are so much worse and more scrutinized than they were in 2016 or 2014 or 2009 or whenever you fucking thought you were radical for your stance on trans rights. the state. is trying. to. kill. us. fuck your nuance for trans sports and just be normal
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
Anyways, AIDS is going to be gone soon, this is a generic with FDA full approval.
Bruh typing this post out like 🤓. God forbid I read something wrong 😮💨
They take joggers with the Lil tapered ankle and tuck it in. I work in landscaping and we do the same but to keep ticks from crawling up our legs, but untuck ASAP because we look like fools
BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.
imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?
No words left for this engineered horror. "More than 100 aid groups have called on governments to take urgent action as Israel's forced 'mass starvation' of Palestinians engulfs Gaza. The groups warned that deepening starvation of the population was spreading across the besieged enclave."
“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement
also pay equality and public housing. you have any idea how many clients i represent who stay with the shittiest men imaginable because the alternative is homelessness
i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work
I am not enjoying this real-life adaptation of "Uzumaki."
It’s so transparent and desperate
Attorneys who go after actually dangerous people have their names publicized. But here they’ve decided to hide names as part of a kayfabe pretense that the harmless people they’ve chosen to target are somehow dangerous.
I’m not sure Fox could do much harm either. The others are mistrusted precisely because they don’t reinforce MAGA’s desired narrative. If Fox starts airing accurate derogatory info about Trump, they just become another “leftist” outlet.
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
UFW support workers taking action, but we are not involved and were not aware about these posts before they went up. Effective strikes take enormous organization and energy— all power to workers who take action to improve their lives as they see fit.
The number of times I’ve scrolled through somebody’s profile forgetting I’m not on the home feed. Just liking posts like I’m their bestie
I'm curious when, in Trump's telling, Obama, Hillary, Comey and Brennan wrote the Epstein files.
Also, it’s worth reminding: Epstein died during the LAST Trump administration. If there was a cover-up … it was done by Trump’s own team!? The two great retcon conspiracy mysteries to me are how we’ve forgotten that Trump was president during the Epstein case AND during Covid.
The Handbasket has not been contacted by the FBI.
The fact that the universally considered illegal West Bank settlements haven’t been sanctioned to heck, especially in Europe is truly a failure of government.
Pretty straightforward that the New York Times doesn't care about keeping me as a reader, it wants Chris Rufo's idiot racist readers
Loser alert
the stripping of abortion protections wasn't seen as worth this level of resistance from democrats concentration camps aren't seen as worth this level of resistance from democrats the slow legal unpersoning of trans people isn't seen as worth this level of resistance from democrats
Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd
can't get scooped by the "i'm trying to manipulate mainstream media into supporting race science" guy
Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
the other day i talked about fascism being incapable of perpetuating itself in the long run because it's incapable of accurately assessing and describing itself; this is an aspect of that (and a great illustration of the human cost)
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth halted a U.S. weapons shipment to Ukraine despite analysis showing no threat to U.S. stockpiles. Some arms were already in Poland. Congress and allies weren’t warned. — NBC News www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...
Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who fought Jake Paul on Saturday in CA, has been arrested by U.S. immigration officers and is being processed for expedited removal from the country, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Thursday.
this comes up every now and again but i'm really surprised there's not more urgency around other international sports organizations rethinking competing in america for the immediate future.
A multi-racial mayoral candidate???? In New York City????
Cremieux’s real name is Jordan Lasker. I put his name in the newspaper. He’s a scientific racist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
the zoomers have rebranded vacation
A quote from Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), whose district is home to 143,000 Medicaid recipients and 43,000 people on SNAP: "The president of the United States didn't give us an assignment. We're not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay?"
Kindness is often cheaper (thus "fiscally responsible") than the punitive approaches we generally try:
this video is wild. I feel like I'm having a stroke lol. I relate to the goats tho, it looks nice and toasty in there
Senate Republicans just passed the Big Ugly Bill, which contains - Massive tax cuts for billionaires - Tax hikes for working Americans - 17 million lose health care - The biggest cuts to Medicaid and SNAP ever - Higher energy costs - Trillions in debt It comes to the House now. We will fight this.
“Trump is creating a secret police that will be better funded than the Marines” should be the all caps headline every Democrat is running with, and only partly because I’m sick of having to be the one who tells friends and family about it.
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
This BBC statement defames Bobby Vylan. "Death to the IDF" is not antisemitic. Declaring this to be so is antisemitic, because it conflates Jewish people as a whole with a genocidal army. People's fury is directed at heinous crimes, not the ethnicity of the perpetrators.
The red states immediately floating state bills that would hit undocumented migrants with lifetime sentences, no parole etc., was the real sign but the migrant fees are indeed the trap. Car dealerships, ranchers, and landlords introducing the unspeakable because the ROI isn’t high enough for them.
i do appreciate how he just admitted the space program was a joke cover for novel warhead propulsion technologies
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
this comparison of trans healthcare to type one diabetes is one i myself make a lot. they both require lifelong continued access to lifesaving medicine that is too often treated as a luxury and not essential.
We recently launched a charity drive for Palestine on Itch, and we are seeking games and content from game devs and creators to participate in a bundle 100% of the proceeds going to UNRWA USA. You can find more info by visiting our jam page itch.io/jam/games-fo...
New war, same script.
Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.
ICE agents pulled this guy out of his car and beat the shit out of him, putting him in the E.R. Then they pulled him out of the hospital saying he was a "violent gang member." (He's a Doordash driver with only a traffic ticket on his record.) Now he's just...gone. What a nightmare.
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.