I guess Orwell still owns the trademark for Ministry of Peace (MiniPax).
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I guess Orwell still owns the trademark for Ministry of Peace (MiniPax).
something that cost FL taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and it's falling over due to a light breeze. Gods, the whole thing was a grift. Everyone from DeSantis on down should be charged with fraud and kickbacks.
You will almost never see the mainstream media criticize each other. They barely even criticize right wing media like Fox. At a certain point it begins to resemble the mafia.
I often bike past a Park Police station in Rock Creek Park. This van has been there the last two weekends and I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before; suspect it’s used for ICE arrests
Platner: “Fake remorse doesn’t hide the sellout to lobbyists. Empty opposition won’t reopen hospitals. Weak words won’t restore Roe v. Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.”
Election conspiracy theorist Giuliani is getting the medal of freedom, which basically went in the toilet when Trump gave it to Limbaugh, who is now dead in case you forgot
Maybe Susan Collins has finally worn out her welcome...
the list of Medal of Honor recipients is gonna need asterisks on trump’s picks the way sports orgs asterisk records marred by cheating to lessen their validity
Congressman Jerry Nadler would more than likely have been reelected to an 18th full term in Congress. He's long had the support and confidence of NYC voters. Instead, he's passing the torch and doing his part to center and strengthen the next generation of Democratic leadership. (thread)
This person has created free zines on how to report ICE activity. What info to get, who to call etc bsky.app/profile/mega...
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Plan Nine from Gary Star Trek Wrath of Gary Big Gary in Little China and of course Gary
I remember the JLA / Wildcats crossover where they were battling the time-travelling Epoch and at one point Batman points out they need to develop new tactics as they're trying to catch up with the villain. It was just one panel, but underscored how Batman analyzes and rethinks things.
I've seen that movie, I think we all have...
guy can't even spell "bon". /headdesk
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Is that GOBLIN MODE or...?
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
The state boosted funding for child care this year with $350 million for NYC and $50 million for the rest of the state. But the additional funding does not keep pace with the growing demand. nysfocus.com/2025/08/08/c...
You'd think she'd have the decency to give them to a reporter in a darkened garage, as tradition demands.
Koontz: but... Rio died for our sins Koontz: fighting off that vorpal dragon Poe: King: Lovecraft: (sweating) Barker: Shelley: that's on me guys Shelley: I tried to calm him down with a story after Rio died of cancer Koontz: WAIT WHAT Koontz: (bursts into tears)
Mary Shelley: Siouxsie and the Banshees then! Shelley: (begins singing "Cities In Dust")
The first three exploded The fourth disappeared into a time vortex 24 hours after powering up The fifth... BECAME MAMBO FIVE
NEVER
Poe: noooo Koontz: noooo Lovecraft: (faints) Barker: you monster Shelley: (cocks both fists like she's Henry Cavill)
So he has a sex offender as comms advisor, and anti trans bigot as comms director. Starmer just surrounds himself with the worst possible people. Totally inappropriate appointment showing just how bigoted this Government is.
How the fck could a political group supposedly as socialist as Labour end up under the control of hate-driven fascists? Please tell me the Lib Dems are better than this.
I keep thinking back to that photo of angry, screaming white people at a locked doorway, and you could just tell they were all angry *not* about their rights but about each of them being inconvenienced. compote.slate.com/images/f27b7...
The issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people, especially women, is one that continues to get less action than it demands. Both here, from Alaska to other states, and in Canada. And feckess Murkowski is again, feckless. If these were white women... www.propublica.org/article/alas...
Starmer has appointed a former trustee of Sex Matters as Number 20's director of communications. Every day this Labour Government declares itself my enemy and the ally of international authoritarianism.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
this would once be considered an act of war on Russia's part against most of Europe.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri... lmao they’re activating them for 29 days over and over so they don’t get full active duty pay
Our government tried to send a planeful of unaccompanied minors to Guatemala without due process. Fortunately a judge was able to block it before they took off. What fucking monsters the United States has become. Trafficking innocent children. www-cbsnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbsn...
I'm putting five bucks on B.)
The Reaper kept missing Kissinger for decades...!
License to Kill is better than people remember it. It still suffered from some of the over-the-top action sequences that defined the Moore era, but the acting was good across the board, Sanchez made a compelling villain for Bond to face, and the catharsis at the ending genuinely moving.
rudy giuliani, famous for being completely down and ready to have sex with Borat's underage daughter,
(Giuliani's final breath) Tell... Cersei... it was me.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
giuliani is gonna sue the hell out of whoever painted a tunnel on that brick wall
this is evil
its genuinely fucking insane how much water the press carries for Trump
This is the way
Buried lede: judges can in fact turn planes around
The DeSantis regime will do more to protect sidewalks from chalk than children from bullets.
This is brilliant. They have to stand there. They have to listen. We should be doing this nationwide.
Do I think this administration will do everything they can to hide his vulnerabilities & take advantage of his poor health? Yes. If Trump is sick, this won’t slow them down. The grifters will be out in force. Miller might even ramp up the National Guard in Chicago to distract & take advantage. /6
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
At least with the school thing she's using the word proper. Properly!
He never should have been arrested! This is what the fascist gov has state cops doing instead of fighting crime in our dangerous cities. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/31/m...
When I talk about embedded, unconscious racism in the DC press corps I mean people like Martha Raddatz, clearly unconscious of her own upper class white people assumption that Trump's invasion of a Black run city like DC or Baltimore is anything but fascism and white supremacy.
These two cases are really about the same thing: The Trump Administration wants to find as many ways as possible to just grab and deport people without any checks, due process, or judges of any kind.
The LGML case came very close to being JGG redux. But just before the hearing began, the judge decided not to wait. She entered a TRO barring removal of all the children. That made all the difference: DHS already had the kids loaded on planes. One plane even took off (then turned around).
The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug. They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.
look it's Seductive Sunday so here you go:
Weeks of offering target lists show fruit. Great job everyone.
The eugenics plan for MH in the USA, is literally Kennedy wanting to take away medications and send us all to work farms. I wish this were a snide joke, but it ain't.
Police arrest pastors protesting removal of St. Pete's "Black History Matters" mural - Axios Tampa Bay share.google/mVzXV5PqJUyM...
If Democrats can't help themselves from conceding to GOP framing on crime, at least use it to point out having a criminal president isn't exactly setting the best example for the populace.
trump: YOU SEE I AM A PEACEMAKER GIVE ME THE NOBEL everyone else: /headdesking
This feels like a metaphor for 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
As always; I'm on the side of the artefact. It should stay where it is. There is no logical reason to put it at risk, not in an age where you can easily view it, on a screen, in far finer detail than would be possible through protective glass. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
(Grabs a book on Egyptian mythology)
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins’s first public, press conference-style event in her home state in nearly a decade, turned into a public shaming as more than 200 protestors gathered to jeer. “You don’t ever listen to us!” “Your votes destroyed our Supreme Court!” trib.al/yLowh7r
There's a juvenile graphic novel series.
Hodor: (sheds a tear)
Blessed are the breadmakers.
Is that a Q+ in his hand?
when he does finally go i will demand not just the death certificate but the long form death certificate
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
I will never forget saying to a group of professional JD Vance loyalists shortly after the 2024 election that his fortunes largely depend on how Trump is perceived by voters after another 4 years and some of them got legitimately mad at me lol thehill.com/homenews/adm...
instead of going after pedophile church pastors, the Florida GOP is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on stopping rainbow patterns showing up at street crossings. the Far Right Culture War is just really REALLY stupid when you watch it happen.
but why Leonard Bernstein???
dear @ESPN and the sports punditry at large: Maybe you shouldn't rank college football teams until they actually PLAY. stop this preseason overhype madness, 'cause when YOU fail at predicting who's Number 1 - or Number 3, or even Number 24 - YOU really look dumb.
The Arch Manning thing is CFB at its worst. His last name is Manning so they call him a “generational talent” and rank UT #1 though he’s never thrown a pass. Predictably, he was mediocre. But from now on, every time he has an OK game, they’ll play it up like the most amazing thing ever in football.
you misspelled "I will be holding public hearings immediately on RFK Jr.'s mismanagement of HHS, and even though we do not have the power of the majority, these hearings will be televised live and Republicans are welcome to join if they care about Americans' health even a tiny bit"
this is why there shouldn't be preseason rankings for college teams. They are ALWAYS in transition, never the same team from the previous year, and you have no idea what the talent and coaching is going to be like until Game Day. Hold off on rankings until each team plays one home and one away.
wait no SAVE THE BACONATORS
SHARKBAIT HOO HA HA!
oy, being a #SaturdayLibrarian is hard on the brain. I've mislabeled checkout items three straight times. I need a sports drink, pronto.
UPDATE: The firefighter Trump’s ICE goons arrested in Washington was on track for legal status. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Arch REALLY doesn't want to get drafted by the Saints or the Jets or the Cowboys.
to be honest for all my years living in Florida, with the high probability of tornadoes/waterspouts, I have yet to see one in person. Perhaps that's for the best.
"That's a meow, that's a murr, and that's a spicy hiss."
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I hope you saved the seeds.
he should have been put in jail years ago. #CorruptTexas
Look. it's well into the 4th quarter and both UTexas and Ohio St. are TERRIBLE at offense. Neither team deserves to be ranked. Hell, there shouldn't be any rankings until the teams finally play at least one home and one away game. #TXvOSU #CollegeGameDay
because the Saints and Jets scouts are in the stands today.
right now it's Mud
if the NFL teams are tanking to draft him, he's tanking to avoid getting drafted by the Saints, Jets, or Cowboys.