Another thing that makes civil society's tepidness all the more frustrating is that Trump is a coward! You can push him back, he gets away with so much because so many don't swing back!
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Another thing that makes civil society's tepidness all the more frustrating is that Trump is a coward! You can push him back, he gets away with so much because so many don't swing back!
I love her.
Wayne Shorter often composed with the TV news in the background. Why? “I need to know,” he said, “what I’m writing the antidote for.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/a...
Now it's Infamous. Zappy zap.
that little shot of dopamine when you edit some unnecessary words out of a sentence and the paragraph gets a little shorter.
Per the FT, manufacturing is in the worst economic position of any sector of the economy atm. The US has lost 78,000 manufacturing jobs so far in 2025. Those tariffs sure are working great.
that's right folks, Ohio also has the former HQ of the Longaberger company. it's a seven story basket and it's empty because the company went bankrupt and nobody can figure out what to do with the building
Maybe Starship Troopers was too subtle.
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The truth is the Framers absolutely would recognize a president acting like Trump is acting – a Mad King. But the Framers wouldn’t recognize the supine Congress. They believed that Congress would respond forcefully to a president like Trump and they gave Congress the power to derail such a man.
It looks like the physical manifestation of the idea of a White Elephant Gift. Like a horrible curse you inflict under the guise of generosity, so it's both fuzzy and has that twisted demon tooth face. It's like someone saw Elf on a Shelf and said "Not fucked up enough a concept"
honestly I don't even sell anything that costs as much as one of those weird plastic things and I promise you my stuff is more fun
Get their asses.
i love stumbling across a thread where a guy is being a massive arrogant know it all dickhead and you click the bio and he's british and you go "oh ok that makes sense"
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me and who
That fucked up thing Wesley describes at the end of The Princess Bride would do it, I feel. We should try it and see. For those hurt by this unholy crusade against medicine itself.
Changing your name should take a maximum of 15 minutes and cost no more than $20.
I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?
Any reporters out there: I will speak on the record about how my name was added to this letter without my consent.
this is such an important secondary message 1. trans kids get to see their idol using her platform to celebrate and advocate for them 2. cis kids see their idol declaring that the presence of trans people makes your life better and cooler and more joyful and that that's a world worth fighting for
“To quote a friend of mine – ‘I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don’t get this again.'” www.thecanary.co/global/world...
What if instead of buying a labubu you bought something from a small artist instead
“That’s a sorry tale, but this tail will make you sorrier!” is the moment when the copywriters at the ad agency knew they could call it a day, mission accomplished.
one fact that consistently elides the centrist mind is that Democrats tried flanking Trump on immigration policy, to literally zero political benefit.
Tapping the sign
Personally, I say we yeet Silver into the sun on the same rocket with Yglesias and their whole pundit class. It's the only way to be sure.
the icon, the artist, the art
over time I believe this will end up being one of the most unpopular things the administration ever does a death sentence for many hobbies and all the average consumer sees is that you’re taking away all their bargains one of the few policies that has a direct negative effect on almost everyone
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
This is how you destroy this lying piece of shit and how he should be greeted in every media appearance
Sabrina Carpenter says TRANS RIGHTS at the VMAs
Oh hell yeah I want Mayors writing to Xi Jinping to ask for some Belt and Road for their water infrastructure.
People who support GenAi think we should all be trapped in the Matrix but no one should be allowed to know kung fu.
>opium crisis >disastrous attempts to cut down imports >unrest in the provinces >insane christians attempt takeover >paper tiger superpower constantly facing humiliation welcome back qing era china!
Yeah all following the Yglesias strategy would do is bail the GOP out of a mess of their own creation.
Hot take: in FIRST CONTACT, Riker lies (by omission) to Cochrane about the size of his launch window in order to light a fire under his ass
To be fair, in the original timeline they didn't have to deal with the whole Borg thing either, so it's possible he also didn't want the Vulcans to be intercepted by whatever craziness was happening on the Enterprise. "Better do warp before we get Borg Vulcans. That would really change things."
I’ve been arguing that Trump invading cities with military troops is not civil war — it’s state violence. But when he renames the Department of Defence to the Department of War and as its first act declares war on Chicago — maybe civil war is a better term?
"No ethical consumption under capitalism" is a statement meant to prime a conversation about the inherent exploitation of the system. It is NOT an excuse to break boycotts or pursue employment with arms companies or some shit. In the kindest way, pull your head out of your ass.
It’s time
Having a lot of trouble summoning sympathy for folks who now pretend they thought Trump was only going to go after violent criminal immigrants. It was alway obvious that wasn’t true. You just mean you didn’t think he’d go after white people.
Fuck yes!
I thought this would just be a "has trans gals and drag queens dancing" but yeah no it is hard to get a clearer message than a few dozen signs saying PROTECT THE DOLLS and TRANS RIGHTS NOW and TRANSPHOBES CAN'T GET LAID Good fuckin work, Sabrina
Okay that's fair you got me.
Just found out I can use Patreon Podcast RSS subscription links in Podcast Republic, so @worstpossible.world and @killjamesbond.bsky.social are going right next to their free counterparts there.
holy shit its real this time
I want to talk about this real quick because I already know what people are gonna say and: this fucking matters. Sabrina Carpenter is HUGE with teens/tweens in particular and a bunch of little trans kids saw their idol get up on stage, ping at them, and say “I love *you*, specifically.”
Old people studies
BaaS (Blood as a Service)
True Blood Spiritual Sequel
This is one of those things that sounds clever but just isn’t true. Opposition to immigration is just base tribalism and xenophobia, and doesn’t correlate strongly with whether a country ever had colonies (see Poland)
last december i wrote that democrats needed to behave like an actual opposition www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
everything about the current moment was predictable
God this thread is exactly the hopeful emotional salve we all need to hear right now and also we need to be taking notes because it’s a great template for how we can successfully fight an ICE invasion when they come to our city.
it's cool how when you say "hey maybe we shouldn't have a system that necessitates everyone that perform a highly technical, complicated, and dangerous task just to go to the grocery store" car brain people will respond "just drive better" before blowing through a school zone at 40mph on their phone
Golly Gee, i sure hope risky and distracted driving does not become more prevalent as cars all get larger, as global warming makes every month warmer, and as every car becomes filled with screens. it sure sounds like that'd be really dangerous!
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My first thought!
Needs more pixels.
ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file
Lmao
2032 peter thiel manages to convince evangelicals the cloud is heaven and countless die trying to upload their consciousness using the Tesla brain puck
I've seen Sephiroth posting but this is straight up Eggman posting.
@joshgondelman.bsky.social said each of the 4 books should be color coded chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. Because he’s a genius.
i’m genuinely pleading with you to read this entire article
To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".
IM ALWAYS SAYING THIS LEMME SEE CHANDRA AS A SQUIRREL
Running for office on a platform of giving every cyclist one (1) shaped antivehicle charge to use as deterrence against the Ford Child-Mangler 870s they have to dodge daily
Hi US citizens. You are now subject to sudden seizure at your workplace and lengthy detention, at any time, by a blitz of heavily federal armed troops—despite having committed no crime and not even being charged with any crime. Not my opinion. This is what HSI *says* that it did.
More true than I realized when I made it.
Mmmm. Some of y'all gotta be a bit more careful about who you follow. Dude's site is polluted with AI images. Also, just nipping this at the bud before it even comes up- It ain't an old guy using AI images for his TTRPG stuff without knowing. He knows. This is a screenshot directly from his site.
Maybe unpopular take but I think "during COVID" is fine! Death data show a clear acute phase from spring 2020 until spring 2022. Since then deaths have steadily trended downward and this winter fell below flu deaths. You can take COVID seriously and still talk about the worst of it in the past tense
"I'll be fighting back in Congress" She just voted to push through the National Defense Authorization Act?
I don't know if this is just a joke for me but it had to be done.
He's hooked on Smacks.
Years ago I tried to draw the sugar crisp bear from memory after not having seen it since I was a kid. I found a pic of it just now
Leftist content creators have deeply failed the current moment because they know they will get attacked by certain fans for ie criticizing SB 20 or defending porn. A lot of people are failing to meet the moment and are risking future credibility
silly posting time
Banger
Literally the second meme I've made in my life.
In the time I wrote that thread Bluesky deleted essam's account AGAIN. Please support him and fuck the mods FOREVER!
Just a heads up to search LibGen itself, not use the Atlantic's site. My books didn’t pop up under the latter
You're so right though!
Like all I can come away with is that it comes close to being something interesting in depicting how bonkers right wing understanding of reality has become but it doesn’t lean into that surreality enough for it to work - so it comes off like Alex Garland’s Civil War - political incoherent.
So Eddington is just a weirdly incoherent movie isn’t it? Like I want to read it as Beau is Afraid-style surreal parody of right wing post-COVID paranoia but it’s treatment of young political protestors as self-serving youthful performative activism is… weird. Idk what to even think about this film.
lot of people are saying when they washed Pigpen off at the group home he got sick like ET in the puddle and it took a full dump truck of dirt to revive him
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.