Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
Fox News afterward: "What did you think the best part of that announcement was?" "I thought it was very striking when black liquid began to pour from the President's mouth and eyes. It really demonstrated his commitment to the folks in small-town America."
"Why didn't Frankenstein make his loser son wear a suit, zero stars"
Was accurate
Too bad they cut all the funding to pbs. That channel has exceptional puppetry examples they could have used for tomorrow’s meeting
It’s insane and it’s a clear signal that many Dems’ “political instincts” are a flimsy front for neurosis and conflict aversion. They hesitate to lean on the largest protest movements in US history (again this year!) but quake in terror at the slightest hint of right-wing grassroots sentiment.
Buh Gawd, that's The Rock Obama's music!
Grooms in the hospital are claiming the horse has never been stronger, meanwhile the hospital cafeteria is offering a super-cheap "mystery burger" as its daily special.
happy labor day
Zuckerberg's parents shouldn't have kept that collection of the works of Albertus Magnus in the playroom when he was growing up.
"Frankenstein was the doctor." Wrong. He was an undergraduate.
"The problem w/ this discourse is, there is too much pontificating & not enough concrete policy solutions." "Well what about this paper?" "This is a horrifying and fantastical policy solution that creates worse outcomes by its own admission." "Well I'm not proposing it, I'm just pontificating!"
Ha ha, I would prefer it if Trump would, "Take a hike!"
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
I remain a one-issue voter for the 2028 Democratic presidential primaries, and that issue is the promise of prosecutions.
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
^gift link
If anyone actually wants an in-depth look at Mamdani's campaign strategy, Defector has you covered: defector.com/selling-zohr...
Just heard a huge clattering and looked up in time to see a dog running down the sidewalk, attached by the leash to a folding chair. And followed a few seconds later by two men, also running.
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Now a lot of you are going to be hearing about this incident so let me just get ahead of it and say
*JD Vance walking to the Capitol each morning with a backpack and closed-off body language, trying not to draw attention to himself*
Who knows what really happened in this extremely eyebrow-raising story, but even if it was in the approximate ballpark of what this says, imagine flagging down a car for help and Rudy Giuliani gets out.
Rudy Giuliani and Alan Dershowitz are engaged in a very high-stakes and high-profile “being like that” contest and it’s gonna be a photo finish
On the evening of August 30, 2025, in New Hampshire, Mayor Giuliani was filming an advertisement where he had to "get his hands on two sweet cans" before closing with his endorsement, "These are Rudy's Schlitz," when his burgundy 1975 Cadillac Sixty Special Brougham was struck by the entire mafia.
On the night of August 30, 2025, Mayor Giuliani happened upon a woman drowning in a giant martini,
Woman after dealing with domestic violence incident: I must go flag some random person down while standing on the side of the road, maybe Rudy Giuliani will save me
The Giuliani story is not a distraction from Trump's health, it is supplemental content for the Posters Guild
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
Sounds like the husband was at fault for the rear-ending. Stay strong--if your lawyer is any good at his job, he may find a way out of this!
he's definitely right wing but more importantly he's an idiot for opening a wings and fries operation and wondering why he's struggling in a totally saturated market
not just talking about the census. I’m talking about the cultural context that men 16-40 are growing up in and influenced by. Are they in a diverse city with all of its liberalizing effects? Or are the formative experiences of their life in the hitlerville suburbs with their social lives screens?
They *want* people hived off into antagonistic groups; they *want* people to believe that they can't form cross-cutting social ties; and they *want* people to see all institutions everywhere as eternally compromised.
And that gets at a larger point. Competitive authoritarian regimes benefit from reduced social trust — which is why they actively try to destroy it.
this is why I pay for photoshop
Makes you realize how rare it is these days to have large crowd scenes where you can see individual people. Now it's either a few real people or anonymous CGI hordes you can't actually see clearly.
This was in my "Discover" tab if anyone was wondering how that's working out.
at this moment, i’m not sure any politician in the country is presenting as more optimistic, hopeful and grateful for the promise of america than zohran mamdani.
This is unfortunately true.
Chicago keeping art alive:
There’s a Spanish version of "out of the frying pan and into the fire" that puns on the word mala meaning bad and the word peor meaning worse. It goes salir de Guatemala y meterse en Guatepeor, which means “to leave Guate-bad and end up in Guate-worse.”
Like Hook's death in the PJ Hogan adaptation, where everyone starts shouting "Old! Alone! Done for!" until he falls into the crocodile's mouth?
Bachelor's in Samurai
NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain. All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
I CLEARLY SAID YEAR TWO.
It's the shadow monsters from Ghost.
*sitting in eternal judgment room* What kind of life did you lead? I dunno, pretty good I think. One time I wasn't heard from for a couple days and literally most of the world get super excited, but overall pretty good
Breaking: Trump followed a pretty lady in a fur coat and is now under the Goop. While still alive, the Goop is scheduled to suck out his insides, leaving him a floating rag of skin
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
Breaking: Trump has been captured by the Skinamarink
if we lie enough times that he's dead the new york times has to do a 3 month long barrage of stories over whether or not he's dead
You don’t need to have children by your 30s to be accomplished. You don’t need to own a house by your 30s to be accomplished. You need to have a graduate degree and a series of stickers from different microbreweries decorating your laptop by your 30s to be accomplished.
I think those facts right there provide the insight: upholding would be inconvenient to Trump, therefore the Supreme Court is not going to do it, and Trump will ignore it if they do.
this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes
The Republicans give us the venomous power-hungry racism but you need to go a Libertarian to get “the government suggesting I shouldn’t eat raw chicken is as tyrannical as the age of consent”
Right, Beatles = interesting, Stones = banal
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
Cooper's post is responding to a special case though, because there's a solid contingent who, if they admitted the HP novels were for kids, would suddenly have read half as many adult novels in their life as they currently claim.
Warner Bros' co-chair & CEO Mike De Luca has said that if he could change one thing about Hollywood right now it would be that every studio would make more theatrical movies Last week, I asked him why he wants MORE competition. This was his answer Full convo here open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
Not to be glib but if bullying caused mass shootings I would be able to think of a notable fat mass shooter
I want to see every Democratic senator and representative exhibit, at the very least, the level of courage being shown by the CDC staffers who are walking out in protest.
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
JD Vance asking to be invited into a city feels really on the nose after Sinners
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
When your house is on fire, the most important consideration is that your firefighters are here legally. You don't want anybody illegally fighting fires. After you have determined their papers are in order, then you can go about getting your family to safety.
rent stabilization excludes buildings with fewer than six units for this precise reason so … try again ?
The Summer I Turned Out to Be a Disappointment to the Family
SOP these days is to arrive at the theater 20-25 minutes after the listed start time. Assigned seats give you no reason not to cut it as close as possible.
AI is one of the most infuriating phenomena in the world because I'm here reading about how it killed a kid, then I go out into society and people are like, "well you have to admit it's good for some things" No
Ah what's wrong little buddy? Why the dirty delete? Big clever dark money think tank boy like you can almost certainly defend the position you came to based on ✨vibes✨ against a bunch of people who have actually read a book one time.
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
The other thing is that if you have the morally, logically correct position in a conflict - or are simply standing up for a popular institution or a stable status quo - you should WANT to fight, as long as possible, in as large a public forum as possible, because that's how you persuade people.
If Subway wanted to make this dude into their new spokesman, all I'm saying is there's no way it could turn out worse than the last guy.
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
YES, YES
ICE personnel pulling up to a Home Depot to arrest migrant workers, only to be inexorably drawn into a conversation with them about the best way to clean tile grout.
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
restaurants are a scam. most restaurants secretly have a kitchen in the back that you’re not allowed to see where they prepare all the food
Surprised Andrew WK doesn't already have a song/album with this name.
AI for many
Amazing photo of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open by Ray Giubilo
so am I supposed to be able to see them or not
your gym teacher and your english teacher are getting married
the richest man in the world buying a presidential election, getting run out of the administration for being a weird diva, then pivoting to jerking it to anime cartoons full time is somehow more Roman than anything that ever happened in Rome
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
is that what i think it is
Look, we have a new statement of principles for the Republican Party.
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
The bear-proof garbage can quandary is only a quandary for people who think it's a good idea for stupid people to live in areas frequented by bears.
call us old fashioned but, this account finds newsom's "check out my rock-hard AI nipples. they're absolutely glistening" platform less inspirational than pritz's "you fascists bring that shit here and I will personally fuck your asses up."
Bill Russell was a real one.
jacket was a restrictor plate, took it off and hit 225 down the back straight
Honestly this raises the stakes a lot I think, if she had accepted it the market could have continued to desperately pretend this wasn’t happening. Now they’ll be forced to confront it.
Snoop Dog, being scared of a same sex couple in an animated movie, is not very gangster.
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