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Singing with Brian

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

What’s going on in LA is important; for precisely that reason, please be careful what you share, both in terms of confirming that it’s true and considering whether it’s wise

what sucks about "Abundance" discourse is that the movement is a trojan horse - a way to smuggle bad ideas about tech, anti-labor, crypto etc into Dem politics by wrapping them inside normal and fine ideas about housing, green energy, transit etc.

We all know the nazi salute is terrible. The salute launched the Tesla Takedown protests. But since then Musk is responsible for mass murder. That needs to be stressed so that people know what they're facing and can form a meaningful opposition. It isn't mentioned because it's unpalatable.

your inability to hold hate in your heart for more than one person at a time is a skill issue and you should work on it instead of being proud like this

The president of Chad, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itnoo announcing a reciprocal travel ban on Americans: "Chad has neither airplanes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad does have its own dignity and pride."

elon musk to donald trump at every meeting in the oval office: “you are in the epstein files. meet my 3 year old son”

Democrats need to fucking run straight to the end zone with that Musk tweet about Epstein

as scott adams also announced he has prostate cancer, there’s going to be an entire generation of gen x that just dies younger due to trusting snake oil salesmen over real doctor practices endorsed by an entire political party designed to lie to them

Why would anyone give a fuck what some random guy from Chicago thinks

Gus and Wally from Mission Hill #art #MissionHill

I believe it was Oliver Wendell Holmes who coined the phrase about yelling Panic! at the Disco

If brevity is the soul of wit, then wit offers no unique intellectual guidance. Wit spins in all directions because no shortage of brief sentences have sent us back to the stone age. In the Q1 year of our Lord 2025 alone, nearly every brief sentence uttered cost US taxpayers $200,000 per citizen

I'm sorry, the animation medium is WHAT?? (absolutely stunning)

I’m now fairly certain the Atlantic Ocean was the only thing that saved the United States from siding with the Nazis in WW2

going to go full reddit atheist for a moment but at the end of the day any pope is still the pope of a horrific global religious institution

Fringe Catholic Sect Doesn’t Tolerate Child Abuse theonion.com/fringe-...

Pretty sure this line is in the Camus Caligula

Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter just played and I will once again die on the hill that if she had been conventionally attractive, we would be talking about merry clayton the way we do whitney houston, thats one of the objectively greatest singing voices I've ever heard in my life

Thanks to @newrepublic.com for trusting and sharing my reporting