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On twitter, I had an underscore in my name. Here, I don’t. Everything else is basically the same Carrboro, North Carolina
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“Firing back”

submitted 1 hour ago • 60 comments

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

Very funny day to post this.

submitted 9 hours ago • 107 comments

This is, without irony, the modern version of Cronkite saying Vietnam was unwinnable

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

"Went on a rampage" and it's a tweet, these people are such unbelievable pussies

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

do US liberals go into hibernation during democrat administrations or something. the ferguson protests happened under obama & last year under biden we saw police attacking student gaza protestors all the time

submitted 12 hours ago • 61 comments

why did we not bully this guy off of bluesky

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

For some reason, Goldy Gopher, mascot of the Minnesota Golden Gophers, is the special guest star at this lesbian wedding I am at.

submitted 14 hours ago • 59 comments

I’ll say, the officers who shot a bunch of gas at us looked deeply conflicted. Not giving the benefit of the doubt to cops, but two cried / got teary when confronted with their neighbors telling them they should be ashamed of themselves.

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

the antifa teens at the CATO Institute are at it again

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Exactly this. Go to TikTok. Look at the lives. It’s 400 people OUTSIDE LA, standing outside an ICE facility and they are making the ruling class shake. This is a sign of weakness on the part of the ruler: they are afraid and they can be stopped.

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

From Seth Rogen’s book

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Pretending that there's an emergency to increase his own power has been his thing since he took office. He did it with the Alien Enemies Act and with tariffs. By the time you get a court judgment that the emergency is fake he's already done what he wanted

submitted 10 hours ago • 21 comments

somewhere along the way I had completely memory-holed where I remembered Stephen Miller’s wife from! 🐊 www.spectatornews.com/opinion/2019...

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

what do these nazi pigs think they’re doing in LA? every one of our skate kids is the joker

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

fucking hilarious for CNN to livestream a play about the importance of journalism during the McCarthy Era and then have a panel featuring Bret Stephens and Kara Swisher

submitted 14 hours ago • 26 comments

Sorry to every skate video ever for not being this cool

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets. These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.

submitted 16 hours ago • 95 comments

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

submitted 15 hours ago • 73 comments

I think this is true in a lot of nature cities, but especially NY and LA

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

submitted 18 hours ago • 66 comments

I want to apologize, I didn't know they would follow up "is it ethical to buy used books and music? yeah!" with "is it OK to earn rental income from an ICE holding facility? yeah!"

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

okay after so long online it's rare i encounter a totally new type of person flaming out in my mentions but "lady insulting me for being blonde when i am trying to find a job" is a new one on me

submitted 22 hours ago • 196 comments

reminder that the entire point of the learn to code and STEM hyperfocus of the last two decades was to devalue labor! this was always the goal

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

first day this summer where we’ve really needed to pull out the @defector.com guide to the dew point

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

THE NEW YORK TIMES ETHICIST (watching Zone of Interest): haha nice. sick house

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

Counterpoint, I trust Costco more than the government

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

this motherfucker writes apologia for a notorious CSAM guy and jokes then jokes about it. trash people at a trash paper that supports grifters, pedophiles, and transphobes.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Talk to people irl, even smart people, and you'll quickly find that the vast majority do not know that AI makes things up, or plagiarizes, or destroys the environment. Knowing the things about AI we take as given here is like knowing internet memes; people who aren't Very Online tend to have no clue

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I’ve been drinking seltzer my whole life and I’ve never heard about a brand getting recalled. I keep shifting the blame between Coca-Cola buying the brand a few years ago and the federal agencies that oversee food safety getting gutted. Probably a combo of both. www.realsimple.com/topo-chico-r...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is a classic @theonion.com-style "Private equity firms are bad for America" (by a journalist, the book author) vs "No they aren't" (by a managing director at a private equity firm, the reviewer) point-counterpoint

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

so there would be some sort of panel that decides whether each person deserves to get the things they need to stave off death

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I’m late to this interview with Tony Gilroy but I think his answer, about why most art is progressive, hits the nail on the head. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

complaining about Black Lives Matter in a speech to the Republican Attorneys General Association should be the end of whatever remaining liberal cred the ADL had

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

It’s ur boi Young Boozer

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

This is literally the premise of Mountainhead. Same characters and everything. lol

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

If I say “I’ve had cheeseburgers for dinner twice during June,” that doesn’t signal that I am of the belief that the month of June is over

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

He’s seen it? Neetzan Zimmerman was one of the people most responsible for the dark side of digital media

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment