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Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

ICE crossed a line in LA

Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

stay safe L.A.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

What world does Bitcoin want to build for itself? defector.com/what-world-d...

Peter David wrote X-Factor #87, and the world is better for it.

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

The whole 'some of these accounts from Gaza might be scammers!' bullshit is also the bedrock of a particularly insdious bit of conservative thought common to many libs I've known: social welfare is bad, because some undeserving people might benefit, so it's better if nobody benefits.

Elon Musk murders nine in Kentucky

I was going to buy this cedar chest off Craigslist, so I emailed the guy, offered them the asking price, got an address, asked for a time, and then they said, "We'll arrive at the address at 12 noon. Everything will be first come first serve." I know this isn't contract law, but what the fuck?

Stickers are back!

From my warm, dead hand gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

_Radicalized_, by Cory Doctorow

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

I mentioned to a coworker once that I'm relieved anytime we got through a police crisis without an entire city block being burned to the ground by the cops. He stared at me in disbelief and confusion, and I realized he is from Colorado and has no idea that MOVE happened.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

Merrick Garland is proof that accountability can die of natural causes.

From The Archives: You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President theonion.com/you-peo...

Happy Mother’s Day nerds!