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Based Bill Burr giving the most based take

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...

Even Investigators Not Sure Why They Keep Releasing Details Of Gene Hackman’s Death

Well. Fuck. Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Plan to End Birthright Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

"I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws ..." Lmao, like he gives a fuck about the laws or victims. Deporting U.S. Citizens is clearly unconstitutional. He knows it's wrong, but based on their prior actions, he and his cronies are going to try anyway.

Bernie Sanders is barnstorming the country in his 80s generating 30k+ events to rally against gangster capitalism while Democratic leadership twiddle their thumbs and shrug a bunch as the worst people in the country strip the wiring out the walls and conduct racist immigration purges

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

What's Dimension 20 Live: Battle At the Bowl (happening June 1st at the Hollywood Bowl) going to be about? Brennan made sure to call Lou first about it... 👇👇👇👇👇

I've played my fair share of PC games, and used Windows for almost my entire life. This is where I get off the bus. No more giving money to intel. No more giving money to Microsoft. Linux and AMD, here I come.

The assumption that newsrooms have the resources to cover today's firehose of news while also constantly pushing deeper on yesterday's news is a fantasy.

The entire reason you curb the exercise of arbitrary power is it prevents one asshole's mood swings from wrecking an entire country! You don't praise it when it momentarily swings in your favor

my most player-hating video game opinion is that cut content isn't full of secret mysteries and people are killing the conversation by insisting that data-mining is a good way to approach a narrative. when you're baking a cake, licking the batter off the spoon is a real pleasure, but it ain't cake.

None of us is safe. Period. We are all vulnerable. Some disproportionately more than others, absolutely. But no one should believe they can't be absconded. Especially not when habeas corpus is ajudged to be unnecessary, according to the whims of the state.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.

with apologies to @xkcd.com

Conservative commentator in 2024: We've got to quit with the transing and focus on the economy. Conservative commentator in 2025: Money is a fabrication. An illusion. Shed yourselves of these illusions in favor of what's true. A retirement fund? A fabrication. A distraction from what really makes l

Big ups to the Columbia trustees and administrators who convinced these absolute cretins they had the recipe to destroy American higher education.

Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs has taken a dark turn, one that might be comedic gold if it weren’t about to cost Americans so much hard-earned cash.

Thread.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Sen. Cory Booker just broke segregationist Strom Thurmond's record for longest speech on the floor. "I'm here despite [Thurmond's] speech," Booker said, a minute before that achievement.'

Let Chelsea explain how D&D and wrestling are more alike than you think...

Wild idea... even visitors to the United States should be able to have freedom of speech without being disappeared and locked away.

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."