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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

Brb

I can’t believe there’s a so called “Ultimate” Venom and it’s not this

hell yeah

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

Fucking alarming, although as we’ve seen repeatedly in Trump II trade negotiations, “under one approach being discussed” often signifies “here is a Trump proposal that was DOA but which they want to publicize”

Andor is essentially a series-length exploration of the morality and necessity of Han shooting first

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The prosecution was appalling from the beginning and it's great to hear it's over.

I know that's not a keffiyeh covering this gestapo fuck's face

“The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor.” - @jelaniya.bsky.social 🇺🇸

New playlist 50 UP-TEMPO SOUL SHAKERS - 2+ hours of danceable R&B from the 60s and early 70s, with some big Motown and Stax hits mixed in with some deeper cuts Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0si... Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Contemptible.

Woodward and Bernstein were Metro reporters. Watergate was a local news story. Never a better time to be a DC grifter.

This is pathetic

Also, a delightful read:

many things are American Years of Lead Paint, but nothing is more American Years of Lead Paint than the person who said they planted a bomb in Zohran Mamdani's car despite the fact that Mamdani does not own a car

Out of 84 people rounded up, only 2 had criminal records, in case you’re still too dumb to see what’s really going on. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Curt Schilling in conversation with A Drawing I Made of Alan Moore From Memory

When your mom brought a tin of these home you knew you were having company that week

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos* Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

"...a legal path to transition." Jesus Christ, NYT. This is abhorrent.

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

SpaceX’s “major anomaly” last night. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

Detail of original art, for the first appearance of Shut Up And Leave Me Alone -- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 7/21/1971

I am in my mattress with my cash because this global crypto crime ring will break democratic institutions, steal whatever isn’t nailed down and buy all the water we will be working in the mines to buy after the company Apple Store takes its credits for the air we breathe.

Judge Dredd (removing his helmet with a long sigh): Welp, got another promotion today. Now I'm police, judge, jury, *and* executioner Mr. Dredd (his husband): That come with a raise? Judge Dredd: don't start with me, Ted

In the US. Consequences of contraction

At this rate, there are going to be like four beer distributors still operating in California by 2030.

🎶 It’s Christmas time in the city 🎶

When I was a teenager I found this to be the funniest comic strip in existence. No one agreed. Has its time finally come www.flickr.com/photos/eknat...

AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her

Every time I see “GRWM” on some Instagram thing I read it as “George R. R. Martin” and I know I am not alone

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

me when mcdonalds stopped serving all day breakfast

GO GET YOUR FUCKING PASSPORTS

She was briefly exposed to kindness.

I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

Perhaps the most insane and unforgivable aspect of this Trump term is how easily they’ve made Hochul and Newsom look good. Insane levels of “worst person” meme here

Yeah you’ve got hochul uploading an official nygov social video calling lander’s arrest, and I’m quoting here, “bullshit.” They think the feds have overreached and are vulnerable.

People trying to decipher whether Trump’s drive for war with Iran means that he’s abandoning his paleoncon base for a neocon revival are missing the reality that he’s a dumbass who only wants to look like a big man on TV.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.