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zohran tantrum levels nearing 2016 sanders mania levels, keeping pace with AOC is the she devil levels and possibly outpacing ilhan omar is an existential threat to humanity levels 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬜️ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️

Slop for Slop

There is a plus side of this—by simply engaging in your craft, you will stand out from the slop. As the slop droppers become ever more homogeneous and atrophied, you will remain a beacon of ability, creativity and meaning. You don’t have to get better! You just have to keep being and doing.

How long until they try to blame this on Mamdani and AOC

When provided a choice between “The People’s Republic of Virginia’s Pappy Van Winkle MSRP purchase lottery” and “$1000 for a bottle of Pappy,” I’ll take the lottery

Listened to Maquillaje this morning biking and it was some how perfect youtu.be/Ucx_l99Yl6s?...

lol lmao even

THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all. Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

Feels like ranked choice was absolutely decisive in this race—not because of the vote count, but because of how it changed the incentives from zero-sum to cooperapetitive. It allowed a fractured left field to align organically through co-endorsements instead of falling into a circular firing squad.

I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.

Here’s to hoping these freaks never set foot in the Empire States again

HOT MAMDANI SUMMER

this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

Doctor: I’m sorry, you’ve failed the cognitive test Salvador Dalí: 👀

if the holy father of the roman catholic church, by canon of the faith a man with a direct line of communication to the creator of the universe, can admit he is an out-and-out fan of the chicago white sox and not the cubs, it is beyond the pale for a politician to do the "i like em both" schtick

Don is old but better than most of the D's in the House. He did a masters degree a year or two ago in Machine Learning just because he wanted to cut through the AI bullshit. He's still sharp.

Can we stop blaming “the left” for what Fox News pretended “the left” said.

Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

I love Brian Wilson, I love Paul McCartney, I've been a sucker for romanticising the 60s. But boomer white men are not the only geniuses. Also any point of view that includes shitting on the young and what they're going through and doing creatively is unsound. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

good news! we no longer have a dumb president---we have an illiterate, senile, conman president.

“But Biden/Harris is going to raise the price of gas!”

Think deeply on this for a minute: would Harris have done snubbing different? Would Biden have? I have my doubts

That’s easy, nothing. What are we gonna do?

Oh why didn’t Bin Laden think of that one. we could have avoided a pointless, futile “war on terror” if he’d only explained that “running airplanes into buildings is technically a bombing so we’re not really at war”

If you're in good shape with a lean body composition and have a low resting heart rate this type of thing doesn't bother you.

“the CHATBOT’S FREE SPEECH rights” If this is the case the company wants to make, can the chatbot be arrested/charged as accessory to a crime? What’s it mean for a chatbot to be held in prison? Sounds to me like they’ve made the case for shutting down their product until the trial occurs

this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible