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Social media refugee yelling into the ether. Master of the double-post. The BA stands for Bad Attitude.
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I have to confess I'm befuddled by the 50% of sports commentary that has just completely folded in on itself and exists now as a self-referential arena of being its own story. Like not even really talking about sports but talking about itself talking about sports.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Anton Lesser is the secret MVP of Andor. If you cast that part wrong, all those imperial staff meeting scenes are just expository drag—with him, they're about the most riveting parts.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

One of the kind of cool things about ICE is, recent judge harassment notwithstanding, they're one of the few "law enforcement" agencies that, if they start making demands, you can pretty safely just tell them to go fuck themselves.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Let's discuss the *actual* charges against Judge Hannah Dugan using the Complaint against her. tl;dr - she sent the man in question into the public hallway where agents there to arrest him watched him walk by and did nothing. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

The whiplash these guys have had to endure trying to maintain their "we are the moderate 'both sides' centrists" schtick in a world where one side has devolved to feces-throwing psychotic monkeys has turned all their brains to cottage cheese.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

There is no set of facts we can possibly uncover that can absolve or condemn Abrego Garcia because fundamentally what the administration is saying is that removing people from the country is an extra-legal executive process independent of and unbound by the judiciary. That's the argument.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, it's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/1942...

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Your periodic reminder that a cheat code to finding out if someone is a white nationalist is if you ever hear them earnestly talk about "birth rates" as an area of concern. The concern they're expressing, 100% of the time, is about the "good" white races.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Literally, just "make the government shittier, everything more expensive, and life harder for every single non-billionaire in America" as a platform. It's sort of impressive actually! apnews.com/article/stud...  Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

A conversation we need to begin having is I think it's time we demand more of our justice system as it pertains to the Trump administration. We have had ten years now of indefinite deliberation. You can't just keep going back to bad faith actors again and again inviting them to rephrase forever.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Francis was the best Pope of my lifetime. He occupied the top of a powerful hierarchy while still challenging it. He provided a moral reminder of the values of decency, humility and empathy towards the vulnerable in a role, and at a time, where it easy to lose sight of those values.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

He was my favorite pope of my lifetime. Good pope.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

If the far right were painted as elitist, which they are, rather than as populist, which they're not I would argue, I do not believe for a second that they would be as powerful in our crisis-ridden world Covering them as the voice of the left behind was a choice

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

If you wait to declare a Constitutional crisis until he "officially defies" the Court, you'll be waiting until it's too late. Because that's not how powerful people do rule-breaking. They try to gaslight you and pretend they didn't break the rules or convince you their rule-breaking is justified.

submitted 7 days ago • 121 comments

I have to admit, every still I've seen of Sinner just LOOKS great. Like, real, sweaty, film cinematrophy.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Also yes he remains worried about the fate of all of humanity as birthrates are down in "East Asia and Latin America and Europe" because the people being born on other continents or subcontinents don't count toward the welfare of the human race for some reason

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

People have been doing this salt of the earth small town red state Americana horseshit my whole life. It's an attempt to Norman Rockwellize ignorance and intolerance. It's not blue state America "patronizing" small town red America. It's red America literally declaring war on everybody else.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

States around the country are locked in a battle of "whoever gets majority, lock yourselves in forever." The game has become to win and then do everything you can to enshrine your agenda in beyond the reach of democratic accountability. Not good!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is why it makes NO SENSE to talk about "the country" voted for x, y, or z.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

I suspect, when it's all said and done, in say 30 years time all the lawsuits eventually paid out will be in excess of the (piddling) amount of salaries saved.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments