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If I am ever a billionaire, I am paying the Menswear guy good money to (1) advise me and (2) give him some payola so he doesn't go after me.

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Shoutout to the woman wearing a thong bodysuit to the NYC dyke march with BI 4 ZOHRAN written neatly on her butt. You don’t see that for Cuomo or Adams

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...

submitted 9 hours ago • 17 comments

I think much of the tech right’s turn to eugenics can be explained by their psychic refusal to accept that their massive wealth is the product of historical luck (being in SV at a time when investment money was cheap & abundant) and an insistence that it was instead a product of inherent supremacy.

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

submitted 11 hours ago • 51 comments

Tomorrow and for the next few days we’re going to be treated to a slew of commentary about how chanting “Death to the IDF!” is antisemitic.

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israel has started firing artillery at civilian populations queued for the only food available in the gaza strip

submitted 3 hours ago • 17 comments

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

submitted 13 hours ago • 385 comments

i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like

submitted 4 hours ago • 33 comments

A thing I couldn’t stop thinking about as Gillibrand ranted about defending Jewish people: in the 1980s, how many Jews were at her elite upstate all-girls boarding school? How many Jews in Kappa Kappa Gamma at Dartmouth? Zohran Mamdani grew up on the UWS and graduated from Bronx Science in 2010.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A 69-year-old driver with a recent history of speeding in school zones and running reds behind the wheel of a 4000-pound truck with an elevated front grille “aCciDenT”

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Instagram recommended for me a viral post of a Mira Nair quote about leaving photography behind for movie making, with thousands of likes. And no attribution, when it was from my own @vulture.com interview with her. 🥴 A reminder that you can read it here: www.vulture.com/2022/04/mira...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Speaking of cats I just found out the funniest fact about Curtis Sliwa.

submitted 4 hours ago • 22 comments

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

submitted 17 hours ago • 442 comments

We've gotta bloody the likes of Gillibrand, Gillen, Suozzi, Goldman nice and early over their Islamophobic Zohran bullshit and it's gotta leave a mark. The fash is going to be beyond vile during this race, and squishes on the blue side of the aisle have to learn what happens to traitors

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

Per this lawyer, the mother of 3 US citizens, among others, has been abducted by “bounty hunters” at gunpoint, brought to CBP, where they demanded she sign deportation papers without seeing a judge. When she refused, she was literally disappeared by the armed “bounty hunters” at the behest of CBP.

submitted 7 hours ago • 36 comments

The US government is currently torturing a six year old to death in front of his mother. There are no words.

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

this is how you know it’s a movement

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

Happy 99th Birthday to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony!

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

I'm OK with Democrats going on Fox News to counter misinformation and debate the conservative hosts or moderators. Going on Fox News to slam another Democrat should get you stripped of your committee assignments and DCCC funding.

submitted 7 hours ago • 41 comments

Honestly, this is so much money and it’s completely unaccountable, very much feels like a completely unimaginable future, just the end of any America we know.

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

give this guy some credit for doing something with his life when he could’ve just sat on his ass and inherited his father’s railroad empire

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

this numbers really are staggering

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

I used to be a pediatric oncology nurse. Something to know about childhood leukemia is that there is a 95% survival rate, but it requires a couple years of very regimented chemo. If this kid declines, it’s entirely because he didn’t get the care he needs, NOT because of the cancer.

submitted 15 hours ago • 25 comments

Just saw a guy asking why Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Mayor of New York City, isn’t at the memorial service for the Minnesota Lawmaker who was tragically murdered, we are truly reaching new heights in finding ways to pretend to be angry at this man

submitted 10 hours ago • 114 comments

peter thiel becoming visibly less motivated and successful as a bag of my blood drains into his arm

submitted 399 days ago • 3 comments

"television promised me i'd be a kickass dude but instead i have a shitty office job that sustains a meaningless consumerist life, lets go burn down civilization" turned out to be a pretty good read of the primary motivation for a bunch of american fash

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Very Rich people who want to live in NYC, LA, Miami etc won’t leave if you raise their taxes 1-3%- They live there because they love it, not for the tax rate -otherwise they’d live in cheap places to save on taxes (like me:) but they don’t. “They’ll leave” is such BS.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I see Akira Kurosawa's RAN (1985) is back in UK cinemas. Run, don't walk, to see it on the big screen - it's one of cinema's most breathtaking spectacles. [Fun fact: "Peter", the actor who plays the Fool, was the star of Toshio Matsumoto's transgender classic, FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969).]

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I can't stop laughing at this There is no one softer than a conservative pundit talking about cities

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

submitted 16 hours ago • 207 comments

It's cute to say the Supreme Court was just deciding an issue about nationwide injunctions, and not on the substance of overturning the constitution to let Donald Trump strip citizenship from tens of millions of people and make them stateless. Why don't we need to worry about those tens of millions?

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Conservative judges will still be able to issue universal injunctions despite Trump v. CASA www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/06/cons...

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NEW: Channel 4 to broadcast the doc about Gaza medics ditched by BBC. The Beeb worried about partiality. C4 says they believe it is “duly impartial view of a subject that both divides opinion and frequently provokes dispute about what constitutes a fact”. Shown this Wednesday.

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

the lander/mamdani partnership is fantastic because lander has that hater's spirit that zohran isn't allowed to bust out, every public-facing nice person needs a mean bud

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

Viktor Orban banned pride events in Hungary, the people took it as a challenge and just had the largest pride march in their country's history.

submitted 14 hours ago • 149 comments

This is a problem MAGA suffers from, top to bottom. Most of us encounter American cultural diversity and see strength and richness. They live in the isolationist culture deserts of their own minds. Just listen to Stephen Miller on NYC. He has no idea what makes this city or 🇺🇸 great.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

The rise of people like Lander and Walz, whose ideologies don't exactly match mine but have the exact right combination of "love thy neighbor" and "fuck you, asshole" attitudes, is massive positive for people who care about left of center politics

submitted 15 hours ago • 104 comments

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

submitted 15 hours ago • 37 comments

James is right but it's also why he's not running a newsroom now. The bosses have selected people to run key positions in mainstream newsrooms that stifle negative coverage of Trump and promote negative coverage of Democrats. No "full court press" on Trump's dementia is ever coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

#BOTD MEL BROOKS Happy 99th.

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