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Overton window, current status

How other countries view the USA.

Josh Marshall capturing the moment. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

Concerned that the country by soon by overrun by autistic chickens

But the fifth layer of Hell did freeze over.

It's not just that he's not as smart as many say he is, he seems to be a particularly stupid person. Interesting how far you can get with no brain when you have money.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Accident and fatality rates for US General Aviation. Just so you know what's not actually relevant in the news.

OMG stop using the total count of votes as an indicator of anything. People play by the rules they're given. Using total votes is like judging a game of chess by the rules of poker.

This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.

Note: Reporting errors on #google maps is a waste of time and does no good. Changing your search engine to Duck duck Go or Yahoo hits them directly in the pocket book.

seriously, fuck this guy

A very curious neighbourhood cat I met today

Day 49 of testing positive. Seriously.

This is fascism.

I think of the panoply of soi-disant conservatives, libertarians, and independent thinkers, the chattering-class warriors who lectured us for years about “virtue” or “honor” or “liberty” or “freedom” and who now at best quietly assent and at worst gleefully endorse this repulsive tinpot tyrant.

The party of four seasons landscaping strikes again

Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified" This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

Dreading future Star Wars movies because it's going to turn out the stormtroopers were the goodies all along.

Many Americans fundamentally believe that truly horrendous things can't happen here, and work backwards from there.

How detectable are we by ET? arxiv.org/abs/2502.02614

Even if you have no plan, at this time, to dedrm your Kindle books, it may be a good idea to make backups of the older formats of the books you care about before Feb 26th just in case...