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saving this for the thing we’re all praying will happen

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As far as I can tell, The Masculinity Crisis is about two things considered problems: - It's hard to meet women - Women are everywhere Always feels like these two problems should resolve each other, but I'm no sociologist

The central & most important aspect of John Roberts’s jurisprudence is republicans must be allowed to do whatever they want *until* trial appeal and final scotus review admit they’re illegal. Democrats’ actions cannot be allowed UNTIL that same review says they’re legal bsky.app/profile/lawn...

the flaw in the logic of "we have to wait to act until he defies scotus" was the assumption that scotus would give trump something to defy scotus already rewrote the 14th amendment to accommodate trump. there's nothing they won't do for this lunatic.

CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

According to @chenoweth.bsky.social’s work, regimes change or collapse when 3.5% of the population takes to the streets. Yesterday was just shy of 1%. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Visiting Gettysburg today. Spotted a MAGA hat.

I’ve seen enough

Love that we’ve got two angles of the same guy and that he’s a dead ringer for Richard Kind

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

Wait a minute … Rebecca Bradley is YOUNG?

Maybe controversial, but I think our government should be run by people committed to Earth rather than Mars, and humans rather than machines.

“Haha this is great,“ he thought, subscribing to his 63rd independent newsletter. “Almost makes me wish someone could round up all my newsletters in a convenient bundle and deliver it to my house. And that the writers had health insurance and a defined-benefit pension plan.”

one thing you have to understand about ballot initiatives in wisconsin is that people are always going to vote yes. doesn’t even matter what it’s about, people just see a little bubble that says YES and they’re like, oh hell yeah. I love yes

To the extent that there actually is popular animus, toward “Washington bureaucrats,” I think it’s actually misdirected frustration toward elected congresspeople, who steadfastly refuse to do the job their constituents and the constitution are desperately begging them to do

this is good and huge props to booker for saying it but it's also kind of funny that it takes the equivalent of the russian sleep experiment to get a democratic senator to admit this out loud

Thanks goodness the corruption of DEI is behind us, and we can create a new, golden age of merit:

What can I do to please God so much that he allows me to never hear from these people again

Watching the new Mufasa movie and it occurs to me that one of the problems with this animation style is that hyper-realistic CGI lions are actually quite difficult to tell apart from one another.

Trump v. US is increasingly looking like a historically catastrophic Supreme Court ruling Dred Scott, Plessy, Lochner, Korematsu-level bad except on this one there may be no lever to with which to pull back

Sure, interview Megyn Kelly. Fine, whatever. But why in god’s name package it in a way that makes her seem cool?

What’s funny about this PayPal line is the sheer volume of fraud that has been enabled by PayPal

the first time he said this about the public rising up, i just kind of wrote it off as a weird goof. but he keeps saying it! my dude, turn on a tv or borrow someone's smartphone. the public is risen!

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ah, fuck

And that’s on that 😌

These people are so fucking stupid man. The richest guy on the planet genuinely a dunce. You could blow his mind pulling a quarter from behind his ear on the street.

Briefly considered addressing this argument on its own terms but honestly what would that even accomplish at this point. The wolf is here. It’s eating everyone in the village. The village council is waiting to act until the constable tells us whether it’s constitutional for the wolf to eat us.

Every so often I look at the paper of record to see if it is quickly communicating to readers that they are living through a constitutional crisis, and the answer consistently is "no." They are covering the topics, but in the name of journalistic balance, not conveying the alarm.

Post a fictional character you think would be an anti-vaxxer. Hard mode: No villlains

Yes, let’s fight a fascist coup by being fine with elected leaders refusing to stop the fascist coup

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

mrs. gennaro I am sorry to have to tell you this but your husband was killed in a work accident. they made dinosaurs real for fun and he got eaten by one while sitting on the toilet. he wasn’t using it he died abandoning children

Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.

glad this is being reported at all but why on earth does it need to be in the opinion section

thread on what every single dem senator agreed to yesterday, even the "nos" on cloture. even one of them defecting here would've enraged everyone in the caucus but delayed the vote on the CR and shut down the government.