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There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
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He’s just here to get rich and stop oppose meaningful change.

I say we reappropriate this

Controlled opposition

“‘Mommy, the guy who’s been giving money to our school doesn’t want to give it to us anymore,’” he told her. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

there is no hell hot enough. there is absolutely nothing that could be done to the people in charge of this that they would not have earned tenfold.

The rest of the world is tragically unprepared for Rich Cincinnati Suburb Guy behaviors. They lack the antibodies for it.

Again you can stop him from doing this or you can let him rule over you. There’s no third avenue where he just stops being a power-hungry racist on his own and you can ignore him

they're not false headlines, ICE agents can and will do it

Counterpoint: yes they fucking can. And will.

The grip that Third Way consultants have on the party is baffling.

Because the framers of the Constitution referred explicitly only to men, no authority can lawfully restrain Pam Bondi from organizing a terrorist police state. by Jonathan Turley

How are these people so fucking stupid.

this is precisely why the people who hate NYC and the people who live there are trying so hard to kill it

Deeply weird that goons expect the people they're arresting to treat them with nothing but deference, but I guess when all you've tasted is boot you start to doubt anyone else less eager to partake.

Looking forward to his return to Congress in 8 years as Staten Island’s rep.

Between April 2009 and April 2019, Jersey City permitted 20,550 units and the city's population grew by 18.4% in the 2020 Census. In the six years between April 2019 and today, Jersey City has permitted 29,900 units.

Because the Republican Party is the party of child predators.

Andrew Cuomo has been caught speeding through a school zone twice in the last month.

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Anne of Green Goebbels

an incorruptible sea

my grandpa was born in the 1890s and sometimes I think sprinkling poison in a field all day and then sitting in a farmhouse in the dark at night is better than hearing about what someone i dont know thinks about a second person i dont know, 24 hours a day

I'm going to tell you again. There is NO REASON to vote for this man and if you do, everything you hold dear in this city is going to be destroyed.

Yup. In the NYT, Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd ridiculed Al Gore's environmentalism. They wrote endless columns about him wearing earth tones and portrayed him as a pathological liar who claimed he invented the internet (he never said that). He was no better than Bush as far as they were concerned.

The man begrudging library books to NYers stole public services for his family while constituents died. In March 2020, FEMA sent refrigerated trucks for makeshift morgues. As bodies stacked outside Elmhurst and Bellevue Hospitals, Cuomo made state employees test his family and rush samples to labs.

A surreal scene. On Tuesday, shortly after Eric Adams said some immigrants don't deserve "due process," he stood alongside Trump admin officials and the NYPD commissioner, as they all parroted rightwing conspiracy theories about Venezuelans. hellgatenyc.com/tren-de-arag...

When we win, and we will win, a purge of the existing halls of power will be necessary. We cannot Brooks and Yglesias our way back into fascism.

Oh no the transcript of my recent conversation with Isaac Chotiner leaked :(

In Canada we just open a container of milk and don’t presume it’s a container full of toxins. Poilievre said he was going to get rid of the food inspectors as Prime Minister; he’s got a 10% chance of winning the election next Monday

people love voting for donald trump then getting angry when he does exactly what he said he was gonna do

Socrates was the original sealion and got what he deserved.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

I'm not saying J.D. Vance killed the Pope but I think he saw Vance and decided death was preferable to living in a world in which Vance might become the most powerful person in it one day. Rest in peace, Francis. Rest with the assurance that you will encounter no one like J.D. Vance in Heaven.

to sniff out the last of the old internet all you have to do is go looking for info on antique desk fan maintenance or old radios. you'll find them still at their posts in the forums: god's strongest soldiers, arguing good-naturedly or otherwise about the best oil for a 1946 emerson

“Pontus Pilate, who I do not support, is the most progressive Roman governor of our lifetimes.” The Book of Glenn 14:88

disciple 1: he’s alive! returned from the dead! disciple 2: did he roll away the stone? disciple 3: did he show you the holes in his hands? judas: did he uh. did he mention me

nothing says you were raised on american propaganda than posting “this isn’t america!” brother unfortunately i can assure you it is

Before I go into today's dystopian nightmare, let's take a minute to bring down your blood pressure. Here is one of my favorite creatures, the #RedPanda. Enjoy. #nature #animals

with friends like these who needs the murdochs

The Target thing is so funny. They had hooked pretty much every Black person I know, and then they threw it all away to make the confederate flag crowd happy just so they could not shop there too.