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He's also wrong on a political level! Trump's approval rating on immigration is going down, so defending Garcia is blunting Trump's only winning issue.

oh there aren’t any true fascists well but there are so few fascists well but they aren’t ALL fascists how can you say “fascist” about millions of people ok they do talk fascist but they can’t act fascist ok maybe they can but I’m sure they won’t you saying “fascist” made them be fascist

#AZUMAFIADAIOH CLASSICS: "Knuckle-Head Economics" #azumangadaioh

always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

the "it's a distraction" shit is emblematic of the "polling is fixed and exogenous" shit that has ruined so many Dems brains. even from a pure realpolitik perspective Abrego Garcia isn't a "distraction", he's an opportunity to flip one of your opponent's best issues!

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential biosignature of marine microorganisms. www.wired.com/story/scient...

He sent a woman to prison and took her visa for writing an op ed

anyway, after procuring a portable media player (turned out my Switch Lite was too new to mod without major surgery :< ), been sorting through my 20+ year music folder over the past several evenings after work and found it very soothing~ neurodivergent says what

If your idea of human worth begins and ends with what they can contribute to a capitalist society, you end up with a very narrow view of who is human

one, a human life is not a "distraction." two, would be nice to have an opposition party whose stance on these things was "be it for one person or an entire community, we are going to fight. every fight with this government is a fight worth picking. we won't give a centimeter to these ghouls."

Jenga. Cards. Video games. They're banning video games at (currently) two Army bases. Video games. The things that recruited most of the people at these bases. Video games. Republicans are just the stupidest people on Earth.

they’re doing that thing where a new coach discovers his NFL team has a ping-pong table in the locker room and orders it removed to build a winning culture focused on football and all the players resent it and he gets fired after 3 sub-.500 seasons, but for The Army

BREAKING: Federal court rules that Google illegally maintained a monopoly on online advertising technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/t...

Kevin fucking Hern (R-OK).

The photo of the delegation for reference:

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

This fascist regime has no right to take away my ability to have an enjoyable life. They want me dead, but I refuse to give them the courtesy. Fuck them. I'll live to be 95.

All of them will die one day. And then our hearts, wounded by that sweet news, will overflow, and our joy will be like swords, and we will pass in thought to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness. They can't corrupt *that* part of Lord of the Rings.

The correct response to rfk saying he wants to exterminate autistic people is to loudly tell him "die, motherfucker" instead of trying to explain that human lives have value.

I'm 32 years old and a product of a sort of hybridized homeschool-chuch-operated private school education and my curriculum was a mix of Abeka and Bob Jones, which gave us gems such as this:

really stay away, it is nuts to travel to the US unless you have to

That's what everything burns down to: This regime wants you to die. You have any sort of special living need? Die. You don't want to necessarily get married and have kids? Die. You don't want to follow christian hegemony? Die. You don't want to grind under capitalism until your body breaks? Die.

Ain't no fucking way Nintendo doesn't know what it's doing.

If you're wondering why blood is spurting from my eyes, ears, and nose, I don't have some kind of novel disease, it's because I read this story this morning and my blood rage cannot be contained to my body

[Slams fist] These entitled “Chicken Jockey” shits don’t know what it was like to have a childhood without good video game movies! Let’s take them away. Once every 7 years a franchise will get a baffling punk adaptation filmed in a cement factory. Kids will hate it but their parents will love it.

Let's not mince words. RFK Jr thinks every human being who isn't capable of a capitalist standard of "value contribution" to the world should be dead. Autism spectrum disorders can cover a vast range of human life needs, but his biggest issue is that he thinks he shouldn't have to share with anyone.

TWOOOooOOO HUNDRED FORTY FIIIIIIVE PERCENT TARIFFS!!! www.newsweek.com/china-245-tr...

Christian values

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"IS it a disability though" yeah dud!. Greg will wander off in 20 degree weather without a coat. he can't feed himself. tie his shoes. he can't talk. autism CAN be a severe disability. it isn't always but let's not pretend people like my uncle Greg don't EXIST okay

Fun fact, JK—who is English—single-handedly funded the Scotland remain movement during the referendum, and called separatists “bigots”. She’s the reason there’s no independent Scotland. She throws her money and clout around like she’s fucking Nigel Farage. She’s a billionaire corrupting politics.

Oh. My god. Oh my GOD OH MY GOD. IT'S AVAILABLE. YOU CAN WATCH IT. newsroom.loc.gov/news/footage...

Young people hear older people talking about the weather and think it's because they’ve become boring and have nothing else left to talk about. But that’s not it at all. It's because the older people have lived long enough to finally recognise that weather is our one true leader.

A woman was threatened in the bathroom by an unhinged man and the woman got fired, here in the land of the bully and the home of the coward.

The American Nazi Party demands the right to kidnap you and send you to a death camp, and if you say that's not right, then you get kidnapped to a death camp as well.

"'Don't give a white supremacist murder gang half the city's budget to spend on military gear' is a terrible slogan" they scolded.

I'm not Jewish but I must admit it was horrifying when Trump said 'Chuck Schumer isn't Jewish anymore' and somehow that wasn't a headline story for days. Guy who isn't Jewish says I'm the Arbiter of Judaism and that's not an obvious tell of what comes next?

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This is extraordinary! Then it ends: “The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut NASA’s science budget in half, eliminating future space telescope and other astrobiology projects. If that happens, Dr. Krissansen-Totton said, “the search for life elsewhere would basically stop.””

my uncle Greg has never said a word. he ignores me when I visit. he really likes chocolate chip cookies and flipping through national geographic tho. (he knows when it's not chocolate chip!!) sometimes I wonder if he even recognizes me. he needs supports that Trump, RFK etc are GUTTING