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seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures

We are unfortunately going to need a Newt Gingrich-style Contract With America of the left in 2026.

Twitter phasing out DMs the day after it comes out that Elon has been using them to arrange drive-through bastards with ladies who were fired from podcasts is so fucking funny

So fucking right

Color photos of Eugene Debs' famous speech at Canton, courtesy of Shawn Gude by way of his surveying of the National Archives Link to his post in thread:

I’m not a lawyer or anything but I feel like you can draw a pretty direct line from John Yoo being allowed to slip back into the comforts of tenure and the occasional NYT oped to what’s happening with the CECOT and doj

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. … We want to put them in trauma.” –Russell Vought, Trump’s director of OMB, speaking in 2023 Evil people.

if you're cold, they're cold - bring 'em inside

Number one takeaway from the insane turnout at fight the oligarchy rallies, while chuck schumer cancels his little book tour and gretchen whitmer hides her face, is that there is zero constituency for bipartisanship

Start your Sunday with the boys

But, seriously, Andor s2 in 9 days. "Remember this moment! You're here, you're right here, and you're ready to fight!"

I hope I live long enough to see RFK Jr. go the way of Bolsonaro. Just total body decay. Could fill a whole season of The Pitt. Dr. Robby has no answers.

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's from here, but nonetheless. Stare enough at Leviathan JD and Leviathan JD stares back.

Andor s2 in 9 days.

Can I make a suggestion for his wake without upsetting anyone

Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

That time of night where you can hear the remaining bands holding everything together going *snap snap snap*

He's just one guy. There are eight billion other people. What the fuck are we doing

Fun fact: If you never vote for Republican bills, you'll never regret voting for a Republican bill www.huffpost.com/entry/jahana...

Let's play ball then. I'm an anti-natalist, especially when we're in a J-shaped pop curve. The Earth is fucking dying. The last thing we need is more people with our absurd consumption patterns. I'm doing my 70 and peacing out. That said, I wouldn't presume to make that choice for anyone else.

Stop pretending “pro-natalist” is a valid term and not just some pseudo-intellectual wank phrase invented to give cover to a bunch of soft-palmed rich freaks breeding a rampart of white babies to protect them from reality.

Every episode of The Studio is the same joke over and over again. I like big name cameos as much as the next guy, but this feels like a one-trick pony.

This...should be obvious, and yet my mind is completely blown

So how do we differentiate the dead from the "we just want to punish them by saying they're dead?" Did they add an extra variable or is this master database no longer able to be used for its intended purpose? 🧐

These fucking weirdos who look like failed attempts to clone Rivers Cuomo in that hidden room in Alien Resurrection must have the most incredible publicist who ever lived. Nobody has ever done less and managed to get profiled by a major media outlet every 3 months.

If you see an inky blot at the side of the road that says "15 miles to the RORSCHACH"

We've gotta stop taking the pro-natalism weirdos at face value and call it what it is - another head of the xenophobia hydra. They don't want immigration way more than they want babies.

Finished this late last night, along with the Smeagol and Deagol bonus set.

Florida 2000 all over again.

this must be close to the worst policy failure in US history

Kino, how many days until Andor s2?