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He has to take your family, most of his family doesn’t want anything to do with him.

ironic, Trump attacked by man who also hates windmills

The “Haitians eat cats” thing is not just an appeal to racists. It’s an end-zone dance, a celebration of how far the American Right has successfully shoved the Overton Window back to where they can revel in being openly, overtly racist. It’s glee over the abandonment of pretense.

to me, this is true art

"She wants to do transgender operations on illegal immigrants in prison!"

THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE EATING OUR CATS

"I didn't talk about one of the biggest issues with my vp nominee" is a hell of an admission.

thin blue line flag but the blue line has been resized to reflect the proportion of your city's municipal budget that goes to police

ok after days of breathless “has Trump moderated his abortion stance?” coverage I’ve formulated a thoughtful response and here it is HE PROMISED TO OVERTURN ROE AND THEN HE DID AND HE’S BEEN BRAGGING ABOUT IT EVER SINCE WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL DID YOU SUFFER A GROUP CONCUSSIVE EVENT

Just occurred to me that the deeper implication of Vance's "childless people don't care about the future" thing is that he genuinely doesn't understand that it is possible to feel compassion and concern for people who are not blood relatives.

This is a veteran ripping into Trump for the Arlington visit and I’m amused as all hell that Newsweek quoted him this way 🤣

It’s telling that Walz is “redefining” American masculinity. The guy’s a stereotypical macho man—veteran, hunter and football coach—but the fact that he’s also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift. He isn’t known for his knitting skills. We’ve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.

If you want universal health care, you have to elect people who will implement it. If sit on your hands and say “I won’t be bought cheaply; first implement universal health care and *then* I will support you”, everyone will correctly ignore you because you are a non-voter now

Fact check: While critics have accused me of not knowing my ass from a hole in the ground, statistically I can distinguish one from the other nearly 60% of the time.

To clarify, this is a real passage from the Washington Post's fact check

truly an incredible collection of brain geniuses to post this thinking they were the ones doing the owning

If I could make a plea for BlueSky, it’s this: Please make a point of sharing links to articles, essays and more that you LOVE, that you enjoyed, that expanded you in some way. I’m always surprised by the dominance of hate-shares, complaint shares on here. And I think it has a riptide effect.

NYTimes newsletter the night of Trump’s convention speech:

Burn in Hell, zaslav

Hell, Biden was holding a steady stream of appearances — campaign events, press conference, NATO summit, etc — and they still asked if he was too frail and tired. If he’d vanished like Trump has, the media would’ve run obituaries

i’m…unsettled by the number of people who are responding to peter thiel’s “high-IQ people find democracy hard” atlas shrugged bullshit with “no no, high-IQ people aren’t like that” and not “IQ is a preposterous concept with low validity that has historical roots in the last big eugenics pushes.”

Why did the sun go down? I think it’s because it’s scared. Scared of Donald Trump. It’s a tribute to Donald Trump’s unimaginable majesty

Honestly the weirdest thing about these guys is how much they absolutely hate women. The argument is literally “look at this woman smiling, I hate her.” That’s it.

I am so glad they finally put William Gibson in charge of the Olympics

Those of us who feared that the assassination attempt on Trump would garner him a tidalwave of public sympathy momentarily forgot something: he is a monumentally unlikeable asshole.

Katy Tur is now asking if Kamala Harris is the kind of candidate a voter would want to have a beer with. She's certainly the candidate you could have an uncovered beer with.

TIRED: Biden took too long deciding whether to drop out WIRED: waiting until after the RNC to drop out ensured Trump is handcuffed to a running mate ill-suited to a race against Harris

Calling a voluntary change of candidates a "coup" signals further normalization of deceptive authoritarian tropes: peaceful transfer of power = coup anti-authoritarianism = fascism anti-racism = racism education = indoctrination The point is not to persuade, but to erode language + meaning itself.

Really hope we can dispense once and for all with the notion that Trump voters are suffering, misguided, and misunderstood when they’re being so vocally and insistently like “we want ethnic cleansing.”

This is so good

Declaring people to be vermin, enemies of the state, or un-human is the sort of language people adopt before they pursue a genocide.

Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

We have to remember that Republicans have felt tyranny creeping in and the need to upend the entire Constitutional order since we got rid of separate water fountains.

Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

In "Bell Riots," the dystopian vision of 2024 is that sanctuary districts would be designated which legally permit the unhoused to sleep outside or in derelict buildings, where food is provided and there's an office that sets people up with work. Again, this is the dystopian part of the Bell Riots.

Judges are like umpires, if umpires are appointed by one of the teams, and periodically decide Abner Doubleday originally intended for that team to get four outs and an extra baserunner.

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

“The murdered person was a scary threat to his murderer” is a story our dominant cultural narrative keeps telling, even though the self-evident truth is the exact opposite, given who did the killing and who did the dying. It’s one of supremacy’s purest expressions.