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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

What could the good Republican voters possibly not like about the General

🚨 Scoop: They're lying, and Jacob is too much of a dumb fuck to report on this 🚨

Now obviously you might think that Thomas here is stigmatising different perspectives himself, but you only think that because you're *woke*

Barbenheimer for a very specific kind of person

Fun party game. Find a Labour party politician who isn't just a crypto-tory desperate to protect landlords.

So the most important thing in christianity is the gluten. that's where the jesus is. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Elon Musk is trying to take over the USA so he can reinstate feudalism with billionaires as kings, in case that wasn’t already apparent. This sounds insane and is still in fact 110% accurate.

I can’t believe democrats reeled in “weird” rhetoric, every single person involved in this coup is the creepiest goober I have ever seen

Maybe you can find somebody who can help, man, maybe call your representative? Who is it

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

This is the UK. This is Labour. This, happening when I was a kid, is the reason we've still got people in their 50s & 60s, coming out now. People who spent their whole life never once being called by their name or going home to people who recognised them. This will kill kids. We must stop it.

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

The Holocaust was legal. We had a law prof teach a whole course on this. Ppl who conflate what is lawful with what is right are easy to manipulate and control.

This.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

(cw suicide) i probably think about this image set more than anything else i saw on tumblr a decade ago. That's Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy btw.

nearly twelve years ago, I tweeted “wook it up on googoo.” I no longer hold these beliefs. now I implore us all instead to go outside, finding the nearest vista. get on the ground, feeling the earth’s support, and take a vow to no longer seek answers. as answers can only be evident within siwence

the fuck is this

When your stylist has been watching New Jack City on a loop

Aren't you

wait what www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

hi! @teenvogue.bsky.social has been a reliable outlet for strong political journalism since at min 2016 — which was *9* years ago! you don't need to be surprised each time you're impressed by our work! (maybe other outlets would respect us more if you didn't!) signed, 1/2 of Teen Vogue Politics

Interviewer: “so what’s this gap in your resume?” “Oh, those were the years when they weren’t hiring Black people.”

okay so i have a theory: thread