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Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

This is why I keep argue, at every possible point, that Trump is failing. Not to create a sense of complacency, but to show people that resistance to authoritarianism *is working*

does feel interesting that there's a common trope in horror movies that's basically "wise native tries to warn the civilized whites but they don't take heed" and liberal audiences eat it up despite it being, you know, real basic magic negro stuff

imagining a MAGA guy who decides Michael Corleone is the good guy because his baby got aborted

the thing I love about Lauren’s account is that without it my For You feed would just be [ghoulish human rights violation] [Bluesky is dying] [here’s what a bad man did] on loop

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

I like the idea of a platform that is a little more localized and focused but i do not appreciate the self appointed HOA lot going around with bats and chains terrifying the people trying to move in here

one thing that sucks about the internet is you know about fetishes, so now you see them surfacing in all kinds of movies, books, shows. “oh yeah, the screenwriter was definitely jackin it when they wrote this part”

Almost everyone: "Electric cars are too expensive and are all SUVs. We need smaller, cheaper ones." *BYD launches new compact, high-quality electric car in the UK at £18,000* BBC: No, not like that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It sounds hyperbolic, I know, but I genuinely believe that wikipedia incorporating LLM-produced article summaries, or sanctioning LLM-produced articles, would signal the end of the internet as we've known it.

barber: number two on top? me: i'd rather you just cut it, tbh barber: me: barber: me: just a trim please

I wonder when ICE is gonna hit Texas.

Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

i regret to say that yet again i must tearfully call for decorum

this guy did not use his first name, and, lol en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonar_Law

Oh my fucking GOD

A friend at Disneyland is reporting ICE agents in the employee parking lot stopping cast members as they leave.

a new washington post / GMU poll finds trump 15 points net negative on immigration, soft disapproval of his handling of LA protests (with lots of don't knows). the narrative that these protests are good for trump is not supported by data at this point. see: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/why-the-la...

interesting overlooked note: the city of Paris was dark after 10 pm for months after the end of WWI due to the lack of coal to run the coal plants

SOMEONE GET THAT TAYLOR SWIFT/KAMALA HARRIS/WOMEN VOTING=WARMONGERING MEME RIGHT NOW

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

one of the days where your soul get stuck up in some black little crevice in the corner of your head and you can’t shake it loose no matter how you try

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

this kind of shit is why i don't even play wordle any more

‘SINNERS’ has become the highest-grossing live-action original film domestically in the past 15 years.

The only reason people think LA is a postapocalyptic nightmare is because of the X algorithm. An unreality machine.

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."

might have to get this

the presence of vance in posts impels me to beg for the ability to mute other people's posts

You might not believe in the Democratic Tea Party but the Democratic Tea Party believes in you

Journalists are the biggest pussies on the planet. You have the video! There's no "possibility," it happened! Stop being court stenographers!

wait. they banned fat soldiers?? they band our large serving folks from the goddamn stands??? fuck this shit

this meme but it all winds up being true

will be curious to see if the NYC mayoral election comes down to "who do you think will be more or less likely to allow uniformed goons to come into the city and beat your teeth in" (and the answer is quite obvious)

This is incredible

Obama cried about Sandy Hook on national television. It was a defining moment of his presidency and it kickstarted a gun-buying spree the likes of which we didn’t see again until COVID and George Floyd protests. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

!!! Quinnipiac poll of 1,265 RVs, conducted from June 5-9, finds Trump at -11% approval on “immigration issues” and -16% on “deportations.” Full poll here: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir