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JUST NOW - Trump implies he may go after President Biden: “The funny thing, maybe the sad thing… He didn’t give himself a pardon.”

submitted 31 days ago • 150 comments

What you need to know about me is that when I was a child I had awful handwriting because nobody cared to teach me as a left handed person - anyway, when I was about 12 I decided enough was enough and spent the entire summer holiday re-teaching myself how to write using a Victorian handwriting book.

submitted 33 days ago • 114 comments

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

submitted 33 days ago • 256 comments

Melanie looks absolutely terrifying as her husband for unclear reasons refuses to touch a Bible I thought Christian Evangelicals were alert to signs

submitted 33 days ago • 600 comments

Elon’s salute is obscene and entirely unsurprising. The silence about it from major outlets on the other hand is genuinely disturbing.

submitted 33 days ago • 134 comments

@vivziepop.bsky.social just sayin’ I can’t wait for #hazbinhotel Season 2! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

From Donald Trump’s planned executive orders to JD Vance’s meeting with the Chinese Vice President to the future of TikTok, I break it all down in my evening news report. If you enjoy this content, please subscribe today! open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

submitted 34 days ago • 28 comments

A clarification: I define a “problematic author” as someone whose writing and/or behavior negatively impacts a marginalized community. Example: The only people of color or the only disabled people in the story being the bad guys. Example: Using the murder of a Black woman to promote your book.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Megyn Kelly is at the MAGA rally tonight lauding MAGAs for telling their neighbors and America, “I prefer the days when we didn't make a thing out of skin color” I kept waiting for her to give a date on that but she never did

submitted 34 days ago • 53 comments

TikTok has changed the message users see when they open the app, removing references to the U.S. law and Donald Trump.

submitted 34 days ago • 989 comments

WELKER: “Is there one piece of legislation targeted at bringing down grocery prices?” SPEAKER JOHNSON: “It’s a complex collection of legislation…” Translation: NOPE. (And Welker does not press him on it🤔

submitted 34 days ago • 611 comments

(Axios) - The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn't exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump's net worth. www.axios.com/2025/01/19/d...

submitted 35 days ago • 242 comments

People have such short memories.

submitted 34 days ago • 523 comments

And there it is. Scam and grift revealed. Watch who gets rich off this. Interested also to see how legacy media covers this, which has been putrid so far.

submitted 34 days ago • 5408 comments

Elon Musk—who's in charge of hiring and firing in the federal executive branch, America's largest employer—just proposed an aptitude test for all employees Failing the test would result in termination Keep in mind that Musk doesn't believe tests can be biased—so you can be _sure_ this one would be

submitted 34 days ago • 86 comments

my current favorite jwst images 🌌

submitted 35 days ago • 61 comments

Political cartoonists are holding back right now less than just about anyone

submitted 34 days ago • 49 comments

Cheer up, TikTok users, Elon Musk has just made your suffering about him

submitted 34 days ago • 116 comments

I'm extremely concerned that matters seem to be coalescing in such a way that either TikTok will be banned permanently because its Chinese owners won't sell it or—more likely—it'll be sold to Trump friend Kevin O'Leary or Trump co-president Elon Musk and immediately enshittified via neo-Nazification

submitted 34 days ago • 196 comments

Also while I'm up late and feeling like spitting wisdom: almost every video game ever made is designed to be beaten with sub-optimal play. Yes, even shit like souls games or nethack, etc. Stop calling out a streamer's tiny mistakes or missed optimizations. You're not helping. You're annoying.

submitted 35 days ago • 32 comments

they’re banning books that are about what happens when books are banned.

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

My TikTok replacement options are currently Twitter, Reels, and LinkedIn. It's hard to really explain, but I actually think I'd rather get called slurs on a daily basis than have to read the self-aggrandizing fart huffing that is my LinkedIn feed.

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

Actually I am really busy doing important work right now. This is really critical snuggling, please step back and let me do my job

submitted 35 days ago • 182 comments

The Hounds album FAFO arrives tomorrow on all streaming platforms. It includes the song below, which I hope everyone will listen to on Inauguration Day to understand the character of the man who now runs America. 🟩 Hounds on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3BB4p...

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

The message a disappointingly large segment of Americans need to absorb…but won’t before it’s too late.

submitted 35 days ago • 43 comments

Video games don’t make people violent. Lag does.

submitted 34 days ago • 73 comments

Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump's Hoarding of Classified Documents! www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/19/f...

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

Apparently Donald watches @meidastouch.bsky.social So they invited me to speak directly to the grifter president. I didn't mince words.

submitted 35 days ago • 318 comments