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they’re turning it into a worse forbes

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

1/35

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

OK, let's ask the journalists what's going on in Gaza—oh, hang on, the IDF killed that reporter, let's—heck, sorry, the IDF killed that one, too, how about—oh, right, the IDF killed that other reporter too, what if we check with—whoops, killed by the IDF, maybe if we try—darn, would you believe it—

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 8 hours ago • 119 comments

As with SUV bloat, that's, like, not even an especially menacing amount of tactical gear in 2025

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

Says 50 percent right here maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I dunno, you're the one who inflated his numbers on that crosstab by 80 percent

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

It seems like you want to say something

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

People love spinning up these narratives www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/n...

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

One benchmark for the total chaos of the Elon Musk experience is how the company that is *putting hardware into people's brains* is so far down his list of priorities that it doesn't even make it into the roundups of which companies he's neglecting www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments

No, many blue cities have moneyed interests that live outside them in purple or red suburbs and approach the urban center as political antagonists rather than trying to coopt the politics there

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Unmatched executive experience in the sense nobody else had to resign their executive job in disgrace

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

I forget who I first saw name the problem, but New York City is a place where Republican constituencies—bosses, landlords, developers, financiers—pursue their right-wing self-interest within the Democratic Party, and often even think of themselves as "liberals," and that's who Cuomo services

submitted 17 hours ago • 31 comments

Andrew Cuomo only moved to New York City at the end of 2024 and I do not understand why this isn't a much bigger issue beyond one or two of his opponents bringing it up now and then.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Look this is pathetic but instructive because it’s not just about this lame creep it’s about the Overton window continuing to be moved so quickly by Trump’s criminality and lawlessness that bad people have reassessed their previous actions against the metric of “you can get away with anything.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 25 comments

"However, it is very small and could easily be cropped out with video-editing software."

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 98, ANDY ROONEY 2.0: Avis Keeps Sending Me Bogus Bills for Congestion Pricing www.indignity.net/phantom-tollbooth/

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Yurtis Carvin

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 491: The most law-abiding immigrants. www.indignity.net/indignity-morning-podcast-no-491-the-most-law-abiding-immigrants/

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I mean, the very basic way this is idiotic is that the faction attacking the "deep state" and democracy — here and abroad — is the faction that believes the government should be doing much less, not more, with the exception of defending the country from immigrants.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

That's right!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Remembering again that the Opinion department now has 200 staffers in the name of pursuing more ambitious and high-quality work than ever before

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Flood control, a thing no government ever set itself up to do

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

None of these risks are purely "inherent in life," and people expect the state to do something about them because there's more than a century's worth of evidence that the state is capable of preventing or mitigating all of them!

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

"American democracy is collapsing because idiot citizens expect the government to help them, which it can't" is probably one of the wrongest analyses I have ever seen. Congrats on the NYT op-ed though. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

You know what was a really memorable, ringing turn of phrase? "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Second of all, Scalia was a farty stylist but first of all he was not a fucking poet, you dipshit, he was a Supreme Court justice, and the reason future generations will remember him will be that his sweaty cleverness has a large and ongoing body count

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Joining up with the Emily Dickinson Brigade in the Butlerian Jihad

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

AI loves the letter E, so fuckin’ what

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

More like Coby 没有

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There Is No Hick Like a New York Hick®

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

It’s better than even odds that Trump shared this dumb post because he didn’t have his glasses on and he liked the photo and now the White House press secretary will have to be like “Experts agree that it’s quite possible cyborgs walk among us, no matter what the fake news claims.”

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

Test said I graded a "flirtatious" set of eyes as "hostile," I say OK so you told the model to look flirtatious, which of us *really* got it right?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Graded out as abnormally neurotypical which feels accurate

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments