TACO Grande

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

All these elected officials do is go on cable news to blab about problems we know really well because they dedicated decades of their lives to not solving them.

It is with a heavy heart that I report today I did actually see someone riding in the passenger seat of a cybertruck. RIP to one of my all time favorite Twitter/BlueSky jokes.

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

He may want to, but bragging about it would infuriate the moon landing deniers and the flat earthers, and he can't afford to alienate any more key GOP demographics like that

If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.

If I were the pope, I would be excommunicating all these fuckers.

"You boy, what day is this??"

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

We don’t talk about just how many things Reagan broke nearly enough.

suspending Sarah Kendzior sounds like the death knell for this place.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

The history teacher is going to be stuck on “why didn’t the Biden admin punish sedition and why was a seditionist even allowed to run for president again” for a long, long time…Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one

what movie do you consider "perfect?"

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

It's the internet. Don't put shit on it you don't want people to know about. Was true when we were all in IRC and it's true now. Only difference is at this point the corporations figured out how to make a tidy profit off the human foibles; the game hasn't changed even if the stakes have.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

The protests & slowdowns & leaks & refusals to comply & boycotts & strikes & antifascist art & gumming up the works & sanctuary projects & all the other stuff that we’ve got to run all at once have to feel like that too. Break their hold bit by bit. Here, there, & over here too, until - whoosh.

just randomly thinking about tacos and media about tacos today, for no real reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg5-...

I believe that everyone should be allowed the space and time and opportunity to become who they truly are. I am sad that some people, given the space and time and opportunity, choose to be assholes.

None of this stops until they throw members of the Trump regime in jail for disobeying court orders.

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

Remembering for some reason how surprised everyone was at how quickly and comprehensively the USSR disintegrated, like it had already rotted from the inside and all that was left was a facade that seemed impressive and enduring but was hollow as papier-mache.

I forget who said it but I remember the quote: the message of TV is stay home and watch more TV. As Bob skillfully points out, the message of YouTube is you only need to watch YouTube.

if you want a picture of the future, imagine a clown shoe stamping on a human face -- forever

euripideez nuts

I've been playing video games ever since video games existed and there is no one on this Earth I despise more than gamers.

Yup. The whole ethos of Reaganism and the neoliberal project was “we can’t segregate public services, so let’s divest from and privatize everything”. Everything today is the logical conclusion of that decision.

It's just transparently obvious that no company has the business model of providing a good or service in exchange for money anymore. They all went "You can have a way higher profit margin if you just charge money and don't give anyone anything." Insurance is only the most obvious example.

It’s almost like 99.9% of mainstream media is owned by people who support what Musk did to Twitter and view Bluesky as an upstart threat to their bottomless fascistic capitalist agenda or something I dunno I’m no expert

Anyone saying that stuff is a distraction simply isn’t affected by it. But, of course, they actually are. Because the whole point is that Republican are chopping away at each group individually before they get to the rest. You aren’t exempt. They are just making sure you stand by for your turn.