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Well, this blows. My agent says that Wicker movie has made my script about making a wife out of Babybel wax wrappers “unsellable” and “stupid”

Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

Let’s check in on The Free State of Florida, where the GOP is pursuing criminal prosecution of anyone who mentions a grand jury investigation that implicates the governor’s wife and a sitting US senator www.miamiherald.com/news/article...

32 people have been killed in school shootings in the US this year. The only death related to the French protests is someone had a heart attack while protesting. You are safer in a French riot than an American school. French people don't need to sit down, Americans need to stand up.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Bruh

Ossoff: "The crisis we must meet is deeper than this presidency. Trump's rise is proof that business as usual has failed, that our politics, sickened by corruption, is failing the American public and compromising our national integrity. And that the hour is late to fix what's broken."

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Just say you hate muslims cnn this is taking forever

Ossoff: "I suspect many of you are here today b/c you're so deeply troubled by the pain that many of our fellow human beings are enduring right now. The terror of a child watching ICE take away his mother. The despair of a cancer patient losing coverage mid-treatment... we're all in this together"

One example I use here is the 'moral status' of insects. If you swat a mosquito that's about to bite you, I don't think you're a murderer; I don't think mosquitoes are sapient. But if you're the kind of person who like to pluck the wings off living insects, I will look *very* askance at you.

The question isn't “Does AI possess moral status?” This is a red herring. It's “What kind of person do I become if I make a habit of treating beings I encounter with contempt?”

To be a nazi is to reject your own humanity.

You'll never guess who we just hired in our legal department!

I'm so psyched for how in focus this moment was. The background. The feathers on the head, the nictitating membrane!!! 🪶

"In the future, everyone will be a Trump Press Secretary for 15 minutes."

That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

The Trump regime is paying your tax money to Elon Musk through lucrative government contracts, and then Musk is giving hundreds of million of dollars to the Republicans so they'll keep doing that. It's how oligarchs and Republican politicians scam the rest of us.

All the kids are going crazy for Digger. They are dressing up as their favorite character Digger from the movie Digger when they go to screenings of Digger and yelling along to all his classic lines like "I'm Digger" and "Let's get digging". It's a genuine phenomenon.

incredibly fucking juvenile/weird and you have to wonder if he'll regret it when, in the coming years, he has 0 political future because all the MAGA groypers he's trying to appeal to will be calling *him* fat, gay, and calling his family racial slurs

It's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses

Starting to worry that Supreme Court granting Trump the right to commit brazen crimes against US with no accountability was a bad idea. No possible way anyone could have foreseen this at the time. <sarcasm emoji>

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Now that Trump is explicitly backing Russia over Europe, we should have a frank public discussion about how horrific it would be for the US to back Russia over Europe AND Trump should be explicitly pressed hard on why he is doing this to US.

if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

The comments that people are replying under their government name suggests an apocalyptic result for Republicans this midterm.

El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:

This might still be quite hinky on mobile but its a delight on desktop, and stabilizing. Its a train game, its a city model, its a mappa. Check it out! games.mino.mobi/ecumene

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

@kleinman.bsky.social 's work inspired me to dramatize the future Republicans want as an Oregon Trail -like journey across a country ravaged by rightwing legislative extremism. It sucks! games.gregpollock.net/state-of-the...

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

"Trump moved the ethical line" perfectly reflects the collaborationist thought processes of NYT. No he didn't. The ethical lines were the same before as they are now. It's the collaborators who have moved the lines—but to be clear, they never had any in the first place.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

The absolute epic brutality of capitalism is one of the most prevalent themes of history but we’ve inured ourselves to it by seeing it every day

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students