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Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

i have a lot of issues with modern technology but the worst is that most of it doesnt fucking scream at you like a tortured steampunk doohickey when you make it do its job. consider if you will the noble modem, or the humble printer. perchance even the fierce fax machine. relics of a better age

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

It's a blatant display of intellectual dishonesty: he claims to believe that "AI" is the future of gaming development and it should be embraced, but he also seems to think its use should be a matter of privacy and not to be broadcasted to customers. Such an intolerable dipshit.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

This is how Biden should have gone for Trump but this is the problem when you go through life thinking you have no apex predators. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

It would be good if life my own country was not significantly impacted by the GOP vs Dem margins in small counties named after prominent Confederates but unfortunately it is

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

I'm glad they are reversing this but let's be clear, blocking Onlyfans and Fanaly was not a bug (the images in this post even say as much) - I looked at the source code, someone deliberately added those urls as blocked domains. Do not believe the Bluesky team is anything but malicious.

absolutely sidestepping a bunch of handwringing bullshit about electorialism by simply looking at assholes and orienting yourself correctly

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

From MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail:

The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.

hmmm

Here is an article I wrote last year about the tragic death of Joelle. I didn't publish it as I didn't want to impede Trans Legal Clinic. But now that they have made the story public, here is the article. I'm in tears 😥😥😥😥😥😥 Stop killing us!!! sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/transphobi...

The *entire point* of Freedom Summer was to dramatize and publicize the conditions in the Jim Crow South. It's why civil rights activists called their protests "demonstrations" -- they literally wanted to *demonstrate* the problems and force everyone confront the reality of racism.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

I mean...are we really surprised by this, from the man whose hot take ended up spawning the brainworm "vibeo gane"?

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

laugh as much as you want but i got hit with the bolsonaro beam during the 2022 presidential election and look what it fucking did to me

xkcd did it first

i think this is what is happening?

And weirdly it was the inspiration to an Agatha Christie Miss Marple novel. She contracted it from a fan who knew they were sick with it and knew Tierney was pregnant and broke quarantine to go meet her at an event, and I’m glad to say that in the book the movie star offed her.