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It seems to me that what they really want is an intelligence better than humans but more easily controlled (enslaved?).

Purity is a pursuit of religion not politics.

Love this 👇

My greatest frustrating has been with policy wonks who persist in thinking we can just keep doing normal policy analysis ("calling balls and strikes") in this situation. The President of the United States is both lawless and out of his mind. That preempts all normal discussion.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Politicians greatly misunderstand the incentives for any individual to vote. I think a lot of this voter fraud non-sense is the result.

If you find yourself suffering, just remember that we suffer so our betters can live rich fulfilling lives that only seem decadent and glutinous because we don’t know how hard it is to have that much money. #DonJr

I don’t want AI to wipe out the human race either. But could we maybe use it to solve spam calls?

Got a feeling the Kennedy Center’s gonna “accidentally” burn down and Trump will be the only name on the fire insurance.

pls find my edits attached thx

Flailing desperate Trump tries to bribe electorate into endorsing him. Will the people buy it? #BetterHeadlines

An unqualified Republican president, utterly uninterested in the actual job wreaks havoc on the Middle East destroying American’s reputation abroad and strengthening Iran’s position. Thus setting the stage for Trump to become president. #9/11

social media overcame a lot of coordination problems for stupid people with bad ideas and allowed them bypass gatekeepers who knew better. now they're viable constituencies that can actually hold elected officials to account. this may kill us all.

Why don’t we have anyone on the left who trolls the right?

There's a derangement syndrome alright:

"controlling for unexpected behavior are default modes of interaction...this is how computers must be treated: adversarially, with constant suspicion, and armored with plans and backup plans and alarms to be triggered when things go awry." buttondown.com/apperceptive...

Starting to suspect Republicans aren’t good at economy?

Outlook search!!!! That’s the whole post.

I think about this at least a dozen times a day.

It’s obvious to all that Trump’s negotiations are just the tactics of an abuser trying to get compliance right?

Maybe we should just rid of all national taxes. Just like all them. And then impose a service fee for all government services. The fees could even be on a sliding scale based on income.

So The Last House on Netflix is about homeschooling right?

I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

The last time measles cases were this high was in 1991—and the past 18 months have seen more cases than the last 25 years combined. trib.al/InOPLjk

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

We already did

Humiliating: Trump gets booed at the World Cup final. SAD!

Did my Fernet-Branca go bad or is supposed to taste like that?

So I guess “youth + urban = graffiti” to all graphic designers?

Power attracts pathological personalities. Which is why we must constrain it thru term limits, rule of law, and strong enforceable institutional norms.

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

He never deleted it.

Feel like a smart politician would capitalize on “coastal majority” to counter the coastal elite narrative.

People read the princess and the frog all wrong. For starters chillin’ as a frog sounds pretty good right about now.

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

Is it absurdly hot out? Yes. But at least we have all these parking lots in the desert.

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

I’m on team algae

Conservatism is the scourge of our time For 50 years successive conservative governments in western democracies have made the rich richer while they destroyed public healthcare, education and social services All the while using propaganda to convince regular people that they were good at the economy

Biden sure is jacking up inflation during Trump’s second term huh?!

We have always been at war with Iran and always will have been.

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?   Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

I thought you had to win a war before you got a triumphal arch 🤷‍♂️