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Watch how fast "no new wars under Trump" Republicans and cultist shift from being shocked and outraged about a new war in the middle east to exclaiming ad nauseam how we all should set our political differences aside and support the pres when we're a country at war. Its so predictable I hate it.

What happens when this becomes law ????

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Judge Wilkinson's opinion for a 3-0 panel in the Abrego Garcia case is written for the parties, but also for the public & perhaps a nod at SCOTUS. I go through it in this piece, which I think provides a much-needed boost for all of us. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-fourth-c...

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

What Americans are witnessing is the biggest self own this country has ever seen. Literally, everything that is happening was explicitly stated as a goal of his prior to getting elected yet people are still surprised. Idiots.

Burn down a Teslurr get 20 years in prison. Burn down the United States Of America and get championed by idiots and go golf on your private golf course.

🚨 Elon Musk and his surrogates seek access to the Treausry Department’s sensitive payment systems (which processes your benefits and tax refunds among other things), prompting a senior official to resign www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🎶 "I been right so long, I been done wrong Lost the fight and all I got left is this song Singing a chorus but no one here to sing along A solo to a choir of liars in the midday sun Ten years of warning, in the end — it’s ten years gone."🎶 😭

The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The AfD just had three members arrested for plotting a violent overthrow of governments in East Germany to install a Nazi regime.

Americans have been carrying water for a country that only sees them as marks. Mere cattle to be milked for every penny and them some. The sad part is after they've taken everything most of them will blame their neighbor or die b4 they realize the ultra wealthy and corporations are to blame.

I do appreciate Senate Republicans answering the question "are the Republicans going to govern as populists now?" by voting in lockstep against another term for the pro-labor NLRB chair who has substantially advanced workers' rights in her time. www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-...

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Because Americans had the audacity to elect a black man as president the entire Republican establishment elevated a man thats every bit as corrupt and dangerous as they imaged Obama to be.

Miss me with the outrage about Hunter’s pardon. I do not care.

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There are exactly zero black ppl who didn’t see this coming from outer space. Maybe one day other minority groups will stop aspiring to be accepted as white.

Here is an album that captures the nostalgia of Christmas w/o being annoying about it. open.spotify.com/album/117Vzp...

Musk admitted X throttles links, and Threads is only a little better. But social media's quiet war on links has been going on for years. I wrote about how big tech has been draining the open web's lifeblood and giving us "news influencers" instead of the news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The things we do on the web have value. Value that is being stolen from us and funneled to the owners of these social media networks.

Jaron Lanier was right.

5 years ago yesterday I wrote an essay arguing that institutions were thinking about online media, insurgencies, & manipulation campaigns all wrong. Fighting the last war. The Digital Maginot line, I called it. It went viral then. Here it is on its anniversary. www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/t...

This is why Trump, Musk, and every other collaborator are begging Ukraine to accept a deal with a buffer zone that just so happens to exist over these regions, valued at $10 trillion. The goal is the same, to screw Ukraine from its natural resources and plunder it among Kremlin friendly oligarchs.

Normalize farting in public.

Why is Elon just weirdest little guy? This is why.

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

PSA: You need to cook corn tortillas b4 use in order to make them more pliable and more resistant to cracking. Thank you. That is all.

An unfortunately side effect of Trump supports baselessly claiming election fraud for years is that it’s become taboo for Dems to call for recounts. Elections aren’t tamper proof especially if there aren’t paper ballots to count and verify. Recounts and paper ballots should be SOP everywhere.

#GivingTuesday is coming soon... To all of the wealthy liberals and progressive foundations that will soon be panic donating to the "resistance"—below are nonprofit organizations that monitor, research, and produce in-depth analysis on the far right, violent extremists, and authoritarian movements👇

Back in my day skeet meant skeet🍆💦

Too many ppl haven't realized that no one is in control. No one is going to come and save you. Stop looking to politicians to do something they have zero experience as to how to deal with what comes next. They are just happy they aren't poor and vulnerable. God speed if you are, though.

Start stretching your bellies now to get ahead of the curve this holiday season.

Now that we’ve established that aliens are real, WTF are they doing? To all the aliens on this app: either help us or kill us. We don’t care, but whatever you do, do it fast!

Holy shit! The longer I’m on here the more I realize just how bad of a hellscape X really is.