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The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

You are greeted by a cursed mop. #art #pokemon #greavard

'Liberty Biberty' is short for 'Libertarian Bibertarian'

I strongly suspect part of Trump's stickiness is that it would be difficult for the American public to acknowledge what they've enabled, either through advocacy, cowardice, or complicity. The shame of recognizing who we've elevated to the most powerful office in the world is too much to bear.

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Devastating news. Star Trek is such a foundation of my life, and the original series cast means so much to me. It always seemed like they would be around forever.

every fawning profile of an AI innovator in the NYT is just a future essay in The Cut about why kids no longer talk to their parents

Stolen from the other site

Audrey Hepburn At an Automat, 1951 | Lawrence Fried

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro admitted to hospital for “tube time”

Please let this be true!++

If Lula pulls this off he gets to do a little more corruption, as a treat.

I grew up in a lower income immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster for "special days." But we also understood the White House should not look like the inside of Red Lobster. It's condescending to assuming working ppl are culturally illiterate bc their experience is shaped by their limited means.

He calibrated the surround sound system by playing Beetlejuice and fast forwarding to the dinner scene. “I need the dinner scene”

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

sigmund? sigmund it's your cousin marvin... marvin freud... you know the thing you've been talking about where there's some libidinal force inside us that seeks egoic shattering even unto death... well you're not gonna believe this but I'm looking at the news and im thinking, call it the death drive

Yes and also this sort of 'uniparty' nonsense feels so hollow deployed in the midst of a national stove-touching. It turns out the difference between a 'milquetoast corporate Democrat' and Trump was really big! President Harris would not be driving trans soldiers out of the military!

It is truly something the degree to which most American media industries have largely self-immolated on grounds of making their core product too expensive to produce*. The film industry has started to find a way out of this mess. I hope TV and games are not far behind.

yes, electing hillary would've mattered for the court, just what on earth

Shutting down *Bioware?* oh the games industry is in TROUBLE trouble.

Saudi Arabia (majority stake) and Jared Kushner (minority stake) buying Electronic Arts is one of the underrated instances of oligarchic media consolidation. Should be considered along similar lines as the Ellisons taking over Warner Bros.-Discovery or Musk taking over Twitter.

Devastating news. Bioware games have been part of my life for so long now, ever since playing KOTOR as a kid. Knowing they won't even get to finish Mass Effect 5 is just heartbreaking. I feel so bad for everyone who works there and I hope they get the work they deserve.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

youtubers, streamers, podcasters, etc are always on this beat bc they don't know how anything works & know that if they say something like this, their audiences will lap it up now & also 3 years later when they point to total gay commie revolution not happening and go "see? i was right!"