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Morosely crossing off "burn down an Alpine retreat built for Adolf Hitler" from my bucket list

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

these are all serious crimes and the executives involved in this corruption scheme need to be prosecuted, not just the government officials. dems will need to decide whether we have rule of law or not. letting them go means we do not

Criminals have been exploiting outdated EBT card technology to steal SNAP benefits from unsuspecting low-income families. Since December 2024, the victims of this theft have had no recourse & federal action to prevent it has largely stalled — for a deeply infuriating reason:

lmao

CPI isn't a big deal unless you're one of those rare people who purchases medical care, vehicles, computers/software, or toys. Might also be a problem for people who earn money instead of already having money, but those people should really try having money instead.

Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

“many of his former DOGE foot soldiers have leveraged their government stints to fuel private-sector ambitions: building companies that tap government largesse or that deploy knowledge they garnered during their brief tenures in Washington.” It’s the accountability, stupid. cc: Democrats

The cave rat is a subterranean variety of the hardy, abundant hunter-scavenger. Rat meat is tough and greasy, with an unpleasant odor and taste. Nonetheless, it is cheap, abundant, and nutritious, and palatable when cooked in a stew and masked by strong, strong spices.

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

Easy mistake to make: The goyim are *woke* now. Woke. Don't let this be you! Egg on your face and so forth

I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?

Really feel like they're lying about the execution live stream thing because they're just really deeply annoying fucking people and lying about things is just kind of what they do

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not

Cops didn't even do anything to this guy until someone went up to him and argued with him. Everything is very stupid and just barely works out in the end, and that's how it is

Striking in this animation of damage in Gaza by the Conflict Ecology team: there’s an intense initial surge of destruction in Oct-Dec 2023 coinciding with by far the heaviest Israeli aerial bombing—but the bulldozer-based phase of the war in spring and Aug-Oct 2025 lights up the map almost as much…

Michael Vassar, who was President of MIRI before the name change and probably made the Thiel introduction, is in the Epstein files. Vassar visited Little St. James in 2015, and they discussed their shared preference for "blue eyed people." The root cult is very nakedly a eugenics cult.

Set yourself free. Draw dinosaurs

the response should be immediate contempt proceedings all the way up the chain of command to the ICE/ERO directors including escalating fines and orders to personally appear in court. if that doesn't do the trick, criminal contempt, throw them in jail. play stupid games, win stupid prizes

We are fucking cooked

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Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...

The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $

Banksy 🤝 Macklemore “we have to separate the art from the artist”

NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

This is frying me

what you’re missing is that guys are a structural problem

Incredible headline here (among other things)

I drew a comic strip.

I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose