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For the record, that's 39 Democrats who abstained from condemning the raid. 18% of the Democrats in the house are either happy with what happened or are too frightened to oppose it. Still waiting for Chuck Schumer to fart about it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-i...

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...

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.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Anyone remember the panic over Lesbians in the Locker Rooms? I do.

Not only an incredible talent, but a rare talent who also thought it was funny to just voice random memes every once in a while

These are just two of my favorite things.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

Cheesecake Factory deserves all the love.

The Republican Administration posted this picture of the "new White House helipad," which apparently has a flagpole easily within the radius of large helicopters blades. These aren't the smartest people.

There is still good in this World.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

Yes: it's called learning to enjoy having fellow human beings around you. It's called living together in harmony. The word civilization is literally rooted in the Latin for "city."

"... and I helped!"

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History #BookSky

Im glad I saved this before deactivating my twitter and losing my discord where I had posted it

Does the phrase "offensively cheap" refer to the fact that it's mind-bogglingly less expensive to install than any other form of power, and it doesn't require a constant flow of commodity fuel, so it offends capitalists?

wsj is wsj'ing at unprecedented levels

That's our mayor.

The right can't seem to see the distance between "I just see trans people as people" and "I will force everyone to become trans whether they want to or not, so help me God"

A federal judge. Where we are as a country.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

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.

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

wow there's so much congealed cope and self-womping here I'm getting a contact high from it wapo.st/4dXjVeT

this thing moves so fast I need a pedo-meter to track it

The Vulpera art from the Wow D&D book is incredible 💙

"AIs don't talk like human beings." Duh. arxiv.org/html/2610.29...

There are these repeated injuries in hadrosaur tails. There were a few theories on this, but one of them stands out. No easy way to say this: some dinosaurs were really into rough sex. 🧪 Link: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02000-0​

I'm sure Trump will sue. I'm sure he's completely unafraid of discovery. Right? www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

Ran into one of those "optimize your life" articles that took extensive data from "blue zone" research. Just a reminder: the data on so-called "blue zones" where people supposedly live longer lives is completely corrupt: theconversation.com/the-data-on-...

The Slurptop, a laptop where the battery is a swappable power tool battery, the sort you buy at a hardware store. slurpburgers.com/slurpbuilds/...

Hot on the heels of Microsoft's mind-bogglingly racist Copilot commercial about using AI in the office, the investment firm Apollo Global Management issues shareholder guidance that "outside of programming, there is no sign AI spend has any return on investment." www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

These requests are really weird. "Lord, it's clear You don't know what's going on down here. Do these things, I know they're what You would want to do if You really understood the problem." Tony's claiming to be more omniscient than the God he claims to follow.

I'm hardly surprised. I've watched a few of the Chinese AI-generated shorts. They're soulless and uninteresting "action" pieces. They have a tendency to veer into non-sequitur. I can't really see the audience getting into them.