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Fake ladies and real threats - Brazil is on the front lines of the technofascist wars. Pay attention... @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org

every college republican in 2026 is the worst person you have ever met there are basically no exceptions

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

Oh, man, I did not know about this. Blindsight is one of my favorite novels, now…

One half of a scaramucci! It’s a unit of measurement now; that’s why it’s lower-case.

One-sided de-escalation is not de-escalation.

I want to get five people named “Ben” together for my coverband project: Bens Five-fold.

NEW: When Christa Pike became the first person to survive multiple lethal injections, witnesses at the prison that day suddenly became a part of history. I spoke with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social of Nashville Banner about the things he saw in the execution chamber—and the things he could only hear:

The first brand-new MST3K episode STING OF DEATH is available right now, immediately, at once, other words to indicate that concept! If you missed it in movie theaters, now’s your chance. You can also order a package of this plus the three next eps in various formats, as they come out. Enjoy!

Today, the utterly magnificent, "almost angelic" Glorfindel sets out from Rivendell in search of the Frodo and drops a green beryl on the Last Bridge as a token of hope. Help is on the way. A day of awe! #thefellowshipofthering #Tolkien #LOTR

The evidence is actually abundantly clear at this point: knowledge and understanding of the consequences for a crime, especially murder, are not significant deterrents. It’s among the plethora of reasons that the death penalty should be abolished.

I worked for the DoD for basically Biden’s entire presidency and I’ve never seen an episode of the view. Check and mate, Hegseth!

Ultima V styled Middle-earth map jtauber.github.io/u5me/ Initially generated from Tolkien's maps but I've made various manual corrections. Let me know if you notice anything off. Scale is one tile/mile.

This sounds like literally the beginning of a sci-fi thriller about how AI killed all of humanity. James Cameron and the Wachowskis wish they had this plot.

Looking forward to the aliens reconstructing our civilization through half decayed episodes of season 19 of taskmaster

Well despite my 35 year insistence I would never watch it, I have now seen "Manos: The Hands of Fate" for the first and only time along with @frankconniff.bsky.social and @tracebeaulieu.bsky.social. You'll be able to witness that viewing and all that was said during it by year's end via The Mads.

[P] tag yourself, I'm the footlong quarter ponrit coney

Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.

It's important to remind readers that while there are a few anti-trans dems, many are doing great work. Spanberger in VA did not flinch at anti-trans attacks. Now, she just ended Governor Youngkin's infamous rule that would ban trans students from bathrooms. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Seeing people complain about the forthcoming Warlock game ditching waypoints, because they “save time.” Which is true, but so would having a button that auto-kills all the enemies. That’s sort of the point of a game: to waste time on unnecessary challenges. www.ign.com/articles/war...

i think it should be more commented on that jacobin put out a 57 page report that basically says candidates need to moderate on social issues, in particular trans rights

"The war on terror did not create American authoritarianism, but it certainly reduced the startup costs of an authoritarian presidency" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Put out some catnip for my cats and had to take a picture of her.

It’s a policing problem, i.e., the police are the problem. Always are…

Today I'll be reporting live from the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, for @dmagazine.bsky.social, which applied for press access but never received a response. Consequently, I will have the general admission experience. First step: drive ~30 minutes outside of Dallas to Grand Prairie. 1/

Mike Davis held influential roles in a previous Republican Senate and the current Republican administration, but again, he's clearly not as important as some unaffiliated Twitch streamer, so no one in the mainstream media is going to demand any Republican denounce his gutter racism.

🗣️ In the words of Marcus Aurelius: “Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”

From Dragon magazine 156, April 1990, Lou Zocchi's Gamescience announces a dice industry first, "a 10-sided die which is numbered by 10's to eliminate once and for all arguments over which die is read first for percentages." www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp...

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Yeah, but what kind of “investigation” is actually needed? He’s not been hiding the corruption; it’s all right out in the open. Just write down the illegal things he’s brazenly done in office into Articles of Impeachment and get on with it.

Why do we have so many all-purpose fascists in our government? What happened to specialization? Jackboot of all trades, Master Race of none?

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

The Mary Poppins Collection, only on Disney Prime

Man, this is huge if it turns out to be dark matter! Next up: come on, graviton!

What’s absolutely wild is that they hate one another for wanting just *slightly* different types of fascism. They both want a white ethnostate of course, but Fuentes wants it to be a Catholic theocracy and Miller wants classical National Socialism.

NEW: Seth Moulton lost. Good. Moulton’s willingness to throw trans people under the bus in 2024 showed his character. It’s good he won’t be going to the Senate. Today, at Law Dork:

I gotta say, it kinda feels like drooling out "I am now in complete control" every 2-3 days for months on end is the opposite of what it means to control something.

Underrated god-tier advice

“Bloodstain-free First Ladies” No notes

This is just…definitionally dictator stuff…

This. I want a job doing this. Literal perfection.

On the other hand, his Attorney General *did* have the ability to increase the speed of the investigations DOJ were pursuing and move more aggressively in the face of blatant judicial corruption by Judge Cannon in Florida and the failure is inexcusable.

My all-time, absolute favorite Marvel character!