Bette Davis Side-eyes 🏳️‍⚧️

Bette Davis did side-eyes out loud on national tv. 🥹 youtube.com/shorts/4ziNI...

RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

I am old enough to remember when politicians felt the need to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation. As frustrating as these obfuscations were I hope it is becoming clear to all that they were an advance, historically speaking

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

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.

All politicians are my opps bc i feel that is the appropriate way to be a citizen in a democracy however he makes it difficult sometimes

Even the wildlife loves Mamdani

Ding ding fucking ding.

The internet can be pretty gullible about tech products, but congrats to everyone who called exactly what this was going to be used for from the first moment they saw it.

one of several things making me crazy about the latest report on the president being a rapist is that the response more or less comes down to "we knew that already"

One day everyone will have been against this.

Provided they got his permission, this is delightful.

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 vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

I keep on saying: we are in the middle of a constitutional crisis: our government is going to fail at basic things in the 120th Congress unless you impeach Russell Vought on Day One.

Just over 40,000 people have received basic incomes in over 200 pilots across the U.S. since 2017. This is 50% more people than that, from one company, and still no UBI in sight.

re: Anthropic Day Private markets have made the story of an IPO raising capital to expand business a myth. IPOs are commonly insiders and VC firms exiting while dumping risk on retail and pensions. As with their AI products, it's not Anthropic taking huge financial risks. It's the rest of us.

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.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

They want us to be scared, and sure, there is much to fear. It can always get worse. But a world that can get worse can also always get better, and our power, our vision, our beauty and our joy is stronger than anything they can imagine, and every moment we bring them to one another is a victory

Dont forget my loves, these ghouls must spend their every moment living in fear and activation in order to maintain sufficient momentum, the richest men in the world must spend all their time and money to maintain this stranglehold, and still power is constantly slipping from their grasp

Ever notice how you don’t really get any think-pieces whenever a bunch of left wing parties get elected all at once?

Omg no, he was so young. Damn. He was such a talented voice actor. It’s on the mind because I literally just watched it yesterday, but he got asked to do the taken monologue as porky pig and its a masterpiece

I'm surprised and happy Lula pulled it off, despite the far right pulling out all the stops. And I do think a top-two runoff election essentially functions as "you are considering electing a fascist. Are you sure?" prompt. It turns out the electorate needs one.

Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

As I've said, this is either an impeachable offense that Democrats act on or it's a new precedent.

Mark Zuckerberg is straight up way more evil than Elizabeth Holmes but because he’s got a lot of money the tech press has to go to his little events and pretend his ideas are valid instead of being like “what’s up with that dumbass shirt?” and “don’t you regularly influence elections/genocides?”

This is bad. And I worry that this idea of what is and isn't fair in youth sports is going to expand beyond trans kids. We'll see more and more "skilled" kids who aren't white be kicked off fields and banned for not playing fair.

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

let's fucking go