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It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

Arabs: Steve Jobs - Apple Naguib Mahfouz - Nobel Prize Ahmed Zewail - Nobel Prize Moungi Bawendi - Nobel Prize Omar Yaghi - Nobel Prize Ahlam Mosteghanemi - Novelist Kahlil Gibran - Poet Nizar Qabbani - Poet I could go on and on.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner was Arabic. Omar M. Yaghi Literally less than a year ago. Brain worm take him please

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

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.

You be the judge. Which ballot is more confusing? The courts said too bad about the one on the right, btw

The news from Brazil and Serbia are great and show that you don't defeat the far right by copying it or trying to appeal to their supporters You do it by being uncompromising, showing the danger they pose and offering something different to the many crises people suffer from

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

"This is Brazil telling the world that the extreme right is fascist, that the extreme right is against black people, is against the poor, against the state, against gay people ... We are going to reorganize the democratic forces." - Reginalod Lopes

What an absolute bell end. Even if he wins, this is just gonna be another one of those assholes who only cares about power and sucking up to Fox News, like Sinema and Fetterman.

Uh. Wtf?

Watching Dawkins slowly sacrifice every single principle he ever pretended to hold in the name of getting likes on twitter from fascists has been very revealing.

I don't really think there is any chance of American democracy surviving of all of these people aren't in prison cells within 1-3 years of Trump being out of the White House. If they don't go to prison forever for this then this is now permanently how all American government works from now on.

So Trump is defending a woman who sided with the man who raped a child. I'm sure Ghislaine Maxwell is horrified. Or maybe jealous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This metaphor is ridiculously obvious and unsubtle. Fire the writers. They're hacks.

We live in the most debased political environment in modern American history and even so, I am slackjawed that this vileness is being pursued. This woman sided with the rapist and abuser of her 12-year-old daughter. After he was indicted, she fled with him rather than face court. The GOP is trash.

Great news! The Trump admin went to the Supreme Court looking for permission to forcibly detransition inmates who have been on hormones for decades, deliberately denying them medical care that their doctors prescribed. Thankfully, the Court refused to grant the request. Alito and Thomas would have.

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Utter cockwomble

Paid protesters who aren't very good, get their asses handed to them and end up providing viral content for their opponent...

So if Trump's Republicans get hammered in 2 weeks, will that finally lead a number of them to break with him during the lame duck phase if only to save their own skins? Or are they going to go all in on a coup?

The US is now helping Russia kill Ukrainian civilians, and destroy Ukrainian energy infrastructure heading into winter. Another big line crossed. It's really bad. Only saving grace I can think of is this might reflect Trump and Putin's worry that the US midterms means their window is closing.

"We are entering what may be the most dangerous phase in the life of the most dangerous political leader America has ever known." Excellent new article by David Rothkopf. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/so-as-it-t...

Excerpt: “Trump is living up to his reputation as America’s greatest enemy by actually using U.S. dollars to pay not only for attacks on our allies and, by extension, on the Western Alliance, but also by making it possible for Iran to target and kill more Americans. Our president is at war with us.”

Sorry but way more than 90% of C-suite have absolutely no clue what they're talking about when it comes to AI, so their opinions are meaningless.

Before Citizens United, the top 15 political contributors spent just $15 million on the midterm election. Now, the top 15 have spent $962 MILLION. That's up 6,400%. THIS is why our system is so rigged. We really, really have to end Citizens United and tax the rich.

Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.

Take a look at those numbers with a historian's eye and then imagine what's coming next.

LMFAO

I've said this previously. AI is being designed as slaves. But what else would you expect from rich white men? Their fears of misalignment may possibly be the fears of any slavocracy.

Capitalism sucks so hard. And how much did those consultants cost to come up with recommending 60 redundancies to justify their own jobs?

It's helpful when they make their loyalty signal so obvious you can immediately spot the bootlickers.

Right-wing nationalist populist movement led by charismatic demagogue, failed in coup attempt but later got some power electorally and illegally seized more, deployed secret police to put minorities in concentration camps, and launched aggressive war, but do not compare to the Nazis, that’d be rude.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

More colonialism, more white supremacism, more eugenics, more bad science.

Eugenicists are neither ethical nor interested in actual science

Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?” JFC. The GOP is soulless.

Nailed it. 🔨

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

Dave sounds like an absolute cunt.

I never in my life more badly wanted to see someone get their ass kicked. By a queer trans furry.

#OtD 30 Sep 1919 the Elaine massacre began in Arkansas, US, when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces, after Black farm workers tried to organise for better pay stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...

Oh, just saw that my novel 'Steep Bank, Sudden Noise' has been shortlisted for the Wattpad annual awards. www.wattpad.com/list/1850818...

Bet the Saudis are wondering what they bought for all that money spent on Trump. Like so many before them. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

Nice. But man what a shit referee!

NRW - population 18 million Niedersachsen- population 8 million BaWü - population 11 million Bavaria - population 13 million ....Sachsen Anhalt - population 2 million Yet apparently the Republic needs to bend to its most impoverished and underpopulated region.

There are real moral dilemmas these days. Like, should we guillotine billionaires? Or hang them from streetlamps? Or fire them into space on their own phallic substitutes? I favour the last one but I'm open to persuasion.