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Putin and Netanyahu. Two UN-recognized war criminals that the US government is actively aiding and abetting.

I hope it's not too late for me to say I think Bryan Johnson is a creepy ghoul and I resent having to know a single thing about him.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

A U.N.-backed inquiry is reporting that Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine by intentionally attacking energy infrastructure, which left millions of people without electricity and heat in freezing temperatures.

Well played

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

corporate media routinely describes Tim Scott as a moderate and celebrates his "relentless optimism"

Motherfucker, you eat roadkill and snort heroin off of shit covered toilets

It is genuinely weird that Trump has spent his whole life surrounded by extraordinary wealth and still has the absolute trashiest, tackiest taste imaginable.

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.

"One-hundred-and-third verse, same as the first!"

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.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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 don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

It is atrocious we have to operate under this constant credible and explicit threat from one political party, the fact we keep calling it a “free and fair election” needs some light revising

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

It's really damning. The accusations are numerous and well-supported. But I was really struck by the descriptions of Trump's behavior -- the name dropping, strong-arming, and attempts to buy off silence. His gross rivalry with Epstein. It's all so familiar. It's shit he's been doing his entire life.

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

The party that’s willfully made room for the worst elements in society for generations is now trying to feign shock at finding themselves in bed with nazis. John Oliver holds their feet to the fire, and it’s brutal.

Lmao. Fascists are such fucking losers.

Ethics aside, this take could use some contact with reality. Biden's expanded CTC didn't motivate recipients to vote to maintain it. Trump offered $5000 checks and it hurt him in the polls. The empirical claim that welfare creates single issue voters just doesn't hold up.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

Like many others I assumed this was funny hyperbole -- "call in the national guard!" type of thing -- but no it's a description of events.

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

No fatalism please. A victory agaibst the odds over an authoritarian.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Trump claims bump after pumping slumping schlump's plum rump

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

This is garbage. It's very easy to say: "My opponent is a creep who wants to inspect your children's genitalia. I think government should mind its own fucking business." Makes me sick that Turek doesn't have the guts or the interest in fighting for the underdogs here.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

Very different vibe, but: A few years ago we ordered at a local Subway right as it got hit by a power outage. Young lady at the counter was new and didn’t know what to do with the power out, so she just gave us the food for free. Wouldn’t even accept a $20 bill, so we left it as a tip.

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

They know what they’ve done and who their audience is. An entire political ideology based on “our people can do whatever they want, we don’t give a shit if it’s illegal, and don’t you dare try to punish us for it”.

Seems like the Trump White House agrees with everyone who says the Trump White House had committed countless crimes

i have 75 agents praying to send this guy to hell, effectively cancelling out his prayers