Eric Riback

My moment of Zen.

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

Neoliberalism: The currency is somehow created by tax payers & bond holders. Reality: The state creates the currency & banks create loans The euro using countries need the ECB to act like a federal institution

A poll of 1% of the population would be the most accurate ever taken.

I’ve already come up with a half dozen conspiracies after seeing this.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

The guy who made his fortune by giving Alzheimer’s patients and their families false hope just tried to exploit the sex abuse his opponent suffered as a child for his own political gain. Republicans are a Mad Libs of depraved cruelty and moral degeneracy. Just horrible people.

Adjusted for inflation, this is ten times the value of Fall's bribe in the Teapot Dome scandal.

This is the most important story of the year. Everyone must read this article from the Wall Street journal. Musk is manipulating Starlink/Starshield to slow down the offensive capabilities of the a Ukrainian military. Congress MUST act now to stop Musk. #RedactElon archive.is/2026.10.20-2...

Once a year, my one-stoplight village is overrun by Big Yarn. They control the needles. They control the narrative.

I know the NYT gets a lot of criticism for its headlines but you have to admit that this one is amazing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

Tommy are you listening?

A quick visit to Atlantic City youtube.com/watch?v=UGga...

"The erudite, charismatic Obama revealed the insecurities of the people who, only a few years later, would call themselves 'MAGA,' by disproving their hopes that whiteness confers an excellence that they, on their own merits, could never produce." www.salon.com/2026/10/16/t...

Gosh, anyone know anyone who voted to approve all of this?!?

Katie Zacharia makes Karoline Leavitt seem like Winston Churchill

Bernie has a plan just like that.

Dumbest player I’ve ever seen, by Washington.

Courage and Care www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/o...

This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.

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At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

Susan Collins says we can’t abolish ICE because we need somebody to go after the criminal immigrants. Being that she joined the Senate before ICE existed you’d think she would remember that we had immigration enforcement then too.

About Fucking Time.

The moment the GOP completely lost its soul 👇 In 2015, Donald Trump publicly disparaged John McCain’s Vietnam-era military service, saying “He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.” #CadetBoneSpurs

You cannot convince me that frat brothers organically walked into separate police interviews using the same word, “consensual,” and that it wasn’t coordinated. Especially after a witness told police there was allegedly a fraternity meeting to get everyone “on the same page”.

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.

Farewell to Eva Marie Saint. ❤️

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

Florida (wo)Man wgme.com/news/nation-...

After 10 years of cravenly and fraudulently presenting the Know-Nothing Nazified Republican Party as one of two sane, understandable choices, major news organizations are not able to report the obvious, which is that U.S. voters seem to be increasingly coming to their senses. Epic, epic fail.

Have you noticed that every customer service department is experiencing higher than normal call volumes all the time?

“It was not clear why taxpayer funds, and not money from the super PAC, were used for the spots.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 There’s an old joke whose punch line is “because he can.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

Roughly a quarter of Americans consider themselves to be democratic socialists - more than consider themselves allied with the MAGA movement. Which translates into roughly half of Democrats considering themselves democratic socialists AP-NORC poll apnorc.org/wp-content/u...

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Fun fact: the U.S. House can sue a sitting president with a simple majority vote. If the Democrats retake the chamber, they should do more than just "investigate" Trump's corruption. They should sue him in federal court for the illegal ballroom, Qatari jet, and more.

He imposed Shania Law

It's not just in the sense that the law must apply equally to all people and in the sense that many who committed similar crimes will walk. But it's imperative we make several prominent examples of Trump officials for no other reason that their lives will serve as a warning to others.

been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

we used to be a proper country.

This is utterly enraging and I gotta be honest, I have no idea how to fix it. It’s a symptom of a much, much deeper problem. The next two years are just going to be a slog.

lol these fucking idiots The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...