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In 2016, while Pizzagate was taking off, I felt like I was losing my mind because I and EVERYBODY ELSE IN NYC KNEW that Trump and Epstein were best friends and nobody seemed to care. Epstein didn't become a US household word until the Miami Herald piece about his amazing plea deal in 2018.

the masculine alpha giga chads really are the softest men on the planet, embarrassing behavior

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

on the radio they were saying a neighborhood in Newport Beach flooded today because of a single homeowner who refused to set up sandbags lmao. unprecedented levels of climate denial in Southern California

One cool thing about being a regular Dem donor is how the party tries to demoralize me before every election. I am again drowning in spam texts clearly aimed at ripping off the elderly. Several Senate candidates have worked hard, overcoming my many "stop" replies and blocks, to make me hate them.

I can think of one other reason that makes sense.

I can't stress enough how counterproductive it is for campaign sites to hit visitors with a donation pop-up they have to close before they can see anything. A week out, most visits to these pages are voters trying to make up their minds.

If we could have had a second election in November 2024 and asked everyone “are you REALLY sure you want to do that?” maybe we wouldn’t be here lmao

“Shadow docket” is the sort of name you’d come up with if you were writing an authoritarian dystopia.

This is indeed what ought to happen to both of them.

"There are many who will claim that the reason the community is *divided* is not because of Nazis, but because some people make Nazism a hardline purity test, which makes it hard to build a coalition...with Nazis, I guess. So shame dies by atrophy." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

Yeah, what the well-heeled pundits are missing — which is wild, because it's been a decade! — is that the kitschiness is the point. Fascists LOVE kitsch. I wrote about this in 2019. Bad, corny taste is how they reassure themselves they are the herrenvolk. www.salon.com/2019/12/25/h...

We published this story late Friday afternoon amid an avalanche of news so I’m reposting it now because Kohen Wiley’s life mattered more than a box of diapers.

guy who says he is 'as left as they come' but is actually a reactionary conservative for the 90s instead of the 50s

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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...

Yes, making the richest people in the world even richer at the cost of human knowledge, skill, and labor is the dream of all working class people everywhere. We were put on this earth to give our bodies, minds, and soul to the technologists to devour and sell it back to us. That’s liberation.

my daughter gets so excited to get candy, just like any kid. and it pisses me off that she's getting worse candy than I did at her age. just feels like another way she's being taught to expect less from the world

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

I've lived long enough to watch "the center" move so far right that the GOP can now enthusiastically embrace racism, bigotry, white supremacy, dictatorship, rape, kidnapping and pedophilia and win national elections on that platform.

Is faith in meritocracy undermining American democracy? In “The Myth of Meritocracy,” @nberlat.bsky.social argues that belief in meritocracy has distracted Americans from the promise of equal participation central to democracy. Check it out at the link below!

the social media platforms are natural monopolies built on network effects. easily duplicatable if you can force the collective action to get people from one to another

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Yes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

betting markets on elections are extremely obviously biased to right-wingers winning, largely because far more right-wingers bet and a disproportionate number of them are deeply stupid and in denial about who supports them occasionally they figure out that some Dems are safe, etc but other times...

What's the worst that can happen? [clears throat & unfurls list]

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