Your Friend Michael

You've asked, you've begged, (you haven't this is rhetorical), and here it is: An Andor/Dril Season 2 Thread! Since I put half the EU in the Season 1 thread (embedded below), I'm instead going to focus on our special boy, Syril Karn. (Spoilers for Andor S2 follow) Fig. 1 - Syril at the office.

Pov: you're Carrie Fisher having a very uncomfortable dinner with Ted Kennedy and this guy.

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

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 Goes HARD

Just went to a retail GameStop for a piece of my son’s Halloween costume. If you’re young and wondered what the final days of Blockbuster looked like, you can get a taste of the experience right now at your local strip mall

Hey Grok, what happens when the law is seen as completely illegitimate?

several people have replied saying they miss being bored. ok? put your phone down and go sit in an empty room. what are you talking about

Thats Chapp13, an incredible social satire / pinocchio story where a hyperpowered robot carjacks people that is 2/3rds about weird sex criminal musicians for some reason.

...scotty...

Seriously though, the fact a dude literally fucking went kerslpat and everyone was like "Dang. Nonetheless, it's time for kickoff," is cold blooded. I mean Jesus. Wait until the guy is underground first.

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

This is a case that makes my heart sink. Feng Rui (known as xiaowu) is an activist/writer focused on labour rights and one of my mutuals on social media. We don't always agree on things and sometimes he'd repost my post and challenge my view. He was arrested after

For a second i was like "AUSTRIAN?" But he caught himself. Ball-knower.

for real: get your ass to the polls, folks we’re gonna see some weird shit out there this year, you never know

This report should scare the life out of us. Instead it will be forgotten by this time tomorrow.

this isn't who we used to pretend to be

This is a ‘good strategy’ in game theory terms if you assume Trump will punish you for not rolling over and showing deference and democrats won’t. Democrats should think about altering those incentives.

I need to get this energy back in my life. I ended up writing 4000 words about Andor and reactionary personalities last year. Here it is. www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

Nah. Im not gonna let the clock beat you...

Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already

I love 21st century Europe's favorite game show "Are we actually going to vote for the Nazis this year?" Love watching it.

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Thanks for the reminder.

republicans: we are nazis media: do democrats have a Hasan Piker Bin Laden problem?

I'm sorry for being annoying, but we have 25 days left- and while we've made amazingly consistent progress this past week, with each passing day my anxiety becomes worse. I've been working to the bone all year and I don't see a rest in the cards any time soon. People aren't meant to live like this.

I wrote an essay on Andor's villains and what they say about modern reactionsries Corey Robin and @naomiaklein.bsky.social referenced. www.redfuturesmag.com/publications...

The President is unable to stay awake during Oval Office press conferences

The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.

Like when the SS told the Ustache to knock it off...

Myst

We were mid-handshake and he pulled me in and grabbed tighter and got upset and raised his voice and said: "What are you talking about man?! Those aren't real people. They're illegal aliens!"

When will reporters ask Republicans why they’re taking campaign help from a white supremacist named Elon Musk?

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death