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"Arabs don't produce literature" man as one of the most acute victims of US imperialism the Arab World has produced some of the most trenchant works of art dealing with the absurdity of living under an illegitimate authoritarian regime and Americans dealing with MAGA would do well to learn from them

How is this brand of political engagement and advocacy entitled to any non-profit tax-exempt status? How is this is any difference than the messaging from a political organization or PAC? How the fuck how?

650,000 PEOPLE killed in the war Russia started by invading Ukraine, but Zelensky hits a Russian BOT farm, and Musk says,

Full Stop: the House of Representatives is NOT a continuing body. There is no Speaker of the House as of noon 1/3/27. If a notary public could issue the oath to Calvin Coolidge, that's certain fine enough for a Congressperson. Please loudly dismiss this nonsense before there's an Atlantic piece.

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

We are days away from Trump declaring that crops be watered with Gatorade and our entire political establishment going along with it.

Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit

Arrogance, thy name is Tom Emmer. 😡 🤬

Democrats are well positioned to inherit power thanks to disgust with Trump, but ultimately none of this is about what Dems did in response to Trump. They mostly capitulated and are benefiting from being the other party in a two party system, I don’t have any positive expectations for them.

BINGO!

Is Trump encouraging pedophilia? Not a single American male in the Epstein files has been held accountable for child rape.

this whole narrative that these giant companies are going to impose meaningful ethical guardrails on themselves in a country to corrupt to have working regulators is painful and clownish and I wish the press would cover it better

splitting the difference between SS and Star Wars Empire officer uniforms

"Bad Guys in Charge Now" isn't a headline that runs in the major news outlets *in the country where the bad guys are in charge*

The person who told Tim Walz to stop calling them “weird” should be in The Hague

well at least now they're being honest about the goals here

Tech billionaires are not your friend.

cosign. trump is just doing his shtick. the reporters that roll over for him are the ones undermining democracy and the rights that people died for.

Isn’t it hilarious that our demented president either will nakedly lie or is totally deluded about even the most minor of his failures, and will demand our Justice Department prosecute innocent Americans in order to support his obvious fabrications? Hilarious. www.nbcwashington.com/news/preside...

Epstein was too skeezy for Hugh Hefner but not Larry Summers. Which tracks.

So, the Director of the FBI is working with Russia against Americans. Seems treasonous to me.

This seems awfully on the nose: People in distress. Billionaire sails on by. Regular people help out. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/cruis...

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

I knew he was never going to let this go. He will soon demand that somebody fabricate evidence and put someone in prison for an imaginary crime, all to soothe his narcissistic black hole of an ego, which insists that he always be right. He must be a persecuted victim and nothing is ever his fault.

The Odyssey, everyone is a Muppet except Antinous (played by Adam Driver)

Just watched "The Simpsons Movie" for the first time, reading about it and discovering we were seriously robbed

This post is Schrödinger’s rickroll.

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I have no idea how you would ever teach literature seriously under these conditions.

We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

when you realize that reporters like haberman care more about the process of the news and their role in it than the substance of what they cover, you see how broken the whole thing is

I will never forget waking up at 3am every morning as they turned the floodlights on outside to place more bodies into the mobile morgue outside my window. Everyone’s beloved dead, stacked nightly like so much excess, while the waking city was a claustrophobic nightmare. Never.

ai finding a way to make *literally* everything even worse. we’re getting to the point where butlerian jihad may be the only option left.

senate dems didnt even bother to hold a hearing on musk when they had majorities.

The media will be there telling touching the stove is the only thing keeping them alive

if george soros, or any other major dem donor, was as pervy and racist as musk, republicans would never shut up about it. but instead it is state dems who are doing the work here. sigh.

1,100,000 Americans died from Covid, and these fucking scumbags want everyone to believe that it was all a hoax & didn't happen. My Mom died in a Covid ward in 2020. I couldn't get in to see her. A nurse held up the phone to my Mom's ear so I could tell her goodbye. I hate these people. Truly.