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Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

Anyone remember when the Spectator put out an article condemning RRR for being too mean about the British empire written by a man named Rob Tombs?

I am obsessed with these women volonteering as escorts outside abortion clinics absolutely sizzling Christian dipshits

It's baffling to me that some of you are obsessed with strangers on the internet who are saying "this is not good enough" about someone's politics. If you are worried about a candidate's electoral chances and you think that matters, phone bank for them or something.

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.

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I still don’t have my rent paid that’s due in 6 days. I have a lot of pain from my fall last night. I have a lot of anxiety from my fall last night and my choking sensation. Can we get my rent paid so I have some less anxiety pretty please I’m sorry im genuinely doing my best I promise

went to a wedding yesterday and we kept laughing at this meme

I’m uploading the Ugly Reykjavik videos to YouTube. I try to take short videos when I remember, mostly for myself to remember the sights and sounds. I will now be dumping them on YouTube for those interested in ugly little videos from Iceland 😄 The first one is last week's abandoned farmhouse.

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A story of the trans community's resilience and expanding cultural relevance, even as our lives are threatened by the fascist political movement that made us enemy #1. Don't miss this, from @c-cauterucci.bsky.social, on @slate.com slate.com/life/2026/10...

Their incompetence is so staggering - even if they genuinely hate trans women, you would assume victory would be more important, but they consistently ignore polling in favor of abusing their constituency - they've opened themselves up to something I never imagined, soc dem electoral takeover.

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

Okay if this is going to do numbers then watch the whole 15 minute interview here: kmbc.com/article/one-...

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

The purpose of emotions is to lead you through a “range & complexity of potential answers” without much effort. You don’t feel overwhelmed by this task if you realize it’s not a logic problem. It’s “what three words feel good & true to describe this person you love?”

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

Theirs is a movement of terror and suicidal despair, projection and self-delusion, and they can only lose since even winning for them is a living death. But our victories will not simply be experiential and affective, we are going to destroy their world and return this planet to itself in liberation

They let me pet an opossum today, her name is Opal and isn’t she perfect

I know the vast majority of you are here because of my art, but I need to share a thread about Brazilian politics because what we achieved today deserves to be mentioned and celebrated I'll do my best to be objective for those who have no idea what was happening

since when did settlement get granted automatically because I’m pretty sure I had to pay £4k and also fill out a pretty long application and provide about a dozen pieces of paper evidence and also live here for a fucking decade and pay visa fees and health surcharges the whole fucking time

Yep. So proud of Braziian family and friends. One tiny example: three days before the vote, raising money to pay for fuel, so that an indigenous community in the Xingu could take the six hour round trip by boat to vote. They simply refused to accept defeat, even when it looked almost inevitable.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

What is true is that this was a conflict—and make no mistake, this was a conflict; this was a protracted battle in a hybrid war, more than anything—that was largely fought by large numbers of people laboriously working to unfuck the nation's informational environment.

Lula Goes HARD

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bring back shame

lmfao brutal

So when I convert video files in Handbrake, my "conversion complete" sound is the Tekken 3 announcer. I'm sitting here watching Tree House of Horror when suddenly the conversion ended with perfect timing