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How racist and desperate do you have to be to look at this and say, “Got ‘em!”?

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They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

It's exactly 31%. I have a whole theory. 31% of Americans are utterly irredeemable c*&ts and should not be engaged with, only walled off. Corollary: anything with 69% support is universally supported. I came with my theory after seeing *this* poll:

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

At a certain point in completely unregulated capitalism, capital ends up in the hands of the most unscrupulous and the most cruel. They work together and buy people and political representation off. They consolidate media and cultural institutions. It. Isn't. Hard. To. Understand.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

It has been three hours and we still do not have access to the account

"I suppose you could say that insisting on the rights of all people is issuing a "political purity test." But this ignores the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push other people out of the tent are *also* issuing a political purity test." www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

They took her fucking cell phone and her passport. Who the fuck issued that search warrant, and who the fuck would attempt to litigate any part of any case that this administration may try to bring from it? I don’t see how any lawyer would go near this. It’s a legal, ethical, & political minefield

A moment of silence 😆😆

I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

Vanderbilt sub-report on Music Studies is out. TLDR: it is utter garbage. The long-awaited evidence of our “deterioration in scholarly standards” is...: "the shift from...central areas of music scholarship [Western art music] to the more peripheral areas". www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

Most people don’t realize dumb is spelled with a “B”.

Joel Pett, Lexington Herald Leader

nothing says "pride," "empowerment," and "respect" quite like mass terminations as you force labor to eat the massive debt load from pointless consolidation and nepobaby cosplay

"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."

my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:

Not The Onion

Just public about his instinct for mob boss thuggery

We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.

It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

Of course, one should bear in mind that correlation does not equal castration.

The illegal boat strikes began exactly one year ago today. The boat strikes weren’t really about stopping drugs. They were about testing for compliance to see who would obey illegal orders & purge objectors. Trump was normalizing his ability to smite anyone—like the angry God of the Old Testament.🧵

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

Just another day on the West Bank.

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.

Interacting with a flexible, accordion-like kinetic paper sculpture crafted by Chinese artist Li Hongbo using stacked paper sheets in a honeycomb structure. youtube.com/shorts/hLpe9...

She’s not subtle.