Normal Jake

It’s time to pick a side

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

Smash indies becoming publishers and sharing the wealth is the best thing to ever happen to this industry, and it’s a joy when their templates cross my desk as the terms are often extremely fair and the negotiations are always super amicable and pleasant

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

Ronald Reagan's first FCC chair—in a sworn declaration submitted in the ABC case—on the FCC under Trump and Brendan Carr: “Never in its history has the agency ever acted so corruptly and unlawfully to intrude on broadcasters’ First Amendment rights.” techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.

I have been driving a Jeep Wrangler for the past couple of weeks while my car is in the shop, and holy hell is it the worst vehicle I've ever driven by a wide margin. People pay $50k+ for these????

This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

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interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

So on one hand, we have obscene price increases due to AI driven memory/storage hitting both PC and console hardware prices. On the other hand, PlayStation/Xbox are busy killing their own platforms through unsustainable studio acquisition/closure cycles. Incredible work everyone, the future rules

Cover the fields Cover the parking lots Upgrade to an EV Ride an e-Bike and Transit when you're not driving your upgraded to EV Until we are out of crisis use every f*cking real rapid and cost effective tool we have

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Literally learned this today from a PBS video.

I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Had to dig up a hard copy for this one.

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Housing policy is climate policy. (Climate policy is also housing policy, because the point of influencing the climate is so that we can live in it.)

Threads of change. Not crumbs of hope.

There's no better distillation of Project 2025 than this: an illegal action, taken without any public oversight, for inherently corrupt purposes, now held to be irreversible for no other reason than because they added poison pills to make it unacceptably damaging.

Conservatives have spent decades labeling everything left of Ronald Reagan as marxist/socialist/communist, while at the same time exclusively enacting policies that benefit the wealthy. They have themselves shifted public opinion far enough, that we're going to enact all of these

At this point, the claims that elections are "rigged" are in the same realm as claims of demonic possession. The people behind this alleged conspiracy are clearly, in the GOP imagining, actual wizards, possessed of dark magic. That and also "rigged" means "they let Black people vote."

In my experience, the kind of professional women being derided as "HR ladies" are more intelligent, more competent, & more decent than any given 50 of the pissant manbabies out there deriding them to impress one another.

our parents spent decades warning us not to believe anything we read online and then the exact second they got facebook accounts decided every conspiracy theory was real

Trying to imagine what it's like to cheer on these kind of rulings and get depressed when SCOTUS strengthens the rights of people I actually know in real life.

cannot be overstated how stupid this guy is. they have to give him posters that say like “America LOVE Ballroom” with a picture of a big smiley face before every presser or else he falls asleep. he simply cannot comprehend any information that isn’t delivered in comparative pictograms

(twenty seconds after learning who Scott Pelley is) i love Scott Pelley