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“Every billionaire is a policy failure” has been a catchcry for ages. But it’s increasingly clear to me that every billionaire is also a *moral* failure. It’s simply not possible to have reality-warping wealth and maintain any moral compass or sense of ethics.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

"El Sayed dug up the buried implication of Tommy's question, held it up for all to examine, and then, one shovelful after another, question by question, buried Tommy in the hole left behind." www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

Yeah, what the well-heeled pundits are missing — which is wild, because it's been a decade! — is that the kitschiness is the point. Fascists LOVE kitsch. I wrote about this in 2019. Bad, corny taste is how they reassure themselves they are the herrenvolk. www.salon.com/2019/12/25/h...

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

We gotta have a conversation about how comfortable Republicans have become saying "tranny" and nip that shit in the bud.

I talked to Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker who was arrested at work, while he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. I called him again once he was deported to Mogadishu. Here's what he had to say.

It was actually better when the bigotry was subtext.

hate when a blurb for a book is "a page-turner..." yeah that's what a book is, idiot, congratulations on your first day alive

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

His first idea out of the gate is a tax cut? Is he auditioning for the LNP???

OK, David, now try to pose like a fucking supervillain. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Astonishing: Maxwell was willing to tell Blanche about some of Trump's rapes, and he ordered her not to. "Let's not talk about inviduals." WTF were they there to talk about? There's EVIDENCE on this.

Because it really is the behavior of people who don't even perceive the *existence* of a movement, who treat politics like it's just their little personal little league game to win or lose. It's wrecker shit, fundamentally. Insecure, pathetic behavior.

And so I have to ask, where would we be in some parallel world where the socialism and liberty party, or the worker's party, had this particular brain worm and worried about the ~*~optics~*~ of campaigning with her, of letting her be the incredibly effective leader that she is?

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

When one understands that the Republicans are no longer the party of buisness but of rent seeking, things make way more sense.

Algebra, numbers, principles of optics, medical encyclopedias, astronomy, hospitals, surgical tools, universities, coffee, lab chemistry--all of Arabic origin. This mfer had a brain worm, collects road kills, sounds like a dial up modem, works out in jeans. This is a uniquely American arrogance.

A Palestinian won the Nobel Prize last year

“Shadow docket” is the sort of name you’d come up with if you were writing an authoritarian dystopia.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Yet again, every accusation is a confession. Destroying knowledge? A stagnant society of warmongers? Obsessed with victimisation? Look in a mirror, you maligant freak.* *With much love to all the noble freaks of the world, you keep up the good work.

they're all on xitter and deep frying their brains with "the perfidious jew invented evil gender ideology to groom your kids through steven universe and make the white man a servant to israel" slop so insular they don't even realize how associating these two things looks to people on the outside

"The calls for civility only ever come in response to legitimate democratic pushback – not the issues fuelling dissent."

Big Brother is watching, but now we can watch Big Brother right back. I love that MapQuest is flipping the script. Apple Maps, where you at?!

a moment of appreciation for boobs the big ones, the small ones. H cups and A cups. we love the pillow bearers with back problems and the itty bitty titty committee boobs are so cool and good

Well will you look at that. The group supposedly run by a John Grimwade (which seems to have people auditing media & commerce so they can flag anything annoying the pro-Israel far right) is setting up a campaign against ABC’s Raf Epstein. #Auspol

Jay-Z picking himself to perform the Super Bowl halftime show

In letter to Washington’s SOS threatening legal action over alleged noncitizens on rolls, DOJ gets the date wrong for the election, writing Nov. 2, 2026. Election Day is Nov. 3. And they misspell voter rolls as “roles” MS NOW obtained a copy of DOJ letter demanding WA set aside ballots

Beyond a new rape allegation, the @democrats-judiciary.house.gov report implicates current Attorney General Todd Blanche, stating he "may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while acting on a mission to protect Trump," referring to an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems like news!

I think it is important to say about this, that from all the data we have on long covid, that if these people have covid (currently high in the US) around 10% of these people are going to walk away with a chronic, possibly permanent disability, and that should not be an acceptable number to anyone.