Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

guys i think she might be unqualified

to work at a mcdonalds

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

Can confirm this is 100%, exactly how it has always been. I was there, a long time ago. But a lot of liberals are addicted to the fantasy that Trump made all of this happen instead of the reality that all of this made Trump happen.

I’m Amanda Marcotte and I’m here today in my capacity as the arbiter of who has moral decency. And guess who it is? It’s my powerful friends

"when people say that it is the job of college professors to keep students engaged but that we can also not ban devices, I want to sigh performatively—how, exactly, am I supposed to keep them hooked when Hollywood can’t keep them hooked?" musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

Excellent reporting

“And it's not just to protect them: It's to protect all of us. Because then who's to stop the federal government from saying, ‘No, you're wrong, you're a criminal, you're bad. We don't have to prove it. We're in charge.’ It doesn't stop. It never, ever stops.”

This is the second AI company this year the military has signed A contract with that is promising a virtual girlfriend

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

either kindly or batshit insane no in between

red onionssssss

You hear that? That's the Sirens folks, that's them calling out right now, luring the sailors onto the rocks. Beautiful sound. I'm told they're half bird half woman, I said well which half is which? Some would like the bottom half some prefer the top. I'm not so keen on the bird part, not so keen.

Hey man, if you’re free later me and the boys were thinking of getting together and pressing X to snap to cover.

brandy-snifter-full-of-vienna sausages-ass restaurant

50 will be mostly unsustainable when half a dozen of these demesnes will have something like 100x the people. States like montana might be saved by being an essentially barren steppe duchy with no resources but clay and phosphorous or whatever

Aliens have emp'd the nuke subs, humanities only hope is a 1943 diesel electric sub they have to get in fighting shape

It’s time we had more movies about submarines and I’m sick and fucking tired of having to say this obvious truth!

i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human

I hope everyone understands that this means that many people who are undocumented will no longer come to any court hearings on any matter.

Not as a litigant, not as a victim, not as a parent, not as a witness.

"even the people who did the inquisition reviled Columbus" is making me think about how The Inquisition itself was actually the woke reform REIGNING IN what the various Catholic Orders were doing BEFORE

chalk up another one for the jesuits

One person on this list is a school counselor at a high school down the street from me and she’s been purged from the website so fast Google cache doesn’t know about it yet