American resiliency is easy to achieve - you simply elect progressive governments that don’t funnel all money to billionaires. Ffs this is dumb.
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
American resiliency is easy to achieve - you simply elect progressive governments that don’t funnel all money to billionaires. Ffs this is dumb.
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VC firm Andreessen Horowitz hired Daniel Penny for choking a black man to death on the New York subway
To recap:
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
•Rittenhouse killed 2 people at a BLM rally & raised $2M
•Shiloh Hendrix called a Black child the n-word & raised $800K
•Now Crystal Wilsey called a Black customer the n-word & has already raised $100K in 1 day
On thing remains clear—White supremacy remains extremely profitable in America
December 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz hired Daniel Penny for choking a black man to death on the New York subway
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Some of you may be like “what about people who can’t breastfeed or babies who can’t latch” and the answer is that he wants your babies to die
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Some of you may be like “what about people who can’t breastfeed or babies who can’t latch” and the answer is that he wants your babies to die
It pains me to admit as a Jew but a lot of Israeli Jews learned the wrong lesson from the Holocaust and decided that they would be jury, judge, and executioner moving forward. This was not the lesson of the Holocaust - the lesson was not have fascists in charge… Israel now is led by mostly fascists.
Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir and other members of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party wore golden noose-shaped pins to a Knesset National Security Committee meeting to discuss a bill to execute Palestinian detainees.
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It pains me to admit as a Jew but a lot of Israeli Jews learned the wrong lesson from the Holocaust and decided that they would be jury, judge, and executioner moving forward. This was not the lesson of the Holocaust - the lesson was not have fascists in charge… Israel now is led by mostly fascists.
Yeah cool man but where’s my $12B for the fact that everything costs twice as much and is also shittier.
Also there is an easy solution which is stop all the tariffs ffs.
Also there is an easy solution which is stop all the tariffs ffs.
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Yeah cool man but where’s my $12B for the fact that everything costs twice as much and is also shittier.
Also there is an easy solution which is stop all the tariffs ffs.
Also there is an easy solution which is stop all the tariffs ffs.
Slight addendum - the media will normalize anything with the minor caveat that anything cannot include progressive ideas which would better most Americans and do not involve making the richest few 10x richer.
it’s just remarkable how thoroughly the media has normalized all of this; how clearly the media will normalize absolutely anything provided it endures longer than a handful of news cycles.
This is just how we do mergers now.
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
"Paramount executives also plan to argue their deal will have a much shorter regulatory approval process given the company’s smaller size and friendly relationship with the Trump administration."
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/p...
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Slight addendum - the media will normalize anything with the minor caveat that anything cannot include progressive ideas which would better most Americans and do not involve making the richest few 10x richer.
It is objectively insane that the president keeps on having opinions on stuff like this that he should 100% not be anywhere close to
Trump attacks the new Ellison-owned Paramount, saying "THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP" of CBS. Paramount is biding for Warner on the premise that it has a good relationship with Trump.
(The rest of Trump's post is a complaint about Marjorie-Taylor Greene.)
(The rest of Trump's post is a complaint about Marjorie-Taylor Greene.)
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It is objectively insane that the president keeps on having opinions on stuff like this that he should 100% not be anywhere close to
Given the way most CEOs operate these days, it feels like a pretty low skill job.
December 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Given the way most CEOs operate these days, it feels like a pretty low skill job.
Yes and 100% of corporations employ lobbyists and lawyers so that they can underpay their employees and overcharge their customers so honestly I see no issue with this.
More than 1 in 4 self-checkout shoppers admit they've stolen: Survey
More than 1 in 4 self-checkout shoppers admit they’ve stolen: Survey
More than a third of self-checkout thieves see the kiosks as “unpaid work” so taking small items “feels like compensation.”
ktla.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yes and 100% of corporations employ lobbyists and lawyers so that they can underpay their employees and overcharge their customers so honestly I see no issue with this.
The worst users of AI are execs who fundamentally don’t understand what ai is good at and what ai is bad at.
December 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The worst users of AI are execs who fundamentally don’t understand what ai is good at and what ai is bad at.
It is hard to explain to gen alpha / gen z that back when millenials were their age, not all celebrity women had largely identical faces.
This piece by @jiatolentino.bsky.social still rings so true - it’s freaky.
www.newyorker.com/culture/deca...
This piece by @jiatolentino.bsky.social still rings so true - it’s freaky.
www.newyorker.com/culture/deca...
The Age of Instagram Face
From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It is hard to explain to gen alpha / gen z that back when millenials were their age, not all celebrity women had largely identical faces.
This piece by @jiatolentino.bsky.social still rings so true - it’s freaky.
www.newyorker.com/culture/deca...
This piece by @jiatolentino.bsky.social still rings so true - it’s freaky.
www.newyorker.com/culture/deca...
If Luigi does get off it will be a great opportunity for the richest among us to finally feel the fear that every other American feels every single day of their life.
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If Luigi does get off it will be a great opportunity for the richest among us to finally feel the fear that every other American feels every single day of their life.
One day you wake up and your entire phone is just photos of your child.
It is that day for me.
It is that day for me.
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One day you wake up and your entire phone is just photos of your child.
It is that day for me.
It is that day for me.
I just want to never see “commenting for reach” again. Is that too much to ask?
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I just want to never see “commenting for reach” again. Is that too much to ask?
One of the main reasons that British and Irish shows are great is that people look human, like actually human, not weird af airbrushed roided out with unnaturally perfect proportions etc. American shows are not normal and we should stop pretending they are.
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
One of the main reasons that British and Irish shows are great is that people look human, like actually human, not weird af airbrushed roided out with unnaturally perfect proportions etc. American shows are not normal and we should stop pretending they are.
A winning Dem message would involve saying this is a fascist takeover of government and a republican party that is interesting in stealing your money and watching you die by the side of the road. It's not a hard message.
Courage and honesty is the only path.
Courage and honesty is the only path.
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A winning Dem message would involve saying this is a fascist takeover of government and a republican party that is interesting in stealing your money and watching you die by the side of the road. It's not a hard message.
Courage and honesty is the only path.
Courage and honesty is the only path.
I hate to break it to y’all but if you’re getting most of your news from social media and you don’t have any real sources, you’re almost certainly not getting actual news.
December 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I hate to break it to y’all but if you’re getting most of your news from social media and you don’t have any real sources, you’re almost certainly not getting actual news.
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I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
If any other president kept on falling asleep in cabinet meetings, the entire media infrastructure of America would be screaming at the top of their lungs.
This is madness.
This is madness.
December 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
If any other president kept on falling asleep in cabinet meetings, the entire media infrastructure of America would be screaming at the top of their lungs.
This is madness.
This is madness.
X is just 4chan but in addition to trolls and Nazis, there are a bunch of centrist democrats are pretending they aren’t on 4chan.
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
X is just 4chan but in addition to trolls and Nazis, there are a bunch of centrist democrats are pretending they aren’t on 4chan.
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Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Every new word in this sentence is worse than the last
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I just want to add my own experience to Sohla’s excellent piece. I started working for media sites online in 2008, writing short factual articles for a kind of wiki-like site. I got paid between $10-14 per article, not terrible at the time. And then, a pattern started that happened over and over.
“My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each. None of those shots aired. I was never informed [by the New York Times] why, but can only assume that it would have been a bad look to open the episodes with a sweaty, heavily pregnant woman about to pass out.”
sorry about your cookies
this is probably TMI
sohla.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I just want to add my own experience to Sohla’s excellent piece. I started working for media sites online in 2008, writing short factual articles for a kind of wiki-like site. I got paid between $10-14 per article, not terrible at the time. And then, a pattern started that happened over and over.
ritual hanging for billionaires it is.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
ritual hanging for billionaires it is.
Uniquely qualified to do fuck all - no thanks
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Uniquely qualified to do fuck all - no thanks