The Shallow State

Don’t live in NYC but even occasionally visiting it seems very hard to argue that more cars on the roads would be helping anything

Photo of an ambulance stuck in gridlock traffic

on my lengthy wishlist for a new society would be a 99% reduction in "here's what i just saw on my computer" news

Grown-ass men literally in charge of the country still trying to impress their fathers. Darling, it’s just so unbelievably dull

*allegedly

The Overton window of acceptable normie voices should be between the guy who defends torture and fucks kids and the lady who defends school shootings as the price of freedom and fucks her gun

Populism

Glad they don’t entertain the notion that it’s because they want any kind of justice for victims of child sex trafficking but I’m also very tired of every fucking devastating thing happening anywhere ever being some kind of barometer or referendum on midterms

Take off your rosy-tinted glasses, Hell World guy

They flipped out about rap music for *decades*

She literally wouldn’t let one Pro-Palestinian speaker talk at the convention

Dude who scored a zero percent support of black supporters (not just in the 2020 race, this year too) and ran for President as “mediocre Midwest mayor but gay” thinks we should back off on identity stuff

AITA: I think all prisoners, no matter how vile, should have unlimited toilet paper

THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
Director: Alan Crosland

Screenshot of Reductress post. Jake tapper sitting next to Hakeem Jeffries Text reads: Establishment Democrats Just Not Sure if Mamdani Went About Decisive, Crushing Victory the Right Way @reductress Reductress*

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Back in olden times they thought someone could turn gay just because Johnny came marching home

A SSRS/CNN poll showing 61% people think Trump has gone too far using the power of the presidency and 57% think he's gone too far deporting immigrants.

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

RIP to a monumental talent

Greta Thunberg’s “Fairytales of eternal economic growth” always rings in my ear, like a 16yo autistic girl has a better grasp on this self-mythologizing trap than every single person with a Harvard business degree

“Ah but this time it will be all boom and no bust”- literally every hot investment over the past 40 years

Just as a fish doesn’t know what water is, finance/tech bros who live in bubbles have a hard time seeing what literally anyone with eyes looking inward could see since the slop sale started

“They don’t really care about us” - a department designed to terrorize people with a budget of 10s of billions of dollars

In all honesty though, seen a lot of oppressed people use that song (without the offensive lyrics) on TikTok so it’s probably just a troll too.

This MJ song combines their two favorite thing, saying racial slurs and molesting children

Anybody else wandering around with “Return of the Repressed” to the tune of Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack” stuck in their head?

Oh, just me?

"while i disagree with the methods of my esteemed colleague hitlerlover69 who sent a Palestinian student to an El Salvadoran death camp, i do think that saying 'from the river to the sea' is the same as dropping 7 atom bombs on a synagogue"- octogenarian senator decaying in real time