This week felt like someone ran a blacklight over the hotel bedspread of politics and it all came up smeary swastikas

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Just take a moment to really sit with the fact that someone in the White House thought “this will be funny” and wrote a prompt to generate video of King Trump shitting all over Americans. Completely bereft of human decency or any sense of the solemnity of government service.

Editor1: How should we handle kinda demented behavior from the leader of the free world, styling himself as a king dumping shit on his detractors?

Editor2: Mild bemusement?

Editor1: See that’s why you have the CSJ degree

I will never for the life of me understand those who have been born into (an imperfect) democracy, who crave authoritarianism. Like wtaf happened in your life that you want someone to rule over every aspect of your obviously miserable life?

I knew Samir Rao quite well in college, and through the same social circle, Vivek Ramaswamy. Absolutely nothing prepared me for what either of them would become. Hilarious and truly bizarre at the same time.

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

My sister and I were those kids. Somehow I managed to become the only non-lawyer in the family! But weirdly, the only one who listens to Lawfare.

He IS a muppet!

someone with a billion dollars no longer experiences the world as 99% of humanity would recognize it, and so any “analysis” or critique of society they offer is fatally, irrevocably flawed. dracula complaining about the price of groceries

so crazy to just be living every day through the slow motion car crash of escalating fascism and it’s still like. aw man i have to go to the dentist

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He’s not even the real president now!

I couldn’t get this damn code to work and emailed the provided address about it… they said it’s not their problem and to email ParkMobile. I have already wasted more than $1 of my time on this and feel like an idiot

A brown flat coated retriever puppy and two labradoodles smiling at the camera

Amen!

Every human being says grammatically incorrect things all the time. Not everyone spews racist garbage. That’s the only thing we should be focusing on here. Signed, a linguist

My bag of normal human items has many people asking questions answered on the bag

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Interesting. I will send to the folks in the lab who are working on PIEZO1/2

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

If there’s one thing that definitely works it’s mandating culture from the top down. And if you don’t believe that, well, I’m ordering you to

From the same town as me, in the same building where I went with my husband to his green card appointment… I don’t know how to say any more clearly that this could happen to ANY one of us

That is not about the same water. It’s about Ophora “oxygenated water” which is $20 for 64 oz. That’s a scam to be fair, but I really think this $55 water is a 24 pack.

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

The ones that have the genetics that makes them super hungry are the same ones that are likeliest to succeed as guide dogs!

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Wordlebot is bogus. It doesn’t measure performance in a sensible way. There have been many times when I beat it by 1-2 guesses and it still gave low skill and luck scores.

If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life, as long as what you love to do is get up early and work and stay at work late and work on other people's problems and work on busywork and work on someone else's schedule and work to pay the bills and work to make it to retirement and wo

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene

RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*

A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”

Person watching on tv: well if they say so

Love spending my Friday evening texting all my friends to make sure they’re in the US