The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

I love how Kushner doesn’t even have an official position in the U.S. government but is freelancing diplomacy anyways

🔴 WE ARE LIVE talking to Graham Platner!! YouTube video by Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker

Didn’t timestamp but here is the 30 ish minutes with him on OHL. One of the live callers actually pressed him on the tattoo, and in my opinion he gave a weak answer

www.youtube.com/live/SPJiPAb...

Be interested in seeing what Tim Heidecker has in store for him on Office Hours Live. He’s usually solid on political takes and such, hopefully it’s not just a blanket endorsement just because Graham has said some good anti oligarch rhetoric

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

>bring polarizing political figure into locker room right after win and shower with beer and gold metal

>>get call from most polarizing political figure ever who immediately insults your colleagues while you laugh on camera

>>>surprised people view it through a political lens

Do we know how high up in orbit these will be at? Similar low Leo like Starlink or higher up?

In scrolling through the comments, I'm thrilled to see some names I recognize (@astronomisty.bsky.social I see you!). The more of our community can step up and demand a comprehensive environmental review of these proposals, the more likely it is to happen.

We’re not there yet but it’s definitely on the horizon if we get a few bad rolls of the dice

I found the crisis of masculinity afflicting America!

pentagon trying to force Anthropic to make killbots and threading to crush them unless they comply is among the most dangerous things this admin is doing. HOWEVER it’s hilarious that Elon is practically begging to make antiwoke Skynet and the WH is like “no haha Claude is better”

Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."

www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...

If somebody attempts a coup, and then they’re not held accountable by elites and institutions, the public will draw the conclusion that it’s not a big deal.

James, you better not skip Mystery Hour again, too few episodes have graced my podcast app this year

This is why smart authoritarians, like Viktor Orbán or Benjamin Netanyahu, go to great lengths to hide their intentions behind a democratic veneer.

They know that, if they are too blatantly authoritarian, they risk generate a level of social resistance they cannot overcome.

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Ah yes, the ethical AI company

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

"The President Must Be Removed From Office"

Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit.
zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

Former ICE instructor will testify as whistleblower that agents taught to violate Fourth Amendment The instructor, who is an attorney, plans to tell a forum sponsored by Congressional Democrats that the procedures in entering homes are not taught appropriately.

A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."

NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs Accessing and remediating any of these issues can only be performed in the VAB."

The latest issue appeared Friday evening, when data showed an interruption in helium flow into the upper stage of the Space Launch System rocket.

Gotta love the Supreme Court giving him a lifeline on tariffs for the midterms and Trump proceeds to make it worse

I want independent courts like the UK's

There were semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC

Who is this queen?

Amazing thank you 🙏

What was the main thing the SC shut down in 1933-37?

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Probably need them less than Iran tbh but point taken

If you actually hate Elon Musk the way he needs to be hated you'd be saying whateveryou need to to get selected first