Festive Negroid Punnery

Jimmy Kimmel: "Trump was confused by old footage of the Portland protests from 2020, that were being played on a loop by Fox News, so he sent in the National Guard to stop a protest that ended five years ago. God forbid they ever show him footage of Pearl Harbor — Japan will be in a LOT of trouble."

turning the mundane horror of queer life into a dunk like it proves something

"queer person has homophobic family"

I think it's amazing that we somehow fixate on the horrors of overseas prisons and jails here in the United States.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

asking permission from car owners to use their catalytic converters would kill the stealing catalytic converter industry

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

The official movie account for Cocaine Bear responded to me once. It didn't really affect my life but it was cool.

AI data centers are driving up electricity bills. Energy-saving hacks might not help lower them. Data centers are driving up consumers' electricity costs, but experts say energy conservation hacks won't lower bills much. Here's what to do instead.

Utility rates are rising in 41 states due to the increased demand from data centers on the electric grid.

www.businessinsider.com/energy-conse...

I think also performative strength gives the promise of easy solutions to tough,complicated problems

This country respects performative strength. "They were tough on crime! They say what they mean!" People will respect him!" But much like our paper money, that "strength" is not backed by anything real.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Yes, Olivia Rodrigo was inspired by Taylor to get control of her masters, and that’s great! But Prince helped Hendrix’s estate get back control of his recordings. And pushed everyone from Madonna to Nas to DMX to Mariah Carey to Jay Z on owning their masters *decades* earlier. That opened the door.

This isn’t just “hey, I like this other old artist from the 20th century”. It’s about erasure of Black artists — again — and the difference between a billionaire buying off _and rewarding_ those who owned her masters, and someone *actually fighting* those who controlled their master recordings.

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change National parks are melting, burning, and drying out. Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.

Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change.

National parks are melting, burning, and drying out. Rangers are being forced to take down signs explaining why.

grist.org/politics/why...

#NationalParks #Climate #Environment #Nature #GreenSky #Outdoors

We are in for an era on campuses where if conservative activists don’t get their way, they’ll run crying to Twitter in the hopes of getting politicians to force schools to accommodate them. It’s not about free speech, it’s about the ability to exert their will over others.

"This is not how the government is supposed to work. We pay federal taxes but get a President who sees us as the enemy and takes away our own money as retaliation. This has to stop. "Donald Trump has shown again and again that he is unfit to lead this country. When he's not too busy golfing, he's doing active harm, whether it's sending masked troops into cities or shutting down vital infrastructure projects like this. "These funds were already approved. And if people can't cross the Hudson to get to work, it will literally destroy our economy. "We have to show Trump that this isn't okay. "Yes, New Jersey should sue the Trump administration, but we have to do more. We should be withholding federal taxes, dollar for dollar, to backfill funding that's illegally cut. The state should also eminent domain Trump's golf course in Bedminster and build some affordable housing there instead. If the federal government won't stand up for New Jersey, Trenton should."

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

The owner is vile and this venue is stuck in the 90s but successive councils are getting what they wanted for Soho to be a “family area”

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

I don’t have the energy to alt text for this but…don’t do this shit.

Fevers are dangerous early in pregnancy and Tylenol is the only fever reducer pregnant people are supposed to take. In this freak’s mind, having a baby with congenital anomalies incompatible with life is *less bad* than having a child with autism

Gonna start using this when I forget people's names

erm hello pardon excuse me, what

Dua Lipa fires manager after his attempt to stop pro-Palestinian rappers Kneecap from Glastonbury Dua Lipa has parted ways with her manager, David Levy, following a row over rappers Kneecap's performance at Glastonbury. Levy had signed a letter calling on festival founder Michael Eavis to ban the ...

Dua Lipa fires manager after his attempt to stop pro-Palestinian rappers Kneecap from Glastonbury.

telegrafi.com/en/Dua-Lipa-...

Exactly this. And it is important to overwhelm their systems before they're up and running. The corollary to "courage is contagious" is that everyone has to stand up *early*, not wait for others to go first. The sooner everyone demonstrates that their machine can't possibly do this, the better.

I hope every mlb team that made tributes, Democratic legislator who flew flags at half staff, and pundit/online-type who scolded people for reminding us of verifiable past statements learns that they just helped them get to this. Your decency can only be used against you now.