William Adler

Purity

xkcd.com/435/

This is all extraordinarily gross. They profit from hurting women, sell misogyny to young men, got great press from Tucker and Charlie Kirk (Mr. I-Love-Jesus himself) and Candace Owens, made buddy-buddy with Don Jr. and Barron, and got the US government to do them favors.

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care

Other people are weird

Some times I'll log into one application which requires 2 factor-verification, then a minute later a different one which REQUIRES IT AGAIN even though I just proved I am this person on this system on this computer

SERIOUSLY. Every frickin' day.

also you must now change your password, it must include two capital letters and three numbers and four special characters

Me: *logs into institutional website*
Site: want me to stamp your hand
Me: what?
Site: stamp your hand. So you can get back in.
Me: sure
Site: ok confirm it’s your actual hand and that I stamped it
Me: k

~ 10 mins later~

Me: hi I’m back, here’s my stamp
Site: the fuck is that, I don’t know you

1. This is good
2. People have to enforce it
3. Those people are police
4. It will definitely be challenged by the administration

House GOP erupts over health care as leaders hunt for a plan Speaker Mike Johnson presented a list of concepts that did not include extending expiring Obamacare subsidies.

Look, just rebrand Medicare for All as TrumpCare and call it a day

right absolutely - pretending it's fixed rules of predictable behavior is the problem

People in Chicago are built different.

yes, yes we are

also back to your earlier thread - public opinion is not some fixed, unchanging thing. Plenty of poli-sci studies that demonstrate how opinion follows elite leadership.

I.... do not disagree with you

This country banned social media for young teens. Most don’t plan to comply. Pulling the plug on the biggest social media apps has broad support in parliament and the public at large. Most kids say they plan by whatever means to skirt it.

There’s been a lot of talk about banning social media for young teens. As parents, we all want our kids to be safe. Research from the vaccine-information space can offer some practical lessons.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is one of the wars that Trump routinely claims to have ended. The media can't keep up with the lying, but Cambodia and Thailand (another fake peace claim) are fighting again, too.

Or Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Good morning to everyone except anyone still defending Pete Hegseth

This was literally a Parks & Rec joke

Everything is stupid

Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor’s race, beats Trump’s pick In addition to being the city’s first female mayor, Higgins is also the first Democrat and non-Hispanic elected to the position in decades.

Whoa. This is a big one.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

this was a +13 R seat; this isn't even that close. 15 point swing. unreal.

gutter racist gonna gutter racist

“It was enough to turn a man's stomach to see the way they were naturalizing this morning. Wretched, filthy, bestial-looking Italians and Irish, the very scum and dregs of human nature filled the office so completely that I was almost afraid of being poisoned by going in.”

— George Templeton Strong

go north, young man

‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive

‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

to paraphrase a famous man, I welcome his anger

Some reading given the Court’s docket

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