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In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.

This reminds me of a question that popped into my head last night about the $20bn US currency swap with Argentina, namely whether the US will be a preferential creditor over the IMF, to which Argentina owes $57bn.

losing ranchers as a republican is fucking WILD

Behind all of the culture-war nonsense, the administration’s political allies—the ultra-wealthy, the fossil-fuel industry, and many in the corporate elite—are making out quite well. Some politically connected companies have even managed to get convenient exemptions from the tariffs. It’s all of those regular Americans Trump promised to fight for who are seeing their dollars buy less because of a conscious, deliberate effort to make things anti-woke. One might almost suspect that was the idea all along. But, hey, better broke than woke, right?

A look at how Trump’s culture war economics works in practice www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“A Nazi streak”

You know the GOP's "Nazi streak" is bad if Politico is writing about it.

Was woke holding us up all along? Many people are saying…

State Fair of Texas sees 400,000 drop in attendance compared to 2024, with cost cited as key factor by families The 2025 State Fair of Texas drew about 2 million visitors, roughly 400,000 fewer than last year, as many families cited affordability concerns.

Texans can no longer afford the state fair in Donald Trump's economy. Or they fear the secret police. Or both. Either way, this represents nearly a 20% DROP in attendance over last year.

Republicans have managed to kill a huge revenue source for the state and hundreds of businesses.

Trump is bad for business

The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet

Me, a sailor in ancient times, sailing my boat into the rocks like an idiot: Uhh a lady made me do it. By singing. Usually I'm really good at this

Randomly remembering the furor when Carter added solar panels to the White House and how Reagan couldn’t wait to get rid of them.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

A photo of someone staring what looks to be a glass straw into a cup of water and it says the Annalema wand is a water structuring tool that makes regular water into coherent water

The woman I vaguely know and follow on insta who falls for every single last possible natural living scam has really outdone herself today

Anyways yes this is about the water wand lady bsky.app/profile/momm...

Their whole online presence is just designed to show that whatever they are doing right then is the best thing ever but also that it got them out of whatever dark hole they were in- but like you never see the dark hole

An interesting thing about following some moms who went down the random MLM/ grift pipeline like 10 years ago is watching them post “2 years ago I was in the lowest part of my life but now because of this grift I am better” every 6 months or so.

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

Supreme Court ruling: "This Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption. That speakers may have influence over or access to elected officials does not mean that those officials are corrupt. And the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy."

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

levernews.com/book

corruption is such a helpful lens for understanding so much of what is broken right now. all of these people actually need accountability. allowing them to act with impunity just lets them make all manner of bad decisions. we need to help them rediscover boundaries

this is the kind of thing you’d pay a kid just out of college to write, for a rate approaching minimum wage. i know because that was me 20 years ago. fuck everyone who participated in going from that to this

Fun fact: the 1925 game where the Chicago Cardinals scored 33 points in the fourth quarter was literally against high schoolers posing as pros. It was such a big scandal it almost caused the early NFL to disband

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_Ch...

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This might be the meanest and most cursed subhed I've ever read.

Just remembering that time they made a terrible D Wade statue and we got this perfect moment

Just quit my EA CFB league because I hate the game that much, full Spurrier retirement

twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter