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amazing how yet another round of "you have to promise you'll vote for the shitbag years in advance" reveals itself to have nothing to do with strategy and pragmatics and everything to do with "i am scared and anxious and everyone on the internet needs to promise me everything will turn out alright"

Yeah it is genuinely fucking scaring me the degree to which all our cultural output about nuclear war lately seems to present it as a Struggle That Humanity Will Emerge From Stronger. We honestly cannot allow that message to propagate in our fictions, because it *will* doom us. Nuclear War is not…

Grin Without a Cat - Truthdig It’s time for elected Democrats to seize the moment — and cease triangulating with nihilism.

It's a little deranging to feel on the cusp of something important when the people in charge think it's Wednesday and they're busy still trying to strike two-party bargains in a room with one occupant.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

the thing is that "age of consent guy" was a very specific, well known, risible, and widely scorned type of guy well before metoo. knowledge of age of consent laws has been a creepy tell for as long as i've been alive. that this wasn't considered weird in elite circles doesn't change broader reality

theyre not ICE prisons theyre warehouse with cages inside. the layout and design will maximize how many people they can hold inside locked fences. there will be no movement, activities, programming, or congregate time for the incarcerated. Heating, cooling, and humidity control will be insufficient

"This guy is clearly a monster, but he's a well-connected and well-resourced monster so I'm going to let it slide" is the universal lapse in judgement here among elites, and it's a huge issue that seems to be getting missed even though it's so damning of the culture around them.

it's easy to spin a narrative about epstein that sees him as a central diabolical villain, the hub around which all of this cohered. but the reality is much more mundane: every narrative in those emails simply reflects a broader consensus among our elites about who is worth protecting and who isn't

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

There's a distinction here that might be lost by modern understandings of games. Cartridges existed before this, but they were basically signals to the system to run some preexisting game that was already built into the console. He did something else, something that floppies couldn't do

Hi, Epstein did not create the GCs. Researchers for the last ten years have been telling you over and over about the collection of forces that resulted in the GCs. There is no conspiracy. Just a bunch of political actors collaborating in their mutual interest.

The worst part is that they're using these revelations to go after trans people even more. I hate it here.

Heads they win, tails we lose.

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Provides ICE with almost $8 billion in emergency funding, including funding to expand the capacity of detention facilities. Specifically, provides enough funding for ICE "to keep at least 50,000 detention beds available—an increase of 47 percent from the 34,000 beds allocated in 2023, 2022, and 2021."

Kamala Harris's actual 2024 policies:

a map of the 100 mile border enforcement zone - CBP in america claims a jurisdiction of 100 miles of the border in america, which means their enforcement area includes everything from new york city to seattle to chicago to milwaukee to anchorage to washington d.c. and more

fucking hell just remembered, "CBP stays at border" and the way 'border' is defined in this country is this bullshit. awesome work, guys

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse

if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

learning that "soccer" is a term that comes from england really makes you consider that there's a strong change a large amount of british word decisions stem from getting mad The Colonies are using their words, or getting upset that spain probably called them cringe

They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops

Mamdani didn’t focus on a nebulous affordability, he focused on specific policies relating to the office, AND he stood firm on other values. Schumer is focusing on affordability with NO coherent policies IN ORDER to avoid discussing policies and values directly relating to his office. No tricky

Reagan? That’s also a Hitler. Clinton and his democrats’ embrace of capital? The government-corporate fusion is the backbone of fascism.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Kamala Harris washed her hands of all responsibility for the fascist takeover and decided to go on a book tour instead. She has never been ready to meet the moment and we all have to pay the price for it now, forever.

my uncle wound up in the pen for slinging dope to keep himself liquid while coping with shit he needed heroin for. within 10 years, a state over, insys therapeutics executives hired A$AP Rocky to rap to prescribers about profit-seeking titration and had the VP of sales dance in a fentanyl costume

indie dev who's been saving pennies for the last 20 years: i will find a way to pay my talented friends what they're worth

bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

it is WILD that the Capital class is still trying this bullshit. we haven't raised the federal minimum wage since 2009. guess what? prices still went up!

“the voters are to blame!” really misses that the entire two party system is set up to only help the donor class.

Elected Democrats sat on their hands for 4 years, and are squarely to blame for this mess

The rise of deepfakes and AI CSAM prove public and private sectors don’t actually care about abuse, but still punish sex workers, queer people, and women under that guise. Credit cards companies and law enforcement punish consensual sex and sexuality, but ignore and therefore encourage abuse