Rat Bastard: Neither Rat, nor Bastard? Discuss.

I stopped at the point where she said she hadn't really looked at Eric's work and felt that it was a waste of time, as I suspect that would be the only salient point.

As we have learned, ICE probably doesn't care what his immigration status is; they'll simply state what they want it to be, and ship him off.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Sharing this because I keep looking for it when people tell me that AI doesn't make shit up. open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

Making the Cobra Crimson Guard into reality.

Because it's a goddamn global far right power grab and I was right about Facebook all along

I wonder how the 4 states that only require 1 (or fewer) spouses correlate to respective laws on child marriage. It's a lot easier for them to marry a minor when they don't have to pull them out of school/daycare.

Looks like she's just digging her own grave.

This applies to literally everyone in the cabinet.

So, the only thing that um.. trumps her loyalty to Trump is.. *checks notes* racism.

I doubt that she would give a shit if Trump were receiving a similarly lavish bribe from somewhere a bit more white and more 'Christian'.

If you put a bunch of goths at the Corvus Corax table, they would likely *think* they know the secret of the table name.

It makes sense that Trump would only want to honor vets of WWI & WW2; he only cares about wars that the US conclusively won. He considers veterans of other wars (Korea, Vietnam, etc) to be "losers", and thus, unworthy of recognition.

At the same time, he erases veterans by changing Veteran's Day to Victory Day for World War I, a war from which there are (likely) no surviving US veterans (they'd be in their 120s at the least).

Oh look, it's the current administration 'protecting religious freedom'.

After I saw someone refer to RFK jr as the horseman Pestilence, I've tried matching up his cohort with the other horsemen. Hegseth is obviously War. Trump, simply based on his economic plans alone, is Famine. However, I couldn't figure out who Death was... until 4/21.

Get Pete Hegseth too. He has obvious gang tattoos.

Shade level: Biblical.

Note from Asha: What’s the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele? - CAFE The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from El Salvador's Center for Terrorism Confinement.

This is interesting. I haven't yet seen anyone else really talk about this: cafe.com/notes-from-c...

YouTube video by Auralnauts Transformers: The Bad Guys Won

Never Change, Prowl.

He forgot that Amazon, at least, has a return policy.

Penguins retaliate vs. Trump tariffs by summoning Cthulhu.

While I suspect that Booker's speech was largely performative, perhaps it will at least goad Dems into doing something useful, lest they run the risk of having to sit through 25+ hours of that again.

Assassin's Creed Shadows Streamer's Perfect Reaction To Racists Goes Viral Content creator FightinCowboy is tired of every game becoming ground zero for an online culture war

Good. More gaming streamers need to be like this.

Fake Tesla ad for a bullet-proof vest product, featuring an image of Elon Musk with a front-facing chest-mounted baby carrier with toddler strapped in.

The new promos for Death Stranding 2 are WILD.

That's Ubisoft for you. Though, at least, in the past, microtransactions weren't needed to do well/advance in the game (granted, last Ubisoft game I played was AC Odyssey).

Poster for 2014 Australian Horror/Action film 'Wormwood'. Advertised as 'Mad Max Meets Dawn of the Dead'. Poster features a zombie horde and a stalwart Road Warrior-esque man with a shotgun.

For something made in this century, I'm going to go with 'Wormwood'. It's ridiculously fun and has a few twists not in any other zombie film that I've seen.

I bet that his mom will intervene at the last moment and forbid him from stepping aboard.

and, of course, the existence of actual magic.

If the US survives intact a couple decades from now, there are going to be some *insane* political comedy movies made about this era... and the best part is that they won't even have to stretch the truth; they might even decide to tone it down a bit.

If DOGE does everything he tells them to do, it really doesn't matter whether or not Musk's authority is "formal".

Benoit Blanc (played by Daniel Craig) from Knives Out