Or just Gilded Age-style company towns (still bad though)

Is this a tarsier?

Do we really have to blame the Russians for Trump and Musk? Like we aren't perfectly capable of growing our own fascists and electing them enthusiastically?

Essential reading on this from @tompepinsky.com www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

"The fantasy of authoritarianism distracts Americans from the mundane ways in which the mechanisms of political competition and checks and balances can erode... if [democracy] ends, it will not end in a bang."

it’s not the expansionism that’s weird or unusual, it’s the threatening a NATO member for Greenland

Don’t Look Up wasn’t terrible but The Big Short did the same job like 10x better

YouTube video by John Amato The Showcase Showdown - Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman

here’s another candidate:

youtu.be/kR4a5GSgK34?...

All I want for Christmas is the dissolution of the state of Israel

That Paul McCartney Christmas song is dope

don't @ me

Should be in every newsagents window.

not to mention next day streaming, the end of the Hulu deal really ruined that.

I keep getting asked what I think the new Portland WNBA franchise mascot should be. What say you, hoops fans?

secret santa at the cia prolly goes hard as hell

Probably the defining moment in Kraftwerk’s career was when they changed their name to Kraftwerk (from Uncle Horst and his Bratwurst Boys) and swapped their lederhosen and trombones for sharp suits and synthesisers

That plus I Saw her Standing There from the same set is probably the heaviest stuff from their early career, Ringo was seriously ahead of his time