Robert Taylor

One thing social media has overtrained many of us in is identifying and often over-weighting points of disconnection rather than connection.

Labour’s watchword: well it may not be popular but at least we’re doing the wrong thing

I see Labour has found that “racism” dial dril was talking about, and is trying to turn it and looking back at the voters, like the audience on a game show

Some of yall are getting a little too comfortable with your antisemitism that yall are trying to cloak around being anti-impearlist.

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

The EU abandons international law: ‘Iran’s attacks of a number of countries in the Middle East are inexcusable’, but the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the cause of the conflict, is completely excused.

So far Trump has been very lucky in his military adventures - he lost military assets and wasted high-tech ammo, but no serious casualties.

Since the GOP-controlled Congress refuses to rein him in, he'll keep starting new military adventures until one of them goes sideways and many Americans die.

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

But also without boots on the ground you can't do a regime change.

So what this amounts to is a very expensive campaign that amounts to nothing but pointless death.

Not to be overly contrarian because, and let me be clear, fuck this stupid ass war, but also Iran's military has no gas at all. No air defenses whatsoever. The best they can do is lob missiles and drones. As long as we don't put boots on the ground, they can't do shit.

The country that should look at what has happened and get nukes the fastest is actually Egypt, but it won't

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I guess what I'm saying is that if you think the US is the Great Satan and both parties are warmongering imperialists and the concept of law is a web of lies spun by the wealthy and powerful to entrap the proletariat, then why exactly are we arguing about the wording of Democratic press releases?

🎯 Exactly as predicted…
👇 Here’s the “fraud” in the education system that Republicans said school vouchers would stop but surprise! has actually enabled fraud, with parents spending taxpayers dollars on BS, not on their kids’ education

The Pedo Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought by the United States in the early 21st century as a means to distract from the fact that their president was a pedo.

so where does the next generation of talent come from? who are the young journalists, and how are they paid? every career incentive, both economic and prestige-wise, now points to the olivia nuzzi route

Sucks shit that creeps like Brett Ratner and Max Landis are returning to filmmaking after the industry had, for a time, rejected them over sex-pestery. I'm glad at least that the reported stories of the returns are explicit that these are sex pests with allegations being welcomed back by monsters.

To Save the Media, Ditch Capitalism, a New Study Says

the U.S. media is incapable of honestly covering the U.S. media

Way too many financial conflicts of interests and embedded normalization of corporatism. You need journalism to be highly-subsidized nonprofit and publicly owned. Corporate power can't do it. They're simply not reliable narrators.

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

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they like him & they're trying to help him tyrannize us

You can’t make me listen that man for two hours. Fuck you. Fucking fuck you. And I know it’s done so people get exhausted by the sheer amount of shit he says. Still. Fuck you.

"I’ve been covering this controversy for about a decade from a left-of-center perspective, and I’ve found that anyone who questions these treatments, even mildly, is invariably accused of bigotry. It would be shocking if the professional organizations chiming in on these issues — which, like all such organizations, exist in part to increase the esteem of their members and to enhance their own influence — were immune from such influences. And now that the political winds have shifted radically, with the Trump administration launching an all-out assault on both the practice of and research into youth gender medicine, it seems some of them are realizing they would benefit from appearing a bit more moderate."

Yeah, it's because Singal a sadistic bigot who enjoys gaslighting trans people. Singal loves crying cancel culture while simultaneously emailing the employers of trans women trying to get them fired.

Americans Who Can't Afford Beef Have 'Many Proteins to Choose From,' Says US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Americans who can't afford beef a year into Trump's second term "have so many proteins to choose from," said U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Americans who can’t afford beef a year into President Donald Trump’s second term “have so many proteins to choose from,” U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs.
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They literally made an entire movie about this with Matthew Broderick in it decades ago to warn us away from this trajectory and here we are excitedly building the WOPR-brand Torment Nexus anyhow

The State of America is: the President and Secretary of Homeland Security are building concentration camps, Democrats are fighting back but also kinda saying they’ll pay for the camps if they have good security cameras and are LEED certified, and the normiest local communities are saying fuck no.

The thing is that Republicans are all blood-thirsty psychopaths but none of them want the actual carnage performed in their town because it’s bad for the town!!

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

Always relevant.

Don't Help Trumpism Survive Trump Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · February 19 · 34m

Don't Help Trumpism Survive Trump

Andrea Pitzer warns that quick fixes to ICE brutality can be dangerous.

Even reforms in good faith run the risk of entrenching what we want to stop and tacitly endorsing an archipelago of little Gitmos across America.

212. The Gorsuch-Kagan Tariffs Exchange Justice Gorsuch's charge that the Democratic appointees are being inconsistent in how they interpret broad statutory delegations depends upon remarkably superficial analyses of numerous earlier cases.

#ICYMI: I wrote yesterday about the lazy and superficial efforts on the part of Justice Gorsuch and various right-wing commentators to tag Justice Kagan and the Democratic appointees with charges of inconsistency/hypocrisy for voting against President Trump's tariffs—with receipts to the contrary: