Tom Edmonds

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

it’s become clear at this point that all of the messaging from the Trump administration is targeted at room temp IQ losers who are incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction

Oh my god this lady rules. I love this.
Just make fun of these poseurs.

My wife saw this and says to add that Sonny the cuckoo is not gay, he is ace and aromantic. Quote "He only loves Cocoa Puffs."

I have stared down multiple cabs and reckless drivers while crossing the street in NYC after them braking inches away or even tapping me with their car.

If that ICE officer was “scared for his life” while a car was actively turning its wheels away from him maybe he shouldn’t have a gun.

Britney Spears lol

a guy wearing a black t shirt that says: IT MAKES ME MAD WHEN THE TACO BELL MENU IS TRYING OUT NEW SPECIALTIES AND SOME OF YOU DON'T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY ENOUGH AND THEN TACO BELL TAKES THEM AWAY

this is my political affiliation now

chasing "balance" in news can sound like it's noble but it's not. treating all possible sources as comparably expert, rational, experienced, insightful, relevant, disadvantaged or empowered does not result in objective, accurate reporting. it results in false equivalency.

Does Tylenol cause autism? Did Bella Hadid give me Limes Disease? Is the Cookie Monster my biological father?

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

the left is completely silent on poo poo pee pee

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

a woman wearing a pearl necklace and a tiara with hbo on the bottom right ALT: a woman wearing a pearl necklace and a tiara with hbo on the bottom right

“Happiness as a byproduct of a well-ordered life may last; as a goal, it is invariably doomed to failure”

WHEWW Mrs Russell laying the wisdom on thick

me, a die hard history buff, reading the news every morning “oh cool the nazis also did this…. and this … and that”

this is disturbing, but i’m enjoying thinking about a reverse situation where a Christian gets elected in a majority Muslim country and a bigoted legislator smears him by calling him “little Jesus”

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Today’s date, 5/21/25, can be read the same both forward and backward. Repost if you have sex with men

@writethedocs.bsky.social Omg I’m tech-writing famous 📸 (which I think we can all agree is the best kind of famous)! Thanks for another awesome conference! #WTDPortland2025

pretending that tariffs and immigration are about preventing opioid drug overdoses and then pulling narcan distribution is about as unforgivably evil as it gets

ironically the main reason that led me to become anti-american when i was in school was originally due to the needless over the top enforced patriotism taught to us. this will only make people question authority even more

Graph showing did not vote often being the majority

Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections

Wild

If the precedent gets set that the president can remove nonprofit status from anyone he disagrees with, then any Democratic president in the future that allows the ADF and heritage and megachurches to be considered nonprofits is explicitly endorsing them.

We live in hell
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Sen. Van Hollen blocked from El Salvador prison where Maryland man is held Republican members of Congress have been allowed to visit the notorious facility.

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