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The losers in the press pool are standing on the ground yelling questions at the senile guy who is, for some reason, standing on the roof of the White House. Their ability to debase themselves is unparalleled.

"Stacey Williams, a former model who once dated Jeffrey Epstein, says Donald Trump groped her in his Trump Tower office in 1993—while casually chatting with Epstein just feet away."

this is what peak vernacular looks like

Anyway, we have to live, all of us. Be kinder to your brothers and sisters, even when the discourse is really fucking stupid, because somewhere out there is a person who wants to be another Reagan.

Also linking one of November Kelly's, because it's a shot to the heart:
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Which one of these people, your brothers and sisters all, could have been there for you growing up? What body of work, what art, what political action might they have produced that could have profoundly changed all our lives? Would you have come out sooner? Might that process have been less painful?

you are 16. you are talking with a gay man in his 50s or 60s, a friend, huge and gentle with a scarf and short fluffy curls of gray hair, who has directed you in two plays staged in your mid-size artsy town. (he has not yet asked you to be in his production of The Laramie Project which will change your life. this conversation will also change your life.) he is talking about theatre. he is talking about theatre when he was younger. he says, "of course, it was AIDS then." in the pause, you ask him. clumsy and quiet and 16 and "straight," you ask him. what was it like. he takes a moment in which his face is not like a person's face. "there was a time," he says, "i'm not sure how long, years. when i went to a funeral every weekend." he tells you about two funerals in a day, and choosing between friends when you couldn't make it to both. he does not look at you, he looks at them. his wet grey gaze is so clear that you start to see ghosts. it will be years before you understand why it feels like your grief too. why the ghosts call you family.

Repping an old www.tumblr.com/estrogenesis... tumblr post that comes back around a lot because it inspired me to go read surviors' accounts. If you find the bandwidth, do yourselves a favor and do the same. It's horrifying, and there's a profound grief at the bottom of it.

Been thinking about this post lately

Wanted to have my @grok companion Ani-chan by my gaming rig and my engineers prototyped a holographic stand with far field mics (with a @Razer Chroma RGB base). What do you guys think? Is this something gamers would want on their desks? A permanent desktop anime waifu?

you couldn't torture this out of me

Disgusting

This and “The Apprentice” fucked us in so many ways.

BREAKING: Vivziepop Threatens To Release Another Show

Yes I realize it’s a joke but also: they do not think that. They think trans people shouldn’t exist, or at least shouldn’t be allowed out in public.

There were three reporters on it and that's, allegedly, how the politics desk functions.

Rumor mill was the people who only last like a year are the ones who can't handle how they play fast and loose. And since so much relies on anonymous sourcing its not like those subjects are going to sue

do not upload your photo to any ID verification service to BROWSE THE INTERNET i am being so serious id much rather buy a vpn. learn how to pirate. this data is so obviously going to be used in nefarious ways

Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h The economy is on the precipice of recession. That’s the clear takeaway from last week’s economic data dump. Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue. Unemployment remains low, but that’s only because labor force growth has gone sideways. The foreign-born workforce is shrinking, and labor force participation is declining. Telling is the economy-wide hiring freeze, particularly for recent graduates, and the decline in hours worked. Mark Zandi @Markzandi · 8h It’s no mystery why the economy is struggling; blame increasing U.S. tariffs and highly restrictive immigration policy. The tariffs are cutting increasingly deeply into the profits of American companies and the purchasing power of American households. Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy.

Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi says:
- We are headed for a recession
-The BLS data is totally reliable- for now
-The revisions are due to delayed reporting of DOGE govt layoffs
-Higher tariffs are dragging down the economy
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the history of the united states is of consistently *almost* meeting moments of crisis with transformative change, before rapidly backpedaling at the last second. reconstruction was sabotaged, the new deal didn't go far enough, and racial integration was never finished. ours is a history of failure.

Had to check this is not a shitpost and alas it is not

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Also the early Ace Combat titles. 1 (AKA Air Combat) and 2 are primitive but 3 is where things shape up into what we get in the PS2 Era.

Pepsiman, Colony Wars, at least a couple of the Army men spinoffs were a good time. Seconding MML above, and the Misadventures of Tronne Bonne spinoff.

Also; IX *barely*? It's easily above median final fantasy.

They are extremely good and I have, at time of writing, still not bought a Capcom game since the cancellation of Legends 3. I will carry this irrational beef to the grave.

YEONSOO GO: 20-YEAR-OLD KOREAN AMERICAN PASTOR'S DAUGHTER AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY STUDENT WITH LEGAL VISA- ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

TAE HEUNG "WILL" KIM: KOREAN AMERICAN PH.D. STUDENT & MEDICAL RESEARCHER AT TEXAS A&M, LAWFUL PERMANENT U.S. RESIDENT - ABDUCTED AND DETAINED BY ICE

A growing number of the new victims of Trump’s cruel, illegal ICE terror are young Asian Americans with LEGAL STATUS who have grown up their entire lives in this country and are being swept up for minor infractions or technicalities.

Every use of this abhorrent technology actively degrades and dehumanizes the user.

he workshopped this one last night, don’t let him pretend it’s extemporaneous. this kind of rancid bullshit (laudatory) requires practice

Have to repost this periodically

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

The cover of Jesus II for PC-98, featuring a sci-fi anime guy with a bandage over his nose and bunch of mechanical things on his back.

The cover of Sex 2 featuring a nearly naked anime babe sprawling on a bed alongside flowers.

PC-98 is the only platform powerful enough to contain Jesus II and Sex 2