Ed "Abolish ICE” Costanza

Oh yes okay come with me new people on this horrible journey into Porn Wars Theory

This will be a thread and an extremely bleak one

Ewwwwww.

They replaced evil with stupid. Really, really stupid.

What a gullible fool you are. What's your excuse for Stew Peters? Valhalla VFT? His history of racist and misogynist posting?

South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign

I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.

"Great news! Kristi Noem got canned!"
"Fantastic! Who's replacing her?"
"Um..."

We're bringing the war back...to Iraq?

At this point in my life, I will never live long enough to see all of these people get what they deserve - the most painful deaths imaginable - but until the day I die I will imagine them being roasted alive, slowly.

Toward the end of one conversation, Siegal remembered herself. “One last thing,” she said. “I have said nothing about the girls. At the end of the day, I have felt so victimized myself that I have neglected to say that the real victims were the girls.” Some days later, in a text, she implied that the victims had had an advantage she had not. “It’s possible if I had a killer lawyer as some of the victims have, I would not be so vulnerable.”

Very end of a very long article:

The Grande Dame of the Epstein Files Peggy Siegal, once the most powerful publicist in New York, defends herself.

These people all need to be shot into the sun.
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Who doesn't love Canadians?

Why would anyone want to? We're just a lefty echo chamber.
(/s)

GOP challenge: Live your life in a way that doesn't cause people to literally set themselves on fire because of you.

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Once the true impact of the war is being felt domestically ($$$) this will absolutely happen, guaranteed.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Last week, I attended the two-day training EU: Explaining the Complex in Simple Terms. It was a great opportunity to deepen my understanding of how Ukraine’s path toward EU membership is unfolding and how the negotiation process actually works.

📷 Delegation of EU to Ukraine

Wanted to make the announcement on Oscar day but you can’t keep anything under wraps in this industry anymore. Let’s make it official. My next project: Dokoupil

MAGA’s attitude towards foreign wars is like their attitude towards covering up and protecting pediophiles and child sex traffickers: once they saw Trump was deeply involved those activities they were all in favor

Ordered.

Real America

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field Alt: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field about to kick a football, but lucy takes it away at the last second

Charlie Kurds

Trans Girl Scouts Sell 330,000 Boxes Of Cookies In Public Outpouring Of Support The total boxes sold is the highest in the history of EITM's trans girl scout cookie list.

As a certified Cookie Monster, I approve this initiative.
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Done!

Behind a paywall so I can’t read it, but it’s by Dahlia Lithwick, and I’m pretty sure the answer is “no.”

I was on tippy-toes, though.

Fortunately I’m 6’-3”.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

I high-fived Shaquille O’Neal in the Sistine Chapel.

Three gray and white kittens are piled into a window perch, looking elegant and beautiful.

Those same Kittens a moment later, looking very silly and derpy

For a second there the graybies almost looked like something from the Accidental Renaissance subreddit, but then…. #CatsOfBluesky