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Your statement boils down to, [X] is wrong for all these reasons but also very useful, where we substitute X for things like:
Beating your children
Theft
Lying
Cheating
Basically, an argument for results over ethics, your success over consequences to others. Is that the world you want to live in

What the fuck did Vance do to him

Yeah. Compared to what I vaguely remember from Siuan's arc in the books after, though tragic, I actually prefer what we got on screen! (Compared to my two friends who I got to watch with zero book knowledge who are ready to drop the show now 😭 It's sad it hits differently, but makes sense)

As a functionally-show only person, thanks for sharing this! It's helpful context that shows the showrunners trying to stay faithful to the lore

(And choosing not to change this in show seems like a choice to book readers over show-only folks, explaining some of the upset)

I keep thinking about how women are most at risk of being murdered by abusive men after they've decided to leave the relationship and it's not exactly a subtle comparison to what's being done to the USA at the moment

To be fair, one man technically does not have this kind of power; he has it only because he has the support of an entire political party and its movement

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Protests aren’t the only tool in the anti-authoritarian toolkit, but they’re incredibly important. Protests help us see each other; they make it feel safer to refuse to obey the dictator, and make it more possible for us to organize mass non-cooperation.

It’s an essential step in the process.

it made me notice that the American left is so accustomed to police violence that it has given up on *succeeding to be safe* and has capitulated to violent/peaceful dichotomy in its own way --- if there is no violence, it's useless lib shit

tbh if this administration can't break or at least significantly weaken partisan polarization idk if anything can, guess we're gonna see if there was actually a reason why every other administration in American history has really avoided trying to do what they're doing now

Protestors holding signs and flags walking on the street

#handsoff Philadelphia

Kickoff in Philadelphia. #handsoff

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On

“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die.

“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

Also I hope we're all on this same page

EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole

they were ALL wrongfully deported.

I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan'

but NO ONE should've been sent there

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way.

He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

“I want to go a little further.”
Go on Brother Booker.
@booker.senate.gov

Sen @booker.senate.gov is still going. Support him! WATCH! Call your Senator & tell them you agree with Booker. This has gone far enough.
202-224-3121

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going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

The abuser’s classic playbook is to isolate you from your friends, create a sense of helplessness, make it difficult to connect with others and force you to simply think about your survival from one day to the next. We are seeing that playbook applied to the nation as a whole.

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an exposed 45GB database from AI firm GenNomis, containing over 95,000 explicit AI-generated images, including child abuse material and de-aged celebrities. Fowler shared details of the leak with WIRED.

So I acknowledge that we’re all doing our best in this time to find humor wherever and however we can, but I would love for us to reconsider those jokes where the punchline is “white mediocrity is the real DEI.”

These jokes reinforce a genuinely harmful redefinition of DEI policy.

Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president Donald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms. In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking. Continue reading...

Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

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