justin

there’s some norepinephrine-driven monster in my mind that screams “if you stay up even later, you won’t have to work tomorrow” almost every night

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

please delight in the joy of watching an entire UW psych class chase down a neo-Nazi bigot (light blue shirt) after he interrupted their lecture with slurs and Nazi salutes

bubbles from the powerpuff girls is standing in front of a burning building . Alt: bubbles from the powerpuff girls is standing in front of a burning building

idk what to do with my smoldering rage. but this is how it generally feels

“He alone who owns the youth gains the future.” - Hitler, 1935

imagine growing up with an internet that has been completely tuned to what algorithms think you want. how would you know what to believe? how would you know to even question the veracity of your feed?

i also had the stark differences between our curated universes shoved in my face when my brother said to me (as if he believed it himself) that Kamala Harris couldn’t string together a coherent sentence because she was drunk all the time.

i begrudgingly had to get on FB briefly this week and saw a childhood church lady’s post: “well done, good and faithful servant. RIP Charlie.” and i wondered who Charlie was bc the thought of venerating Kirk in any way is so foreign to me.

since we all have our own bespoke (virtual) realities, i wonder what kind of Kirk others with dissimilar feeds to mine saw.

“cancel your disney+!!!”

“okay, but why”

“cuz then Iger will see that he should have stood up to fascism”

“okay, and he’ll still have a net worth of $600 million?”

“yeah”

“and the government officials who essentially censored this private company will still be the same obsequious toadies?”

“…”

Again, the cowardice is stunning

i’m really surprised that designers at Apple thought this liquid glass was a good idea

YouTube video by Hans Zimmer - Topic The Burning Bush

The Prince of Egypt is my september soundtrack

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Groypers, Helldivers 2, Furries: What do the Messages Left by Charlie Kirk's Alleged Killer Actually Mean? Suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly inscribed messages on bullet casings that reference video games and internet culture—but they hardly point toward a coherent ideology.

wrote about the memes allegedly left by Kirk’s killer, the desire for a coherent narrative in a world without context, and the widening digital culture gap that’s going to make these very hard times even harder
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The lies' laughable implausibility is a feature, not a bug.

They're not trying to convince discerning, skeptical, fact-based people. They're trying to give supporters a fantasy that validates their feelings and creates a sort of loyalty test, while flaunting the absurdity in everyone else's faces.

This interview is worth a listen, even if you are a Newsom hater and would never support him in a primary. He has a striking sense of pragmatic urgency around interrupting Trump's 2026 gerrymandering grab--that this is really a last-ditch place to stop him and other states need to get serious fast.

do you think Greg Abbott will ever tell us what Trump’s smegma tastes like?

one idea for apportionment reform is the Cube Root Law (# reps = ∛[population]) which would add 258 seats (totaling 692).

another idea is the Wyoming Rule - based on giving 1 rep to the smallest-populated state. under that rule, there would be 574 reps.

the House of Reps had been expanded in line with US population growth until 1929, when it was fixed at 435. if we had the same rep:pop ratio as 1929, we’d have nearly 1,200 representatives rn

the pipe dreams would be: ranked choice voting, publicly funded campaigns, no more electoral college, and revising representation in the House and Senate to make both proportionally represent the nation

sprinkle in some tax reform to finally make the ultra wealthy pay their fair share

i’m thinking at the very least: congressional term limits, re-districting reform to get rid of gerrymandering, expanded SCOTUS with term limits, undoing Citizens United

should i lean into my deluded daydreams that are filled with an AOC (or equivalent) president and a Congress swept by Ds and Is who implement ethical, electoral, and judicial reforms?