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YouTube video by Paul Dirks What's So Funny 'Bout (Peace Love and Understanding)

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Just to keep banging my drum: I think the Trump administration using every possible government website to blame the shutdown on the Democrats is a sign they’re really nervous that this is going to blow up in their faces. It’s once again a show of weakness, not strength.

I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there

No lies detected....

I know for a fact that Antifa is not an organization because I don't get emails from them asking for money.

I'd just settle for an actual keyboard!

I like to think that, maybe just a little bit, all these republican weirdos saw in real time that no one will mourn their deaths and got sad. It's like accidentally witnessing your own funeral.

Brian Kilmeade carefully considered the criticism of his stance and changed his mind, conceding that not all homeless people should be liquidated by lethal injection. That’s doing politics the right way.

—Ezra Klein

Calling trans people "sick" and espousing the Great Replacement Theory is not civil. And if you think all of those things are civil, well then fuck you and civility.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

We doomers have a big tent....

Ezra Klein is the David Brooks of his generation, as David Brooks is the David Broder of his. Staying just 1/10 of a second behind conventional wisdom, pablum for the somnambulent.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich

Old guard Dem leaders take note: Bundle Mamdani's joy, Newsom's ruthless ridicule, Crockett's pointed humor, AOC's incisive language skills, and Walz's authenticity and there we have it: a winner.

I already know LLMs are laughably bad at a multitude of tasks. Wasting water and power to generate examples of its ineptitude is not necessary at this point.

Please don't use the awful, wasteful machine to make fun of the awful, wasteful machine.

How did we get a decade into Donald Trump’s presidential era before we had a collective discussion of whether he committed horrible sex crimes with Jeffrey Epstein?

How the fuck did that happen?

If it's on Paramount, I'm skipping it.

Nearly everything ICE and CBP are doing as far as due process goes is just how police operate generally, and it would be nice if literally any reporter pointed this out

I'm more convinced than ever that the country lost its soul at Guantanamo.

It's where state sanctioned torture & permanent detention without due proces we're normalized.

It's patient zero for the bipartisan disregard for international norms and the rule of law that defines our moment.

I was present for the launch of Apollo 8 as a sixth grader. I also recorded every important moment of the Apollo 11 mission with my dad's "Voice of Music" reel-to-reel tape deck.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.

They've been screwing it up for 35 years now, but I'm sure they'll figure it out eventually.....

People REALLY need to start to understand that CONSISTENCY is more important than even intuitiveness when it comes to software!

If I've already learned how your UI works, I don't care if there's a better design, it will still cost me productivity!

And it wipes out all tutorials and support docs

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.