Duncan Dwyer

A screengrab of RFK Jr. The text reads: Kennedy questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines despite overwhelming scientific research. He also warned against virus mutations and dosage control issues. "You can't control the amount of energy that everybody is getting," he said. "When you give a vaccine, you want to know exactly how much energy is because some people react very, very badly and can get very, very badly injured."

Yup. RFK, Jr—The Secretary of Health and Human Services—is talking about “energy levels.” We’re now developing our vaccine policy around “vibes.”
Make it stop.
I’m begging you.

Somewhere, Chuck Schumer is having a staff member compose a strongly worded social media post.

Sounds to me like Big Balls shoved his girlfriend and some 15 year old kids saw him do it and beat the piss out of him.
The right can’t ever pass up the opportunity to make the country fear & hate young Black men. Remember, Trump nearly got the (innocent) Central Park Five lynched back in 1989.

Clipping from Newsweek story describing the incident. Text is highlighted reading: “Two 15-year-olds were arrested.”

Clipping from Newsweek story describing the incident. Text is highlighted from tweets from Marko Elez and Elon Musk, including the lines: “carjacking by 8 thugs” and “a gang of about a dozen young men.”

Clipping from Newsweek story describing the incident. Text is highlighted reading: “The group of teenagers approached the couple's car and made a comment about taking the vehicle, the Metropolitan Police Department said. Coristine pushed the woman into the vehicle for safety”

The Edward Coristine (“Big Balls”) carjacking story is super sus.
It somehow went from 2 kids beating him up into “8, no wait… a dozen(!) violent gang members,” AND it now seems all they did was “made a comment about taking the vehicle.”
ALSO, Mr. Balls apparently “pushed” his GF “for safety.” 🙄

A pile of drivel passing as an opinion piece written by Thomas Chatterton Williams. The text reads: “Yet the ensuing riots-and the disorder they appeared to countenance-prefigured a surge of white grievance that still hasn't subsided. Throughout the summer of 2020, many on the left exalted lawlessness and violence as pardonable offenses, if not political virtues. Within a few months, this impulse had migrated to the right, yielding even worse damage to the liberal order, most notably on January 6, 2021. The mass unrest of the preceding year certainly did not cause the sacking of the Capitol. But that winter siege amounted to an outgrowth of the summer revolt-the rotten fruit of imitation.”

Thomas Chatterton Williams proving YET AGAIN that the cover charge for the Very Important Cocktail Parties is your soul.

(And no, I will not be linking to—and driving traffic to—his terrible think piece.)

Call 988. I know it probably sounds boring and obvious, but the folks on the other end of the line really are fabulous people who are great listeners. And it’s sometimes nice to just hear a non-judgmental voice.
If you can’t talk, you can also text. Hang in there. You are worthy of a better life. ❤️

Saw your other post. I’ll delete the following comment after you read it if you’d like…

We’re so numb to everything right now that I worry people’s first reaction to these tsunami alerts is to make jokes. A note of caution. Most of us have no concept of the devastation the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused. 230,000 people died. It’s hard to even imagine that kind of loss.

The narrative of “if only we were a little nicer to them they might not try so hard to take away our rights” is exhausting.

First let me state that mocking anyone for their lack of education is ALWAYS terrible, classist, ableist, and wrong.
AND ALSO, nobody should expect oppressed people to show the same level of grace and service to their oppressors as they do through mutual aid to each other.

Venezuelan Youth Baseball Team, Denied Visas, Is Left Out of Tournament in U.S.

RE: The World Cup and the Olympics

Both FIFA and the IOC should pull the events. They shouldn’t even threaten to do so if conditions aren’t met. They should just immediately give the games to Mexico and Canada respectively.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...

Okay, tell us where and how you “studied it for 30 years.” And then give us examples of the kind of “weather modification” you are talking about. This should be an easy ask for someone with multiple degrees in… whatever field you are in.

His post could use a few more commas.

Stop it. No, “weather modification” isn’t the cause of climate change. 🙄
I can’t tell if you are a troll or if you’ve just readily bought into the conspiracy theories peddled by trolls, but cut it out.

And just for the record, I hate that Trump makes me see Jerome Fucking Powell—a man who represents the disastrous nature of capitalism better than most people alive—as a man of conviction and integrity. It makes me want to take a shower.

Jerome Powell isn’t playing games.
When we say we’re frustrated with Dems (like Govs. Whitmer and Newsom) for doing events with Trump and not making their disdain clear, we’re told it would be “unprofessional” to challenge him in public. THIS is the kind of thing we’re looking for them to do.

Correct.

In today’s edition of ‘The Patriarchy Hurts Everybody & Men Should Just Go To Therapy,’ we have an eerily familiar story of a man who had dreams of becoming an artist, but instead followed his backup plan of becoming a cruel, racist dictator who never knew love…

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Can we talk for a sec about how BAD Dems must be at oppo research?!

He wrote a birthday message to a child sex trafficker that reads: “may every day be another wonderful secret.” It had a sharpie drawing of a naked woman and his big stupid signature on it. And we’re finding out about it NOW?!

“What? Do you think you are better than 2002 Sexiest Man Alive Ben Affleck?!”

“Yes, the food will be inedible and the coffee will be mediocre at best, but Okay, some of the shops will be open 24 hours. Others will inexplicably close at 7pm! This will frustrate people, but for that I have a simple two word answer: Ben Affleck.”

“Okay, we’re going to open a franchise with restaurants spaced apart every 5 blocks in New England. But here’s the best part: It’s breakfast food, but we make it in a 3D printer!”

“Greatest Zorg, my English muffin facsimile appears to be lacking necessary attributes!”

“Worry not, cloneling! We will sprinkle this sawdust on it to provide the appearance that it was baked in a real human oven!”

Why does nothing at Dunkin Donuts taste or feel like the real thing? It’s like someone unfamiliar with human food was shown pictures of donuts and croissants and bagels and a fried egg and then told to build that stuff in a lab.

While not the point of the post, can we talk about how weird the tone of this MSNBC piece is? Both the anchor and reporter seem almost… bored. They both stumble over some parts, but that’s not what feels weird to be. I’ve seen reports on local fluff that were delivered with a more urgent tone.

People trying to help avoid or minimize future tragedy all come out and say “See?! This is what we were talking about!”
And then the news cycle ends and we’re like goldfish who have reached the other side of the aquarium tank, ready to be shocked and saddened again on our way back to the bubbler.

I really don’t know how to get people to stop viewing tragedy in isolation. We treat the (absolutely predictable) massive increase in natural disasters the same way we do mass shootings: like they are this horrible thing that happened that we simply had no control over.

4th of July ProTip: Fighting for freedom and justice for all is far more patriotic than wrapping yourself in the flag.

INDIANA JONES AND THE NAZIS WERE INSIDE US ALL ALONG

The founders were imperfect men, but one thing they got 100% right was to stand against tyranny. We simply cannot say we want to live in a free society while we allow the henchmen of the state to act without accountability.