Mark Hatlestad

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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Re: Epstein’s emails

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

It's one of the most powerful films I've seen in my life. It's also one that is very hard to recommend, since it is so bleak and paints such a damning portrait of humanity's capacity for evil.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

bsky.app/profile/jake... One of the fired journalists explicitly says cancellations aren't warranted (yet)

The Dimitri finds out meme, which is a two panel vertical meme of a guy being interviewed by a lady. The caption reads "The club is bumping, the ladies look good, the alcohol is flowing." The second caption reads "There is much pain in the world, but not in this room."

Bluesky rn

Baseball, like everything else in the US, would be way more boring without any foreign-born people.

i don't understand why they're called the toronto blue jays and not the toronto baseballs. i'll never understand it. same with the dodgers, they should be called the baseballs too. more people should be like me and speak out when they see that something is wrong

The Image contains the following poem: The Pledge I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America … One nation under God … The other words are echos Often said, but seldom heard

I wrote a short poem reflecting on the current state of this country.
I hope we can once again strive for the universalist principals that made our country great.

It's not showing up in my Pocketcast feed... 😕

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them." Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future. There will be universal high income."

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

I take it as a positive sign that they are already scraping the bottom of the barrel to cobble together income. This God-forsaken bubble can't burst soon enough.

I’m really bad at responding to texts. Trying to decide if I can handwave this away as “executive dysfunction” or if it’s like a serious personality flaw that needs to be addressed

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Hell yeah

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

his staff doesn't even post everyday. The leader of the Dems in Congress should be posting 10000x a day, preferably front facing videos. We need to get rid of these old fucks like Schumer

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

RFK at HHS is like if a baby crashed a car in to a crowd of people. Sure I'm mad at the baby, if not particularly surprised by the outcome - but my bigger concern is all the adults who handed the baby the car keys and insisted it'd be fine.

Detail from the cover that reads "Democracy Dies In Darkness"

…the way in which they just up and troll the fuck out of @washingtonpost.com on the cover is priceless and I'm extremely here for it.

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

Equating this with the resolution on Hortman is...a stretch.

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I came of political age hating the Bush guys and now I have to get in the trenches with them against the guy from the apprentice

I would like to file several complaints

Back when I was in college and wrote for the school newspaper I wrote a whole thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated media ownership restrictions, and how that was going to fuck us over forever and people were like "Dan, I dunno this is an art school," well eat shit fuckos.