Laura

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

I heard Cuomo got last-minute endorsements from ingrown toenails, guys who turn right from the left-hand turn lane, and Lyme disease

More of this. All the time. Every time they appear. Constantly. Fuck ICE.

"Charlie Kirk wasn't the saint you're all making him out to be and if you just listen to some of the things he said--"

*red dot appears on my chest*

*another on my forehead*

This was an easy week to filter out the assholes in my life.

There aren't many stories that prompt gasps at our editors' daily budget meeting. But this was one.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

Janine: “Do you want some coffee, Mr. Tully?”
Louis: “Do I?”
Egon : “Yes, have some.”
Louis: “Yes, have some.”

✨🎨 (Gesso / Acrylic Gouache on Canvas Panel - Work in Progress)

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Been in California a week and have eaten so much delicious ethnic food. I love Portland, but nothing compares to this.

Newspaper photo of a group of cats huddled together on a satellite dish with the headline, "Outdoor cats are using $500 Starlink satellite dishes as self-heating beds."

Cats are and always have been cyberpunks

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

Assholes. All of them.

<Sob laugh>

2015 World Cup winner, 2x NWSL Champion and TWG friend, Meghan Klingenberg announces her retirement. Thank you Kling, your goal-line header save vs. Sweden in the 2015 World Cup will always be iconic ❤️🏆

📸 @fifawwc.bsky.social

We sometimes ask WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN but now we're going to have to ask IS ANYBODY WATCHING ANY OF THIS SHIT as every monitor, witness, checker and watcher is kicked out and shut down, leaving us in the dark on food safety and weather and climate and disease and consumer protection and and and

If you had told me the bitchiest moment of Pride Month would be this...

You just know he's going to blow it all on squeaky toys & catnip.

US House Committee Advances 10-Year Moratorium on State AI Regulation | TechPolicy.Press After an amendment challenging the moratorium language failed, it will advance with the rest of the legislative package.

Horrible crap buried in the 389 page behemoth Congress is trying to shove down our throats: blocking any state from regulating AI for the next decade. If you don’t want to bow down to tech bros in this way, get involved at fairshareusa.org www.techpolicy.press/us-house-com...

Tumblr post by chongo blog from August 22, 2019: Can't wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say "hey, remember when we were all freaking depressed? That was a crazy time. Glad we aren't like that anymore" Reply by Ampersketch from May 10, 2025 (marked yesterday): Hey Reply by chongo blog, same day: Don't say anything

We took one of the best Librarians of Congress ever and replaced her with a stooge.

I hate this place.

Allodoxaphobia is the fear of other people’s opinions.

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Oh well. Maybe tomorrow.

The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 988, launched three years ago and it's time for a checkup. We look at its stability, supply & demand, funding issues, rumors, and potentially devastating cut to one of its key services.
Hannah Wesolowski from NAMI joins us.
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Trump and Bukele’s Concentration Camp CECOT is no regular prison. It is also a warning.

This is a MUST READ. A tough read. But a MUST READ, nevertheless.
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Class.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

call letters WTAF TV

The call letters of Fox’s 1986 charter affiliate in Philadelphia take on new meaning in hindsight