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How Rod Dreher’s Blog Got a Little “Too Weird” for The American Conservative The right-wing commentator’s columns, which were unedited and bankrolled by a single donor, will be shuttered Friday after a 12-year run. Sources say it was ultimately a diatribe on circumcision that ...

I can never hear his name without also hearing the phrase "primitive root weiner" which, incidentally, was also what caused his SOLE benefactor to pull the plug. Crazy that the only reason anyone knows about this lunatic because one cente-millionaire deigned to elevate him to the public stage

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The Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier Than Ever to Exploit Farmworkers

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Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement Day after day we’re seeing more signs of Donald Trump’s slipping grip...

"Trump may be the avatar of the Authoritarian International, but these groups exist and are now joined together in a way that will outlive Trump personally and electorally," writes @joshtpm.bsky.social.
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I kinda thought it was so absurd on its face that people would recognize it as a joke. I'm sorry.

Or joking

Israel told the UN to stay away from those areas for 9 hours while it kills all plant life. This is a war crime, and Israel is so comfortable committing war crimes that they announce them in advance.

Trump is America's first Stalinist president

Into the volcano with the lot of 'em

YouTube video by Kiro48 The House of Shades (student film)

Not only was Michael Knowles and actor he played a bisexual character in a student short film called House of Shades

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I used to be pretty staunchly against capital punishment but at this point I think we need to revive drawing and quartering in the public square

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Donald Trump Jr. jumps in, supports Kelly Tshibaka for Senate In June, it was President Donald Trump’s endorsement. In July, it was the Alaska Republican Party endorsement. Now, Donald Trump Jr. is supporting Kelly Tshibaka for U.S. Senate, with a fundraising le...

It's a doctored image. Junior is definitely a doofus, but this is a "president holds phone upside down" level photo manipulation.

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They're just like us!

We need to find a way to mass produce those Clockwork Orange devices

Excerpt from blog post defending the work of race scientist Richard Lynn on how global IQ dataset was compiled: "One highlight of this book was a list of average national IQs for 185 nations, of which 81 national national IQs were collected and calculated directly from studies, the remaining 104 national IQs being estimated from IQs of nearby and ethnically comparable countries. This list was expanded and improved over time, first in 'Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis' (Lynn, 2006) next in 'The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide' (Lynn, 2008)"

Because I'm a masochist and that IQ map looked like an HDI map with a number scale slapped on it I decided to track it down. Found the usual slurry of scientific racists but this little tidbit about their dogshit methodology jumped out.

YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

Just a tad on-the-nose

Obligatory:
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Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

Americans have been so poisoned by TV copaganda slop that it largely doesn't register to them that police officers are not supposed to point guns at people

guns are in principle not a tool of law enforcement, they are a tool of self-defense that we allow law enforcement officers to have

When it happens I think it would be both fun and funny if after the celebrations die down no one ever says the name again or acknowledges he ever existed. Like see how long we can keep it up

ProPublica doing the Lord's work again. But the amount of blatant racism in the comments is something to behold.

Damn that's gutting. Donated

A couple of really good pods covering this latest iteration of eugenics: Dystopia Now from @xriskology.bsky.social & @katewillett.bsky.social and @illconceivedpodcast.com from @junlper.beer & @bosh.worstpossible.world.

If 26 Americans or Israelis or Germans were murdered today, it would be the top headline on every network.

They keep telling you “the war is over” while this happens, because their idea of a peaceful, “normal” order is one where Israel gets to mass murder Palestinians at will.

Man I hadn't actually watched that in probably over a decade. It's striking how relatively normal the anchor is compared to how overtly fascistic their current crop is. Just hearing fox news delivered without sneering condescension is weird

YouTube video by hyperrreal Boston bomb scare suspects press conference about Hair.

The post arraignment press conference was one of the best thing ever

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We do it right in Minneapolis.

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

I will never forgive him for his horrible coverage of Ferguson but this still bullshit

As a white dude who regularly drives a big dumb truck for work it's insane what cops will allow to slide when they assume you're on their side.

Jared Kushner’s “Plan” for Gaza Is an Abomination Kushner is pitching a “new,” gleaming resort hub. But scratch the surface, and you find nothing less than a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

Jared Kushner has never been shy about his support for Israel’s most extreme fantasies for Gaza—fantasies that begin with ethnic cleansing.
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