Johnny Placebo

it's been a while since somebody did a game theory post that was so bad we immediately mocked them into the sun

Image of fake newspaper headline "here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that inconveniences rich assholes" by some rich asshole.

If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.

Rough night for House Targaryen

She didn't survive though.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

This quote rules

Making the case for abortion rights and then some.

The Trump administration has a Nazi problem | Mehdi Hasan Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the copious amounts of evidence

“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging”

My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:

No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

you can tell this was aimed at the trumpers because they use small words

Listen, I’m much more of a “we should be allowed to say Christmas again, Santa Claus was white man” Christian, now you’re asking me to be a “take up your cross and follow me, sell your possessions and give to the poor” type Christian? uh tall order bud, try next door

Have they considered trying hypocrisy and denial?

So I have this great idea for the Super Bowl halftime show…

A small exterior door on a cottage, with DUCK written above it.

The duck who lives here must be absolutely fucking massive.

If you’re going to see wonders of your dick, if you’re going to step into new levels of your destiny, you have to purify yourself. The higher you go, the more consecrated you have to be. For your dick to release more of its favor, you have to step up to a new level of commitment, focus, discipline.

"What took generations to build is being dismantled in months, and with it goes not just expertise but what remains of the shared American faith in expertise itself."

When is the best time to remove a leader who is prone to conspiracy theories and racial scapegoating and who has toppled one country and is threatening to invade others? If only history were clearer

Show me a monster that wasn't made by America and I'll show you a monster that was made by a monster made by America.

sorry that your grandma died from botulism in her arugula, that your health insurance costs six times your mortgage, that your car no longer adheres to basic safety standards, that you have absolutely zero privacy online, that your kids' toys have lead paint and your town's table water is toxic

[clears throat]

HE SAID / XI SAID

I'm happy from a political standpoint watching Donald Trump and his party forced into debating health care. It's like watching a walrus do quantum physics

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

(watching a population vigorously oppose subsidizing the welfare state while also maintaining one of the world’s largest prison systems) these are people who love to be free

It'll be made out of tin and spray painted gold.

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”