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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

damn, the bravery of these women is just incredible.

This was 110% foreseeable: the suffering of these children rests on the conscience of everyone in power in the U.S. who has refused to even attempt to regulate generative AI.

Three geniuses gaining and using their platforms without compromising their humanity or their artistic visions, and showing us just why art matters. They are changing the conversation, each one of them.

When a nation stops handling their security through procedures, its security leaders start handling their security through assassinations.

If things keep going the way they are, we’re going to start seeing Russia style defenestrations and car accidents.

Let me tell you folks something. Every man you know has tried to pee a sentence into the snow, so we know of the difficulties latent therein.

This Kenworthy guy has superhuman abilities. I can't believe what I'm looking at.

haha what a poorly disguised box office pump

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

couple clues, yeah

To be clear - a judge announcing this and struggling for consensus/reckoning among others is a good thing and should be applauded.

Lost in the scrum of course but chunks of the Judicial now fully claiming that the DoJ is captured is... uh... a thing that feels pretty damn significant, historically speaking.

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Panel from the Preacher comics where the main character yells at a klansman "Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? YOU!" the guy stammers, and he follows, "Where the fuck is your chin?"

Preacher was a silly but fun comic that basically stole this bit from Bill Hicks, but yup, it remains true.

If you strip out the adjectives and whatnot this is a sober and realistic account of the steps needed to rebuild the country. This is the roadmap to fixing shit and he calls out the reality of the moment with too many weak people in power not willing to stand up.

right - people keep forgetting that they have exactly one tactic which is "wherever you are weak, project strength"

Johnson's never yelled in that direction of DC once, he's not gonna start now.

YouTube video by Some More News The Trump Administration Is Losing In Minneapolis - EVEN MORE NEWS

New episode of #EvenMoreNews with @margaret.bsky.social! We discuss her experience reporting from Minneapolis, how people there are organizing and providing mutual aid, Trump's threats to "nationalize" elections, and how he wishes Kaitlan Collins would smile more.

Link: youtu.be/V_Cpz4xOfAw

There's gonna be dancing in the streets for a month I tell ya

people will keep chunks off his ballroom like it's the Berlin wall

Obviously the sex trafficking we're learning worse and worse about remains the most horrible of his evils upon society but it certainly has been an OH COME ON NOW sort of week

reactionaryism remains just bog-standard unadressed shame about not being able to be boringly normally moral it would seem.

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

Rascal Crossword #1: Retro Reviews We heard you liked games.

Jesus Christ @rascal.news how on earth did you design a crossword puzzle distressingly tapped directly into my exact cerebral cortex? You even threw in an Impossible Landscapes clue - LITERALLY FEELING YELLOW SIGNED RIGHT NOW

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It's gonna be a wild one, that's for sure
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I'm imagining - not with a lot of certainty mind you - of a blue sweep of the House and Senate, Trump and MAGA calling the elections of the new Congress illegitimate, impeachment eventually passing, and political rhetoric and violence escalating to the point of sustained military interference.

unlikely we'll see another op-ed like this in the post anytime soon

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These people love to party but can never reap the storm of their partying lol

journalistic balance at the NYT means treating every Musk Nazi Salute as semiotically impenetrable

The way you use figures from classical paintings, and then "nah" them, you have an amazing process

This is amazing