Richard Doom

Probably because that football causes severe brain injuries (never mind the physical injuries) is established science.

The Medal of Freedom has gone to a lot of terrible people — Billy Graham, Dick Cheney, Strom Thurmond, Bill Cosby, Ted Kennedy, George W, Rush Limbaugh — but this is the first time it has gone to someone whose sole claim to fame is getting his shit rocked by a teenaged girl.

"You made me fascist!" has been the crybully right's one argument and if they had an ounce of shame or self-awareness they would crawl into a spider hole and never emerge.

Bork thought (1) the First Amendment should only protect political speech, not art or culture or speech about it, and (2) feminism and naughty stuff were destroying America. So, yeah.

It doesn't take much to be a "leading intellect" on the right & it never has. Thomas Sowell sticks out to me as an example--I reviewed his "Quest for Cosmic Justice" for Publishers Weekly & the dude's attacking MIRANDA a quintessential PROCEDURAL justice decision as a prime example of what's wrong!

Remember how she posted last week about eggs making a woman and now we find out male birds are laying eggs.

Perfect. No notes.

Let's talk more about all those "models" Epstein trafficked from Eastern Europe through an agency modeled on Donald Trump's modeling agency.

PUMAMAN X SUPERSONIC MAN: DAWN OF TORGO!

Wearily pointing at the sign once again that says you gotta defend porn because these fuckheads see every queer person as inherently pornographic and they always have and they always will. You have to defend it even if you don't personally engage with it because otherwise this happens. ⬇️

i have not heard any buckaroos mention this but it is great observation. THE LEFTOVERS was huge influence on lucky day

Considering that the editor in chief of this rag bragged about torturing Palestinians with the IDF, it should come as no surprise that they're promoting a fascist crackdown against certain types of people in the name of "safety"

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has made a national name for himself as a swaggering, autocratic leader hostile to any challenge, however minor, to his power. He has alternately denied the existence of the murderous deputy gangs that plague his department, and said he’s neutralized them. Under Villanueva, the department covered up at least one incident of deputy violence against someone in custody. He has defied subpoenas from an oversight commission established by LA County’s governing body, the five-member Board of Supervisors. He has bullied and maligned those who question his authority: suggesting that the supervisors, all women, needed to be “taken to the shed and they need to be beat down so they start doing their job”; calling LA County’s Inspector General a Holocaust denier; and threatening to use the power of his agency to investigate a LA Times reporter assigned to cover his department. Most gravely, Villanueva has presided over a force that has killed dozens of civilians, and a jail system, the largest in the county, in which 55 people alone died in 2021. An exhaustive list of scandals and abuses could fill a book.

I missed this three weeks ago:

Alex Villanueva, the former sheriff of Los Angeles who lost big in 2022, is running for his old job back next year.

Who is he, you ask? Here's the first paragraph of @psfrench.bsky.social's story from a few years ago: boltsmag.org/unease-in-lo...

In a sense, LA is still suffering from how it grew up. LA grew up as a petroleum boomtown, was built to be endless streetcar suburbs from Day 1. In its early years, it was utterly dominated by a corrupt transportation monopoly called the Red Car system (aka Pacific Electric Railway). 1/🧵

i want to see democrats on cnbc absolutely ripping into our titans of industry for backing the worst economic president of our lifetimes and refusing to break ranks

I scrolled Hinge this morning for the first time in a minute and this perfectly sums up how that felt

Because people are unclear on the concept, every Sen/Gov primary in the last 20 years in California has featured 1 candidate who was "chosen" by the donors & consultants & political players who dictate state politics.
That other candidates also ran doesn't make it a contested primary.

Pretending that the forced DC takeover has anything to do with crime—when that is so clearly a BS pretext for a power grab that sets a baseline for additional power grabs—serves only one purpose: aiding the power grab by trying to give it cover.

That's a choice. Helping Trump lie is a choice.

This really cannot be emphasized enough, & it's even worse than described here because a Democrat saying "I'm tough on crime" is making multiple arguments:

1. That Democrats are not, by definition, tough on crime
2. That we need elected officials who are "tough on crime"

#2 is maybe more insidious

it should be a bigger deal that they are lying so outrageously to justify this fascistic show of force and the fact that it isn’t is testament to the ways in which this country’s elite is more committed to maintaining racist hierarchies than it is in maintaining democratic institutions

This is the mark of a healthy society, when your server at Buffalo Wild Wings is deputized into the gender police and can force a teen to expose themselves to prove they belong in a bathroom, at Buffalo Wild Wings

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

This is such a stupid time to be alive.

Ford announced plans on Monday to deliver a $30,000 mid-size all-electric truck in 2027, in a potential shakeup of an EV market that’s been plagued by high costs. But the truck — which is rumored to revive the retro name Ford Ranchero — wasn’t really the main news. The pickup is part of Ford’s plan to “reimagine the entire way it builds EVs to cut costs, turn around its struggling EV division, and truly compete with the likes of Tesla,” Heatmap contributor Andrew Moseman wrote, which the company has dubbed its second “Model T moment.” The strategy embraces a more minimalist, software-driven method of car design that EV-only companies such as Tesla and Rivian employ, allowing them to make mechanically simpler vehicles with fewer buttons and parts and more functions run by software through touchscreens. The push could “change everything” and “disrupt the U.S. auto industry,” wrote Inside EVs.

enshittifying cars to make them more dangerous for both occupants and externals, more frustrating to use but also cheaper to build is not really 'disruption', it's what everyone is doing

The thing we absolutely must drive home to the public is that the Trump administration's immigration policy is being run by committed white supremacists. This is not rhetoric or hyperbole; it is absolutely literally true, and they're increasingly not bothering to hide it.

Escape from Fear City Zohran Mamdani grew up in a New York defaced by 9/11 into a place that preyed on people like him. Now that he's wounded the predator, it will lash out against his mayoralty

On the murder of our colleagues, @attackerman.bsky.social writes, "At only 28 years old, suffering through his own starvation, al-Sharif reported for the world what his people are experiencing during a genocide. He operated in the best traditions of what we in this business are supposed to do."

a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

YouTube video by racheldoesstuff Real Life Fighting Is Awkward - feat. Skylar Astin & Vincent Rodriguez III - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

There's always a CXG song.

Report: Average Male 4,000% Less Effective In Fights Than They Imagine WASHINGTON—Contradicting the long-held belief that they would just go off and destroy anyone who tried to mess with them, a Department of Health and Human Services report published Thursday revealed t...

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