The Last Pringle

Do Androids Dream of Never Gonna Give You Up

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father) Dear Ms Bondi,

This piece has been viewed over 14 million times over the last 48 hours. Unbelievable.

I'm so encouraged to see how many people are as disgusted by this as I am.

Sometimes you just need to be reminded that you're not alone.

Keep fighting, good people!

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The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

"A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this."

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And we haven't even thought about the #nationalsecurity implications of the #EpsteinPedoFiles

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Who up wuthering they heights

LOL, Ring put their own nail in the coffin on this, with that Super Bowl ad.

(Make no mistake, Ring is still a big, problematic part of the surveillance state, even without a contract w Flock.)

Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.

‼️ There are 9 lessons contained in Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit. Even in 2026 it is essential for helping guide people down the path of critical thinking, and inoculating themselves against grifters, frauds, and charlatans.
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Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

The more we learn, the worse it gets.
We have a felonious pedo in the WH, a legion of others involved, a corrupt FBI leader, & a corrupt DOJ leader.
They don’t care about the survivors at all. Nor do they care about those who didn’t survive. They are all guilty.

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Solely owned by Jim Clifton, son of Gallup. He’s a ”wealthy businessman” who knows which side his bread is buttered on - for now

Gen Z: hey can we be able to afford rent and groceries??

Republicans:

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

sigh

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve? The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

During her 11 months as the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has wasted millions of dollars and done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters, and to America’s ability to communicate with the world

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Bro, your ICE guys wear literal masks to cover their faces, let’s not talk about IDs.

1/ Trump bet $40 billion of U.S. taxpayer money on Javier Milei winning Argentina's election. He said it publicly: "If he loses, we're gone." Milei won. Now comes the payoff: a labor bill stripping protections from 20 million Argentinian workers. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

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the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

“Who is buying ‘Melania’ tickets?”

Voters: We want cheaper groceries and healthcare
Trumpers:

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These kids’ stories echo that of people like George Takei, who endured childhood in US internment camps.

A great reckoning is needed.

And donors

A good thread. This is persistent and shows up in all forms of moderation; from folks in the FCC to even Bluesky's moderation systems (auto-marking Black and brown bodies as pornographic but not for that of white bodies in the same way)