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If you have no skill or desire for hard work, you can make up the difference with luck, but there is no amount of hard work that can make up for just never getting a chance

Trump posts his Watergate tapes It ended Nixon's presidency. For Trump, it's just another Saturday.

"Where Nixon had to contend with a Supreme Court that rejected his claim of absolute immunity and a Congress that stood ready to impeach him, the other branches of govt these days have no interest in reining in Trump. He can do a Watergate every week safe in the knowledge that no one will stop him."

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

ww2 poster shows a soldier with a mickey face labeeled disney adult This woman id your friend, she fights for freedom

there was a large enough pro-life Dem caucus in the House that it almost sank Obamacare! basically all of them lost their seats in the Tea Party wave, and we’ve only seen congressional races get more nationalized since then

shitty policy stances aren’t enough to win over these voters

The only time I don't use my rice cooker for cooking rice is when the recipe calls for cooking the rice inside the main dish. Otherwise, I don't see how me and a pot of boiling water are meant to compete with a device specifically made for this task.

I think I know, but I might be wrong because my memory is terrible

I think they knew blood was a renewable resource back in the 1800s, otherwise bloodletting wouldn't have been a thing.

I think the not having to completely exsanguinate a victim is a modern invention so that you can have sexy brooding vampires that don't have to murder people constantly.

the right wing writes more coffee-based fanfiction than the AU section on AO3 does

The David Bowie Song You Didn’t Know Was Dedicated to Bob Dylan In Song For Bob Dylan, Bowie fearlessly critiqued one of the biggest names in music. But what was the real story behind this enigmatic track?

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

This is how i feel about Quibi. I could have stopped it

that's a refreshing change from most horror movies where the monster is just a metaphor for a big scary monster

tim taylor: we all know that gender is a performance, al

al: i don't think so, tim. that's a common misreading of butlerian theory, which refers to the linguistic "performative act," e.g. naming a ship. however, the symbolic interactionist school does understand everyday life as dramaturgy

The Democratic party that could have stood up for Palestine would have absolutely bodied Trump in round 2.

Force ghosts from the end of Return of the Jedi

Yoda: yeah hi sorry but I didn’t even like this guy before he was evil and the last time I saw him he was killing children

Luke: thank you for your wisdom Master Yoda

Yoda: no I’m saying it’s bullshit I have to sit on a log with this guy

Obi: yeah I wasn’t going to say anything but he murdered me

It appears the situation is that they want to do a merger so they can acquire more sports programming or whatever, so they're acquiescing to try to get it accepted, because they would rather enable facism than possibly be stopped from making even more money.

I’ve finished setting up my government-mandated shrine to St. Charlie Kirk. I will pray to Him every day that I can become more and more racist in my remaining years. As required by law.

NSFW a band

Cock for Two Twins
Kate's Bush
Anal Sex Pistols

Stephen Colbert: "Nexstar has a major merger coming up before the Trump administration. A company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through? Has that ever happened before? I'm being told not to answer that question."

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

if only there was some way of knowing

all fascists are cowards, if you tell them no they run scared, if you try to appease them they sense weakness and attack harder

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money!

tough!!

Naked authoritarian fascism. Love and support to the entire team at @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social, who *will* come out the other side of this horrendous abuse of power. Disgusted to see ABC caving to this glaringly illegal and unconstitutional threat from Brendan Carr.

IT was originally going to be dice-based (but one die that grows in size), but the original playtesters didn't like it, so they just put it as an option in chapter 9 page 263 of the 2014 DMG.

Much like Target there are certain things that every middle class politically active liberal has enjoyed using but know they don’t actually need

In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less.

The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.