Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.
We need online anonymity, so people can speak against their government and others in power without fear of retaliation. We need smaller platforms and the ability to build them, to diversify away from big tech. We need young people to be able to access information that contradicts the fascist state.
When Republicans talk about and implement total partisan media takeover, their plans for “internet safety” also factor in. They want to concentrate online power into platforms they can control, but they’re disguising it as bipartisan efforts to keep kids safe online.
it's quite surreal how we've completely normalized the fact that a good 70% of our business, political, and tech press exists exclusively to blow smoke up the ass of the wealthy, creating elaborate mythologies for otherwise unremarkable people
Trump keeps calling his war on Iran an “excursion,” like it’s a sightseeing trip. You can almost hear the briefing where someone said “incursion,” and he just ran with the wrong word.
The people paid to advise him are either too afraid to step in or are just fine with him looking like a fool.
The word "rage" does not begin to cover it. The phrase "we told you so" does not begin to cover it. These people are murdering for fun and the best we got for our warnings was being snidely eyerolled at on Twitter and in real life. And the ones who rolled their eyes will mostly be fine. We won't.
A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
Remind me what military branch this super-soldier served in?
He should load the entire cabinet and GOP members of Congress on Bezos’s yacht and sail it through the strait to prove how safe it is. Let Vance drive.
I now realized Donald Trump lied to me when he said he wouldn't start regime change wars in the Middle East. But we need to stick with him to fight against children identifying as cats and using litter boxes in school classrooms.
by Joe Rogan
Mailing abortion drugs to patients would be a crime under a bill the Mississippi Legislature passed to define the practice as felony drug trafficking.
The bill now heads to Gov. Tate Reeves' desk.
There's also the fact that Rowling has been fairly explicit that the money she earns through Harry Potter she's putting into anti-trans lobbying efforts.
There's a difference, IMHO, between an artist with a shitty private life, and an artist using their money to fund regressive social change.
I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing with the shoes, it's another humiliation thing.
If it wasn't, they'd just rebuy the exact same Florsheim shoe in the right size and wear that. But they know he'd notice those aren't the clown shoes he gave them, so they can't do it.
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
These words.
Also: Certain people will always work against your success to build own egos, and you have to scale the mountain repeatedly.
I’m sorry to younger women that it’s been so hard to break down this system, and with far too little help from good men. So many of us have tried, keep trying.
“Think about what this world would look like if you didn't have Donald Trump as the president” should be the Dem midterm message.
This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”
"This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth & property & thus keep the race terrorized & keep them down." -- Ida B. Wells after People's Grocery lynching in Memphis #tdih 1892. Read ⬇️ 🧵
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I can't compete with this.
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
What’s next? Hot dogs? Sausages?
We wanted to survey Gen Z Republicans but struggled with low response rates. So we set up a Discord server called "Hitler Was Right," and quickly found ourselves with a wide pool of subjects to interview.
“I DO NOT want to go to JAIL! I’ve been criming like CRAZY like no one has ever SEEN before! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
claiming Platner is leading the party left when he's the classic late to the party stand yelling by the door guest requires a dedication to propaganda or a hatred of reality so profound that it should be classified as a pathology
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
Kalshi refused to let me bet on the Kalshi owner being arrested
I worked in restaurants for 10 years and knew a dozen charismatic dirtbag bartenders with severe personality issues and the state of Maine is acting like this guy is a unicorn
""Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."" im losing my mind
Platner has said he regrets those comments, which is good as far as it goes. it still seems like maybe better to nominate someone who doesn't have to apologize for saying shit like that?
