She wasn't attracted to the right by the romanticized aesthetic of "traditional America" - big beautiful houses and bread-making and families with half a dozen children. Rather, she says, "I was in love with the frisson of transgression." The online right had begun to engage more explicitly with forbidden subjects: nativism, race science, and gender essentialism drawn from evolutionary psychology. "There was an element of gnosticism to it," she says, "the sense that you know secret things that other people don't know."

outright saying you're not even in it for the fake cottagecore tradwife stuff, you just really like the racism and transphobia is crazy work

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Techbros are really the most parasitic, society-degrading group around

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SHUT YOUR DOOMER ASS UP & REGARD LIFE AS PRECIOUS ENOUGH TO DEFEND, SUNSHINE!!!!!

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

so can we get some alt text on your subskeets so we know who y’all be talking about

Bugs Bunny in a tux saying "I wish all trans children a very live long enough to get revenge"

the targeting of any art that is "obscene" (terms of obscenity always to be decided at a whim) is fascistic yes but also how the only kinds of art that tends to be penalized is the individual/independent creators isn't lost on me. a patreon TOS would reject anything that can be streamed on netflix.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

The worst thing about the prequels is that George was right.

"separate the art from the artist" just means "you're not allowed to be mad at me when I give money and attention to someone who wants to eradicate trans people"

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약간 감을 잡은 것 같기도 하고. 아닌가🤔 아리까리. 이제는 운동도 표시해야지. 오늘 운동함

We get paid so little for the truck ton of work we do to make comics a reality. I love what I do very much but this industry will chew you up and spit you out if you aren’t careful. You have to advocate for yourself a lot more than you think you do.

extract of a letter from Edmund Burke to Thomas Venables, dated 6 December 1796 You will be so good as to desire some friend in Liverpool, to send him four pounds of Tea, green and of the best Sort, for he is not content with the Tea he finds in that Island—and I wish this done as soon as your Correspondent can send it

Dear Sir,
Can you please send my friend in Guadeloupe some green tea because he is so dissatisfied with the available tea choices that we need to have a circum-Atlantic correspondence about it. Also do it quick.
XOXO
Edmund Burke

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Great to see that the decimation of wa po staff has not affected their ability to cover the most pressing issues of the day.

Well I guess he couldn’t name any more recent atrocities since the ruling party has decided those were good or not worth acknowledging.

The absurdity of this piece is shocking.

Don’t want to wait? Make yourself a cup at home.

More proof that some people think their own personal anger choices are actually new social philosophies.

In reality they’re just assholes.

it's funny because the red flag isn't that they met on a dating app, it's that he was a former cop, which is where the actual sexual violence statistics go off the charts

I am never going to take your survey. I will never let you know how you're doing. I am not rating my experience. Leave me alone, I want to live my life, our commercial or client interaction is over.

oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism

Scream (1996)
Scream 4 (2011)
Scream 6 (2023)
Scream [5] (2022)
Scream 2 (1997)
Scream 3 (2000)

none of this would have happened if kevin mcallister would have punched trump in the balls so hard that he died in home alone 2: lost in new york

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

I've met parents selling plasma or going without electricity just to keep a roof over their children's heads.

From California to Ohio, school districts have opened "safe parking lots" for homeless students and their families.

The line between "housed" and "unhoused" has become shockingly porous.

I want people who are a part of making (supposedly) mid or bad games to still be employed.

A data point to remember re: “popularism” is that the popular position on what is happening in Iran and happened in Venezuela is “no war, this is insane, full stop” and the moderate elected officials we are supposed to like are saying contorted, legalistic, unpopular word salad instead of that.

Give Ilhan Omar a Gundam

I'm not going to quote post because I don't want to dog pile.

But when people say, "don't heckle the staff," this isn't 2010.

We're not talking about normal people choosing normal govt staffing jobs.

This is 2026 where we're kidnapping foreign officials and building concentration camps.

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