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getting the porksweats covers thread going

starting with one of this great song

Reminder: You can watch the DOGE bro depos on YouTube!

(I’ve seen a lot of clips compiled by news orgs, but some of them don’t link to the full videos.)

I hate how true this is, and how many times I think about this post every time I read the news.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

So Justin's partner in crime, Nate Cavanaugh, was also asked "what is DEI" and he comes up with "making decisions on the basis of something other than merit."

And then says that "DEI" grants are "wasteful and unnecessary."

youtu.be/hhah1ZjPAno?...

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Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003

AI bros are COOKED!

I created this entire sequence with my camera, using human skills. Something like this would have cost dozens of dollars in prompting, but for me it was completely free.

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

THREAD: Verified videos of the Iran/US/Israel war - 28 February

Smoke rises in the air near Tehran's City Theatre metro station following air strikes by the US and Israel.

Location: 35.7011766,51.4054869

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

fell for it again award

America's media consolidation nightmare.

CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Warner Bros, Paramount, TikTok, SpongeBob ... How much media can any one billionaire family control? And what happens when so much culture gets captured and politically reshaped?

Satellite Images Expose Trump’s Claim of ‘Easy’ Victory in Iran If it decides to attack, the US would face a complicated set of targets because of Iran’s rugged geography and its efforts to protect military assets.

here's a good visual rundown of the basically impossible task of destroying iran's nuclear program from the air (note also: the u.s. claimed to have destroyed iran's nuclear program already, last summer) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I have a lot of Trump supporters very mad at me

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

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Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?

LYONS: Yes mam

McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?

LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question


McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.