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I’ve never seen a statue so badly looking like it wishes it was at a slave auction before.

Why it’s becoming so expensive to buy a car in America Prices are at new highs. Buyers are older. More loans are going bad. It’s not an easy time to afford a car in America.

Car prices are up 30% since 2019. The average new car loan lasts 68.8 months now. One in five pay $1K/month. Used cars avg $25K. The share of loans 90 days past due is 8.6%. A figure not seen since pandemic. And 2008-2009. Now gas prices are up 14% with trump’s global war for oil.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

Endlessly grim to me how facile and empty these peoples' visions of the New World Order are; they're tearing up fifty years of international agreements and progress and imperfect stumbling towards the possibility of a better world and all they want out of it is to be a gangster petrostate.

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

I've literally never heard any military talk as much about how they totally aren't running out of munitions and now I'm wondering why they keep harping on it

[Exit Murderer.]

Funeral procession for the 165 to 175 little school girls murdered by the US and Israel in Minab, Iran.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

It cannot be stressed enough how these Republicans don’t see government jobs as jobs at all. They see them as titles, no-show gigs where they can do whatever they want. That’s why they hated the people in those jobs before, they thought it was a scam because they don’t believe in doing the work.

"Wars in the Middle East are good and easy to win!"

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

complete insanity

So he is inciting an uprising but not taking responsibility for the outcome. If the Iranian people come out and get slaughtered again after the bombing ends, what will he do? Bomb yet again?

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

Mocking up headlines is a genius idea

When you are still doing your homework on your way into class

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

These virtual assistants that doctors are using are annoying as fuck. “Do you need surgery.” I don’t fucking know. I was hoping one of the humans who works there might be able to tell me. Jesus Christ

Snorting coke off a toilet seat is general considered unhygienic; but raw milk smoothie vendor Tupac Amaru Schneidermann and his crystal therapist wife Xochitl Worthington-Schneidermann say they’re not so sure

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

Not me because I still look like I'm in my late 30s. Lol. So I'm dumb and standing up which is no way to live

It's like that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer is pretending to be the movie phone guy—"if you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, press 1"

"please enter the first 3 letters of the movie now"—

and finally he's all "why don't you just tell me the name of the movie you want to see?"

Well, I’m a guy and also now suffering from brain fog, so it seems age gets you one way or the other regardless. At least the kindlier young people now offer me a seat on the subway.

He would be the first to tell you it’s a thought which was not original to him, but Kermit Roosevelt III’s The Nation that Never Was (arguing that there is no founding but the Second Founding and Lincoln is its prophet) really drove home the point that a very large portion of American slavery was…

Without a doubt one of the funniest posts I've seen from a politician that's supposed to be taken seriously

Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in Manhattan.

found the full report!

ny1.com/nyc/manhatta...

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

The Super Bowl is a window into how much the U.S. economy has changed. I remember when it was mostly ads for cars, beer and stuff you’d find in the grocery store. Now it’s all AI, gambling, crypto (also gambling) and Ozempic.

‘Together, We Are America’ Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...