Several members of my family kept a running total of grocery costs as they were shopping (in their heads before calculators were small and cheap) and then we had priority discussions about what needed to go back on the shelf because we couldn’t afford it that week before we even got to the checkout.
today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
I’m not a guy but wouldn’t it be better to stuff the toe until the heal fit?
Pretty sure all those plans relied on a world pre renewables where we could safely assume Europe would step in to help solve the problem. There wasn’t a “we started a fight for no reason” scenario.
Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.
A major throughline of the Trump administration.
I get it but I don’t think that’s true for non POTUS elections and it’s generally true for both sexes for POTUS.
Elizabeth Warren lost to Scott Brown in a Special Election in 2010 to replace Ted Kennedy and came back to win the seat in 2012.
Voters are allowed to cast as many votes as there are seats to be filled in the district. For instance, in a two-member district, a voter can vote for up to two candidates, in a ten-seat district, for up to ten candidates. Plurality block voting often results in one party winning all of the seats in the district, as the (cross-sectional) results below for the current representation attest. Like in the districts elected by first-past-the-post voting, proportionality of party represention is not generally produced.
And they pay them… $100/year plus some travel reimbursement 🙄. Each member represents like 3,300 people and far more skewed to GOP than the actual electorate.
I’ve said it before, but People magazine should get a Pulitzer for its coverage of this administration.
Did anyone read the interview to see if she actually said she was in high school and that’s where it came from?
Not that this is the point but I started high school at 13; the cutoff date was 12/31 where I started school so theoretically about 1/3 of the class would have been 13 for the fall freshman term
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
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What the 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬?
It’s like every media outlet has embraced a style guide that requires Passive Voice for all right-leaning violence
Also I realize this isn’t the main point but 1950-1960 wasn’t “one generation ago”, it was at least four generations ago (boomer, Gen X, Millennial, Alpha, Beta?)
I… what? Black Texans are *more likely* to embrace “Christian Language” than white democratic Texans. Black people were 11% of the population in 2023/2024 but made up 18% of Protestant Christians according to Pew.
Has anyone asked how - if they were 2 wks from nuclear bombs - they were able to bomb the heck out of Iran without worrying about bombing some of that nuclear material and generating a bunch of fallout?
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
There was definitely something about christmas destroyed because the Starbucks “holiday” cup didn’t specifically say Christmas on it 🙄 (and maybe was blue & white winter snowflakes instead of red and green one year?)
Won’t be long before Mamdani has more followers on SM than CBS News can achieve in ratings
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
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In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
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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/
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
2006: don’t be evil
2016: but really, what *is* evil?
2026: meet your new assistant Evi L® delivering +225% ROI on prison labor
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.
I was finding it very hard to believe he was claiming a Jewish woman who was an art teacher had intimate knowledge of the tattoo and never discussed what it was with him.
Are we supposed to believe his “Jewish wife” who was an art teacher saw that tattoo every day and didn’t recognize it? Didn’t mention what it was?
I suppose it’s possible for a Jewish adult to be clueless but not if she had any kind of normal Jewish education; especially one interested in ART.
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
