The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
As a father and teacher of english with a terminal degree, I'm morally and legally obligated to repost this dadjoke
Wow did that trigger a memory of being six years old. Thanks for posting this
He's due for his "Did you order the code red?" moment, I just don't know if enough people will notice or care when he says You're gd right i did.
I bet it was nice to live in one of those years or even decades that future history books barely even bother writing about.
7 out of 10 Americans did not support attacking Iran. Are you seeing their voices reflected in the news coverage much?
One of the problems of having an uber wealthy oligarch class own most of our traditional forms of news and information is that their wealth renders them utterly immune to normal market forces. Elon trashed Twitter using pocket change just so he could own the libs, and the rest are following suit
It's the Old Confederacy all over again, isn't it? "The world will accept a slave holding republic because it needs our cotton." Instead, the world bought from Egypt and India.
They never learn.
On the bright side, I remember it as a small role relative to the ghosts, but...i don't know how you make a movie out of that text
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Relatively portable too... take it on trips with my 6 yo for these reasons
I'd undo the 1994 strike, that team was so fun
This post makes me feel seen...
The British arrested a Royal, and we can’t even investigate a reality TV show host.
Our system is so busted.
I'm gonna tell ya, when celebrities of the generation before you die in old age, it really nudges you toward deep reflection of your own mortality. And yet, getting to old age before dying is a miracle and privilege. Grateful for every day, the glorious ones and the messy ones.
RIP Tom Hagen.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Definitely one of the best of the 20th century. Something about the magnetic opposition of the dueling philosophies of Gus and Call seems to get to the heart of the American mythos, puritanism vs romanticism
This is the perfect encapsulation of modern right wing propaganda - not to convince followers their own side is good, but only to scare them into believing the other side will be worse. That messaging is why I don't think this will end once he's gone and someone less "charismatic" assumes the throne
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.
The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde
Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.
Great game, definitely lives up to the hype. The quality of the components is also fantastic
In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires.
I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
in hindsight perhaps it was a mistake to allow a class of citizens to emerge that is so insulated by its extreme wealth that it is utterly immune to consumer markets, and then to let that class buy up virtually all our sources of news and information
Fear of giving in to "the mob," or as we used to call it back in the days of constitutional democracy, "the majority"
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
A fantastic and underrated game
Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time
Since July, Trump’s immigration goons have illegally detained at least 2,300 people without bond or due process.
Meanwhile, two private prison corporations who donated millions to Trump are profiting off these blatant constitutional violations.
Cashing in on cruelty.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
In retrospect, perhaps it was a mistake to allow a class of citizens to emerge that was so wealthy it was utterly immune to consumer markets, and then to let that class buy up all the traditional sources of news and information
