the “tim apple” press conference thing is permanently seared into my brain

Transmasculinity is radically expanding the definitions of what masculinity is and can be. This is revolutionary and healing work. ❤️‍🔥

this is how i remembered the wrestling lady is sec of education

just checked the news. looks like lots of bad stuff happening. but also crazy which makes it funny somehow. but not haha funny.

Imagine if the press that Hegseth is insulting took this sort of stuff as seriously as they took Ilhan Omar saying AIPAC influences elections by spending money

lol ok if the uk government likes it and makes money off it, must be good

When Trump Judges Complain About “Woke Ideology,” Everyone Knows What They Mean Eighth Circuit nominee Justin Smith says he’ll decide cases “fairly and impartially.” On LinkedIn, he still describes himself as “an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values.”

Still thinking about Justin Smith, Trump's pick for a seat on the Eighth Circuit, writing as a 39-year-old lawyer that he had been working to "advance conservative values for 30 years"

A screenshot of Justin Smith at his confirmation hearing

same guy, stupider face

This isn't close to the worst thing about Justin Smith, Trump's 8th Circuit nominee, but watching his confirmation hearing this morning, I strongly feel that We As A Society cannot be having life-tenured federal judges looking like Kenneth from '30 Rock'

lol ok if the uk government likes it and makes money off it, must be good

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

i wish i could have read marx’s book review of fountainhead, i bet it would’ve been a banger

i wish i could have read marx’s book review of fountainhead, i bet it would’ve been a banger

how were they following it? in a bicycle? a car?

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Leon Neal/Getty Images and Getty Images Plus. In 2021, when J.D. Vance was asked at a conference why he had converted to Catholicism just two years earlier, he had a fairly simple answer. “I really like that the Catholic Church was just really old," he said. This anti-modern worldview is key to understanding Vance. In a party long dominated by anti-intellectual evangelical Christians with a hearty distrust of institutions, Vance stands out among its leaders for having embraced a church with a complex social doctrine built off the work of ancient philosophers. His enthusiasm for a particular and relatively obscure kind of contemporary Catholic political thought shows up in his politics-his longing for Americans to build robust nuclear families, his comments about banning porn, his scorn for childless cat ladies. It's

yep. from slate on jd vance a while ago:

i don’t think i could name it, but i’m convinced that the same terrible impulses that drive this type of media consumption is driving rightwing politics

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She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

people say elites went crazy after covid, but
the actual point when they started losing their minds was after their good friend jeffrey epstein committed suicide

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

The other day I realized I’ve spent decades searching for the X, missing, and then closing popups. It started on my parent’s dial-up desktop computer and now I do it on my phone. I’m teaching my kids how to do it.

my 4 year old hit me with bro, i was so stunned… she can’t even say w’s but she sure can collect ‘em

isn’t that nikki glaser

“more an instinct that an idea” is not appealing! frankly it sounds like an insult of conservatism

even the actors & states that want to bribe their way out of this literally can’t. nothing is holding that he won’t renege on, except for his love(?) of putin

it also doesn’t help that he doesn’t allow anyone to speak on his behalf. a part of why arab states paid kushner, for example, was an expectation his connection to trump matter. i don’t know if there’s really anyone left who can speak in coherent sentences

i have a rough rule of thumb that you should always assume ppl who want to be president are sociopaths

WATCH: Trump says Viktor Orban thinks he is 'the most respected, most feared person' YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

lol

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i thought this thread was valuable, but not an expert by any means!

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US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of ⁠Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had ⁠paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline