the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Iran News @IranMediaNow The President of the US raped children. The President of the US raped children. The President of the US raped children. The President of the US raped children. The President of the US raped children. The President of the US raped children.
Iran promotes regime change in the U.S.
The MacBook Neo: A Wuling Air EV in a World of R34 Delusions
At $599, the MacBook Neo is the "Fisher-Price Macintosh." It’s a heat-seeking missile aimed directly at the bloated, plastic-laden mid-range Windows market.
Komdigi's media circus at Meta's Jakarta office
Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid showed up unannounced at Meta's Jakarta office on Wednesday with a full media entourage in tow
Indonesia to limit social media for under-16s, but it's solving the wrong problem
Moral panic rushes the implementation of a flawed restrictive approach that changes nothing in protecting children from online harm.
Oh fuck off. This is extremely ironic. I’m about to publish a blog post about how age verification is terrible and BlueSky has the fucking audacity to force it on me 🤣🤣🤣
Alt text: “New York City Mayor General Election results showing 0% of precincts reporting as of November 4, 2025, 9:05 PM. Zohran Mamdani (Democrat) leads with 422,116 votes, 51.7%. Andrew Cuomo (FaD) has 324,914 votes, 39.8%. Curtis Sliwa (Republican) has 65,684 votes, 8%. Eric Adams (Independent, incumbent) has 1,919 votes, 0.2%, and James Walden (Independent) has 894 votes, 0.1%. Total votes: 816,731.”
Decision Desk has called the NYC mayors race for Zohran Mamdani.
BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw
Take up arms against them.
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are reasons why America has the second amendment. This is when you’re supposed to use it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
They taught the world how to fight tyranny but now they’re bowing to it. Instead of rising up, Americans are waiting for democracy to fix itself while it's being dismantled.
Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening
www.404media.co/google-calls...
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
news: MSNBC is renaming itself MS NOW (My Source News Opinion World)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...
People keep saying Apple should acquire Perplexity but what is there in the company to buy? Not to mention they're culturally and ethically incompatible.
Indonesian parliamentary leaders declare the One Piece Jolly Roger flag seditious, demands criminal charges against those who fly it. Cue the public backlash.
aulia.me/2025/08/02/i...
Megawati is pretending coalitions and oppositions don't exist, after building both to stay in power all these years. She calls it ideology, everyone else calls it denial, but when your last name is Soekarno, you don't need to make sense to stay in charge.
House Republicans have shut down floor votes and will likely adjourn for 6 weeks to avoid voting for the release of the Epstein files.
It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.
Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...
As we say on the internet, "some personal news."
After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor.
In this thread I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career.
Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. 1/
"Bothsidesism is 'suicide for democracy.' In becoming stenographers rather than reporters, journalists effectively legitimize MAGA lies, hate, and fascism as just one reasonable side of a debate in which all partisans are equally credible."
“OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on how Altman came to those figures.”
Ummmm
We know from BLM protests that the violence was caused by pro-Trump agitators. Have to see if that is same is happening now in Calif. Article from 2020: www.justsecurity.org/70497/far-ri...
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
These events are sure to go smoothly
🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.
Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”
*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.
San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.
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