authoritarians use five consistent mechanisms: controlling women’s bodily and reproductive autonomy; blocking equal access to the workplace and public life; reducing penalties for domestic and sexual violence; and reinforcing strict gender and sexual hierarchies’.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
Now if only they'd actually live by them, we'd be all set. Considering That Man has violated at least 6-10 and the jury's still out on the remaining 5, maybe that's enough to dislodge him and his whole crooked entourage.
A girl can hope.
Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.
Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers: Tokyo District Court has ruled that publishing plot details of films and series is a form of copyright infringement. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Virginia, get out and vote in favor of democracy.
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After Netanyahu's office claimed that Peter Magyar had invited him to visit Hungary, the PM-elected says that he will enforce all ICC arrest warrants once the country re-enters the Rome Statute.
[Hungary will] "have a legal obligation to enforce the ICC rulings and I'm sure [Netanyahu] knows this".
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
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In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Bummer. Guess it's irrelevant if it's been deleted.
There's a protest in Burbank, right now against Hilton Hotels for housing ICE
FUCK HILTON. Stay somewhere else.
Thank you for your attention to this matter
🚫 Hilton.
If you've agreed to read a manuscript for the purposes of giving feedback and then feed it through ChatGPT to produce the feedback, you are the devil. Don't do that to your creative friends. It's not only unethical, it would put them in violation of no-AI clauses in contracts (including ours).
BREAKING NEWS FOR @courtneymilan.com
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Me: Okay we have a lot to do today let’s get it together
Brain: I refuse to do anything productive until you help me remember the name of that really thick square chocolate bar you coveted as a kid circa 1980
Me: Goddammit
Every single bit of this.
Tim Curry IS VERY MUCH ALIVE.
It is his birthday so he is trending because people are gushing about how great he is, which is deserved.
Harry Chapin was a genius and was gone too soon, exactly because of this. True story.
Archived tweet from Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This @Wolven Sep 30, 2020 Y'all do realise it's only called "Palantir" because "Literally The Eye Of Sauron" was too on the nose, right? Like I heard Peter Thiel was originally gonna call it "The Witch King Of Angmar, Right Behind You, Forever," but then was like "nah people might get suspicious on that"
I mean, seriously:
The Witch King of Angmar, Right Behind You, Forever.
Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.
Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.
In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
Just calling balls and strikes
Questioning the relative wisdom of watching PBS documentaries about Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman back to back. Lots of food for thought, especially now, in the current rise in fascism, with a madman at the helm of our nuclear arsenal.
It's a bloody wonder I can sleep at all.
#NeverAgainIsNow
Vote YES Virginia! 💙
I disagree Scott. Part of the reason the "consumer sentiment polling is broken" narrative is so dangerous is because it lets people like Scott off the hook when people say they are upset about prices!! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-17...
