*if* back in power

And U2

Brilliant. But this made my brain hurt as I tried to figure out how they did it. Wait until you see the credits.

Bluesky Will Launch Flashes, a Photo Sharing App and Potential Alternative to Instagram Follow Meta's fact-checking changes, Bluesky is creating Flashes, a photo sharing app that could potentially replace Instagram for many.

So I’ll finally be able to just drop Facebook “meta” all together?

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Someone on Twitter writes: "Unfortunately die work wear or whatever is a psyop to turn men into women . Cuz why the hell else would he be telling them to dress that gay"

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

Why, you may also ask, did voters not buy the (correct) message that Trump represents an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy?

🧐🤔😬🤷‍♂️

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

"I picked the cotton, and I carried it to market, and I built the railroads, under someone else's whip, for nothing. For nothing." The great James Baldwin in his 1965 debate against William F. Buckley, Jr. at Cambridge Union.

When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."

The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.

One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

I said this on the show, but something that hasn’t sunk in, I think. We haven’t had a “new” president who is sworn in and is immediately a lame duck in the nation’s entire history. When Grover Cleveland was sworn in a second time we didn’t have the 22nd amendment!

Wassailing - Wikipedia

There’s a tradition from jolly old England of getting everyone together on or near the winter solstice and intimidating the local rich guy into giving you booze and treats uh, “in exchange for blessings”

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They’re going to shutdown the government before they even have a chance to run it.

Guinness is running dry in U.K. pubs. Is a social media challenge to blame? Ahead of the holidays, U.K. pubs are running out of Guinness, which skyrocketed in popularity alongside the social media challenge “split the G.”

A widespread shortage of a beloved brew in Britain has led one pub to distribute ration cards to customers. Employees at another pub wheeled kegs through rain just to obtain a small supply. A distributor said the drought could lead to the end of some businesses.

I’m less worried about parents seeking gender affirming care for their kids than I am about parents purchasing guns for their kids.

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

My rage goes back and forth from "What the fuck is wrong with Americans?" to "Fuck them all - they'll get president and the country they deserve." The fact is I will probably be fine no matter what. But I wanted OTHER PEOPLE to be fine.

We are about to be a part of the most vivid and vicious expression in modern times of the richest among us grabbing as much as they can for themselves, no matter how much pain they cause. Out of this must come a renewed and intensified opposition and commitment to the common good.

Incoming GOP leader John Thune is actively seeking ways to make next year's border and defense package deficit-neutral, if not deficit-negative. Why it matters: Despite pushback from House Republicans, Thune is full steam ahead on his two-part reconciliation plan for next year, sources tell us. The border portion of the first reconciliation package — which also includes energy and defense — could be as much as $120 billion, a source familiar told us.

The GOP is apparently planning on passing a reconciliation package with as much as $120 BILLION in border-related funding.

To put that in context, if you add up ever single Border Patrol budget from 1990 through 2024, adjusted for inflation, it's $121 billion. That's THIRTY-FOUR YEARS of funding.

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

It's not the age of your Constitution, it's how you use it

Don’t worry a modern first-world democracy can’t fall to an authoritarian takeover [reads news feed] okay fine but THIS first world democracy can’t fall to an authoritarian takeover, our traditions and institutions are too robust and oh lol look at that weird dude wrapped in a flag carrying a cross

Oh look. A playbook…

It took four decades to go from Ronald Reagan's lazy, childish talking point about government to the dismantling of the modern administrative state. Who knows how long it will take to recreate everything we'll discover we actually liked & needed once we needlessly & childishly destroy it.

KNEECAP | Official Trailer (2024) YouTube video by Sony Pictures Classics

This movie is fantastic and surprisingly moving. Probably not the story you’re expecting, not told the way you’re expecting. Glad it’s now streaming on Netflix for a wider audience.

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Top caption reads: "The evolution of the trash icon." Below that, it displays Recycle Bin icins deom Windows 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2015, and finally, the X.com logo as 2024

A potential partner must have the correct level of enthusiasm about the Muppets. Too little and their hearts are devoid of joy. Too much and they are into an extreme kink so disgusting only a theatre kid could imagine it.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

-- James Baldwin, who died #OTD 1987

Every time another basic income pilot like this concludes - the results are "unprecedented." It's almost like it's time for it to become universal or something.

The Mexican President is putting up an exponentially stronger fight against Trump than our own elected leaders.

Let that sink in.