flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
Shen, looking at a dotted outline suggesting a missing scales-of-justice-on-the-Earth: "Net Neutrality got repealed recently."
Shen, gloomy (little blue frowny-face bar visualization aside): "I was pretty bummed out about it."
Shen, optimistic: "But I think whoever repealed it was probably more happy to see it go than I am sad to lose it." (whisker line showing a delta between the blue frowny face and an ecstatic greedy Wario face) As Shen begins to think "The total happiness in the world increased", another Shen steps out from a time portal, screaming "Nooooo!!"
This weary, battle-scarred future Shen grabs the younger, teary-eyed waif shen and screams "NO, YOU DUMB FUCK!!!"
he figured out exactly how to lean into the crash with his special feature on net neutrality
yeah it is critical that dems win the senate
looking forward to alito declaring that our grand colorblind constitution means that white voters can permanently gerrymander racial minorities out of political representation.
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS.
The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.
The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2090...
A small bold jumping spider (Phidippus audax) in a defensive posture with one of its legs extended and mouth open. The spider is on a white fence
This bold jumping spider assumed defensive position when I took out my phone to take a pic
interesting that he sent out vance to eat shit on iran while he brought rubio along to this clown show. a clear sign of who he thinks his heir is.
Hungarians be like "yeah, I was gonna support Viktor orban but that JD Vance guy gave me the ick"
Guy who voted for Geogre Bush twice writing in a place called The Liberal Gazette: As we approach 2028, Democrats should be doing unpopular things that make them look stupid
No idea why the Gemini people think we want an anthropomorphized chatbot that expresses emotions and apologizes. It's actually annoying
i wonder if AOC’s early clashes with the democratic establishment PLUS the unhinged reaction to her from republicans have given her some of the “both sides hate her so she must be Independent” vibe that goes a long way with low propensity voters
Nobody wants to deal with the implications of it all really being that simple and that ugly. Making things more complicated than that is a defense mechanism designed to make it easier to avoid confronting the toughest truths about what really motivates some people.
I'm a man of my word
Print in a frame of an obviously AI generated , uncanny image of cats in sunglasses, mouths open singing while playing on a piano. It's at an angle where you can see they don't seem to have eyes behind the sunglasses.
Tag that reads Cat musician print on canvas $48.00
they're selling AI slop for fifty dollars at this antique store
One thing Trump has successfully done is cowed a lot of people into thinking they can't call for meaningful accountability for him and his cronies because it would be "revenge" or "political" and therefore illegitimate. Absolutely essential to reject that
My sister got roped into a conversation with one of our fundie neighbors and she said she used to like animal planet but she had to had to get rid of television because it was "too worldly"
incredible comment on one of my youtube videos
The Republicans keep saying that birthright is "not" the norm, but it IS the norm in the New World. It's not the norm in, like, Luxemborg.
This is very good but also lol their argument is "muh europe"
Low-key hoping they give chainsaw man a different ending when they get around to adapting part 2 into an anime
They already got the three main republican priorities out of the way, cut welfare, cut taxes and reduced state capacity. Those are the main things they would want
That chainsaw man ending was so bad I think it ruined my day
biggest criticism of the ending for me though was that asa basically is entirely removed of any interiority & characterization even here. probably the biggest indicator to me that fjmt's primary motivation (if we want to talk about author intent) was "let's end this now and stop thinking about it"
part 2 ending being neither a "he's cooking" moment nor a "kill tatsuki fujimoto" moment thus finally breaking the parasociality cycle of the fandom of the figure/work "chainsaw man" by presenting the masses with an ultimately 6/10 at best non-ending ending is the funniest outcome
leaked dispatch from the onion
one thing that frustrates me quite a bit about modern opinion-writing is that hardly anyone tries to argue with a particular person or a specific argument. it's all gesturing towards people saying something. take this piece for example. setting aside the merits of the argument, who is the target?
the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er