Given that the rest of us cannot (for all intents and purposes) sure federal employees who defame us, there should be a rule announced that applies the same type of official act analysis to determine whether federal employees can sue private parties for defamation.
my edgy Covid take is that I while I did socially isolate until vaccines came online for the good of society, I absolutely loathed being unable to see people in person, throw a party, or travel for over a year, and I enjoyed absolutely nothing whatsoever about any of it
Hey, attorneys, especially litigators:
Read this thread and consider circulating it to your less online colleagues.
Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
Objectively I am doing about 10x better than my parents at my age, but every single day I wake up dreading the future and feeling increasingly unmoored from everything, from society to culture to friends.
But hey I have a stable income for now so I should be thankful I guess
my grand theory of vibecession is that multiple contradictory things can be true at once, and that this kind of complexity is more or less impossible to constructively discuss on a social media platform with character limits and severe context collapse problems.
I doubt they're ready for the throwdown, so they'll just pun-ish you
I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad
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Hey, earlier today I put a content warning on this, and... on consideration, I'm going to spoiler it:
"The Drama" movie is about a school shooting. Kristoffer #Borgli and their marketing team from #A24 is trying to prevent "spoilers" because they don't care about PTSD from school shooting victims.
I was invited to give a campus-wide keynote at a flagship university for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. I was offered a speaker’s fee of $150 and parking validation.
These schools really let us know their values based on where they spend their money.
check yo self before you dox yo self
after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign
Oven bacon cooked with maple syrup. Candied bacon that's crunchy but still has the (objectively correct) soft chewy bacon texture of the best cooked bacon.
The current moment in tech is loosely understood as software guys getting so evil they made hardware guys discover Marxism from first principles.
An update: in February 2026, *every single one* of the 1,507 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans:
In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 3,155 white South Africans, three Afghans, and nobody else.
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“Jared Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration. The guy is literally on the payroll of the Saudi government and trying to take even more of their money while simultaneously hijacking U.S. foreign policy with his shadow State Department. The U.S. becomes less safe and more corrupt every day Jared Kushner remains involved in our political system,” said Senator Wyden.
Oof.
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They've been genuinely louder and more frequent the last few days. Not having warm feelings about that given everything.
Nick Fuentes is racking up millions of listens to his podcasts, and you men out there who don’t hate women need to know exactly how much they do and what they’re stating openly all the time.
Whisky is a spectrum with Muppets and twin peaks being in opposite sides
Once again, this site has a significant problem with people who cannot distinguish between "here is what the law is"/"here is what happened" and "I endorse that law/what happened."
I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...
A crucial part of Project 2029 has to be performative trials and draconian sentencing for Trump administration officials up and down the organizational ladder. Treat all of them like Timothy McVeigh so that the gravity of their criminality and treason become enduring images in American history.
“Mike Johnson, House Republican extremists, and Donald Trump are why people missed their flights on Saturday.”
TFW you stage managed it to perfection (and oh yes, things are very messed up, but still)
People on twitter will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart" and then not firebomb a Walmart
Every single loser criticizing No Kings looks like this to me
For #nokings and everyone who has willingly joined this fascist regime, I think back to this scene.
Protestors walking around Madison for #nokings
Trials for the fascists are the moderate solution.
#nokings Madison WI
CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying
Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...
Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far
What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure
The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy