one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
this shit ass website breaking again
not sure if images are working yet so i included alt text to be sure
When I say gamers treat you not buying the entertainment products they like with the exact same degree of pain like you chopped off one of their fingers, this is what I mean.
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.
the hitlerian victims of communism foundation on twitter: USSR pin awarded to farmers for "Mastery of Cannabis Breeding". Are these your "Marxist" values??
happy 4/20
starbucks just partnered with chat-gpt
idk if this is how its supposed to work??
theonion.info
Its official!
Here’s a list of the allegations that Patel claims are false and defamatory:
Ok now that you’ve read palantirs manifesto you should check out this manifesto. You may have heard of it.
www.marxists.org/archive/marx...
at the point of genocide and Lebensraum there’s nothing you can really say about the depravity of Israeli soldiers but seeing a video from Lebanon of an IDF soldier stealing a puppy and his mates throwing rocks at the mother trying to get its puppy back is so cartoonishly evil i cannot process it
I said it before and I'll say it again:
Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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All throughout the rally - 5 fascists including the National Front leader posed as citizen journalists to access legitimate counter protesters. This protest was marked as sensitive yet police allowed fascist 'citizen journalists' to cross over from their side and shout racist, homophobic .. [3/n]
Really excited to see my and @ardenthistorian.bsky.social 's pieces on the nerdy fascism of Palantir up @religiondispatches.org -- give it a read, those people are weird and awful.
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I legit checked the date it was posted to see if this was in ⁰F or ⁰C. This weather is bullshit.
It is clear that many cis people are not aware just how up to her neck Rowling is in funding and driving anti trans sentiment in the UK.
She's not just a person with a vile opinion.
The fight's not over yet
Indie-ttrpg-of-the-week posts to Tumblr "A true ttrpg has never been attempted" "Ttrpgs work in theory but in practice it tends to devolve into GM authoritarianism"
I don’t understand why so many creators are still working with Wix. I’ll tell you right now I don’t work with Israeli companies. Especially ones that were created by Israel military members.
![2. Emails related to and in furtherance of the conspiracy to defraud Four emails demonstrate an effort by President Trump and his attorneys to press false claims in federal court for the purpose of delaying the January 6 vote. The evidence confirms that this effort was undertaken in at least one lawsuit filed in Georgia. On December 4, 2020, President Trump and his attorneys alleged in a Georgia state court action that Fulton County improperly counted a number of votes including 10,315 deceased people, 2,560 felons, and 2,423 unregistered voters.69 President Trump and his attorneys then decided to contest the state court proceeding in federal court, 70 and discussed incorporating by reference the voter fraud numbers alleged in the state petition. On December 30, 2020, Dr. Eastman relayed “concerns” from President Trump’s team “about including specific numbers in the paragraph dealing with felons, deceased, moved, etc.”71 The attorneys continued to discuss the President’s resistance to signing “when specific numbers were included.”72 As Dr. Eastman explained the next day: Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreiaximmg7jvzlcypqtkmqtquxuppofzdw63pmtaabvqx5bl44vqywu)
2. Emails related to and in furtherance of the conspiracy to defraud Four emails demonstrate an effort by President Trump and his attorneys to press false claims in federal court for the purpose of delaying the January 6 vote. The evidence confirms that this effort was undertaken in at least one lawsuit filed in Georgia. On December 4, 2020, President Trump and his attorneys alleged in a Georgia state court action that Fulton County improperly counted a number of votes including 10,315 deceased people, 2,560 felons, and 2,423 unregistered voters.69 President Trump and his attorneys then decided to contest the state court proceeding in federal court, 70 and discussed incorporating by reference the voter fraud numbers alleged in the state petition. On December 30, 2020, Dr. Eastman relayed “concerns” from President Trump’s team “about including specific numbers in the paragraph dealing with felons, deceased, moved, etc.”71 The attorneys continued to discuss the President’s resistance to signing “when specific numbers were included.”72 As Dr. Eastman explained the next day: Although the President signed a verification for [the state court filing] back on Dec. 1, he has since been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence
Here's that decision, which Eastman tried to take to SCOTUS after *he voluntarily withdrew his appeal to the 9th Cir.*
Which, as a litigation strategy, was not successful for the obvious reason.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The two intolerable abuses that Eastman specifically named, btw, were drag queen story hour and trans people using the bathroom.
No, I am not kidding. www.thebulwark.com/p/john-eastm...
Among a mountain of bad-faith factual claims and frivolous constitutional arguments, Eastman's ultimate plan was for VP Pence (or Sen. Grassley) to *knowingly violate the Electoral Count Act* and let SCOTUS block any subsequent lawsuits on political question grounds. Just shit from start to finish.
When you feel imposter syndrome sneaking up on you, just remember that JD Vance lectured the Pope on theology.
Went to my doctor today and found out he can walk on water
The hilarious thing is that you are always free to just not listen to the pope, people do it all the time
he showed up to a mostly empty auditorium, got heckled by anti war protesters opposing the war he just humiliatingly failed to negotiate an end to, erika kirk stood him up, and he tried to explain catholicism to the pope. the only way he could’ve had a worse time is if he pissed his pants up there.
