‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

Fun fact: this actually makes you a Protestant. Weird how heirarchical religions work, right?

he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare

Making shit up is a time saver in many contexts! Doesn’t even require technology!

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

we made being a charlatan a viable career path — TV talking heads, opinion columnists; even journalism proper has become little more or less than industrialized charlatanism

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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

In a November conversation at the Urban Consulate in Detroit, the great writer and thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom was asked by host Orlando P. Bailey, “Do you have a daring idea for us to ponder and sit with for our collective future?” McMillan Cottom replied with this: “When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” Today, I refuse.

Print this, frame it www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Headline: Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

I can’t set my sights that high. I just want #CBJ to finish 2nd in their division for the first time in franchise history.

The moon is in the maple

Nothing teaches that they don’t work as advertised faster than having one administered on you!

This resonates with the terrible time I had passing a polygraph, and I’m just a bit spectrumy

Talk about a low bar, “better than doomscrolling”, ok

35 frets! [in 1.21 gigawatts voice]

If the Big 10 can span the country, I don’t see why the EU can’t span the globe.

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

“It’s clear that the Midwesterner isn’t a real media outlet, it’s a right-wing political content mill—which the New York Times and POLITICO both failed to note when they cited its viral tweet as the kind of foreign policy criticism that Democrats just need to face.”

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Fun read

Worst-ever position SO FAR

This is killing me today- without even wading through the letters!

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

Kudos to the graphic designer!

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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