Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

Every fucking time!!!!!

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I have many, many things to say about this, as someone who runs a media outlet

Like... the moment you do something like this is the moment you lose everything, because it's so cartoonishly evil that you can't even BEGIN to fathom the harms it will do to real, passionate, hard-working people.

🧵This sermon by Rabbi Brous isn't directly about this story, but reflects a deeply Torah-centered Judaism that names this kind of behavior as evil.

"You either live in a world in which you are humbled by the preciousness of every human life created in the image of God - or in which you do not."

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.

Limits on speech rights for military retirees at issue in Sen. Kelly case against DOD • Ohio Capital Journal Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s legal team is urging a federal appeals court to uphold a ruling that allows the former Navy captain to keep his retirement rank and pay while his First Amendment…

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Grey and white kitty, Possum, looking up at me.

Possum ❤️

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

Voters say they feel confused and misled on Virginia's redistricting vote Contradictory election mailers, conflicting TV ads and vague wording on the ballot have Virginia voters saying that the campaigns on either side of the redistricting vote are muddying the waters.

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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

I mean, it’s not wrong.

Haha, that was me! On Twitter like a decade ago. FART is a much more fitting acronym than TERF

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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This! Back on old Twitter, I was shocked the Alex Jones interview didn't attract more attention. I think the media still thought Trump was a joke candidate. Perhaps because I was a doomsayer that thought he was going to win, I saw this as a pivotal point of no return for the GOP.

A reminder that, if the referendum passes today in Virginia, it's not all quite resolved: the Virginia Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on the merits as it kicked that can down the road.

I see two schools of thought among Dems.

1. We need a new deal. Make things fair. Everyone prospers.
2. Put them motherfuckers against the wall.

I think they are compatible.

Run on these two things.

I let my spouse in on the secret to tell how well my mind is functioning at present.
The less I cook, the worse off I am. If I don’t have the mental bandwidth or energy to cook something that I want to eat, then something is very wrong.

I just figured this out about myself recently

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"Women can't physically run the marathon, therefore women aren't allowed to run the marathon, and if they try we're going to assault them, and look no women have run the marathon, proving that women can't run the marathon."

some remarks on nature

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I wonder if anyone is going to resist this, training their own replacements

Tl;dr He's probably gonna speedrun both Spanish Flu *and* Port of Chicago.

So tired of relearning every lesson in Art of War from 1st Principles with these guys.

Imagine telling most of the famous historical generals that you had the means to ensure they *didn't* lose much of their fighting force to disease, but simply won't be using it

the art of war: “you - yes, you, dipshit - need to feed your men and make sure they don’t get sick. no you are not exempt on the basis of being a very special boy. oh my god, why am I surrounded by idiots.”

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

A lot of folks complain that Art of War is full of “obvious stuff” and then remark that it makes sense if the target audience is a bunch of royal dipshit sons, and that’s not really relevant anymore.

Pete Hegseth is doing RETVRN to the era of drunken dipshit military leaders who need Art of War.

He thinks George Washington was "woke".

Vaccinating the US Army predates the United State of America.

So many crashes are going to come from AI hallucinations.

I can’t count how many campuses seem to be running on the model of “this is the last generation of professors”

A drum I keep banging is that full training of an academic worker (from undergrad through tenure) is about 16 years. We may JUST NOW be beginning to feel the full first wave effects of the 2008 austerity. The ability of our fields to reproduce themselves has not been addressed as any point.