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Huh, maybe this is a reason we should be moving our energy supply to forms that don't depend on fossil fuels. Someone should look into that.

It's Monday and fascism is falling around the world so have you voted early yet?

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

It’s literally that simple …

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

I was there for the first time a few weeks ago and remember being absolutely shocked at how clean the air was.

Something that got better in my kids’ lifetime, glasses that can actually slow the progression of myopia.

Good on Monica Alba for persisting with a thoroughly legitimate question. Trump’s attack on her answered the question: Sexual abuse means nothing to Donald Trump. Zip, zero, zilch.

Adam gets it. Having fewer billionaires is the goal.

Kudos to NBC New York for saying it without equivocation: "The US is to blame for the world falling behind in the fight against climate change."

It’s enraging that Ilhan Omar is being put through this, but she deserves so much credit for punching back. She’s doing her best to make it COST Trump and co for their persecution and lies. “Pedophile protection party,” hell yes. Calling out DOJ corruption, same. If they want a fight, hit ‘em hard.

it’s becoming intolerable really

I don't understand how his treatment of female reporters isn't a bigger story. This man is increasingly unstable and most of his anger is directed at women. At the same time he's growing obsessed with male asses.

Kudos to the reporter here, who does something we almost never see: she interrupts Trump to try to make him and answer the question she asked, not allowing him to bloviate.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

I remember when libertarians used to object to these types of actions

Do they even understand how much they’re pissing people off by doing this. Whatever research that convinces them that spamming everyone is all upside is bullshit. It is like they’d rather have all my contact info to sell to other campaigns forever than receive my donation. It sucks.

Something that really irks me is that if you want to walk to West Fairmount Park's Belmont Plateau from Horticultural Hall Google Maps says it's only 16 minutes but it guides you across an illegal crossing and up a hill with no sidewalks. Philly's parks are too often for cars, not people.

It's time to defund Elon. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

I'm not kidding, the guy simply has to be at the very least deported at the end of this. If we're doing "he's not from here" shit, he is the most not from here guy alive. He needs jail or deportation the second it's viable to do it.

This clip should be on every evening news show.

Yep. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare AND there’s no real pattern in who does it; it can be people of any political viewpoint. That’s because it’s not some grand “voter fraud” conspiracy, it’s almost always what law professor Benjamin Plener Cover calls “voter mistake.”

I have a hunch that a lot of people furious about the "death tax" are actually mad about Medicaid. It's a pretty brutal program, and it's going to get meaner as states claw around to fill the funding gap.

What the fuck is even going on? Who is actually taking this lunatic seriously anymore? What are we even doing here?

I have no god damned clue what is satire at this point.

I have no god damned clue what is satire at this point.

Tommy is not actually a registered voter in Michigan. Tricia McLaughlin is the former DHS spokesperson who kept telling the public that everytime ICE shot someone, it was because they were weaponizing their car against the masked security agent

Tying property tax payments in with mortgage payments has completely broken people’s brains. Why shouldn’t you pay property taxes just because you’ve paid off the loan that let you afford that house in the first place. How are they related?

The type of person who can think El-Sayed came out of that exchange looking bad is unreachable, unsavable, and should frankly be unemployable as an analyst because their brain is too broken by partisanship & bigotry to do the work

I would like to see the end of the term "vaccine skeptic," to be replaced by "reality denier." These so-called skeptics are actually the most gullible rubes on the planet when it comes to conspiracy nonsense and tech-bro slop; the only thing that makes them skeptical is peer-reviewed evidence.

The same time a bunch of journalists are telling everyone that it's okay to go back to X now ...

Will any reporter ask the President of the United States to name the five specific states where he alleges that public school teachers are deciding -- all on their own initiative, over the objections of the parents -- to force their children into gender-affirming surgeries? Seems like a big story?

Tim Walz was right. These people are just weird.

Yeahhhhhh I mean "means-tested" as in "above a certain point, you don't collect it"

however richly some of them deserve it, it’s notably only the women of the administration being fired over its poor performance to date

She was clearly awful, but it's telling how quick Trump is to fire women in his orbit, while turds like Hegseth can be responsible for far greater fuck ups, yet stick around. Zacharia wasn't responsible for murdering any schoolgirls to my knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Looking at this, I really have to wonder how much this "car" actually weighs. Could it do ANY of this while still passing crash safety tests? More importantly, why? What value does this actually serve? I could see some version being useful in traction control, but no one needs to drive up a wall.

"I intentionally call him by the wrong name because it just sounds more racist, see?"

So 16% of the people surveyed knew the correct answer.

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

Some Pizzagate-level shit right here. An armed fucknut is gonna burst into a school, looking for the mutilzation room.