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Hegseth’s aides broke historic Eisenhower globe. C'mon, reality. Please, be a little less heavy handed with the symbolism...

Surely this will discourage other *checks notes* wannabe martyrs

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Cancel Culture is bad, but what about Super Cancel Culture!?

I loooooove this movie, but I am from Winnipeg, which has a special relationship with this movie for some reason. Maybe something in the water.

*question about labour* Pierre Poilievre: "unblock our resources" *question about Indigenous rights* Pierre Poilievre: "unblock our resources"

I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."

*flicks cigarette* yeah i know the muffin man

Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”

See you

What a chart from LPL: “.. the widening gap between prevailing mortgage rates and the effective rates existing homeowners are paying .. Many owners are sitting on cheap loans and have little incentive to give them up. That lock-in effect keeps the resale market starved of inventory ..”

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In my opinion, we can improve society somewhat by treating admirers of Adolf Hitler with the public contempt they deserve, like we used to

this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept

"The final online post of a British banker who reportedly died by suicide shortly after outing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein left several critics speechless on Sunday."

My peeps of a certain age will remember a time when radio and TV stations would go "off-the-air". There.was a large chunk of the day when we literally were cut off from any new information. ... It was actually kinda great. ☺️😇

🇺🇸High School Kids Are Selling Guns to Cartels Drawn by 💰& status, AZ teens are stealing or buying (& then reporting stolen!) guns destined for🇲🇽. AZ allows private gun sales without background checks or records www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w... who could’ve ever predicted this? 500k guns a year!🫠

It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

Wise words (as always) from Bruce Schneier: "Once we normalize a surveillance infrastructure, both friends and foes will take advantage of it." www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

As Voltaire said, the essential function of government in the modern age is redistribution of wealth from a disfavored class to a favored class. This chart shows the view of the post-1980 GOP, which has favored the wealthiest 1% of Americans and disfavored everyone else.

For all the hand-wringing about the effects of technology on kids, the impacts may be just as corrosive on their grandparents Most reading has been done by older Americans. In 2003, older Americans read 58 minutes/day. By last year, that had fallen to 32 minutes/day  www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/o...

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

Bangkok on red alert - All 50 districts of Thailand's capital Bangkok were declared a flood disaster area on Saturday after more than 300 millimetres of rain in less than 48 hours caused widespread flooding. TT: @countrycrazy75 www.thenews.pk/print/143969...

"Margo Price - Oval Room (Official Lyric Video)" It was written in 1984, but even more relevant today. (Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuWmIpL2GLA )

It's almost as if an attempt to suppress certain speech leads to more people being aware of it. Someone should coin a phrase that encapsulates that phenomenon.

Sorry to interrupt family game night with the collapse of democracy

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

You don't say globalnews.ca/news/1207056...

He's definitely pooping.

That looks EMPTY

There’s always a tweet. Always!

Good old,"panda diplomacy"