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correct. it's wild to remember that so much of this could have been stopped cold by 5 or 6 people deciding they cared about our society. and their whole thing could be stripped down to the studs by dealing with maybe 70 guys

if you nationalize spacex and deport musk, turn over hegseth to iran, nationalize palantir and deport thiel, the rest of them will start cutting any deal they can

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Exclusive: Hear Bari Weiss' handpicked foreign editor warn CBS News journalists that "insubordination" is "legal grounds for firing." Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/RcDzn1QP_G4

start paying artists you fucks!!!! the potential of you reaching nirvana depends on it!

Lula vows to regulate Meta in his victory speech

this kind of bad faith wokeslop is downstream of takes like "being anti-Shein is fatphobic" and "it's ableist to ask writers to read"

It's incredibly telling that every single response agreeing with this person has a creepy child-faced anime girl php

Worth noting that the AI slopfilm still needed 100 people and $1.5 million to make it. What's the fucking point? Obsession costed significantly less and made a hell of a lot more, because it had terrific lead actors and something to say.

trash > slop every single time

I know I keep yelling about this, but Ramaswamy was criticized back in April for characterizing Acton’s openness about her abuse as her “complaining.” He has had plenty of time to calibrate his messaging on this issue. He thought this ad was a winner, and he said it with his whole chest plus $4M.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

if only someone had raised this risk beforehand wapo.st/3W3WdYo

In case facts still matter

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

it's finally here... LITTLE DAOIST ORIGINALS for sale up on my ko-fi! This is my first time doing physical goods from ko-fi so please read the instructions should you purchase (mostly so i can send you tracking!). They're $370 incl shipping. literally 1 of each available lol ko-fi.com/s/64bfa0bbc8

Insecurity Theatre: On the Final Destination Series and Post-9/11 Paranoia by @aeneas-nin.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/insecurity-t...

Every gothic horror:

Lula defeats Musk, Zuckerberg and Bolsanaro!

Lula Goes HARD

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cool, cool

(Most generic description of a 10-year-old girl) Yeah that could be my kid

САМИ НА РАСКРСНИЦИ СВЕТОВА!

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

Oh, shit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Uhhh, so in like, summer 2022 I went to a Chinese restaurant in Chicago and me and all of my friends got fortune cookies that had ads for FTX in them. This was like... 4 months before FTX collapsed?

A heartwarming tale of actions, consequences, and a DA who knows when to say "nah." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Was listening to a discussion between a male and female critic regarding that Elizabeth Holmes (a scammer whose main targets were men) and it was interesting how much more leeway the dude was willing to give her vs the chick.

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

When I taught ESL in China, my students heard about a recent school shooting in the USA and asked me, bluntly, "Do Americans love their children at all?"

former student sent this to me. talk about bleak.

CASTLE RAT

Absolutely out of pocket pan company advertising that showed up in my feed courtesy of @jdotj.bsky.social

The entire democratic party apparatus is a giant circular money-making scheme that by necessity has to back the politicians that protect the money-making scheme

Christopher Dobbins saw a photograph of a child killed in a school shooting, wearing a shirt promoting peace, respect, and unity. What he said about that child should disgust every decent human substack.com/home/post/p-...

Every good boss knows you’ve got to let your capos eat. You can’t trust someone who wouldn’t skim a little extra.