this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Please don’t get mad at me y’all but I swear last night I was bored so I asked ChatGPT why Bari Weiss is so awful, and in its response it compared her to Matt Taibbi.

So you’re telling me they gave us the teddy bear from The Pit and took it away before I could get one?

I should start a community basketball *warmups* league. Like I don’t want to play a whole competitive game, I just want to stretch and do some layup drills and run three man weave for half an hour with Dragula on the boombox.

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There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.

A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

I never actually believed Epstein was murdered until just now

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

“Independence day is canceled because of fear of secret police raids” is really a level of on the nose political symbolism you just can’t make up.

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

This is the world that people like JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, and Jesse Singal work every day to achieve