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Someone has in fact:
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Someone has in fact:
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It's smart to evaporate your retirement savings so that when the concussive impact of widespread corruption, financial fraud, AI misrepresentation, and regulatory decapitation hits all at once you'll be caught flat footed with just a handful of pocket lint and a soggy shallot
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
Trump Plan Would Let Americans Use 401(k)s for Down Payments on Homes, Official Says
President Trump will issue a plan next week for letting Americans tap their 401(k)s for a down payment on a home, a senior White House official said Friday.
on.wsj.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
It's smart to evaporate your retirement savings so that when the concussive impact of widespread corruption, financial fraud, AI misrepresentation, and regulatory decapitation hits all at once you'll be caught flat footed with just a handful of pocket lint and a soggy shallot
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Utterly unsurprised to see ninnies in here calling tear gas a nerve agent. You're all deeply unserious people.
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Utterly unsurprised to see ninnies in here calling tear gas a nerve agent. You're all deeply unserious people.
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Mugat-mi, Mugatu. 🖖🏻
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Mugat-mi, Mugatu. 🖖🏻
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To put this in clearer perspective, when Bowser took office in 2015, there were 26 road fatalities the previous year. Last year there were 25 fatalities. In ten years of holding office, Bowser hasn’t meaningfully improved the road fatality rate.
In 2025, DC had the lowest number of roadway fatalities since 2014.
Big picture:
1. Roadway fatalities: -52%
2. Major roadway injuries: -29%
3. Driver fatalities: -67%
Our strategies to improve traffic safety are working.
Big picture:
1. Roadway fatalities: -52%
2. Major roadway injuries: -29%
3. Driver fatalities: -67%
Our strategies to improve traffic safety are working.
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 AM
To put this in clearer perspective, when Bowser took office in 2015, there were 26 road fatalities the previous year. Last year there were 25 fatalities. In ten years of holding office, Bowser hasn’t meaningfully improved the road fatality rate.
I need to go touch grass but it's far too cold outside and I'm still sick with this not-flu.
January 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I need to go touch grass but it's far too cold outside and I'm still sick with this not-flu.
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Right now the US has 3.6 million people living on 4k square miles of land who can't vote for president or a voting rep in Congress. Add Greenland and it would be a bit more than 3.6 million people on 840k square miles of land, most of it uninhabitable.
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Right now the US has 3.6 million people living on 4k square miles of land who can't vote for president or a voting rep in Congress. Add Greenland and it would be a bit more than 3.6 million people on 840k square miles of land, most of it uninhabitable.
I saw not one but three Jaguar XFs yesterday. Not sure I've seen one for months until now. And a lovely XJ40 Sovereign on the back of a flatbed.
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 PM
I saw not one but three Jaguar XFs yesterday. Not sure I've seen one for months until now. And a lovely XJ40 Sovereign on the back of a flatbed.
Something Awful is very much to blame here.
Social media is toxic not because of material conditions. Social media is toxic because an antisocial culture was embraced as the dominant in many online spaces and that culture went on to capture an entire political party in the US.
"People are stressed out, that's why social media is toxic" is becoming a general-purpose excuse for bad behavior. The truth is just that ever since social media was created, it has just served as an way for you to take whatever psychic wars you are fighting out on a random person that popped up
January 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Something Awful is very much to blame here.
I had a very gay maths teacher who took us to the pub, and we learned plenty. Get fucked, bigots.
January 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
I had a very gay maths teacher who took us to the pub, and we learned plenty. Get fucked, bigots.
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I have a theory that those of us who were raised on IRC or AIM are absolutely insufferable in Slack to those who were not, because instead of writing a three-paragraph thing, we'll break that up into 15 comments.
January 15, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I have a theory that those of us who were raised on IRC or AIM are absolutely insufferable in Slack to those who were not, because instead of writing a three-paragraph thing, we'll break that up into 15 comments.
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it
An interesting new take on Trek includes some characters you already know.
arstechnica.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
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Where is Jade Helm 15 when you really need it?
January 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Where is Jade Helm 15 when you really need it?
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the libertarian hellscape described in 2008 has come to pass, and 99% of don't-tread-on-me-r's are cheering it on.
This one I find particularly disturbing. (Mostafa Bassim / Anadolu / Getty)
January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
the libertarian hellscape described in 2008 has come to pass, and 99% of don't-tread-on-me-r's are cheering it on.
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We should and at some point we will know who did this crime and the others being committed under the color of law.
There will be a reckoning, and "I was just following orders" will not be a defense.
There will be a reckoning, and "I was just following orders" will not be a defense.
"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
We should and at some point we will know who did this crime and the others being committed under the color of law.
There will be a reckoning, and "I was just following orders" will not be a defense.
There will be a reckoning, and "I was just following orders" will not be a defense.
The Federalist Pig Fedwich is a goddamn lie. Never ever on the actual menu, just spammed all over social media.
I’ll just stick with 2Fifty in future.
I’ll just stick with 2Fifty in future.
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The Federalist Pig Fedwich is a goddamn lie. Never ever on the actual menu, just spammed all over social media.
I’ll just stick with 2Fifty in future.
I’ll just stick with 2Fifty in future.
I feel the same way about people from motorsport who still use the platform. That includes you, midweek motorsport listener’s collective and the-race community.
Really at a loss for how many people from my old music journalism world are still over on Zuck/Musk platforms but not here. I get it, there are companies I can't quit either and right now Bluesky feels like mainly political news. But I just wonder what the red line could ever be?
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I feel the same way about people from motorsport who still use the platform. That includes you, midweek motorsport listener’s collective and the-race community.
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What comes first: another bullet in the back of a US citizen, or the next legally-required release of the Epstein files?
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act, allowing him to deploy troops, to 'put an end' to protests in Minneapolis.
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 PM
What comes first: another bullet in the back of a US citizen, or the next legally-required release of the Epstein files?
On the flip side, literally the least interesting question anyone asks you when you meet them for the first time in DC is “oh, what do you do?”
I have met so many Dans, and female Dans, and they always blow my mind
![[Scene is a SCIENCE RESEARCH FACILITY where two white coated scientists are standing at a desk of instruments and controls in front of a one way mirroe, looking at a mocked-up drinks party scene in the next room. In that room is a man named Dan and a woman, holding glasses of wine and apparently having a conversation. Dan, however, has a hi tech helmet strapped to his head, with wires extruding from it and leading to the instruments next door. Dan when we see him close up has a slightly dull expression and is droning on, while the lady listens, smiling politely].
[Scientists looking through the glass]
SCIENTIST 1:
And is this one of your patients?
SCIENTIST 2:
Yes
SCIENTIST 1:
This is Dan.
Dan was born completely incapable of asking people about themselves at parties.
DAN [close up, droning on while the woman listens]:
...So yeah 1 like implement creative solutions... and I work with clients to design a... and I'm writing a novel about like this guy...
SCIENTIST 1 [Looking at a screen showing Dan's brain with a hole in the middle]:
As you can see, despite talking about himself for the past two hours, the part of the brain which gives a toss about other people's lives shows no activity at all.
SCIENTIST 1 [bending over a microphone on the desk and pressing the intercom button]:
Dan...
Ask the lady... what her job is.
[Dan pauses.]
[Dan continues to pause]
DAN:
What's your job.
LADY [smiling humbly]:
Oh, I'm a murderer?
Well, contract killer, you know, haha...
[Show dan, silent]
[Show lady, smiling, waiting for a response]
[Show dan, still silent]
[Show Dan, slowly opening his mouth to speak
DAN:
And-
[But Dan falls silent again]
[Show Lady looking slightly desperate now, silently willing him to continue]
[Still nothing from Dan. But then...]
DAN:
...And yeah part of my job is I coordinate media content to across platforms to create -
SCIENTIST 1:
Fascinating
SCIENTIST 2:
Isn't it
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January 15, 2026 at 10:46 AM
On the flip side, literally the least interesting question anyone asks you when you meet them for the first time in DC is “oh, what do you do?”
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I'm old enough to remember when the DOJ won about 98% of its cases.
January 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I'm old enough to remember when the DOJ won about 98% of its cases.
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Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!"
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!"
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned."
Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?
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Oh FFS.
If your dem is not on this list primary the shit out of them, obviously. Worthless collaborator garbage.
But it’s so fucking many of them.
If your dem is not on this list primary the shit out of them, obviously. Worthless collaborator garbage.
But it’s so fucking many of them.
The House voted 341 to 79 to fund Trump's war-mongering foreign policy agenda.
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
Only 57 Democrats voted NO.
clerk.house.gov/evs/2026/rol...
January 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Oh FFS.
If your dem is not on this list primary the shit out of them, obviously. Worthless collaborator garbage.
But it’s so fucking many of them.
If your dem is not on this list primary the shit out of them, obviously. Worthless collaborator garbage.
But it’s so fucking many of them.
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Maybe we should stop paying federal taxes altogether and make the IRS come get us all with a skeleton crew
What does this bill do?
✅Creates a new slush fund for Secretary of State Marco Rubio
✅Pushes a Big Tech agenda in trade policy
✅Cuts the IRS enforcement budget in order to encourage billionaire tax evasion
✅Advances Trump's imperialist foreign policy
✅Cuts funding to the United Nations
✅Creates a new slush fund for Secretary of State Marco Rubio
✅Pushes a Big Tech agenda in trade policy
✅Cuts the IRS enforcement budget in order to encourage billionaire tax evasion
✅Advances Trump's imperialist foreign policy
✅Cuts funding to the United Nations
January 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Maybe we should stop paying federal taxes altogether and make the IRS come get us all with a skeleton crew