genuinely: american class politics is so interesting

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

For 2024, the *household* income quintiles were
Top: 175k+
2nd: 105-175k
3rd: 65k-105k
4th: 34.5k-65k
Lowest: 0-34.5k

Obviously somewhat subjective to living area, but most upper-income folks have very little sense of where they sit.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

I can explain it right now tbh, they don't consider the rest of us human much less American. It's not national suicide, it is a family annihilation perpetuated by people who lied and grifted and stole they way into power and are using it to consolidate resources ahead of the climate catastrophe

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Thank you. Truly. That's a kind thing to say and tonight I needed some kindness.

I don't know anyone on Bluesky (except you Meg, And you won't say anything) so this feels like a safe place to say my kids haven't spoken in 3 years and every single day it hurts more than I thought anything could. It hasn't gotten 1% better; I'm hopeless I'll ever have a family again.

Congress could stop this tomorrow but the GOP has decided to step aside and let a madman start war after war based on vibes and whatever death spiral these freaks are locked in

Tough category. I've got lots of contenders. Pouring nicotine salts directly into my eye because I thought I'd grabbed the Systane is pretty high up there tho

Minister/lawyer
Gangster/mechanic

Resulted in surprising amount of balance for me, totally unsurprising amount of weirdness and trauma for my parents

Minister/lawyer
Gangster/mechanic
Resulted in surprising amount of balance for me, totally unsurprising amount of weirdness and trauma for my parents

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

America's being led into war by a rambling, disassembling old man with no plan who gets distracted by the golden drapes next to his podium.

TFW you realize maybe your 24 yr old daughter dodged a bullet by choosing visual arts over writing. Lord knows the only people I'll be broadcasting her current takes to are her 45 yr old self and her kids, cuz that'll be hilarious.
This poor baby, smh

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

Thank you for this. He was my favorite musical artist. Even sang Love Will Keep Us Together at my wedding. His song writing talent was phenomenal.

Exactly. "You may go to a sub-basement in hell not for anything you did, but for what your countrymen and/or forefathers did" - also not in the main brochure.
And no refunds or exchanges.

I was told there were precisely nine levels and we've gone SO far past that.

Nights like this my schedule of being up till 4 when noone I love is awake and I'm aware of news that will scare/anger/horrify them and mean danger to some of their friends and families...it just sucks (understated).

Thanks to all the night owl strangers processing new level of hell with me.

Any predictions for those of us in a whirl of warjuststartedinmiddleofthenightwtf anxiety?

What if we just…you know…didn’t use AI, given that we’ve seen approximately 1 billion red flags?

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

One thing that’s concerning about this (beyond the obvious) is that anything you dump this many billions of dollars into necessarily creates a massive and well-funded political constituency for its own perpetuation.

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...