this is ryan

doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice

a good rule of politics is to not bail your opponents out of a mess they created, and for chrissake, don’t fucking volunteer to do it.

i am not a reflexive dems suck person and i am not even opposed to doing this *but do it strategically*, don’t give up a freebie in advance just because americans are mad about car sauce, let them be mad about it first.

And make sure they’re mad at the right people

This is what peak male performance looks like

Always incredible to see the British PM act like they have US President levels of job security instead of, like, the most annoying guy on Love Island

mood:

Big protest at the Lincoln Monument. Seven D.C. high schools walked out to come here.

this is honestly a great case for anthropic to explain what a lot of people get very wrong about what AI tools are actually capable of

I didn't know what "bonesmashing," "looksmaxxing," or "mogging" were, and I definitely didn't know what a "Clavicular" was, but I looked it up and damn, he really did get frame-mogged for real. Guess he was hubrismaxxing.

Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible actress) @rebeccaferguson.com This is actress Rebecca Ferguson, the real one and not a scam. Accept my private message request. why on earth would you message me if you were real I need you to watch my movies. the scam is just messaging individual people to watch rebecca ferguson movies? I have been a fan of yours ever since I read a post about how you sneezed so hard the yellow acorn flew off your penis shaft. In Dune 2 I played the powerful mother of a thin desert boy.

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice."
"Real media access is still only on Twitter."
"No one important uses or will ever use this site."

Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

it IS congress's job to decide how funds are spent, but this administration's whole bag is claiming authority they don't have. So no, technically, they can't do this, but one of the other branches of government would have to DO something about it, and ... they're not doing that

And not in a hypothetical way, like right now, today.

I'm reminded of when Idiocracy came out and was moderately successful and shortly afterwards there was an official "Ow! My Balls!" mobile game for flip phones

JFC

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

I mean yes, but it does have a name:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...

Every ounce of pushback matters.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you this work will fail. It's working.

One of the messages I see most on social media is some variant of: “no one cares as much as you do.”

Living in Minnesota through the ICE occupation has taught me that it’s untrue. It honestly might have been disinformation the whole time.

"the athleticism of a guy who played football 4 years ago" I'M DYING

AW HECK that just raised some deep and visceral memories

Glimpsing just a fragment of one billionaire's communications is enough to horrify and disgust, just seeing 0.03% of their heinous shit is enough to inflict heavy psychic damage.

Even that glimpse into the no longer remotely human billionaire class is too much for a normal person to bear.

It's like a cosmic horror, even the small glimpse we have from peeking into Epstein's emails inflicts terrible psychic damage.

And he's just the only billionaire so far whose emails and such have been made somewhat public. Out of 3,028.

The idea that twitter/X is the internet commons is the stupidest idea that will not die. It is not even that important a social media site, anymore, just quit it

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Just one dollar could mean food for my children this Ramadan instead of hunger, and peace of mind instead of fear.

I write these words with a heavy heart.

I'm not asking for luxuries, just the basic necessities for my little ones' lives.

- Sama’a 🤍 🌙

chuffed.org/project/157569

OH FFS I looked it up and WTF

another victory for #comicsans

Reporter’s notebook: Minnesotans’ whistles are a warning and a bellwether for Oregon and the nation • Oregon Capital Chronicle A Capital Chronicle reporter goes to Minnesota, where residents have spent months under a federal occupation of immigration agents.

Senior reporter @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social spent last week helping out the @minnesotareformer.com in her hometown of the Twin Cities. She reflects on what she learned there — and what it could mean for Portland. buff.ly/fcEH2zK

The sundowning of the American empire

The vast majority of iconic 1980's movies could never have been made if hollywood then acted like hollywood nowadays. Raiders of the Lost Ark had a budget of $20 million, made $389.9 million.