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Trinity the Tuck saying “I don't know what the fuck she's saying but gurl, I am living.”

me watching this halftime show

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

Listen to the Cassandras

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why. U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.

“Motorists are hostile to measures that slow traffic and favor pedestrians. Local leaders give token or tepid support. Spending on pedestrian-friendly improvements is not prioritized.”

If a legitimate form of constitutionally-backed rule of law is ever to be restored, perpetrators MUST go to jail for these depredations, the money made MUST be clawed back, and the political enablers MUST be lustrated. The penalties must be so severe that no one will ever dare try this shit again.

The music leaves you waiting for a final note, I can’t stand it

Apple’s rumored AI search tool for Siri could rely on Google We may finally see the new Siri next March.

Noooo, use / acquire Kagi

Very pleased with this iOS 26 look

Welcome to the Era of Big Stupid in America America is no longer anti-intellectual. We’re actively anti-intellect. It might be the death of us.

“The innovation is going away, and so is the money. Whatever start-ups these rejected students and researchers start up will be started up in another country. Whatever international university welcomes them will get those big donations once these people get rich.”

Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World

“Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.”

"Competitive authoritarianism" and America's slide toward it You can still vote. It just might not mean much.

"For many who still pine for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oligarchy, competitive authoritarianism resonates with their sense of how government should work and who it should work for."

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

I hate it when I wake up feeling so good about my body and then it’s like, damn, gotta eat to survive

Must be nice.

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

“This crucial access to the drug, which ultimately sets aside profit for people, is a bold move from a pharmaceutical company – but one that recognizes the desperate need to end the global HIV epidemic.”
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Ah, yes, my favorite shade of green

Thanks I hate it

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to avoid provoking President Trump.

The artist Amy Sherald — who rocketed to fame with her 2018 portrait of Michelle Obama — canceled her show at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery over concerns that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to avoid provoking President Trump.

Stuck in this lovely loop #ios26 #beta4

The "personal life" section of Wikipedia is such a Pandora's box.
Is it going to just be their relationship status? Is it inexplicably just 3 paragraphs on their favourite football team? Am I about to learn about a Vehicular Manslaughter charge from 2015?
Impossible to know.

This is genuinely the news every day

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

Trump simply ignoring the TikTok ban has led to Republicans literally passing bills they oppose on the promise they will be ignored

Couple this with Trump’s remarks in the same press conference about denaturalizing Mamdani over political views and creating a system of detention centers.

Trump is envisioning concentration camps across the country holding Americans stripped of citizenship as “foreigners” subject to disappearance.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Waiting for the bad news

Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.

Woooof.

This is the exact thing— these people are just going for broke and achieving personal hatred goals because yolo? They can fuck all kinds of shit up & walk away smiling because we don’t do consequences for government people here