If Maduro is in custody my expectation is the admin will try to hold Dumb Nuremberg. They'll make it a judicial referendum on fentanyl and try to blame Maduro for the deaths from the opiate crisis.
Trans rights are human rights.
This is really really worth reading and if you can afford $25 year please become a member. I'm going to.
[defense wheels out a tv with their own ai of the victim] hey man, thanks for killing me
Matt Wuerker cartoon, Politico (Andrew McMeel Syndication) The Q shaman and two other MAGA activists outside a fence, one speech bubble reading “We sure showed those elites who’s in charge. Gate reads “Moolah Lago”. Inside a rendition of Mar-a-Lago golf palace with huge Trump-flag. The lawn full of helicopters marked different labels, like for instance “Wall St.”, “Big Oil”, “Guns R us”, “Crypto Bros”, “Big Ag”, “Big Tech”, “Musk”, “Bezos”, “Pharma”, “Coal”, “Zuck”, and several inbound choppers in the air.
Very good cartoonist in deed
To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.
holy fuck. we use magnetic tape backups for long-term storage *because* they're resistant to data loss, unlike modern storage methods.
If you are in any way shape or form someone who both is *and* understands what it means for you to *be* in contact with an archive of material, you need to start doing whatever it takes to protect those archives, right now.
From Marc Murphy: "Drawn 6 years ago today. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist."
Bad math. The costs far exceed the savings. Therefore there are no savings. Combine that with the disruption of vital services and DOGE has been an unmitigated disaster and complete failure.
Stop settling for less than the bare minimum, and start demanding what we deserve. People have internalized learned helplessness when engaging with politics, and it's long past time that everyone realizes that nobody is coming to save us. If voting could fix this, we wouldn't be in this situation.
Something the left is plagued with especially in America is an inability to escape the essentially Christian moralist position that the correct approach to social problems is not materialist or systemic but rather that there are good people and bad people and we just have to punish the bad ones
you'll never be rid of him
The cool thing about liberal “democracy” is people like Henry Kissinger can be a state department fixture for years, never having been elected by the people, killing people and toppling governments all over the globe, and some don’t think that’s “authoritarian”
We have permanently lost the post-WW II economic & cultural position we have occupied since 1946. Historians will say the era of American dominance ended in 2025 but they'll have a "when did Rome fall" debate about it for a couple hundred years.
The Boomers may go down as a world-historic example of the people Ann Richards quipped about being "born on third base" — having come of age at the peak of unchallenged U.S. economic and geopolitical dominance — "and thought [they] hit a triple."
leave it to the Times to speculate on AI deserving human rights after spending years degrading the rights of pick a marginalized group.
This is the biggest corruption scandal in living memory.
Trump appears to tell his sons to fire his company’s lawyer who went to Harvard
“The genocide we are witnessing today, is something that I recognize from my own experience as a Holocaust survivor… What is happening today in Gaza is an extreme form of repeat genocide, a holocaust in our own time, in front of our eyes.” — Stephen Kapos
President Donald Trump came into office vowing to end America's "endless wars."
In some areas, the administration has followed through. But at the same time, it has quietly enmeshed US forces in yet another open-ended conflict in the Middle East.
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People see the artistic life as radically different in the degree to which it is bound by rules, but fundamentally similar in the degree to which it fulfills what we are truly called to do
Academic research focuses so obsessively on morality, but people also care deeply about other parts of life
(Lou Reed might not have been a moral exemplar, but we might think he was an exemplar of something else)
This @jowylie.bsky.social paper explores this other side of people’s values
Skriver om påven som klimataktivist. Och om klimatrörelsen som krokar arm med rörelsen för mänskliga rättigheter. Som den palestinsk-amerikanska poeten Tariq Luthun sa vid klimatmötet 2023:
”Vad är det för mening med att finna en värld som är grön om rötterna är dränkta i blod?”
previous sage (either of water or Rauru/KG since he is sitting on it)
((it is confirmed that the owl is Rauru, right?))
