“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

Friends, if you have a device that has a li-ion battery and you're not using it, check it periodically to ensure the battery isn't swelling. Don't be me and forget it exists until the battery has swollen to the point catastrophic failure is imminent.

it's all fucking adult cosplay none of these clowns are serious people capable of doing any more than the state already had the capacity to do

I am remembering how the Tea Party protests in the Obama administration (2009-2010) were covered and thinking about how that coverage compares to the No Kings protests. #contentiousky

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay