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CHOAM for the holidays
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· Mar 12
oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
DHS is now using methods pioneered at black sites by the Bush administration’s CIA on people in “Alligator Alcatraz,” its center for torturing migrants who haven’t even been charged with a crime.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
DHS is now using methods pioneered at black sites by the Bush administration’s CIA on people in “Alligator Alcatraz,” its center for torturing migrants who haven’t even been charged with a crime.
I know I’m a broken record on this but so much of it is right-wing media in macro. These people are morons with no useful qualities beyond loyalty and when they’re given real jobs outside the cushioning biome of billionaire money they fail miserably and immediately. See also Kelly, Megyn
BREAKING: Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba says she is resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, announced her resignation as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I know I’m a broken record on this but so much of it is right-wing media in macro. These people are morons with no useful qualities beyond loyalty and when they’re given real jobs outside the cushioning biome of billionaire money they fail miserably and immediately. See also Kelly, Megyn
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
December 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice
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Pichelli has since said this was taken out of context from an off-hand conversation she had at a busy con with someone who did not identify himself as a journalist and is twisting her words for click bait
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Pichelli has since said this was taken out of context from an off-hand conversation she had at a busy con with someone who did not identify himself as a journalist and is twisting her words for click bait
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
Which is extra fun since this is the post that took off and doesn't even include a source link
How much is Bret Easton Ellis’s career worth at the moment, is there some convenient way to put it
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
How much is Bret Easton Ellis’s career worth at the moment, is there some convenient way to put it
Banner day for predictive text ruining things. My favorite example of this is how you cannot get the swipe-to-text feature to suggest the name “Tom.” No problem with Tim, no problem with time, Tom is OFF LIMITS, or as my phone prefers, OF LINUS
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Banner day for predictive text ruining things. My favorite example of this is how you cannot get the swipe-to-text feature to suggest the name “Tom.” No problem with Tim, no problem with time, Tom is OFF LIMITS, or as my phone prefers, OF LINUS
Today my kid asked me if people tried to go viral when I was his age and I almost started a tirade about how omnipresent phones had ruined people’s brains until I remembered call-in shows and baba booey
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Today my kid asked me if people tried to go viral when I was his age and I almost started a tirade about how omnipresent phones had ruined people’s brains until I remembered call-in shows and baba booey
I love that he 1. is swole 2. wears a wig 3. looks quite a bit like Roger Stone
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I love that he 1. is swole 2. wears a wig 3. looks quite a bit like Roger Stone
in terms of cognitive effects it seems like antisemitism is the equivalent of getting kicked in the head by a horse
Here's Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) raging about Missouri's elections being "decided in California" in response to an article about Missourians protesting a gerrymandering petition in California -- except the article is about the town of California in Missouri.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
in terms of cognitive effects it seems like antisemitism is the equivalent of getting kicked in the head by a horse
I think it is true that misogyny drives birth rate weirdos but I actually think it’s a secondary driver behind racism
The right likes the birth rate panic because it helps them do more misogyny. But they also like it because it tricks democrats into re-framing good progressive social policies as solutions to a problem they probably won't solve. (Partially because it doesn't exist.) newrepublic.com/article/2040...
What If Both Sides in the Birth Rate Debate Are Wrong?
The right wants to steer women away from work and toward motherhood. The left wants to provide them with more state support so it’s easier to have children. We should refuse this choice.
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I think it is true that misogyny drives birth rate weirdos but I actually think it’s a secondary driver behind racism
This morning I got a firsthand look at Life on the street, and it was messy
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This morning I got a firsthand look at Life on the street, and it was messy
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I’m actually going to need more calories in order to enact the violence I would rain down upon your restaurant lest you give me the women’s steak frites
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’m actually going to need more calories in order to enact the violence I would rain down upon your restaurant lest you give me the women’s steak frites
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I never made this “exhortation.” I argued, rather, that human character traits and socioeconomic trends should be not falsely gendered, especially not in service of a reactionary political agenda.
![“Jessica Winter in a recent New Yorker piece…propose[s] a world where we scrap masculinity for a ‘gender-free’ world.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqgawgbsbtkojxg66ydnrlq7/bafkreiad56dfs67yjfozefociceiopzm424o62pljajztceyucwnecsv7y@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I never made this “exhortation.” I argued, rather, that human character traits and socioeconomic trends should be not falsely gendered, especially not in service of a reactionary political agenda.
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*Puts magic hat on snowman
*Snowman starts singing Evanescence
*Removes hat from snowman
*Snowman starts singing Evanescence
*Removes hat from snowman
December 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
*Puts magic hat on snowman
*Snowman starts singing Evanescence
*Removes hat from snowman
*Snowman starts singing Evanescence
*Removes hat from snowman
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Everything is awful!
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Everything is awful!
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
*But it would be worse if I relapsed.*
This is my thought for the day, you can have it as yours for FREE if that's helpful to you.
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The New York Post ran several stories last week using anecdotal complaints and flimsy, contradictory data to blast the congestion toll, which will hit its one-year anniversary next month. buff.ly/p8lfUM0
Monday's Headlines: Congestion Pricing Edition - Streetsblog New York City
The New York Post has laid the bait for Gov. Hochul on congestion pricing, but will she take it? Plus more news.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The New York Post ran several stories last week using anecdotal complaints and flimsy, contradictory data to blast the congestion toll, which will hit its one-year anniversary next month. buff.ly/p8lfUM0
I do feel like it should be House of Lords Jerk seasoning
"House of Commons Jerk Seasoning" is 1) an extremely funny concept and more importantly 2) a sign of a complete and total victory for cultural pluralism in a way that is kind of difficult to concieve
Look, I know things aren’t great at the moment for (a) anyone, and (b) the Labour Party, but fuck me that’s bleak
December 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I do feel like it should be House of Lords Jerk seasoning
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I have to make a post office trip tomorrow, and I’d love to mail you one of these Metamorpho books when I’m there! Written by @alewingpromotes.bsky.social, drawn by me w/assists from @tomrogers.bsky.social! Signed and sketched, free US shipping! stevelieberart.etsy.com/listing/4355...
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have to make a post office trip tomorrow, and I’d love to mail you one of these Metamorpho books when I’m there! Written by @alewingpromotes.bsky.social, drawn by me w/assists from @tomrogers.bsky.social! Signed and sketched, free US shipping! stevelieberart.etsy.com/listing/4355...
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cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
Freeman affirmatively choosing to lose her fucking mind over the last seven or eight years has been genuinely sad. I know people told her, as kindly as they knew how, that she was wrong, and I know she preferred to feel persecuted.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Freeman affirmatively choosing to lose her fucking mind over the last seven or eight years has been genuinely sad. I know people told her, as kindly as they knew how, that she was wrong, and I know she preferred to feel persecuted.