they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

Americans might not understand it, but in many cultures it’s considered bad or even immoral to be a child rapist

So anyway, Rosalind Franklin

The thing that gets me about this is that so many of us have known this for so long, and so many people have faced pushback for saying it, and even if by some miracle something changes now, there will not be an ounce of retrospective reflection from anyone at all who insisted it wasn’t

cops did an uvalde again. they’re real brave when it’s unarmed protesters and workers and just the biggest pussies in the world the second there might be some actual danger.

Every day, the same story, the same moral pit. The fall of this murderous government can't come soon enough. The only suitable place for Netenyahu is in court for war crimes.

chat when menswear guy gets to this, we’re going to have to protect him at all costs

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

This is the first time Bluesky has truly felt like old Twitter, in that my entire feed is just increasingly esoteric jokes about a single news event (new phone, houthis?)

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

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this is one of the weirdest things to hear ppl say because on average every other country knows more about the US than the US knows about them, like I dunno why but this country is genuinely simply uncurious about the rest of the world in a way that is unfathomable in most nations

Absolutely hate “we went too far” revisionist history. “We all believed women and it went too far.” No we did not all believe women. I was there

Privileged people generally experience the system as biased against and as singling them out for abuse, because they cannot imagine that’s just how the system treats people.