so macklemore saying “free palestine” is violence, but ed sheeran saying the situation in gaza is “catastrophic and unjustifiable” is totally fine? this whole thing is so fucking stupid.
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There is no "platform" and no one on this site can honestly say that they know what they would do if they win the House and/or Senate starting in January. What's the immediate first order of business, for example? No voter can say. It has not been communicated to anyone.
Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000.
Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000
But the pledge reveals an increasingly frantic midterms strategy.
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the “op” is that vance is the most visibly sweaty, pathetic and juiceless national politician in recent memory
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 4w ago"Do you think we're fucking stupid?" Allies of JD Vance say an "op" is underway to sabotage his 2028 prospects. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-plot-t...
Dolly Parton spread so much grace and goodness. I feel like our nation will be just that much crasser and meaner unless we each find a way to step up for one another. No one person can fill that void.
Dr. El-Sayed puts it plainly: “ICE has nothing to do with immigration.” I agree completely.
Dog brained fucking shit heads everywhere you turn www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Robot book club
Reading books with an AI partner
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“I do find it endlessly frustrating that AI is chipping away at the already thin financial opportunities and resources for artists and is being championed by organizations that should know better.” matternews.org/culture/art/...
‘What message are we sending when we reward work with no humanity whatsoever?’ – Matter News
After an AI-created image won the grand prize in the Ohio State Fair poster competition, organizers announced their intent to reconsider the use of the technology in future contests amid vocal backlas...
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Lindsey Graham achieves lifelong goal of dying in office.
Like I said, there's no small amount of finger-pointing that's going to happen as a result of this. But Platner was a creation of Ryan Grim, Bernie Sanders, and Matt Stoller, as much as he was of Pod Save America and Matt Yglesias. That's what has to be reckoned with.
It’s a beautiful evening, the National Mall is open and people are having a wonderful time.
Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo
i support banning young people from social media except linkedin. without the ability to build a professional network, showcase their skills, and access career opportunities we are consigning the next generation of young hustlers to a ruinous future
Even at the pundit level, if what you want is a party that hates trans people and women, that valorizes a kind of rural white masculinity, and that organizes around contempt for all things urban, educated, and liberal… well, they already have that, and maybe you should just be on the side you’re on.
calling women who take allegations of domestic violence seriously “HR ladies” is a way to diminish the power we have worked so hard to gain and make women feel annoying for caring. i hope women in this category know it is never annoying to care.
This is the performance artist known as "Trump"'s greatest performance since "Hurricane Sharpie." Maybe even as significant a surrealist artwork as "Enigmas Never Age / Headless Torso with Signature as Pubic Hair."
Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 4mo agoI guess we're really never getting the strait opened.
The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.
I don’t think when ppl say Conservatives can’t make great art, they mean it has never EVER happened. Notice whenever this topic comes up, the same few dozen names are bandied about. I think that proves the point that it’s rare 💀
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe leftists responding here saying there is not great right-wing art are wrong. There is: Pound, Eliot, Mishima, Dostoevsky, Céline. The real question is why contemporary MAGA conservatism seems incapable of producing anything close to art of that level.
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
It's a performance! They are performing gender. They just can't see or refuse to acknowledge their own fourth wall
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED
New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:
Subpoena of NYU Langone trans youth health records pierces ‘bubble’ of safety for patients & families
The Handbasket spoke to some of those impacted.
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UNIVERSITIES ARE CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTIONAL APPARATUSES. THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO “WIN THE RESPECT OF THE RIGHT” THEY ARE SIMPLY SHEDDING A THIN VENEER OF LIBERALISM. You are all approaching this from a set of mistaken premises and playing into the right’s hands.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5mo agoNot sure what universities are supposed to do to win the respect of the right when we’re 3 years into the SCOTUS ban on affirmative action in college admissions and there are still all these viral stories of “this kid with a 1560 SAT score was forced to go to Duke instead of Harvard because of woke”
None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have
“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 7mo agonot the most important thing going on rn by a wide margin and not something that is new information to me but nonetheless my mind keeps drifting back to the absolutely confounding idea of going on vacation to dubai
We can all agree, I think, that "AI" is designed to trick. It's meant to fool people into thinking it's a person. Yes? Which people? The obvious answer is 'those using a service', customers, but it's usually obvious we're not chatting with a human. So ... it's a strategy to fool *investors*.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8mo agoTo me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog.