This is going to actually be a thing, isn't it. A chatgpjesus is going to catch on and cause some fucking cult movement in our lifetimes.
“They won’t be allowed to leave.”
People talk about this like it is the most casual thing ever.
No, regardless of your religion or politics (I don’t care, tbh) it sounds like Israel are deliberately enslaving and torturing people.
They can’t leave?
I hope every minute of this pathetic cunt’s life is haunted by the decisions he’s made. He deserves no rest, and no sleep.
Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now
The invincible Susan Crawford:
all politics about ai aside if you use it to create fanwork you're just a fucking dweeb
not to show my jock colors on this my nerd blog but the whole fucking point is that it's for love of the game. sweat over it or get the fuck out. i'm no gatekeeper but if you're using ai you're not even playing. you're trying to pave over the baseball diamond and make it a parking lot.
The fascism is speeding up.
For some reason, I can't get the link do the link thing, but:
Reminder that when he talks about crime, he's talking about what poor people do, because he's cut enforcement on many of the crimes that his donors are responsible for.
More here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/us/politics/fbi-agent-assault-dc.html
Jury Nullification (or the Grand Jury equivalent, just Grand Jury Nullification) and it is legal to refuse to enforce a law if it is being weaponized or used for purely political purposes. Or if the jury would just rather Not.
I wouldn't even call it jury nullification. Jury nullification is where someone is found not guilty despite evidence of guilt because the jury thought the crime was reasonable under the circumstances. This is a pretty clear-cut case of ICE thugs shoving a woman against a wall then accusing her of bullshit assault charges when she struggled to free herself. Inventing charges against people who resist them is standard cop practice - it's an intimidation tactic. ICE are just upping the ante on it.
Yeah this is straight up "we don't believe a crime was committed here," which is just regular not guilty.
There's an old saying that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich if asked to. That the government tried three times is weird in the first place -- that they failed three times is unheard of, and also reassuring.
Well the full quote is “Any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.” And let's just say I doubt the state department is sending the best prosecutors for this BS.
Politics
By Melissa Quinn
Updated on: May 27, 2025 / 9:56 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — NPR on Tuesday sued President Trump and administration officials over an executive order signed earlier this month that seeks to cut federal funding to the news organization and PBS.
Filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the suit was brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations. It argues that Mr. Trump's executive order violates the First Amendment and provisions of the Public Broadcasting Act, which was passed by Congress in 1967. The plaintiffs also assert that Mr. Trump did not have the authority to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS, and his order should be invalidated as unconstitutional.
The order, NPR and the three stations said in their complaint, is "textbook retaliation" and discriminates based on viewpoint, which is a violation of the First Amendment.
"The order's objectives could not be clearer: the order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the president dislikes and chill the free exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radio stations across the country," the lawsuit states.
Mr. Trump and his Republican allies have long complained about NPR and accused it of being biased against conservatives. Project 2025, the sweeping policy roadmap overseen by the Heritage Foundation, calls for defunding both NPR and PBS.
So Crawford won. Elon is, as far as I know, still being investigated for ~election crimes~ in Wisconsin. Canada is still investigating Tesla's alleged fraud with rebates. Illinois just elected a bunch of Democrats for local offices. Louisiana rejected a bunch of Republican proposed changes to their state constitution. Cory Booker held the floor of the Senate for 25 hours, breaking the record of racist shitheel Strom Thurmond and in the process, listing out the sins of the Trump administration in the Senate records and delaying their vote for some other Trump asshole. And Speaker of the House Mike Johnson got embarrassed by House Republicans joining Dems in opposing him and threw a baby hissy fit and shut down the House for a week.
We didn't get Florida. But look at all that up there.
Oh and tomorrow, Tesla has to share information about how many cars it actually delivered in the first three months of the year, which unless they fudge the books, is going to be a lower number than they would like, and might make their stock dip some more. Or just drop. Forbes has provided a little graph of their sales.
Edit: and oh shit! Mike Waltz fucked up again and got caught using fucking Gmail for work discussions. Gmail. Because Google never spied on anyone. (He has a government email address.)
ALSO republicans significantly underperformed in Florida! Like these were seats that were already hella long shots, but the fact that they won by half or less what Trump won those areas by just five months ago?? That’s still telling, and my understanding is the GOP is still worried because of it.
(Screenshot from What The Fuck Just Happened Today, a one-sentence “sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news” that I like for keeping up with politics these days)
Can anybody give these old-ass Democrats protest lessons? They're acting like they're still living in pre-2015 politics when the GOP gave a shit and wasn't deranged.
How hard is this? There's probably better suggestions than mine if they actually hired seasoned protestors or behaviorists/psychologists or even the biggest teenage troll they can find on a messageboard.
The Emperor Has No Clothes. So fucking act like it.
Yes, please DO! I just read a post asking CANADA to do something about it?! DUDE ARE YOU SERIOUS?! We have enough of our own shit ( namely, Conservatives with the little dick Pierre Poilievre) and the shit created by your government to deal with, FFS!
The left never radicalized, the center has just been dragged further and further right until we became radical by not moving.
When I was 10 I asked my dad to explain politics to me and when he was done with his shockingly nuanced description of the American bipartisan system he asked me how I would structure the government if it was up to me. I described a world where everyone was paid what they needed, had a house, and enough food. He said, "Void-juice that's great, but you should know most people call that communism".
I've told this story on here before but @void--juice's story made me think of it again...
My dad worked for NASA and he did a lot of work on the telescopes that went up in the late 90s/early 2000s. I was a curious kid and I knew his work really mattered to my dad so I was always asking about when things were getting launched. Often the answer was "we're waiting on Congress for funding" or similar. And one time... I was probably about 10 years old, I said "well... I guess that makes sense. I'm sure going to space is one of the most expensive things we do."
And my dad looks at me... I'll never forget the look on his face. He goes "What do you think the most expensive thing we do as a country is?"
And I hemmed and I hawed because I was sure it wasn't the space program even though I was sure that had to be in the top three. My first guess was education. Everyone had to go to school. Nope. Roads? Bridges? Cars were everywhere. Nope. What about... things like electricity? Phone lines? Cable? Nope.
"The military. By a factor of ten at least."
I was gobsmacked. It was peacetime (at least by most reckoning... this was post-Gulf War and well before 9/11). What the hell was the military doing being so expensive if we weren't doing anything with it?
So that was the moment I became a "radical." Because that was absolutely stupid and continues to be.
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