im not a Christian but re: Vance’s statement, a tiered ethnic hierarchy of moral worth is basically least christian thing for a person to believe. it is 100% incompatible with the most basic parts of the religion
1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
“hey baby,” i say, approaching you at the bar. “watch this”
i put a cherry stem in my mouth seductively. you look away, but eventually you can’t help but notice that i’ve managed to get it wrapped tightly around my neck. in seconds, i am dead.
At the 503 Day (a totally real holiday in Portland) block party and people are doing live band karaoke to Foo Fighters while other people on the side do hacky sack tricks and man, what they used to say is true- the dream of the 90s really is alive, here
It's striking how vapid and boring this all is. The meme president. His flunkies snickering about how Epic it would be to post this, certain that they're Trolling but not quite sure whom or why anymore
"MSNBC's Tom Costello claimed Friday that an air traffic controller who works at Newark airport said, ‘It is not safe. It is not a safe situation right now for the flying public. Don't fly into Newark. Avoid Newark at all costs.’”
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
Trump on China: "They made a trillion dollars with Biden selling us stuff. Much of it we don't need. Somebody said, 'oh, the shelves are gonna be open.' Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more."
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
"what is a woman?" (and companion questions "what is sex?" etc) really is the trans rights version of "is a fetus alive" -- the answer doesn't matter and has the effect of reorienting discussion away from the wellbeing of the trans person, or woman, at hand
I think my least favorite thing about the newest season of Dr Who is that since Ncuti Gatwa is apparently very good at shedding tears on demand, they have the Dr quietly tear up at least once per episode.
Each time is less effective! It's the doc who cried bad wolf.
A non-Jewish comedian is telling a Jewish comedian that he is being insulting to Jews, which is pretty much the logical endpoint of the way we talk about antisemitism in the US.
You don’t need big tech know-how to take some small, simple steps to better protect your privacy, and to build an online space that feels as free and safe as speaking with those closest to you IRL, EFF’s Paige Collings writes for @teenvogue.com.
Small comforts among the schadenfreude, dread, disillusionment, and sadness for people like me who have no idea whether they've had one or two MMR doses- one dose is lifelong 93% effective, two doses 97%, and breakthrough cases tend to be milder.
Someone just needed to tale the keys away from Jorge, and the prequels would be all time classics instead of "the most prophetic story ever written buried under the worst slop imaginable"
raising my blood pressure thinking about how some people think Rage Against the Machine's "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" is about DEI and vaccines and environmental regulations
the reason it took 4chan this long to get hacked despite being such a jank piece of shit is that it was sort of just an unwritten rule not to. it's sort of like the continental hotel from john wick, but for internet shitheads instead of assassins.
