For pretty much my entire life I have heard Republicans insist some ostensible open borders policy of whatever Democratic administration is letting "millions and millions" of undocumented immigrants into the country and I don't think I have once seen a reporter point out that the numbers just […]

One of Israel's three Laws of Robotics is to only bomb assassination targets when they are at home with their families. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/sophia-goodfriend/kill-lists

"JD Vance is not a 'product' of America’s elite institutions so much as he is a creation of"... Brett Kavanaugh's pimp at Harvard and the trolls in charge at the New York Times. https://www.findinggravity.net/p/none-of-us-should-even-know-who-jd

I am living in a bizarro world where the only thing that worked as (or much better) than expected today was the DMV, where I walked in and walked out with a new license inside 15 minutes. #enshittification is almost entirley driven by the exigencies of advertising, producing the conundrum that […]

lol did she Iran is two weeks from having a nuke? Oh Blinken says so, OK. Iran would be insane not to want nukes to protect itself from an ever-impending US invasion, we're constantly told they are insane, and Iran keeps saying they don't want them, proving the point. #debate

"Epic Systems... a privately held company that provides the electronic database for patient records and billing used today in 39% of all U.S. hospitals [and] keeps track of about 260 million individual patient records, just under 80% of the entire U.S. population... entering required data into […]

Got baited by this clickbait while checking the headlines and wasn't expecting it to sum up Kris Kristofferson's contributions to the culture: "Whatever America is, he was the best of it." Saw him play at Hardly Strictly once or twice but never watched any Blade movies. Maybe I've been […]

In 1992 Israeli helicopters killed Hezbollah’s then secretary general as well as his wife and six-year-old son in a motorcade. In Ronen Bergman’s book, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, some Israeli military figures had opposed the killing as […]

European Christians conquered the globe for spices they refuse to use because they think spices cause masturbation and that masturbation is bad for the same absurd pretext about sexual pleasure outside marriage being a 'crime against nature' that is fundamental to their opposition to abortion.

Republicans shrieking forever about refugees destroying our way of life as our way of life turns more and more of us into refugees. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/30/helene-aftermath-live-updates-monday-north-carolina/75447978007/