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  1. The SSRI stuff is dominating right now because of Minneapolis. But within the next month the government of the United States is about to completely fuck up the lives of lots of kids with autism by telling angry, unsophisticated parents a bunch of bullshit and preventing real research. As parent working through this in my family, a hearty fuck you to Anastasis and anyone else trying to sane-wash RFK. He’s an utter quack who fried his brain on heroin and we are seeing generational damage to real people. There’s no explanation other than maliciousness or stupidity indistinguishable from maliciousness so I treat it as both.
  2. Well, it’s Stephen Miller but there is a jumble at second place.
  3. Look, it’s very important that regular citizens be armed to take action in case the government ever becomes fascist. You’ll be grateful to your armed neighbors once the military is patrolling the streets, banners praising the dear leader appear, and the government starts taking control of private companies.
  4. He made sure to call him the “male subject” (which, whatever but it is noticeable) and he made sure that all the facts released align with a narrative that the kid was anti-Trump and anti-MAGA. And it’s all well before any responsible investigator should be making these types of leading comments, and it’s missing other key elements here. You can see the narrative shaping and it’s very manipulative.
  5. The kid wrote mostly in English transcribed into a Russian-Cyrillic and had a few very simple phrases, words, and slogans in actual Russian. It’s clear that he was marinating in some Z corners of the internet, but noting at all suggests beyond that and the whole picture is just a jumble. I think we are living in an era of politically adjacent but not actually politically motivated, mental illness fueled violence. The atmosphere and inchoate rage is very reminiscent of the late 60s and 70s when the whole nation was at a permanent simmer. There’s no clear-cut political motive or thought here, but you do have a very disturbed and angry person who is clearly impacted by the overheated rhetoric and environment.
  6. Absolutely grotesque stuff especially considering the strategic omission of the killer’s clear Russia-curiosity. This crew makes me want to vomit.
  7. It seems like he got busted leaving with a lot of the raw data, which would bring in propriety information as well as serious privacy concerns. Beijing is very interested in genetic and health information on Westerners.
  8. Was gonna add him LOL. Stupid, spiteful, hateful, and not that smart.
  9. Hugh Freeze has to be in this discussion. A long trail of sexual misconduct including allegations of problems with a HS girls basketball team, escorts, endless recruiting violations and lying about it, all wrapped up in a born-again image that he keeps publicly trumpeting.
  10. Interesting to see mapped out and how it works. It’s always safe to assume that political influencers who spend tons of time commenting but have no visible income source have an invisible one. The ones doing it for a mainstream U.S. party with guardrails and directions are low down on my list of concerns. Tim Poole and Benny Johnson showed how much stupid dark money is sloshing in the system and how easy it is for foreign actors to exploit that. There are plenty of influencers on the left who knowingly and unknowingly work for foreign adversaries .
  11. Crazy that Project Warp Speed was literally the only truly useful and successful thing that DJT I did, and now not only has MAGA disowned it they’ve also gaslit themselves into believing DJT didn’t do it.
  12. Fucking enraging. And clearly a message to the military: break your oath to help Trump and Trump will have your back.
  13. Most of the early Old Testament is a bunch of cranky scribes recording the efforts of even crankier prophets and sometimes kings to make a not-very-good-at-monotheism people into monotheists. And it’s a lot of ancient Near Eastern literature and history with all the exaggeration and narrative building that entails, so when you read about massive victories or horrible genocides it bears remembering that we also have their neighbors recording similar things, like announcing themselves rulers of the known universe and slayers of all foes after capturing some dusty village. Even if you don’t take the stories literally, there are echoes of the dark and violent world that the scribes were trying to get people to leave behind. Abraham was surprisingly cool and unsurprised about the whole “go burn your son alive” thing; that story doesn’t make any sense outside of a people with a cultural memory of child sacrifice. So the God of Leviticus and then the God of the exiled Israelites is remarkably more chill than the assortment of Semtic deities that were running things before Him. These things are a spectrum.
  14. We gotta look into some mental health interventions for whatever this political philosophy is.
  15. There are some screenshots of an (alleged) manifesto floating around. Truly strange stuff: some in English, some in English but written with Russian Cyrillic characters, and some very simple Russian.
  16. Nothing at all good can come from an attempt to do something like this even if it is ultimately unsuccessful. Jan 6 out front should have told you.
  17. We need to stop using “active shooter” in media reports. It’s an LEO term used to indicate the threat is ongoing. Of course the shooter is/was active if he’s fucking shooting people. It jargonizes and distances reader from the reality. “Gunman,” “killer,” or just “shooter.”
  18. Part of what makes this so sticky is DJT’s penchant for using non-official MAGA world proxies all over the world. There’s a long tradition of outsourcing extremely sensitive and complex stuff when it makes strategic sense, but when that is done well, non-official people are tightly linked and coordinated with the official world. And it’s almost never done for things this. There’s been less chaos and confusion in the second term but it’s still an issue. This sounds like a Marx Brothers version of the Russian way of business.
  19. A majority of GOP voters want Trump to have a third, unconstitutional term. A majority of Dems and Independents think he will seek one. Tipping point past IMO. The majority party has simply abandoned any pretense of wanting a constitutional order. https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2025/gop-voters-favor-third-trump-term
  20. Yes, and the victim doesn’t have to press charges. The DA can decide to do it. It may be a while before there is an arrest or anything, though.
  21. Tuesday night happy hour got extended into Tuesday night angry and drunk posting I see.
  22. Taylor and Travis got my daughters to, for the first time in my life, sit down and watch a full ball game with me. I had to listen to a lot of chatter that slowly turned in questions about the game. Will always be grateful to TayTay.
  23. The new version of ChatGPT is much less affirming and has stronger controls in place to push back against anthropomorphizing. That said, the earlier version was a precision guided missile to the minds of confused and mentally unwell people. FFS, this quote: https://archive.ph/rdL9W
  24. lol, QE is so clearly setting up a grift for after the end of his almost sure to be short pro career. He’ll be a MAGA football podcaster or some shit. It never stops with these people.
  25. I look at this differently: I think that there genuinely is a deepening pushback against the depressing and sloppy beigification of everything. I think that people actually didn’t like the half-assed rework of a piece of familiar, iconic, and harmless Americana (even if attached to a mediocre chain restaurant) into appified slop. But, I do think it’s a reflection of a dangerous political moment in this way: the people who don’t like it are unable to express why they don’t like it outside of political wars. Any point of disagreement or dissatisfaction is reduced to an argument over woke/anti-woke in the same way any and all preferences in the Soviet Union were framed as to whether they were revolutionary or reactionary. And this works the other way, too. Because it’s been politicized, people have the knee-jerk reaction of either defending what is truly a shitty rebrand or saying that no one should care even though caring about trivial aesthetic and marketing shit has a long non-politicized proud tradition (see uniform pron thread). It should be simple and non-political to say the obvious: The Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks. It’s boring and bland and makes our shared human-shaped geography just a little bit more soulless and less fun in an era when soul and fun is in short supply. It’s borne of conformist and soggy marketing brain that thinks making the physical world more like a smartphone screen is good design. The fact that we as a society can’t find the way to say this without reference to hyper-partisan framing is further evidence of creeping totalitarianism in the sense that almost no opinions can be voiced or conversations held outside politics. It’s a hallmark of decaying democracies and hyper-ideological dictatorships.
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