lmaooooo come on, i know these are just lazily thrown together every morning by someone who really just kinda goes along to get along but you cannot mention samantha bee doing a bit on white wealthy schools without also mentioning her own husband joining in on the fight to keep their school wealthy and white while…

It is such typical western chauvinism to see something that is a classic western cultural problem and then be like “what are we a bunch of backward fucking Muslims???” Many sects of Islam allow abortions, unlike much of Christianity.

yeah and obama is a fan of that charter school public-private partnership bullshit, he fucking loves it. it’s not just rahm, it’s the entire goddamn obama world. and that’s not even to mention the way that admin responded to police brutality and black lives matter while it was starting.

lol okay bud

idk about politicians but the idea that a lot of democrats are bought and paid for isn’t exactly qanon-level conspiracy theorizing, a simple wander over to opensecrets.org will give you a picture of what regulatory capture looks like. the lobbying industry for various sectors are lousy with former politicians.…

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if you get access to a list like that and don’t send it to a journalist you shouldn’t be welcomed into polite society

The Shape of Water goes, uh, a bit beyond homage to Delicatessen, while also being a significantly worse film.

American Tabloid by James Ellroy is a fun, conspiracy-brained take on JFK, Cuba, the mob, and the FBI. As with all Ellroy its politics are very difficult to parse which rocks.

I’m glad he’s been outed as just another sleeze ball

it’s identity reductionism as politics and it just creates ideological nonsense. a few years ago there was an article about how most of the major defense firms are now led by women, and it’s like - did anything change? are the wars now more woke? have we stopped supporting arms deals with saudi arabia and israel? have…

This is why he’s a bad fit for Star Wars, imo. It’s going to feel all Whedonized like the Sequel Trilogy, when the lesson they should be taking is that the Mandalorian won by playing it as straight Star Wars. Back to the roots. It doesn’t really feel very Favreau, it feels very Star Wars. Anyway, I’m sure they’ll keep…

The US is a fucking disaster. India and Africa do not even come close in absolute or per capita terms, and even if Indian industrialization multiplies it by five they will not hit our current numbers.

China’s CO2 output is higher than it should be, and they absolutely are dragging their feet, but per capita it is half of America’s carbon consumption per year. Sneering at people while you live in the worst offending country is Americans’ attitude on everything from foreign policy to human rights. Amazing.

nuancing our way into the apocalypse

100% - all of these companies market aggressively to the college (and implicitly younger) crowd. Of course, in parts of Europe like where I live the bar patrons all look like a high school cafeteria certain nights of the week anyway, so I’m not sure that getting rid of it would change that much. In my high school days…

When it’s connected to people from the highest echelons of finance, business, and government I’d imagine you’re right. Not a lot of probably consequences here, but there’s always a hope and it’s always worth taking a shot.

These recent allegations only further prove that the interests of the rich and powerful ultimately lie with the rich and powerful. At its core, Time’s Up is a corporate nonprofit that must fundraise, appease donors, and protect the reputations of its prominent board members. True feminist solidarity can’t exist under…

you’re just a fucking liar, now i get it

What’s cool about NYC is that the mayor essentially just functions as a person for the public to hate, so it’ll be exciting to see Adams slight into that role. Much like Lori Lightfoot he just seems to have the exact kind of goofball weirdo personality mixed with genuine shitiness that will make him easy to hate.…