I would let Beaker take them first and watch what happens.

Scientists: One desperate plan we are considering to combat climate change is a series of gigantic mirrors to deflect sunlight away from the planet.

These assholes: OK, but what if, like, the opposite of that?

Well, fuck.

You’ve got to find a way to check out a little. If you try to stay in top of this shit 24/7 you’ll have a breakdown. A little time to focus on something, anything, that gives you joy is important.

There’s so much terrible news all the time, I legitimately don’t know if we’ve threatened to attack Nigeria or not

Yeah, this is great. We’re going to (illegally) invade Mexico ane Venezuela simultaneously, while also occupying our own cities that don’t go along the paramilitary immigration Gestapo. Oh, and we’re also waging chaotic, impulsive trade wars with literally every country on Earth. Maybe we can get a ground war going in Russia as well, really speed run the imperial collapse.

To be fair, I read a while ago that the, “Great Wealth Transfer,” was going to fizzle because of medical costs. Medicare doesn’t cover long term care, so a lot of the wealth that Boomers would have left behind is getting eaten by the medical industry.

Still, they gutted the social safety nets for short-term stock market gains, so fuck boomers.

Yeah, the bloated police state and anonymity of most real estate moguls makes this is logistically impossible. That being said, the reaction to the United Healthcare CEO’s killing and the number of ICE, “assaults,” that can’t get grand jury indictments makes me think this spirit is still alive.

I doubt the DNC wants her. The Biden folks were trying to scare people into backing him by threatening them with the possibility of a Kamala candidacy, since she was seen as such a trash candidate. Newsom is probably the preferred candidate; he makes a good show of fighting Trump, but doesn’t do any crazy leftist stuff like treating homeless or trans people as human beings. That’s what the DNC wants.

Chocolate is also very poisonous for cats, but unlike dogs, they’re usually smart enough not to eat it. I think lilies are the only things that they occasionally chew on that is poisonous to them (and they are extremely poisonous to them).

Carl?

Honestly, this seems like a no-brainer. Having Pentagon press access means you get to break stories sooner, but if your only reporting what the Pentagon gives you, you’re basically just getting press releases a little earlier. That’s not worth giving up you’re ability to get an exclusive story from a leak, and there’s always someone who wants to leak something. I’m sure that even these journalists’ cooperate overlords see agreeing to this as a bad business decision.

Shit, I assumed that data was relatively recent to the study’s publication. It doesn’t even cover Citizens United!

I mean, Princeton released a study over a decade that the U.S. was no longer a democracy but an oligarchy. I understand that the author means where descending into authoritarianism, but this didn’t start with Trump, and we left democracy behind a long time ago.

It’s kinda insane that the largest entertainment company in the world can be completely up ended because one guy unilaterally decided to cave to fascism.

This is a lot like when Disney fired James Gunn after an astro-turfed right-wing campaign (spearhead by Mike Cernovich) convinced them that there was genuine outrage over some tweets he’d made a decade prior. Disney fired Gunn, there was a huge public backlash in response, and the entire Gaurdians cast threatened to walk. When they finally tried to rehire him, he was working for their largest competitor, which caused them to delay Gaurdians 3 by several years, and now Gunn is pulling DC studios out of it’s nosedive as Marvel is tanking.

Anyway, this time is a little different, because they’re clearly bowing to authoritarian government pressure as well, but they clearly misread the publics mood on this once again. It’s super weird that this billion dollar company keeps doing lasting damage to itself because it thinks Twitter is real life.

“Come to Las Vegas! Win a free trip to El Salvador if you accidentally get swept up in an ICE raid!”

Oh yeah, Brett Kavanaugh saying race can be a factor in ICE detainments even though it directly contradicted their own ruling on Affirmative Action made it clear they don’t give a shit about precedent, even when it’s their precedent.

Moron or not, she is correct. The Supreme Court has ruled multiple times that hate speech is protected under the First Amendment.

They spent so long equating criticism of Israel with being pro-Hamas that they accidentally made the kids pro-Hamas.