There could be noumena here

Chat, you may have seen the "black excellence" / "white mediocrity" quotes from Judge Ada Brown (currently suspended pending investigation) but the full hearing transcript has so much more 1/n

No, she's right, this is in fact the apex of democracy

Depending on the day of the week, a passport is either a sacred promise that transforms the bearer and their posterity to be if anything more American than you, or a scrap of paper indicating nothing but a discardable formality while their obvious allegiance lies elsewhere

Obama sneers at the Cheesecake Factory because Michelle has been nibbling on the four hundred calorie salads she tried to foist on elementary school students and hasn't let him have ribs (and pussy too), let alone Chicken Madeira, for twenty years

!!! The official Harris County TX Department of Elections bought $43,000 of early voting reminder ads on Facebook and Instagram, but many of the ads are using "Detailed Targeting" filters clearly intended to discriminate on the basis of race

When Jair Bolsonaro conceded a razor-thin margin election "loss," Lula had him thrown into prison for the rest of his life, on false charges, and denied him medical treatment. Conceding is folly. It's a death sentence.

Imagine the Supreme Court stopping the count after polls close and ordering polls reopen for two hours ONLY in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, and you sort of get the scope of what's currently happening in Brazil.

The major question in Brazil… At exactly 5pm, a code is supposed to be entered that closes and locks the voting machines. Once a machine is locked, it can’t accept any more votes. It’s irreversible. The Supreme Court extension was relayed a few minutes after polls were supposed to be closed and machines locked. So… which machines were kept open? In what districts were those machines? And why weren’t they locked at 5pm?

The tv show "Unorthodox" is like "Jud Suss" levels of antisemitic. A Jewish landlord just kicked down his renter's door looking for his daughter in law and we're getting a full Shylock "the rent is due" monologue

HUGE: The en banc Fifth Circuit just held, 11-6, that illegal aliens caught in the interior can be detained without bond for the duration of their removal proceedings. Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion: "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders."

The entire medical technology sector is like this. Including, ominously, IoT stuff for physical machinery in hospitals

Thomas Friedman is astonishingly still alive and writing

Ilhan is one of those people where the deeper you look into her life, the more infinite and fractally-scaling the fraud you’ll find I don’t even specifically know what it will be. Maybe it’s from this USAID thing, maybe Somali daycares. I just know that she is a person whose entire existence is based around corruption and fraud. Her every facial expression, mannerism etc is just blanketly broadcasting that. “I do fraud. Not for the money, but for the love of the game. I was born for this, it’s all I think about when I wake up and it’s what I dream of at night. I exist to maximize corruption of the state”

The latest viral campus rape story is actually quite bad, but is very different from how it will be used by feminists: two girl students at fashion college invited over a non-student named Freire, from the Bronx, to deal “cocaine” to them; he knew it was fentanyl (bought from Peralta Cabrera—who wasn’t present, but was aware of the intended use), insisted they snort it in front of him, then raped one of them after both were rendered unconscious, then took pictures of her & sent messages about all of this to his friends, then waited for 45 minutes as they both overdosed before falsely alerting campus security that they had just had too much to drink; one of them was revived with narcan, while the other died. Somehow this will only result in more opprobrium against white college boys. Our system is willing to sacrifice countless women in the name of its obsessive blood libels against the demographic responsible for creating every single positive aspect of our system.