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@itsJeffTiedrich The only people answering calls from unknown numbers are lonely conservatives who're hoping their alienated children are finally returning their calls.

@AlokANYC @jayandroy @Acyn @AOC Tell me without telling me that you don't understand the concept of breaking promises and are just a mouthpiece for lying billionaires.

@jayandroy @Acyn @AOC Tell me without telling me that you don't understand the concept of a expanding the pie. To get a tax break someone has to create taxable income first. But hey - you saved on tax breaks as the income went somewhere else. Bravo.

Lyman: What has AOC done for your district? “She helped bring 30,000 books to school kids within the district.”

@KlasfeldReports @alanfeuer Just a friendly reminder, if called to a grand jury you can refuse to indict the person.

A Trump-appointed US Attorney with no experience told grand jurors they'd hear about “bad guys” and “murderers” who “did what you are going to hear about.” He handed them business cards. The cases got tossed—and three days later, he got confirmed. Extraordinary, via @AlanFeuer buff.ly/xpnVcJ7

@stjepansejic Taking this as a time to plug one of my favorite comics this year. The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard bindings.app/read/dNlDrI7G

every now and then i see posts here about someone's favorite book getting cancelled and inevitably the conspiracies and theories start popping up about the why of it all. sadly the answer is always a simple one. a comic has to capture a large enough, enthusiastic and vocal

@Wheelykingwayne @cwebbonline It's always strange with Pieces of Crap deliberately out themselves as Pieces of Crap and act proud about it.

@cwebbonline Don't you people ever get tired of playing the victim? Because on my end I can tell you, it's exhausting.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man, and it’s because some folks didn’t want us to. In 2021, organizers at an Ohio Memorial Day ceremony muted retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter for nearly two minutes the moment he began discussing how formerly enslaved Black Americans exhumed the remains of Union soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

@TheStingisBack I Don't Care. I watch movies for entertainment. I don't watch movies for a history lesson.

Sting’s Friday Question #6 Do you care if a film is historically accurate or not?

@michaelharriot Yep, you've been here before. Only in 2016 you were driving the car that brung yall here. Congratz, You've set everything back another 20 years! Have fun pushing that rock back up the hill.

It's not just the Voting Rights Act. On Friday, the Supreme Court finished the Republican Party's quest to erase every tangible legislative achievement of the civil rights movement But we've been here before. dlvr.it/TSJpsx

@dpheneghan1 @Suzierizzo1 You know I was going to say something making excuses for a random old man's behavior but then I realized I've never had to deal with someones clingy unwanted attentions so what the fuck do I know about his motivations. EVERYONE was telling him to move the fuck along.

@Suzierizzo1 Dude wasn't trying to hit on them, just exchanging pleasantries. And these young ladies have no idea how close they are to the wall, and when they hit the wall, it ain't pretty. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

What is up lately with older men thinking that it’s okay for them to come up and try to hit on girls that are at least half or three times their age.They were telling him they didn’t want to talk to him,but he just wouldn’t take no for an answer and that’s a huge problem!

@Dr_Bekka_UK @Suzierizzo1 When the utter stranger you're trying to talk to tells you to go away it doesn't matter what you're intentions are. You fuckin go away!

@Suzierizzo1 Did he actually mean any harm, or was he simply trying to say hello? I heard him mention that he has daughters or granddaughters of a similar age. To me, it didn't seem as though he was hitting on them, so I would have been polite.

@Todd_Spence TIL: The Hulk is afraid of snakes.

I need you to know there's an INCREDIBLE HULK episode where David Banner tries acid, freaks out, turns into the Hulk, and then beats everyone up while tripping balls 😅👏

@straczynski OMG that poor man. It must be very strange to be trapped in a place with so many people who willingly climb aboard magical cans that soar through the sky.

I wasn't aware this was going on, but I just got an email from Fyodor Dostoyevsky who confirmed this is a really big problem. Also mentioned he's stuck in a Miami airport without funds. Will do what I can to help out.

@tanpukunokami Anytime someone says the word "influencer" my brain automatically substitutes "grifter". So when I hear that a grifter got caught up with a scammer my next thought is "Oh noes, anyway...."

The last money her father sent her paid for nothing. She called him on December 26. She said her leg hurt. She asked for 2,200 yuan to see a doctor. He sent it. That same day, a relative found her photo online. She was sitting on a sidewalk in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Her hair was a mess. Her sunglasses were upside down. She was holding an X-ray of her own body. She could not walk. She was 20 years old. Her name is Umi. She was a Douyin influencer from Fujian, China. She had more than 20,000 followers. She posted videos of tattoos, designer bags, and an expensive life. Eight months earlier, someone told her there was a high-paying job in Cambodia. She went. She lied to her family and told them she was working in another Chinese province. She kept calling home to ask for money. They kept sending it. Over time, they sent her more than 80,000 yuan. The Chinese embassy found her in a hospital on January 3. She tested positive for meth and ketamine. Both of her knees were fractured. Her legs were partly paralyzed — doctors said this happens when someone is locked in one room for too long. She had no clear memory of where she had been kept. Her name is Umi. Most people will stop reading here. This is exactly where the harder conversation should start. Cambodia has a quiet, serious problem that English-language media rarely talks about plainly. The country has become one of the world's biggest centers for human trafficking into online scam operations. The United Nations estimates that at least 100,000 people are trapped inside Cambodian scam compounds. Most were lured in with fake job offers. Most cannot leave. The irony is that the biggest crime groups running these compounds are Chinese. Prince Holding Group, based in Phnom Penh, was sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom in October 2025 for cyber fraud and human trafficking. Its chairman, Chen Zhi, was arrested on January 6, 2026 and extradited to China. U.S. prosecutors also seized $15 billion in Bitcoin from his network — the largest Bitcoin seizure in the history of the Department of Justice. The victims are also, overwhelmingly, Asian. Chinese. Vietnamese. Thai. Filipino. Indonesian. Young people who saw a life on a screen and tried to reach it. Cambodia is not uniquely evil. It is a small country that depends on Chinese investment. Its government has been accused, again and again, of protecting the people who run these compounds. Over the years, an entire criminal economy has grown inside its borders. It now makes an estimated $12 to $19 billion a year. Cambodia's legal GDP is around $47 billion. Some analysts believe the scam industry alone may be worth up to 60 percent of that. On April 3, Umi went live online to tell her story. She spoke in a weak voice. She said someone she knew had tricked her. She said her passport was taken. She said she had been forced into "keyboard work" — the word used inside the compounds for telecom fraud. The stream was cut after 30 minutes. Her account was banned soon after. China has now set a deadline for anyone connected to Chen Zhi to turn themselves in. Thousands of workers are reportedly leaving the compounds. But tens of thousands are still inside. Most have no passport. Most have no country willing to bring them home. Somewhere in Cambodia tonight, another 20-year-old is calling her father. She is asking for money. Her leg hurts. Her name is not Umi. No one will learn it.

@Todd_Spence I'm sorry but his work in this sketch doesn't come close to Phil Hartman's "Fire Bad!"

This is still the greatest SNL sketch Norm MacDonald ever did 😂

@MeidasTouch 'haredended hearts' and 'spirit' hes using biblical language hoping people see him as christlike.

Why does he speak like this

@TychoBrahe Hmmm I think my "cleanse" took about 3 hours tops. The fun part was after they woke me up and I saw I was hooked to a bloodox monitor discovering if I held my breath long enough I could get it to start beeping. The nurse came by and tapped me on the head saying, "stop that."

Mike Krahulik colonoscopy update:

@jeremyhopke Doesn't matter if they're dumb enough to vote for Trump 3x they will vote R down the ticket every time.

@RealJamesWoods Only a true nincompoop can claim that liberals are a problem when the other party controls all three branches of government. Just how much of a helpless pussy are you?

@kangaroobixcube Citation Needed

@mcuban Canada has a single payer system. There are 30X more people who die because of Canadian healthcare than rifles in America. You can take that opinion and shove it right up your ass.

Single payer COULD cut cost and improve care but there are 2 fundamental issues. 1. All plans proposed have placed the Sec of HHS in charge of the program. You can't have a political appointee in that position and it's hard to de-politiicize HC in this country 2. They assume that they can get providers and specialists to accept whatever rates they set. You are talking about organizations that in most cases, don't even know their costs. Why ? They don't want to know their costs. For lots of reasons to long to dig into here Proponents of M4A have to first get hospitals to the point where they can define all their costs and do a Bill of Materials for procedures. You can't negotiate a price for all Americans if you don't know what your costs are It's Shark Tank 101. So we get a stalemate. Politicians don't do the work needed. Hospitals and providers avoid the work needed Other countries started on their path to universal care decades and decades ago. When healthcare was much simpler technically and fiscally. If senators won't support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill or anything comparable , there is no chance of getting to single payer. Our politicians don't have the backbone to do what is needed. You can call out all but Hawley and warren. No one else has uttered a syllable in support

@TychoBrahe Obviously the gun was defective, his fingers were nowhere NEAR the trigger. 😀 Lucky he didn't shoot himself in the foot.

I feel like there's a lot going on here

@ConanOBrien When they loaded him onto the chute (paper shredder sounds)

An honor to be reunited with my mentor, Jim Downey.

@spotted_model LOL. You got your jollies. Now quit trying to drag school kids into your humiliation fetish.

Local high school track team boys yelling gesturing and thumbs downing the Cybertruck yesterday as wife was driving. Call the school or nah?