surely you’re joking, mr finan!

songwriter and comedian, former gravedigger

[Chase Mitchell @ChaseMit]

“Would any of you like an alcohol beer or perhaps a frankfurter”

[NKY Lefty @NKY_Leftist]

We have to share a country with people who think this is cool.

[surely you’re joking, mr finan! @financountdown]

appreciated The Odyssey re-contextualizing the myth of the Trojan Horse as less a feat of legendary military strategy and more so kind of a cowardly trick

[White Fellas For Kamala 2026 @BeigeFrequency]

As soon "AI artists" were able to vaguely flesh out their ideas, it became obvious why none of them had engaged with the creative process until they could to tell a computer to make something.

[Ben Lorber @BenLorber8]

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that Mamdani’s pro-Israel critics are correct today— that when the mayor of NYC used his large platform to call Netanyahu a war criminal and urge his arrest, it helped inspire a mentally ill person to stab a Jew on the streets of Manhattan /

[Future Adam Curtis B-Roll @adamcurtisbroll]

Ben Shapiro addresses the death of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham before transitioning into a sponsor advertisement for ZipRecruiter, July 2026.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Intl, B'Tselem, MSF, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, the Intl Association of Genocide Scholars—all determined Gaza a genocide. It’s virtual consensus in the humanitarian world. But the plan is to just keep talking about it likes a fringe position

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

President Biden made a massive moral, strategic and political error backing Israel's genocide in Gaza.

President Trump made a massive moral, strategic and political error launching war on Iran with Israel.

The difference is Trump may have figured out he needs to reverse course.

Had Biden done so, we likely wouldn't be talking about a President Trump today.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

I can’t think of a decision more vindicated by history than protesting the pending genocide that everyone with the most basic knowledge of Gaza and Israel knew was coming on Oct 8 2023

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Why is it controversial for Zohran to skip a parade bc of his principles but not for Democratic politicians to march with a fascist bigot like Smotrich?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

What a remarkable tweet.

The IDF invaded & occupied Lebanon & is currently targeting & killing thousands of civilians, especially medical & rescue workers (many during a ‘ceasefire’)— while it uses a civilian object — a house of Christian worship no less — as a human shield after having forcibly displaced more than a million Lebanese people.

But it’s the guy who opened fire at the murderous occupying army using a civilian shield who is apparently the terrorist.

Amit Segal’s analysis is so self-evidently absurd it does not even require a rebuttal, only a clarification.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

"acknowledging the existence of Palestinians hurts my feelings and is a form of racism" is an insane belief! it's deluded and racist and solipsistic! Why does anyone have to take these lunatics seriously!

[surely you’re joking, mr finan! @financountdown]

@billmaher

[Giancarlo Sopo @GiancarloSopo]

There’s nothing edgy or remotely interesting about this. It’s well known that the photo was staged. It’s listed that way in the Library of Congress and in Rosa Parks’ own autobiography.

That civil rights leaders “told her to create a situation where she’d be arrested” is a fabrication. It also overlooks the larger moral truth of what was happening at the time: a regime of state-enforced racial humiliation that a woman of conscience refused to obey.

An intellectual coward’s idea of an exposé. No different from the Churchill or WWII revisionism — a kernel of a fact, load-bearing lie, packaged as “we’ve been lied to about everything.” Everyone associated with this should be embarrassed.

[Frog 🔻 @ColdEmpanadas]

uhhhh you see, the scramble for africa was an anti-colonial project , because the europeans were returning to their ancestral home from 50,000 years ago

[☭ombradS☘️evens @comBradStevens]

Newton, MA

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

My gosh, this is stunning. The Atlantic has run 5 articles in the past *2 weeks* on Hasan Piker, versus … this in the past *31 months*: