Nicole

Nobody cares.

[Nicole @theblackdot]

Dear Santa:

[Nicole @theblackdot]

life lesson #2:

[Jon Gabriel @exjon]

Never, and I mean never, take yourself too seriously.

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

The British every time they get a new Prime Minister

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

I went to a prestigious prep school (Choate).

By default, I know way too many people who slid into the USAID grifter circuit.

It’s way worse than you think: nauseating buzzword-filled circle-jerks on Zoom calls, business-class conferences in Zurich, private champagne dinners, and endless layers of outsourcing (each one taking their fat cut) - all on unlimited expense accounts.

Saying 90% of the “aid” disappears into admin, overhead, and fraud is a gross understatement.

And for what?

So these con artists can LARP as humanitarian saviors, feign respectability, and send their kids to private school…

…all on the backs of hardworking American taxpayers.

It's a lifestyle racket. A facade.

And the worst part is that we're all expected to hold these people in high regard.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Here's what @DOGE found the USAID money was being spent on:

• $4.8 million to Ukraine’s public affairs office in Kyiv to fund social media influencers.
• $2.1 million to Paraguay to “enhance” their border security.
• Ukrainian women-led designers to fly to the Paris Fashion Show.
• $2 million on transgender surgeries, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming care in Guatemala.
• $3 million to promote “girl-centric climate action” in Brazil.
• $25,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.
• $32,000 in Peru for a comic book featuring a “Trans hero” to tackle social and mental health issues.
• $20,000 for a DEI-promoting drag theater show in Ecuador.
• $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq.
• $6 million to boost “sustainable tourism” in Egypt—plus $50 million for Tunisia’s tourism.
• $87.9 million to help Afghans “farm”—which just happened to include poppy fields.
• $70,000 for a live musical event promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Ireland.
• Over $54 million funneled to EcoHealth Alliance—the group linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the likely origins of COVID.
• $15 million to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for oral contraceptives and condoms.

[WWG1WGA 🇺🇸♥️ @WWG1WGA301]

He. Is. HILARIOUS.

REPORTER: Will you take part in the FIFA events?

TRUMP: "I may PLAY. I see the money these players make. I am a very good athlete...I may put on shorts. I look EXTREMELY good in shorts."

😂😂

[Nicole @theblackdot]

KEEP THE KING'S NAME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH BITX

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

You must have liked it when Clarence Thomas called being questioned about allegations of sexual harassment a "high tech lynching." Literally the same logic.

[Nicole @theblackdot]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KING

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🔥 Clarence Thomas just turned 78 years old today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the GREATEST Supreme Court Justice of all time!

Clarence is also now the second-longest serving SCOTUS justice in American history.

This man EMBODIES what it means to be a patriot on the bench, fighting for America 🇺🇸

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

Clean solar brought to you by Gavin Newsom as far as the I can see…

For the sake of this post, Gavin Newsom would appreciate if you ignore the toxic black cloud emanating from burning solar panels currently blanketing Los Angeles.

[A.🪬 @AlchemicCowgirl]

Putting all my eggs in one basket and that basket is California

[Nicole @theblackdot]

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[pine_tree_riots @pine_tree_riots]

lmao. enjoy, your 50-100 years in prison antifas!

federalist society judges coming through so far with sentencing on the antifas that tried to shoot up the ICE facility in texas

[Mint Chip @CMayerHQ]

Just your typical SF coffee shop

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

Chicago: 39 shot and 6 dead over the weekend.

Legacy media: algae algae algae

[WhatDidYouSay @NoFilterMeSorry]

Fake has become so normal that people get offended by honesty.

[Nicole @theblackdot]

@walnutjazz Gm 🌺🌻

[Tony Aubé @aubetony]

After a hellish week in a Paris Airbnb with no AC (100°F outside, 108°F+ inside), I started looking into why the French are so opposed to AC.
There's many reasons: bureaucracy, poverty, etc. But the main one is decades of environmental campaigns that convinced people AC is the devil.
The result? You can't escape the heat. Most buses, metro lines, and shopping malls have no AC.
This Monday, 850 schools are closing because classroom temperatures exceed 104°F.
In Nantes, they built a brand-new train station and a hospital without AC for environmental reasons. The station is now partially closed because it's become a "furnace" that endangers travelers. Hospitals are covering windows with emergency foil blankets to protect patients.
The French demonize air conditioning because it creates carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Never mind that France already has one of most carbon-free electricity in the world thanks to nuclear, or that it accounts for less than 1% of global emissions.
They also oppose AC because it "just displace the problem" by dumping heat into the street. Never mind that studies suggest even if an entire city were air-conditioned, the increase in outdoor temperature would be at most about 1°F.
Instead, people are willing to endure 104°F+ indoors to avoid a marginal increase outdoors.
This ideology kills more people than firearms in the United States.
Across Europe, between 50,000 and 70,000 people die from heat every year, mostly the elderly and the poor. Compare that to roughly 44,000 Americans killed by firearms.
For comparison, despite having a similar population, deserts, and more extreme temperatures, the United States has only about 2,500 heat-related deaths per year thanks to widespread AC.
That's what bothers me most. The moralizing posture completely detached from reality.
People feel morally superior for "not polluting." They criticize America and its guns while tolerating policies that kills even more people.
I share this anecdote because I know it's shocking to Americans. Here, schools or hospitals reaching 104°F would be unnaceptable.
The absurdity is immediately obvious to us because we're looking from the outside. We see the gap between moral intentions and real-world consequences.
But we're no different. In America, we have dozens of similar issues where we're just as irrational, and we've become blind to them because the solution isn't politically acceptable.
How do can we bring back logic and pragmatism in our societies ahead of irrational political ideological ?

[cat @a_musingcat]

i’m in the water now . driftwood

[James Laverty @jjlavs2]

An absolute banger for the ball knowers out there

[Nicole @theblackdot]

well, to be fair, if they're not on social media until 16 then probably they won't be needing puberty blockers until 17....

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Age 11 - feel free to block puberty.

But whatever you do, don’t go on social media until you are 16.

We have lost our bloody minds. 🤯😵‍💫

[Kaguya’s Top Gal @hayasaka_aryan]

“Phew, I managed to escape from that incel mass shooter”

The female cop outside the building:

[The Drunk Republican @DrunkRepub]

“You know about the rape gangs, you just don't want to stop the rape gangs. And that's really the most important part of the rape gangs: the stopping. Everybody knows about 'em.”