this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

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treason! vile treason!! defector.com/numbers-guy-...

I of course love Odysseus but that's not because I think he's some classical noble hero, it's because I love an "aaaah, this fucking guy again" kind of guy. Every time this motherfucker shows up something is gonna happen. You're gonna be *involved* in something.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Parenti doing long form version of “if I feed the poor I’m a hero; if I ask why they are starving im a communist”

I’m sorry but the Dems need to run on putting everyone from this administration and bureaucrats who enabled them in prison.

A few years ago, I reported a story about Tim Pool’s now-defunct news site plagiarizing the Post, AP, etc I also learned that in conservative media—and to a lesser degree, mainstream outlets—lazy aggregation was rampant. So many sites do just enough tweaking to dodge a plagiarism charge. It’s bad

the trope in the Washington political/media mindset - that everything Trumpists believe must represent the true spirit of Real America and only liberal elites in a bubble feel differently, which gives Trumpist positions a moral superiority - makes its adherents stupid

The saddest place in America is wherever the Washington Post films this podcast:

Really good blog

during his first week as an intern, he asked me if he could expense boat shoes because he had been assigned to cover some sort of sailing event. I have been laughing about this for... 19 years.

William Friedkin's Steel Magnolias

giving the "good blog" to this good blog not only because it is a good blog, but more importantly because it includes at least one properly deployed en dash www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...

i told them not to have a birthday cake eating contest at halftime, but did the San Antonio Spurs listen? did they heed? of course not. and now we see the wages of hubris

watching one Robert Altman movie all way through without their phone would send these people into a full-on dissociative coma

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holy smokes www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

i love this blog defector.com/nathaniel-bu...

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

i’ll own up to being a categorical hater of AI. i think the effort to create it is appalling and reprehensible and i want to see it defeated. i don’t give a fuck if it’s good at some stuff, and i regard giving a fuck about that as clown shit

good blog defector.com/pastor-clari...

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

literally every player in OKC’s rotation would start for the Lakers. the only available Laker who would crack OKC’s rotation is 41 years old

ATHENA: man, Odysseus, you *ever* tell the truth? ODYSSEUS: *rubbing back of neck, averting eyes* HAHA, well ATHENA: no, I like it, no notes

depicting Odysseus as a grimly determined "not even the gods will stop me" Man of Iron Will guy is the dumbest and most disappointing choice you could make in adapting that story. and so it is no surprise that it's the choice Christopher Nolan made

YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY

You should never be the most sycophantic participant in a conversation with a chatbot: defector.com/you-should-n...

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This is a common misconception, but in US political jargon, “hindsight is 20/20“ means “leftists predicted this outcome at the time, but I find them personally annoying so I didn’t listen, and it’s actually their fault that I didn’t listen”. see also: climate change, every war ever, etc

wow, to think, if you spend dozens of billions of dollars and evaporate a watershed, you too can have a search engine that requires 1400 words of prelude and warning before you can trust it to answer the question "when will The Odyssey be available for streaming"

Really sums up a favorite right wing grievance: what's offensive here aren't my actions, but your accurate descriptions of them

do think one of the big problems of the era is that a lot of mainstream politicians have forgotten that you just can't convince everyone; the point of successful electoral politics is to convince the people you can convince and to *defeat the rest*

when you for sure know what "working class" means

hi, i'll field this one. he believes he can launder his image through the New York Times, because they continually let him do it, when they're not doing it on his behalf

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

people who hated shaq used to shittalk about him just being fat and dunking, but peak shaq was a force of nature

Somehow a professional sports front office is poaching from @defector.com's business team, so I need to hire a new Director of Revenue. Apply here: apply.workable.com/defector-med...

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

joel embiid made me think about shaq, so i wrote about shaq defector.com/theres-never...

I haven’t given any $ to a Democratic campaign in years. Haven’t felt they’d know what to do with it. I could however see giving to candidates who explicitly map out how they’d destroy the Supreme Court.

visiting infowars dot com for the first time in my life to enjoy this

more like Atlolnta Lmaowks tbh

i was lined up behind a guy at an airport last week and not only did he have bluesky open, he was following a bunch of people i follow, and i whispered this to my wife and she said "say hi, maybe he knows you", and i whispered back "i would rather die"

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How can I resolve conflicts between my younger kid and his older brother? defector.com/how-can-i-re...

it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

hello pals, for our parenting advice column i went long on what to do, or anyway how to think, about your younger son complaining about the older one defector.com/how-can-i-re...