Find yourself someone who loves you as much as WaPo loves fascists

I find the problem with posting a sample from a piece like this is if people just read that and they don't read the full piece they'll comment on the sample and not the piece and it becomes yet another instance of the internet's infinite capacity to create false realities via its plentiful topsoil.

Just in case you wonder if the president is in decline.

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

In a stealth upset, Democrat Eric Gisler flips a GOP-held Georgia House seat spanning parts of Athens and Oconee County. Gisler won 39% of vote last November. He captured 51% tonight to defeat a Republican backed by Gov. Brian Kemp and other GOP leaders.

I knew there was some kind of method!

Brains aren't sausage casings, where an exact recipe needs to get stuffed in and then the product sold on the open market. We are more than our careers, our jobs, our adolescent selves. Stuff your brains with everything you can.

A fascinating short exploration that ends in a really interesting place.

Another interesting rabbit hole.

There is, in fact, ample evidence that Trump has a clearer understanding of string theory.

"Nice punch, sir."

The university bought Claude AI for students to use. Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished. Great stuff, academia.

I think they should have gone home in February or March, but sure, today's fine.

Alina Habba is in her feelings this morning after being let go

A rabbit hole is sometimes a glorious thing.

I'm all for "court packing bad" as an argument. And it's also reality that the current makeup of the US Supreme Court is a clear and present danger to the American experiment. So, because democracy is more important than anything, I think change is in order.

Survivor story to listen to today.

Since day one, Western reporting overestimates Ru's strength and underestimates Ukraine, subtly legitimizes Ru's aggression by repeating various Ru pretexts for the war, and overwhelmingly pities Ukraine, subtly creating the impression that their loss is a foregone conclusion.

This is my surprised face. I hope some part of every Russia hawk in Congress is on fire now.

For a doctrinal jurist, it is the LATER understanding/practice which prevails over the earlier

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

Agree 💯 With Mr. Olbermann.....

The U.S. adopting or promoting a ridiculously narrow interpretation of “shipwrecked” under LOAC in order to murder people at sea could have some really ugly consequences well beyond this boat bombing scheme.

Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯

It really is nearly perfect. True perfection would require a sense of irony.

"Say it!" "No!" "Say it, Hans." "My name's not Hans!" "I WILL drop you." “Fine, okay, you win!” “I need to hear you say it.” "Die Hard is a Christmas movie!"

Drag him.

Another one heard from. A hundred of these guys are worth less than one MacKenzie Scott.

Okay, so here's what I wonder: were people like Lonsdale always worthless blights or did they achieve it with some sort of pick three of entitlement, shallow attainment, drugs, fr agile masculinity, rank stupidity, or the brain poison of finding a really noxious tribe of similar folks.

Having all of the worst people in charge of everything is really goddamn draining

If we could just keep pointing this out,it would be great. Also the batshittery of murdering people for something the government can't be bothered to prove while pardoning a large scale narco trafficker.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

The childish cruelty of these people often astonishes me. It costs you nothing to use Admiral Levine's name of choice and acknowledge her transition.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Reagan National Defense Survey, released Thursday, found that 64% of Americans favor sending lethal aid to support Kyiv’s government, up 9% points from last year and the highest proportion since February 2022, - NYP

There is no legitimate reason not to release the complete Sep. 2 video. They released video of the first strike. What national security justification could there be for releasing video of the first part of the action but not the second? They wanted to cover up what happened after the first strike.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

This really can't be said often enough. Government services aren't meant to be profit centers and I'm not sure why that's controversial when it comes to the USPS.

A “Dressbarn” in Muncie, Indiana had been named the inaugural winner of the FIFA “Most Super Glamorous Parisian Haute Couture” award.

Drip Drip Drip

Attorney Siri makes the utterly disingenuous statement that the scientific community hasn’t studied whether vaccines “don’t cause” autism. You can’t prove a negative using the scientific method. He’s been told this many times.

The advantage of talking to people who have been lied to for a generation is that you don't even have to make your lies plausible. Also helps to demonize the opposition.

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

The government has asked for the grand jury materials to be released as part of the law requiring the Epstein files to be made public.

GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It is an abiding joy that my father, born during the Depression, was a blue collar liberal who thought racism was a cancer and rolled his eyes and said "I'll talk to him" when he heard one of his children was thinking of voting for Trump in 2016. He had issues, but joining a cult wasn't one of 'em.

This'll be in 2028 ads

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"