this is incredible lmao jfc www.instagram.com/reel/DaQCjQ5...

Democrats fighting leftists/ Democrats fighting Republicans

Read the damn room, Mr. Met.

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

This is the mood in Maine today

1) Someone really needs to push back on this idea of 1st Amendment zones. I haven't taught polisci 101 in 20 years, but last time I checked the entire US was a 1st Amendment zone. 2) What's the point of having 1st Amendment zones if you're just going to have police rampage through them?

i understand all the legislative practicalities but honestly the biggest obstacle to democratic presidents doing stuff has been the democratic party. you can gnash teeth all you want but trump has shown us how much the dems just refused to do when they had power. and we should never accept it again

If you paid money for a Bored Ape NFT you should be legally prohibited from publicly giving your opinions about technology. I realize that violates the First Amendment, but we can repeal this rule once we fix all the other unconstitutional shit that's happening.

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

When I’m too drunk to remember the word “ravioli.”

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

Op-Ed writers this week

This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.

money, next question

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

we say it a lot but Dems absolutely have to demand impeachment, resignation, or a 25th amendment removal every day. Every HOUR of every day You cannot let someone who talks like this have the nuclear codes until the next election and then just kinda hope the electorate does your job for you

We just did a little Passover seder with mostly experienced players but a couple newbies who had never been to one before and the wife kept saying "dayanus" and like REALLY enunciating and it was the best thing that's ever happened to me

Absolutely lost my mind laughing at this one

When it comes to writing, the process is the purpose. You don’t have to always like or enjoy the process, but if you don’t respect it enough to do it yourself, there is no purpose. AI will never fill that void. www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-t...

Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”

Ok but the upshot is I was volunteering with my usual group of septuagenarians and AI came up so I told this anecdote and then had the immense pleasure of teaching them what down to clown means

Today is the one year anniversary of DOGE's raid on the US Institute of Peace. DC Metropolitan police literally broke open doors at the institute's privately-owned building to let Trump officials bully their way in. Read about my lawsuit to retrieve the body camera footage, and what it revealed:

Everybody who liked OBAA says something like "they really did something with that that I've never seen before!" Ok WHAT. What did they do. I watched a movie that held my attention & had great acting but I truly couldn't tell you what it was about or why anybody did anything (except Sean Penn).

Kakistocracy-ass haircuts

imagine this is how we find out UFOs are real

Extremely good/existentially terrifying wheeeeeee!!

We really need to know how it came to be that @sanders.senate.gov came to throw his full weight and reputation behind Platner like 5 minutes after the guy announced his senate run

How many of these guys have polymarket bets on Jesus coming back

I brought my copy of @theonion.com to work so my clients could enjoy and one was shaking so hard with laughter it probably took an extra ten minutes to apply her color, what a gift

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

It's genuinely kind of funny that people were mad about Bad Bunny not singing in English when the first song Kid Rock played begins as so: Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy / Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie / Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy / Said the boogie, sai

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

Definitely wasn't gonna watch the game but then my wife said we gotta to see lots of men cry, so I'm all in

Apart from this being nuts, practically speaking if you're gambling real money on Jesus showing up how is that getting proven one way or another and whose call is it?

PSA: at the back of the store, the real flu shot is free. getmyflushot.org

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

NEW: Until recently, two Minneapolis women have heading out each day on a simple mission: to find and mock Border Patrol field leader Greg Bovino. I talked to one of them and wrote about the strengths and limits of mocking these dripless malevolent losers: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The release of the Epstein Files really lays bare the evils of (among other things) networking.

You're gonna disagree with some moots about all the shit going on. Some people cope with the stress through optimism and some wish Chuck Schumer to be flung into the Potomac. Try not to be too dickish to people you largely agree with and focus your anger on America's real villain, Michael Rapaport