I long for the time (yesterday) when I didn't get this joke

A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.

Clearly not enough people watched the German scifi horror series Cassandra cause they came home from work and their wife was watching it and they got sucked in and learned what happens when a scientist tries to imbue a computer with his wife's consciousness

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Substack should be the name of a domme's polycule, not a newsletter platform.

Why aren't all Dems just showing up & declaring the session open, voting on shit, swearing in who needs to be sworn in, that's how government works now! You just say something unconstitutional is constitutional, something illegal is legal. If all Dems 👍 a bill, say it passed unanimously!

Natl involvement is fucking everything up, Bernie threw his whole weight behind Platner like 5mins into his run & ME thought omg he's The One, & now w/o him think Mills is a foregone conclusion w/Schumer help. When a phony lovebombs you for a month you drop him & move on! Let the primary play out!

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Hey what happens when somebody barfs in a Waymo

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Turns out it took schadenfreude to finally motivate me to subscribe😎

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

@senangusking.bsky.social @pingree.house.gov @golden.house.gov will you instruct local law enforcement to protect Maine residents from ICE violating our constitutional rights & committing assault & kidnapping? They're escalating violence against civilians, we need elected officials' dramatic action.

I stg if any WNBA players get raptured tomorrow I'm gonna lose it

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority. It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

Wild seeing Adolescence - a show about how every adult in a meme-radicalized killer's orbit is oblivious to the radicalizing material, as news media hasn't taken an interest - win every Emmy tonight just as news media has proven oblivious to the meme-radicalization of a far right assassin

By only ever printing one side of the story, the New York Times has created the cultural conditions where "everyone knows" there are problems with trans care. What problems? Anyone being more specific has to lie, because none have actually been documented outside of normal US medical system bs.

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

It's hard to tamp down on cynicism and be unabashedly excited about a candidate for national office, but Graham's seemingly got the goods for real, beautifully profiled by @anamariecox.bsky.social

It’s crazy that all this fascism is happening in a country that brought over every high-ranking Nazi that didn’t die in WWII & gave them free houses and lucrative government jobs

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

It really is just like 2003 again except now I’m older, my back hurts, and I have way, way less hope that things will ever get better.

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

I got mad and I wrote about it.

I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.

“This is a chilling statement. Even if it were a joke, it was clearly designed to make the public afraid to exercise its First Amendment rights to protest and to hold government officials, including LAPD officers, accountable for their actions.”

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

I don't wanna know what a LLM would spit out if asked what "gishgallop" is

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

“Bustin’ makes me feel good”

Hey guys I'm headed to Target for one of those adorable signs that says something like "families are like fudge, mostly sweet with a few nuts!"

Omg right!? Like obviously much better to keep not even attempting to use any constitutionally appointed checks on a president who's taken the U.S. from borderline-oligarchy-but-still-ostensibly-democratic to concentration camps in under 100 days

Listening to Backstreet Boys As Long As You Love Me, I remarked to my wife that "don't care what you did" is kind of cryptic and she goes, completely earnest, "he means anal"

Not tamping down on fascist uprisings when they're still small and can be extinguished, and instead waiting for when it's an out of control systemic infection, really comports with our collective rejection of public health/germ theory

Finally watching Babygirl cause it showed up on Max but I won't pay for ad-free so every 5 mins there's a commercial and they're all for milk🥴

Not a day goes by I don't wish I could go back to when my former shrink said I couldn't call Elon Musk an idiot and scream back LIKE HELL I CAN'T instead of being so stunned I muttered some bullshit about the emerald mine and then paid her like normal for 2 more months

WATCH THIS IMMEDIATELY

The issue of calling things what we all understand them to be (Nazis, concentration camps, etc) came up at tonight's town hall with my excellent Rep @chelliepingree.bsky.social so just posting this as reinforcement that it's actually appropriate & crucial to be accurate & not euphemistic

For real why hasn't it happened yet, it has to

In last night's CNN town hall with Bernie Sanders, Anderson kept pronouncing tariffs "terroriffs" which is so exactly right

you know the us economy isn't looking good when the right wing talking points shift to transgender sports and it's not even a normal sport, it's fencing. like yeah if you hear about transgender ping pong start taking your money out of the bank

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal