Since the sestercentennial is so rancid and trumpy, maybe we should plan to have a big party in 20 years to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Washington leaving office.

"And, oh, how they danced The little children of Stonehenge"

A lot of discourse since Tuesday hinges on idea that some politicians are owed a seat, it’s their turn & it’s problematic to not back them. & that’s so odd to me — because not only you have to wait for 88-year olds to deign to retire, but then there’s someone else waiting who’s owed & you can’t run?

Technically, they’re Remains now.

I'm 70 years old and had to wear a knee brace to protest this year. They can fuck right off with that centrist shit.

I've always been pretty liberal but I am sick of people who are afraid to do anything except run for reelection. If the GOP can just come in and start doing stuff, I want that from a government that, you know, would do that but to help people.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

Popehat has zero fucks to give, and Bluesky is a more tepid, bland, consent-in-advance place without him. www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-t...

My long-standing theory that Democrats absolutely abhor the very idea of there being primaries and the possibility of any of their friends losing their job has not exactly been weakened by the former chair of the DNC going on social media to literally say this

It is really fascinating to me seeing machine folks take the insider talk to the outside this way. Voters don't like hearing that they aren't supposed to decide, that candidates should wait their turn and kiss the ring and secure senior officials' blessing before making their case to the electorate

Future former-congressman is mad?

American law professors who continue to rail against birthright citizenship.

That was the worst part. The absolute gratuitousness of it all. No scale down, no warnings, just “fuck you, fend while supplies that could help you survive maybe a little longer rot behind padlocked doors and chain link fences. You’re not real people anyway.”

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

The fact that I can see bald eagles flying in the distance over the river every morning, knowing there were fewer than 1,000 in the wild in the entire country the year my mom was born, is a nice concrete reminder that we can choose dramatic action to change the course of the future.

Love that we have a regular schedule of pronouncements from the evil wizards who rule our lives.

The crazy thing is that for most of my life I would go ten, fifteen, sometimes even thirty minutes at a time without thinking about the Reflecting Pool.

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

Every time I encounter 'AI' in my everyday life, it is actively making an experience much worse.

Tired: Elevated Horror Wired: Elevated Slop

theres a very specific reason at play beyond bigotry too which is that if you constantly place the blame for cocking up he country on the one demographic that had basically no say in any of it, you thereby exonerate your main audience of rancid walruses that signed up to be told theyre blameless

I was going to joke it would come to this, but here we are. Nothing too absurd for this administration.

“Disabling the AI is like a puzzle game hidden inside a Möbius strip tucked in a dead snail.”

Let's go USMNT

Because the people in this government are gleefully malevolent you naturally assume they are more evil than stupid but they're stupid first. They think everyone who came before, everyone who built the world they've benefited from, was dumb. People like Musk and Trump both have this idiot's disease

I am searching searching searching for the words to express how absolutely soul-destroying it is that men who think themselves gods are tearing apart the fabric of hundreds of years of scientific knowledge and putting the people of the United States in such danger. WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

Billy Bush being the only one to face any consequences for the Access Hollywood tape is like some Oracle of Delphi thing "If you brag about groping women, you'll derail a Republican's career.'

"You wouldn't hit a guy wearing all the glasses, would you?"

i challenge you to match my hater energy!!!!!!!!! HATE HARDER

I love this. Unmute.

This is not a joke

The true risk is: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that *can't* do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot." 17/

Oh hey, it's that thing everyone said would happen

“[W]ithout accountability and concerted de-Trumpification, his Democratic successors will struggle to explain why “normal” hasn’t returned, and the public will turn on them.” - @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

Holy shit. The government is conceding it willl pay some amount of fees to the Broadview Six. They are DESPERATE to stop further inquiry into the case. Never heard of such a thing.

This is just good material

I don't think we should be listening to Katie Britt on the eve of the United v States' 250th birthday. Let's hear from Katie American.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Born too late for the HPV vaccine Born too soon for the Shingles vaccine

Trump appeared at the Libertarian National Convention in 2024 in front of a sign that said this, it was the convention's theme

gay pride transforming into gay wrath

So what happened to the Iran player who just took a header and collapsed? He was getting checked out, and then the TV showed replays and talked about everything other than that guy. Did they take him out? Is he okay? WTF?