Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

It's hiring a rapist. You need to apologize for that.

i love her make her president

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

They should do that Jubilee show with the Pope. Like "1 Pope vs 20 Conservatives Catholics Who Just Converted."

I have never been so jealous.

dave chapelle can make trans jokes when trans people have bathrooms and jobs and healthcare and normal life expectancies for several decades. so when dave is like 700 if we start tomorrow. that’s my proposal.

When I was in high school, Sister Rita taught theology to seniors. She taught budgeting and practical skills in addition to religious stuff in that class because she was in charge of her House and they helped unhoused folks and she knew how easy it was to end up on the streets. 1/2

"Sweetie, you're wasting your gum." -The Birdcage

“it just assissts you in becoming less capable as a human. They brag about being useless without a computer holding their hands.” YES

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

why are people arguing about bluesky this morning? it’s a rainy day. you could be out there getting drenched and falling ill

what if we made the entire military out of low-rent fox news grievances

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

I just want to point out, politely, that there are other colleges apart from Ivy League institutions. They are where most college students go. They are where, believe it or not, America's massive comparative advantage in higher education exist. You would never know this if you read the Times.

hey here’s an idea, what if you got rid of the fucking guns

okay unfortunately eva had some setbacks in the “jaw reconstruction” department and if you can chip in i would personally appreciate it

JUST TELL ME THE FUCKING POST OFFICE HOURS JESUS CHRIST

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

He committed a crime. Vox tells us what words he used in commission of his crime.

The US, evergreen: there's no problem! We don't need to change what we are doing. It'll be FINE.

a book for them to check out, one of many one could read to learn more about stuff

promise???

I want someone who thinks the US is a truly god-blessed, Exceptional ™ "city on the hill" to explain this fucking phenomenon to me.

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

Everyone In Conversation Under Different Impression As To Which Horrific News Being Discussed https://theonion.com/everyone-in-conversation-under-different-impression-as-to-which-horrific-news-being-discussed/

when marginalized groups say “boy i wish the dems would put up an actual fight for us”, a bunch of people always respond like this:

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

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

my favorite genre of international dialogue

I love my country of Philadelphia

Spotted on Tumblr…

So I'm an OG Frost fan, but also I don't want Curl to win, and also my kid's favorite player is on Ottawa now (Cava), so yay all-Canada final and also CHARGE!!!!!!!! Also that Pou game winner was *beautiful*. #PWHL

student: I'm so over dating me: yeah, but what are you gonna do student: I'm thinking arson

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

there is already enough sadness in the world, why do we need IPAs

Phillies win!!

wife: I need you to not get obsessed with this sprinkler project like you do with things me: rot why would I get obsessed do you think watering the plants is a passion for me lol *3 days later* wife: what are you doing me: researching the history of irrigation WHAT I CAN'T HAVE HOBBIES NOW HUH

The Flyers got swept, finishing their season with an overtime loss at home, and yet the crowd still keeps chanting LET'S GO FLYERS for a team which over-delivered and remains on the rise. They're skating off to cheers. And yet nothing will dissipate the national reputation Philly sports fans have.

A wonderful sentence from this story, describing the video of the man who threw a rock at a seal for no reason getting beat up by a local: "Meanwhile, an unidentified gentleman begins wailing on him."

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

This is why it is so good that Itty Bitty Gritty has costumes. Easy to customize. I hope they also gave her Santa. And the belly button pack.

So. The most important thing is that they eliminated the Penguins.