I believe that a working-class-coded progressive white dude with no problematic tattoos and who also is not a rapist both exists and could make a great senate candidate. But just to be safe, maybe we shouldn't let men run at all. shootmenintospace.com

I've genuinely lost count of the number of times Dallas Woodlouse has proven to be NCGOP's biggest loser. Yet they keep resurrecting him over and over, and every time it's a bigger fuckup.

Say what now? Resurgence of transnat… HUH?!? Marco. Buddy. Put away that fancy dab rig. No more butters or waxes or concentrates of any kind for you. Until further notice you’ll get regs/mids/brick from a one-hitter ONLY. (The metal one, painted to look like a cig.) One (1) gummy at bedtime.

Well that’s probably not TERRIBLY TERRIBLY BAD or anything, is it?

The first sweet/innocent pre-pubescent crushes I recall (~8-9yrs): Kate Jackson - ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Erin Grey - ‘Buck Rogers’ Belinda Carlisle - this video I recall my mom chuckling that Jackson’s ‘Sabrina’ was the Angel for me (perhaps due to the huge popularity of Farrah Fawcett back then?).

𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗥𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 [via @npr.org] 🧪🛂📜📜❌🤡❌ "Choose extra pages. The State Department says the 250th commemorative passport is only available in the standard, 28-page book." www.npr.org/2026/07/08/g... #US #passport #defilement #avoidance

This PAINTED MAN-HUSSY has the most powerful (and expensive) information gathering apparatus in the entire history of the known universe waiting to respond at the touch of a button on the phone at his desk. And not only refuses to consume their daily work product… …but prefers fake/AI images.

chillax y’all bruv’s just gonna grab one o’ them, oh whaddya call ’em? …REHEARINGS yeah gonna get him a rehearing (first one in 60ish years — with an overturn history of ONCE) no biggie

“AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!” ** **Trump Gold/Platinum Cards and/or Deluxe Citizenship Package w/ VIP Birthing Suite bookings at Mar-A-Lago (min. 60 nights) are NOT included. These do not qualify as ‘sales’ but ‘emoluments’ and are thus protected under 603 U.S. 593, Trump v. United States

Yep. YEP. Yepper!

A little bit of background folks may not be aware of: this is kinda Partridge’s second act. He used to dress like the image below, was dogged by plagiarism scandals, has published public explanations bc of questions around his theological training (next skeet), etc. religionnews.com/2020/01/07/d...

Anyone out there use an iPad MINI for reading pdfs/epubs or have ANY related thoughts/opinions about iPad *screen sizes* specifically for document reading?

Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking' about! (Though, I'm all for circuit-breaker provisions which exempt those in real danger of being unable to pay, which includes *some* seniors, that's not at all what this proposal to "freeze tax rates for <insert swath of voters>" is about.)

Love this guy. I lerf him. I loave him. @tlecaque.bsky.social is the opposite of every wishy-washy “but critics say” waffler on this app. My bruv tells you what HE says. And I’m 100% here for it.

Breaking news: 🚨The NC Auditor's elections liaison, Dallas Woodhouse, has been reassigned and will no longer be working on elections. This comes after weeks of pressure from advocates and the public in response to meddling by the State Auditor's office in local election plans: bit.ly/3SHa8ls

I feel like the hilariously untethered lies told by every previous generation of politician… …well, didn’t they used to have more *there* there? Some X factor that wasn’t exactly pride or self-respect, but also wasn’t exactly *not* those things?

All of this, but also please remember that Laura Ingalls Wilder was edited by her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who is regarded as one of the three mothers of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's besties, and the books have been shaped to reflect her ideology.

“…the elections liaison positions [sic] has been discontinued.”

Dallas Woodhouse being forced out in a controversy involving intense partisanship comes as a huge surprise to anyone who knows nothing about Dallas Woodhouse www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

“every state constitution is way easier to amend” Yep. In Nov, the people of NC are more likely than not to amend our constitution to say: • “Farming? It’s COOL AF” • NC’s anti-labor laws in effect since 1947 = also cool • the Assembly SHALL ENACT some damn laws about property tax (unspecified)

This is known. Hobbits invented Communism before the Age of Men.

I feel like Threads is actually the social media app that a ton of people think BlueSky is

LOL the US trade deficit with South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan (combined): (via Schwab)

Apropos increasing incidents of AI psychosis, I’ve been thinking a lot of a schema once suggested by the late novelist Robert Anton Wilson: The idea that human reasoning can usefully be thought of as a Thinker and a Prover.

They sent Martha Stewart to jail for 5 months for having a chat with her broker and selling some stock to avoid about $45,000 in losses.

Casting aspersions on the sort of people who hold state/local organizing roles and committee seats as implicitly corrupt elite "party insiders" is trash slopulism. They didn't ask to be put in this position, it's no power grab. They have a job to do and have been duly democratically chosen to do it.

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 5 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/w6DcW

Great Noah Smith piece taking on JD Vance’s new book. His focus is on Vance’s treatment of GDP, but as he notes, Vance’s bigger claims about social cohesion and how to restore it are also suspect. I have a few points to add here. Thread. 1/ www.noahpinion.blog/p/jd-vances-...

Anybody else also have to ask themselves “Is it a typo? Or is it something the cool kids are saying nowadays & I don’t know because I’m unhip/cranky/old and not invited to those parties?” (yes, my unhealthy relationship to “cool” is just as exhausting & demoralizing as it was in high school)

Pay attention to this. It could not be stated more plainly or accurately.

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

I’ve often thought I *might* have a book-length argument in me about the struggle of narratives to effectively stick the landing when transcendence/‘the sublime’ is on the table. ME3 could be a good chapter in the section on “failures” — where the standard bearer might be John Fowles _The Magus_.

Unironically, America needs a Honey Huan:

bro I need this “no taxes on [very broad group of people]” thing to be revealed for the honeypot that I so desperately hope it is, they got fuckin’ Abdul El-Sayed on it now

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

1/3 The men were and are attracted to him. That’s it. This is “Heated Rivalry: Politics.”

This also points to one danger of recent popular D plans to excuse swaths of US from income tax (see Katie Porter, Chris Van Hollen, et al) — as well as in *over-valuing* progressive narratives about taxing the rich (which we should do). Both CAN transfer status (stolen valor) to said whites/men.

Graham Platner embodies a concept that in 2016 we didn’t have words for so “Bernie Bro” made the most sense. It had nothing to do with Bernie but was an attempt to describe a man who outwardly espouses progressive values but hates women more than he cares about anything else.

Looks to me like nobody (Matt Taibbi) remembers due process now— at least not how to define it, anyway. (There is no such thing as “due process” between people. Like “first amendment rights”, you aren’t guaranteed ANY such thing re: public opinion. These are limits on GOVERNMENT/STATE actions.)

Belgian players mocked Trump with his own dumb dance and chanted, “Overturn this.” The humiliation says it all: when you drag politics, pressure, and ego into sport, don’t be shocked when the world laughs back. And right now, the world is laughing at the USA again because of Trump.

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

This is the voter fraud they warned us about

Mitch McConnell & I play chess over the phone — once a week he calls to find out my next move & announce his response. Earlier today I told him “knight to king’s pawn 4”. He responded: “THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD! 100% REAL, ALL IF IT! I’M BEGGING, CHANT IT OVER MY BODY BEFORE THE DEMON RETU…”

Over and over and over again the jobs we diminish, mechanize, and eliminate tend to be the jobs that fill social roles without cultural capital rather than jobs that are actually effectively automated.

Oh HELLS YEAH. Seeing LaRouche zealots at DFW airport as a kid (the way some folks saw Hare Krishnas/ISKCON, if “Airplane” was right) was my earliest intro to radical fringe politics. (Getting my dad to explain what was up with them was formative for me, and I’ve been morbidly fascinated since.)

"Sorry, you're done immediately if you jeopardize NATO & threaten to conquer our closest allies" was the easiest, lowest bar to clear in 🇺🇸 politics from 1949-2017. And then Congressional Republicans & a bunch of wildly unserious journalists decided that, no, he is One very, very Special Boy.

Loved this paper. @pettertornberg.com pushes point I’ve been circling for a while: polarization implies actors moving apart within common framework. That is not just wrong but dangerous, as it legitimizes right-wing radicalization. The better model is that the conflict is over the framework itself.

We give the DEA billions of dollars a year and all objective data shows that they only increase our risk; they do not prevent or reduce overdoses and they do not make anyone safer or more protected from drug harms