As a scholar of American humor, I feel qualified to say, Pete Hegseth’s alcoholism is not the most derisible thing about him, not even close. It is, in fact, one of the only things that makes him sympathetic, so when you mock that you actually provide a veil for his real monstrosity Do better, SNL

I propose that in october we permanently shift all clocks back by only 30 minutes & then fucking leave them there forever after. And if you think that's somehow more absurd than the DST/SDT dance, please take a deep breath and remember that clock time is fake & was invented for trains. It'll be fine

Grimes is trad futurism

Played Disco Elysium for the first time last night. Some kids mocked me so hard I lost the will to live so I quit my job and went to live under a bridge

Pixar, for some goddamned reason, looking at Target’s situation and saying “I want some of that”

The common theme from negative replies to my gas price thread has been. Well we don't have good transit, rail & bike lanes so I have to drive. Which is my point. You're only noticing that now because gas has been too cheap. If gas had been more expensive, like $10/gal, you would have all that.

Jan Saenredam, after Lucas van Leyden; Jael and Sisera; 1517–18; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum #InternationalWomensDay #8M

happy international women's day to all my international women

Everyone is sooooo mad at me but they are fake Carmen Sandiego stans they do not know the newly revised lore which made my 14-yo really irritated with me while we were watching his show when I kept saying Wait a second she's a fuckin rat what the fuck what is this copaganda bullshit

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if you send more of my tax money to this, I will spend so much of my free time being in your ass about sending my tax money to bomb little girls trying to get an education. And I won't stop after they can your ass. You and Trump are no different if you do this.

Look, we joke about Trump being the antichrist but if you told somebody two thousand years ago an evil king would cause black rain that sickens the people to fall upon Persia, everyone would instantly grasp there’s some kind of demon sorcery afoot.

As a parent, I have to co-sign. This is the hardest question any piece of children’s media has ever raised, bar none. It’s so easy to tell a kid “sometimes boys love other boys the way mommy and daddy love each other.” It’s *much* harder to explain MOTHERFUCKING MORTALITY AND THE UNFAIRNESS OF LIFE.

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

If I got a Tattoo of Bin Laden 20 years ago and told yall that I thought it was Abraham Lincoln, would yall believe me?

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

MeToo pushed a few big-name bad actors out of their positions, but it did very little to grapple with the systems and the cultures and the people that empowered those bad actors and allowed them to operate with impunity.

Their rhetoric about Iran is fucking genocidal. And I'm very worried.

Why the fuck can't people act right?

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Oh wow October 7th are you serious man kinda gives away the game

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Why don't weightlifting coaches teach lifters to use forklifts responsibly? A 19 year old shares what he learned at the forklift gym.

If this doesn’t just perfectly sum it up, I don’t know what does

People want an avenging war god smiting their enemies and absolute and unconditional forgiveness and love for themselves. Hell, I find myself wishing for it at times.

christians looking for jesus in every war we start, every missile we fire, every conquering despot we crown, and never in the one place jesus promised he could be found: among the poor, the starving, the oppressed.

every incumbent party on the planet got walloped and Harris/Dems did better than almost all of them she overperformed in swing states where she campaigned heavily compared to the rest of the country she absolutely could have run a better campaign (Gaza!) I don’t know if it would have been enough

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy: 1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden 2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough 3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes

But of that day and hour no one knoweth, not the angels of heaven, but the Father alone. And as in the days of Noah, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't

Thinking is the death of fascism; fascists earn converts by giving people permission to stop thinking (which is often easy because thinking is hard and uncertain and frequently unpleasant)

Men who don’t think can discover fascism very quickly without ever perceiving themselves as political

Fascism isn’t so much a set of ideas but what happens when you tell men that they can retreat from ideas an endlessly indulge in their preferred aesthetic and emotional impulses. Those impulses tend to pool around certain behaviors and then later - sometimes - ideas are invented to justify them.

If you’re a former dem nominee and can’t understand how pro wrestling motivates audiences, presents moral judgements, and displays the social structure in front of you and behind the scenes … there are bigger issues here than liking the sport here, Pam.

If you want to stop Newsom, build up his negatives with Black voters *now.* Emphasize how he keeps hanging out with racists and inviting them to talk on his show. Ask how Black people have fared in his California and how he’s responded to racism against us. What was he doing in 2014? 2016? 2020?

If you stay awake for the clocks to shift forward you live an infinity of years in an instant like the Jaunt

I don't like harping on Harris too much. Among Dem, Biden deserves the fast majority of the blame for the 2024 loss. But she did choose to squander her initial momentum by listening to the worst advisers in the world down the stretch.

while I do agree that all trump voters deserve to have their nose rubbed in it for all eternity, this quote would sound much better if she stuck to "we" pronouns when addressing a room full of democrats

mfw when I get bisected and then my torso gets hollowed out like a bell

they want it to be conscious but not in a way that means they don't own it. hmmm

this is a big part of it. ppl like grim fantasize about red brown crossover, in no small part because they like the idea of a left that doesn't rely on women or people of color.

Considering he's the god of crossroads, the maker of the lyre, and an usher into the land of the dead—is it possible all those musicians over the years sold their souls to Hermes?

Maher is an Islamophobe of the highest order. The fact that he has not been run out of town is a measure of how unseriously Islamophobia is treated in this country.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.