It’s honestly crazy how this is like, taken as a matter-of-fact on social media when Biden is healthy and making public appearances and speeches still.

the provinces decline to offer tribute, the armies return in defeat, the temple of the arts has closed its doors, and the name of the Emperor is scoured from the palaces by his own magistrates. now the sun and storms turn against him. the Mandate is lost.

not a fan of the fact that mainstream republicans have decided that all white supremacists are antifa in disguise

TIL there was a eunuch government department under the Ming solely dedicated to the production of toilet paper for the Forbidden City, although the emperor had special loo roll made by a different department that was extra fluffy

It is kinda funny that a lot of theories of indegeneity are "it's morally unacceptable to move" when the implications for polynesians would be... yeah lmao.

also the handful of moments in the “shelter” managed to do what the show FALLOUT has been trying to do for like 2 seasons or whatever better and within like 10 minutes.

the finale for WIDOW’S BAY was so impressive. to be that creepy and that funny at the same time - while also finding a seamless way to bring real profundity and pathos into the story via the tennessee williams quote - is pretty nuts. tv show equivalent of juggling an axe, rotten tomato, and torch

Nothing quite captures the spirit of America 250 like promising a century of single party rule if only one party can change election laws.

Just in: America’s Independence Day Parade in DC has been CANCELED, per the National Park Service. It was set to step off tomorrow, July 4, at 10:30am along the National Mall.

Meanwhile the southeast is full of beautiful antebellum mansions that can be had at a bargain so long as you don’t mind living in a dying former cotton town (and all of the confederate ghosts)

Supermarket tofu prices in the us are frustrating and obscene. The stuff should be as ubiquitous and cheap as white bread imo.

Its so annoying in multiple ways, you can’t even take pride in your own thriftiness when the real thrifty option is basically always rotisserie chicken and vegetables

As is tradition by now every year

yeah, it'd be nice to know. i think socializing in person is down what i'd like people doing third place discourse to think more carefully about "people are socializing less" and "people have fewer places to socialize". the second is less supported than people think.

Here's a different look at american fun. we have more retail/food and dining/ "fun" per capita than we've ever had. what changed is what kinds of businesses exist. bloomberg picked the categories with the largest declines. there's way fewer movie theaters and way more coffee shops.

It's the way black people keep telling told they're overreacting when we say white conservatives want to bring back chattel slavery tho Last people allowed to be legally taught to read, yet the first to be able to accurately read the fucking room

I met a Venezuelan family last night who was selling deserts to raise money to help their family back home and I’m hoping to get them set up with a GoFundMe and getting that shared on local channels but also on here

Hey has anyone considered the possibility that maybe the Real Working Class actually definitely want some combination of conservative cultural positions with down the line hardcore leftist economic and foreign policy? It's weird that no one has tried this given that it would definitely work for sure

imagine if aliens invaded and Donald Trump were charged with making the dramatic motivational speech

Gold keeping up with inflation isn't necessarily unheard-of (though it was certainly less common before the gold commodity craze kicked off by Covid):

what exactly is sacred about this geometry. do… you you actually do religion about it?

“lost $33K on a stupid Trump memecoin scheme and blames Democrats for it” I think we did it team, I think we found Peak MAGA Guy

When David Duke is praising DSA candidates, it ought to be seen as a wake-up call.

"i support a 2 state solution but will do nothing that pushes Israel towards allowing a second state" has more or less been American FP

somebody should make a serial killer hunting movie where three quarters of the way through they get assigned to this instead.

i don't even know what to say

Man, Stalin and Churchill did a better job putting out a united public face than this.

Speaking as a massive air show fan, that is too many goddamn airplanes. These people have no sense of how to put on a show besides MORE

That’s america’s extreme visible cock

Abdul El-Sayed "Now the question about a right to exist is interesting because nobody's ever asked me whether or not I believe Palestine has a right to exist. Israel exists. The question is whether or not we want a politics where our money is sent over to Israel to do genocide and apartheid..."

Trump appears to have at least two different editions of “Library”. Clearly a collector.

i’m so sorry but as a jew i fear this is the catholic version of the classic @averyedison.com post

The Alien Earth eyeball parasite makes an amazing monster idea, but I do find it odd that it doesn’t simply *eat* the original eye, which would be the typical behavior for a parasite that replaces a body part

i mean where i live it's not hard to find the bones of old churches and meeting halls and ethnic clubs and social clubs. these didn't need the state to create them: people created them because they wanted them. now they don't.

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

I really strongly suspect this has the arrow of causation backwards. There are fewer places to socialize because there’s less demand for them (because of the proliferation of screens, ultimately supercharged by COVID)

so if we imagine this kind of socializing as a sign of health and then we think of phones and social media as a kind of drug then i think the conclusions point against “build more third spaces” and towards “regulate the drug/social media companies that have addicted society itself”

The reflecting pool mess started funny but there's absolutely nothing funny about the DOJ securing an indictment of a man for touching a pond because the president made up a conspiracy theory about vandals that it needed to validate. That's totalitarian

The memorial, a long banner bearing Kohen’s face—now has a more permanent fixture outside the Senatobia Walmart, adorned with flowers and dolls befitting a toddler.

This is something I’ve been trying to push.

Absolutely maddening to me that we’re in this situation. This week’s Supreme Court rulings prove that we cannot afford to miss a single Senate seat. Collins *must* lose. But Platner is far from certain to make that happen

”the cis women of transgenders” is sending me you’re a trans woman! the cis women of transgenders is you!

I’m totally open to the idea that there are fewer places to hang out now - it’s very intuitive and matches my perceived lived experience - but I think we should be skeptical of slick graphs selected from a larger (undisclosed) sample with manipulated y-axes

Don’t these four examples feel a bit cherry-picked? Drinking is on the decline generationally, bowling is considered out-of-fashion, marinas are limited by geography (and what % of Americans even own a boat) and movie theaters were particularly hard-hit by streaming

this meme is uniformly evergreen

yes, the vibecession survives but looks a lot more like long term secular vibes decline trend and not short term change imo.

I don't want to be too much of a Hillary Clinton defender, but I'm really annoyed by people saying that she "blew" 2016 because "people who don't answer phone calls" used to be a swing demographic but now is hard MAGA and we still don't understand the consequences of this.

it turns out UMich consumer sentiment being so negative may have been because of a polling method swap + undersampling of Republicans www.natesilver.net/p/is-the-vib...