stancildrama (n.) -- an internet fight where both parties are equally right, wrong, and annoying and thus the fight will continue until the heat death of the universe.

I am not on Team Conspiracy at all but I am absolutely on Team Malignant Right-Wing Billionaires With Aligned Incentives Working Together to Forward Their Wealth-Extraction and Impunity Agenda. Team MRWBWAIWTFTWEIA for life. Gotta work on that name though.

In my experience the antecedent is well before the "buying yes-men with money point." The exact point is different in different industries but it comes when you make the first decision to step on someone or the law to make more money and that happens well before the billion dollars mark.

Having the surreal experience of having people I follow from two different camps fight it out opinion-wise and watching the back and forth is interesting and enlightening but also super weird y'all

Estimated risk of ALL serious adverse reactions* w/ the chickenpox vaccine: 1 per 1.25 million doses Estimated risk of serious neurological complications of chickenpox infection: 1 per 10,000-30,000 cases *of which neurological complications are just one type

The cosmos birthed the guy in the banana suit skit so that we could have that reference for this exact moment.

Accusations of things being performative are rapidly becoming as useless through overuse as accusations of things being virtue signaling.

Is this real? Please tell me this is real

If he won't enforce duly enacted laws, then his ass should be fired, tomorrow.

You know what, the airlines should just pull the planes immediately and cancel all their routes, saying "Sir, yes, sir, Mr. President." Congress will enjoy that on a Friday.

The greatest gift machine learning/AI could give me is to allow me to block the imported screenshots of tweets from chuds and MAGAs.

The trail behind the leopard has always and will always be littered with the faceless remains of his former confidantes, if after 10 years you haven't figured that out then honestly I don't know what to say.

Politics are how we decide what to do without killing each other. When politics stops working we get <gestures broadly at the world> this. I get not having confidence in Dems to get to the correct end, but if you utterly discount any political solution, then we all know what your goal really is.

So, yes, celebrate for a second, but then get back on the phones and email and keep putting pressure on Democrats not to cave and the Republicans who have shown a hint of a spine to fully grow theirs…

god why

Didn't get a pic but decided today was Big Kid Dinner day: tomato basil soup, grilled cheese with some excellent aged cheddar and a Mexican Coke. Perfection on a snow day.

Reeeally hope someone is out there preserving all of the big names fashposting on main over on rocket boy's racism-and-cp generator for the after times.

lol these weeping pustules think they're the pinnacle of alpha male masculinity but their balls retract into their abdomens when someone yells mean things at them

theres literally no reason for them to be there, there is no immigration crisis let alone in minnesota. they are there to get revenge on the population for how they’ve voted and the media playing along with this kayfabe bull shit is getting people killed

At this point, my political alignment chart is nationalize the rich guy's rocket company and manufacture the number of rockets needed to fire every one of these people into the sun.

Absolutely no reason at this point, should sane people regain control, to not drone strike every Confederate monument until all that is left is dust and metal shards.

it's easy to blame rubes in flyover country for the nation's current predicament, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of it is down to years and years of elite moral and epistemic derangement, elite cowardice, and elite failure to overcome the collective action problem

a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would today, they stopped it

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

Once again posting Plymouth Rock, the final boss of disappointing landmarks

It’s quite likely that being called a “fucking bitch” is one of the last things a dying Renee Good ever heard. I demand leaders who are as filled with pure, diamond-hard rage over this as I am. I believe this is absolutely not asking for too much.

ICE joining just to take the record for most blocked on clearsky

I thought once that I had heard the dumbest thing I would ever hear and then this person proved me definitively wrong.

“The @texastribune.org obtained emails sent by college administrators showing the policy has already led to courses being cancelled or renumbered …with professors directed to alter course content or teach different classes.” www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/t...

It's time to officially let X/Twitter go. That platform's decline from a vibrant public square to what is now a platform for hate & disinformation has been painful to experience. I’ve already in this great community & look forward to continuing our conversations. www.reuters.com/business/med...

You really see the picture of the kinds of nerds you've followed when there are multiple overlapping countdowns until the SCOTUS opinions are being released in your feed.

Loading up my Sheetz friend chicken sandwich with 400 calories of cheese and sauce because I'm a GROWN ASS MAN.

Something that is very hard to deal with in this era is how absolutely unserious these people are. They are deadly, yes. And also just deeply unserious.

You know they lie when their mouths move but also because their supposed situations are pure fantasy. The guy in the original screenshot doesn't have a single postdoc on his CV and your odds of even getting an interview without 1 or 2 of them in my field is so small as to be essentially zero.

Is there a music streaming service out there that won't make me feel gross for giving money to them?

To add to this: Hepatitis B infection has two phases -- acute and chronic. The chronic phase lasts years and results in the progressive destruction of the liver. Progression to a chronic phase is inversely proportional to age. For infants, this can be as high as 95% of cases.

If you have to say it...

500% tax on campaign donations above $1000

"You know what his problem was? It was his goddamn job to know." -- Harvey Specter

Btw everyone who shares Trump's Truth Social post on Reiner or who mocks his death at all this week should be fired from their job. Those are the New Rules.

NINE! NINE PERCENT TO GO AH AH AH

These folks want us to be come Labour but American, let's check on how well that's going for them.... <looks at poll averages> ... oh.

It will never not be wild to me that so many people who play a game that could be subtitled "The Game About Space Marines" constantly gripe about how much Space Marine stuff there is.

If the Texas plaintiffs want us to overturn the new congressional maps, they are welcome to come back and prove that they would actually favor Democrats. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh)

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

This was what I needed to see today.

Here's the problem: CEO life is literally not possible for all 350 million Americans and your job is to make it as close to attainable as possible for the people under you purview. You just... refuse to do it. I am not an expert on morality but imo this is a moral abdication in extremis.

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🫡 to those of you who read the thing and reacted in horror so I could avoid it. Your service is appreciated.

If y'all think this press conference is funny, just wait until the second-day stories come out where right-wing pundits and politicians flip a nutty over it.