The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime. We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.

Pre-recording him on the days he is lucid to keep people busy on the days he is not.

I don't think I realized before these elections how badly Dems and other broadly left-leaning folks needed A Win of Any Kind. Now that we have it, let's build upon it.

This is a crime against humanity. By both the literal and metaphorical definitions.

Projection so intense that it could light an IMAX screen.

*whispers* you can continue to read me, the pundit who insisted the other pundits were wrong about these conclusions

Tapping out of this one but I hope all of the good folks wjn and the bad folks lose and I look forward to the post-analysis tomorrow. For the people that thrive in the election back and forth, may you have an enjoyable.night with good outcomes. Peace to all.

Every bad thing that happens is Trump's fault. No one stopped to think about causality when Biden was President in 2020.

At this point really wishing for a "right to jail, right away" meme that is a bit less whimsical just for the many possible applications

Just the man being himself, ladies and gentlemen.

Me chuckling at the "Bills top Chiefs" headline on Reddit just shows how deeply the internet has broken my brain.

Only 10% to go!

we need to do reconstruction again

I corrected falsehoods about Teflon spread by Moms Across America & MAHA allies here: www.instagram.com/p/DQfZm9mjnp... PTFE (Teflon) is biologically inactive & has been studied & regulated for food contact & in your body. That’s why it’s not a health concern for cookware or surgical procedures.

A modest proposal: a stimulus package based entirely on hiring enough lawyers to prosecute every Trump crony who broke a law no matter how insignificant they might be.

It's the "old people" part that is perfect.

One reason you don't vote for someone with a Nazi tattoo is so you can confront the Nazis that are taking over the Right.

This is a truly great album, but year-wise I'm incredibly partial to 1991.

One spot where Bluesky doesn't have the juice compared to other networking sites is being able to randomly complain about being on hold for a half an hour with your bank and actually having their customer service respond to it.

So, given the SNAP crisis & that stupid DNC memo making the rounds it's important to revisit Reagan's decade long effort to demonize gov't spending on poor people by inventing the welfare queen lie. He's doing this as early as January of 1976. Please note the response from the crowd at the end.

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

do we really have to do aunt and uncle discourse, everyone who isn't a loner incel and even a few that are knows that everybody does this and I refuse to give the NY Post a single synapse-fire more of my mental effort

John Cleary, shot in the chest by National Guardsmen on May 4, has passed away at age 74. He was a 19-year-old architecture student in 1970 when he was shot and critically wounded.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

This is why I think most of the obsessing over various points of rhetoric and messaging strategy are pointless.

I for one am shocked that there is a betting scandal in the NBA, whocouldanode

Everyone that helped us get here gets the damnatio memoriae treatment. Bulldoze it all. Rename every school, airport, military base, ships, whatever. Drone strike confederate monuments in the dead of the night. Don't care. Just do it.

One of the cleverest things that Trumpists figured out is that you don’t have to kill an institution if you can make it kill itself.

I'm honestly not sure I understand a lot of the criticism of GWs handling of Warhammer lore post-Guilliman. Listening to the e-books in chronological order and the only thing that strikes me as different is that the truly over the top satire has morphed into real introspection about totalitarianism.

As a biologist and microscopist I have seen a lot of fluorescent reds in my life and holy crap is this a flag of that color.

The real political divide in the left-liberal space is between those people who know to separate a politician's public statements from their actions and those that don't.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Apologies for the (I think, appropriate) profanity but I am so fucking tired of being scolded by people who haven't held a Republican to any kind of standard in decades at least, maybe more.

Since Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidates and "dark money" groups have raised more money than Republicans--often doubling them. So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!

Personal fave is Appetite for Destruction, but if we are considering historical context it has to be Little Richard, I think? I don't have enough knowledge of blues roots to go back further, but multiple, entire genres spawned either directly or indirectly though this.

Remembering suddenly all the dudes in my past (mostly dudes) that waxed poetically about how college sports were superior to the pros because of the "purity" of the game.

I’m skeptical that a court can or will do this, but i think it has to be tried, because the GOP has descended to full lawlessness, and we don’t have any kind of government if the majority party can just refuse to recognize others.

I dunno what to say for myself today other than... Man, am I glad I mostly missed the Planter thing because this is the dumbest kind of internecine fighting I can possibly imagine.

we're actually not so hard up for decent political candidates that we need to do nazi tattoo apologia. we can simply demand better of people asking for our votes. it's true! try it!

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about. www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

No more obstructionists. No more Susan Collinses, no Joe Manchins, no Kyrsten Sinemas, no more Getting Along To Go Along, no more Norms, no more Collegiality, no more Bipartisanship But above all: No. More. Obstructionists.

I'm trying to imagine what would happen if I walked into my classroom tomorrow and said "I'm not prepared to discuss this topic today so everyone, go home." but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't end well for me.

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

Man I just got to watch it and it's hard to explain the greatness of wrestling as a soap story medium from here on out without starting with that John Cena vs AJ Styles match from today. The story of that match is 25 years of lore that would easily take an entire book to explain, maybe two.

One of the glories of the timeline feed is logging on after a few hours away and watching your follows have their reactions to a sports event and then getting to work backward to how they got there, like some kind of digital anthropological analysis.

Showing up to the protest in my Beaker costume with a sign that reads: A REPUBLIC, IF YOU CAN MEEP IT.

This is excellent and a spot-on addition.

This is the tell that they don't want people with creative capacity. They want menials and drones that they can use extract wealth from their lives and labors, then discard before the next quarterly report. The actual cruel burden is the point.