If you think they’re bad and that they must lose at all costs then you should probably be doing something right now and it’s not just donating cash.

Conversations about the future of higher education in the US need to start from the unfortunate, basic fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree with Reagan that government should not subsidize curiosity driven learning and inquiry.

I think a really dark comedy about George Washington's service in the 7 years war is possible to make, but I'm not sure it should be attempted

"And then what happened?" remains undefeated as the most useful question for historical analysis

modern critics: greaves were usually only worn by officers, depiciting enlisted legionnaires this way is ahistorical and i cannot even enjoy this show rembrandt: im gonna draw europa in a corset

One of my absolute favorite things on Frasier is when three characters are in a scene and two are bickering while one is watching it back and forth like a tennis match and laughing their ass off

When the hopes and dreams of your country rest with a very handsome man who cannot convince conservatives in congress to vote for tax cuts

What is it about farming in the American imagination that makes a privately educated small businessman "working class"?

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

As a Californian I miss having a governor who gave a shit about our state beyond using it as a stepping stone to the White House

Hot take: things are worse

I know I'm much meaner, angrier, and more judgemental of my fellow Americans after 11 years of this filth

Suicidal ideation Oreos

one of the reasons i get real mad about “the current moment is a historical anomaly, it’s okay to revert” is that the modern state no longer having amputation in its criminal code is also a historical anomaly

Guy who gets furious when he hears Germans call themselves "Deutsche" and insists that they're actually German and they need to use that word

I got the largest duffel bag I could thinking "Well I'll never run out of space and I don't need to pack it totally full" but now it looks like I'm traveling with a body bag

I miss my job at the haunted Best Western sometimes

Going from Sacramento, California to Lynchburg, Virginia of course means I get nothing but ads for San Francisco congressional candidates. Obviously.

Shout out to France and Spain for wrecking their own economies and empires to give their unshod weird little buddies a hand to independence. Probably they wouldn't do it again if you gave the House of Bourbon a crystal ball, but you live and learn (or don't live but still learn)

I am once again asking us not to build our political beliefs based on what happened on TV shows drom the 90s. I remember you maniacs trying to make arguments about cost of living using Homer Simpson, it was nonsense then and it's worse now

The real moral of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is my life would be immeasurably improved if only someone would smack me over the head with a crowbar

If you're wearing the Megadeath sweatshirt at Midway airport please pull your pants or underpants up we can see crack

I may not be a great person, or a smart person, or even a consistent person. Luckily for me I have the internet and every day I get to see evidence of thousands of people being worse, dumber, and more incoherent than me

My neighbor told me Protestants keep eating his New World profits so I asked him how many New World Profits he has and he said he just goes to the Americas and gets more profits afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding silver to Protestants and then the Pope started crying

Rise if you're sleeping, stay awake/ We are young supernovas and the heat's about to break

The problem with "does your loved experience match the data" is so often those two things are asking completely different questions. If you're looking at crime data, the question is generally "how many crimes were committed." For crime lived experience, it's "did I see a homeless person this week?"

You can tell Cersei and Tyrion are related because as soon as they have actual power they both waste way too much time on petty personal bullshit and not enough on the real enemy

Rather be dead in California than alive in Michigan

Honestly this is a great way of highlighting both how absurd the existence of billionaires is and how insufficient taxing them alone is to funding a the welfare state this country ought to have

Let's see what my coworker who watches Trump Instagram reels on our break with no headphones and has already asked about my Nathan Fielder bumper sticker has to say today

Netflix is more committed to the Millie Bobby Holmes movie series than any non-Stranger Things show they ever produced. Where was this dedication when it came to getting The Irregulars a second season, thats what I'd like to know

I had a really vivid dream where I had to prove in a court of law exactly why I'm a failure and let me tell you, not a confidence builder the morning after

No, because law enforcement was on the scene and did something about it.

God fucking dammit Steyer I guess 2026

reluctantly

Every Tom Steyer attack ad is like a series of valid points followed by a disclosure that it was paid for by everyone that has spent the last 50 years creating every major problem California is facing and stealing as much from Californians as possible

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

People in Iowa or Wisconsin only matter to them insofar as they’re Iowans or Wisconsinites, as an idea, and not because they’re real people. They’d more readily describe Milwaukee or Chicago as being on the moon before they describe them as Midwest.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

"The Republicans entered this fight under the rather childish delusion that they would gerrymander everyone else and nobody would gerrymander them. The have sown the wind and now they will reap the whirlwind."

I disagree here, the problem is not the dinner, it is Trump. The WH Correspondents Dinner, as actually practiced, is a sort of humiliation-of-the-powerful ritual common and valuable in republics since antiquity. That Trump is incapable of doing this is yet another signal of his unfitness to lead.

Why do you give a shit what "counts" as reading? Why are you, a grown adult, treating your free time like a grade school reading contest and why do we need daily reassurance that audiobooks and such still "count"? Stand on your own two feet, you don't need everyone to approve of everything you do

If it was just posting "My Way" videos it would be whatever but it's the posting "My Way" and the weird bruises and the speculating about his prospects for the afterlife and the long disappearances with rumored/confirmed hospital visits involved and...

mamdani is a social democrat which is a type of socialist which is a type of liberal

God bless whatever prehistoric genius stored milk in the stomach of the animal that made it and invented humanity's most delicious food

Tonight we have for you two cheddar cheeses from Oregon, a Jack cheese from California, a gruyere from Wisconsin, and an edam from France. Please enjoy

People are like "hahaha the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy nor Roman nor an Empire" as if the Roman Empire didn't stop including Rome for like a thousand years towards the end there

Al K. O'Hall

Book Robb Stark is like a mediocre king bur Show Robb Stark is actually godawful at it

So what I'm hearing is Trumpflation has gotten so bad that a cash-for-uranium deal is more than ten times the price of what it was under Obama?