Disclosure Day was...bad. Very weird pacing, no character development or setup so I felt like I missed the first 20 minutes, bad effects, throwing around smart-sounding terms that don't mean what the characters think they do constantly, and a plot that could have been an email

My last bitter comment re: my state's gubernatorial race Anyone complaining about a Becerra v Steyer primary wasting money should look at the CA party's FEC filings under the current machine Becerra ended up being the candidate for because ummm

"American food isn't good" and yet I make Lucky Charms ice cream

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

Charlie Kelly with a yarn board explaining how Katie Porter and Matt Mahan staying in when they had no chance boosted Kevin Kiley's chances of remaining a congressman

Just looking at latest votes in from CA-7 and my personal unprofessional prediction is Vang is going to pass Matsui in the district wide totals

The great thing about Platner is I'm always trying to figure out if people are re-discussing one of his numerous old scandals or if yet another has broken

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I think if you are making sweeping declarations about politics based on election night results out of California a ghostly nun should appear from the air to smack your knuckles with a ruler. Like every two years people have the dumbest takes based on a nonrepresentstive 50% of the vote

WE NEED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE AND THAT FIRE IS TOM STEYER COME ON MULES DON'T FAIL ME NOW

My favorite episode of Seinfeld is where the FBI guns Jerry down and he dies in Kramer's arms

Guy who decides between Becerra and Steyer based on which one he can find first on the word search California calls a ballot

look the thing is that steyer is just Good, Actually

You can't concentrate the alcohol content in a fermented beverage while removing impurities? Still issue

Alright folks it's time to play America's game: BIG TOUGH MANLY MAN OR WHINY FIVE YEAR OLD

Every time I go to an airport, regardless of which one, there are fewer places where you can sit to eat and more places you can pay 18 dollars for a really gross cold sandwich with a robot cashier. Obviously this means we're all doomed

Honestly the more these people tell me I'm not a Christian and not an American because I don't get down on my knees and worship their wrinkly orange calf, the more I'm committed to driving them into the sea

I like to stop at the duty free shop!

Can't say exactly what they said but Texas primary results are getting coverage on Italian radio

i keep seeing this post floating around and... it's just not accurate? the reason that there are a bunch of disused canals around the midwest is that they were obsoleted by better canals over the following 200 years. Commercial shipping in the Erie Canal indeed peaked and declined... in 1951

1:1 Chromebooks aren't the biggest scam to hit education this century, but wow are they a big scam

Trolley problem: crush Baby Hitler or crush a succulent Chinese meal

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

One of my big takeaways from Italy is their memes are still six months behind ours. Like I keep running into class trips where the kids are all in shirts that would get relentlessly derided as "dead memes" by my students

Put your fucking phone down and talk to your kid. Also, your child can improve their grade by turning in their homework. As a parent you are allowed to ask what homework they have and if they have done it or not. If this leads to them screaming at you, the solution is not to give up.

Graduates at Grand Valley State University applauded Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak after he emphasized the importance of their own human intelligence, rather than artificial intelligence, in his commencement speech.

Can you imagine if after the assassination of James Garfield, Chester Arthur put all his energy into a ballroom instead of civil service reform

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The internet needs to be less weird about 1789 and 1917 and significantly weirder about 1848. We need to be relitigating factional struggles in the Frankfurt national assembly and warping those struggles to somehow fit the neverending 2016 primary

He's running

A communist? I am a Yankee sir, first and foremost

Who was nasty to America? I'm the only one who's allowed to be nasty to America

Thesis: all the pictures and stories of peoples' beards before their eggs cracked Antithesis: Me and my beard Synthesis: Synthesis: Synthesis: Synthesis:

I do not know what the point of having a global superpower is in a world where Ben-Gvir is still above ground. Maybe a hot liberal interventionist take, but if my taxes are for anything I thought that was covered

Going to take a leaf out of the Karl May playback, dress up like a police officer, and go to the houses of people that think Tucker Carlson is any kind of political ally to check their money for counterfeit bills

Let's just be honest with ourselves and equip every seat in the stadium with a tablet playing one of those racing games for TikTok viewers whose attention spans are too short for 30 second videos

I think it's time to dump the jungle primary this is getting really stupid

I think this post is a really fascinating misread of why people make fun of the burrito taxis (it's because they're very expensive). This would just make them more expensive

yeah, i think the main innovation of the delivery apps was a way to circumvent labor law

I mean fair point but also a crazy amount of water in agriculture is used for stupid shit like alfalfa in the desert

The Elder Abuse presidency

I assume influencers are always being paid for what they say, regardless of it being about politics

I hope everyone joins me this year on July 3 in celebrating the anniversary of our twin victories over the slavers at Vicksburg and Gettysburg. This is the only patriotic holiday in July until morale improves

"It can't keep going on like this, something has to give" And then nothing gives ×10000 And then, finally, something gives and the whole world falls apart

It's so funny talking to Europeans about World War 2 because you learn that only Hitler and Mussolini were fascists and everyone else was either tragically mislead or probably in some resistance group

Ah yes the three types of advertisement: Weight loss medication, sports betting, and payday loans

When I canvass this cycle it's mostly been for a congressional candidate in her mid 40s who has held two different elected offices, she constantly gets talked about as young and inexperienced because her opponent is more than twice her age, yet she held no office before her election

If high speed rail got the funding, drive, and regulatory support highways god I would have ridden it lile five times by now

"After I die, who gives a shit? That's your problem fuckers, should have been born earlier!"

Ben Butler and Aaron Burr are from the same mold, wildly corrupt, wildly ambitious, often violent, and often hilarious