John Adams was friends with Thomas Jefferson, I assume they exchanged well wishes

It's honestly funny how badly targeted my ads are. Like yes give me more Tom Holland cologne ads in languages I don't speak, commercials for medications to treat diseases I don't have, and ads for how to stay busy in a retirement I don't really expect to experience

I thought autocracy was supposed to be efficient

I think watching "freedom isn't free" go from maning like soldiers dying in war to meaning sacrificing an unspecified number of children to Baal H-ammo-n every year may have permanently broken me on some level

Just fucking end it already

I had no idea Republicans were such fans of California's existing system for holding elections

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

The fact that Democrats allowed themselves to to be gaslit into not running primarily on abortion, and that abortion is no longer treated as an uncompromisable issue, is a sign of how much male pundits who are completely out of touch have taken over the consulting class

This is the kind of post that you could really hurt your wrist writing

I've seen Sinclair compilations like this a few times now, and I always try to imagine the emotional sensation of being in the dressing room after the cameras are off

I think people in the ancient world were just like us, except that from an early age they had firsthand exposure to horrors beyond the comprehension of most people with internet access

they want us to fear them and they want this primarily because they can't actually do much to curtail our speech other than scaring us. there are far too many people who hate this president and everything he represents and won't be silenced for them to lock everyone up.

Charlie Kirk's podcast is number one on the charts, businesses and media outlets are firing employees who criticize Kirk, and flags are flying at half-mast for Kirk despite his status as a private citizen. Here's why America treats conservatives as second-class citizens.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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If you don't stop calling us fascists, we're going to have to use the full power of the state to investigate and punish all our political opponents.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired

I think we like to believe that something about the present moment has created more monstruous and evil thoughts when in reality, people have had monstruous and evil thoughts for as long as humanity and society have existed, it's just they didn't have a digital bullhorn to yell them through.

Why the fuck do they make it so impossible to get a primary care doctor. Like this feels like it should be the easiest step not a bizarre kafkaesque nightmare that I'd honestly rather get sicker than have to deal with

World's first: the Republican wife of a Democratic husband is awful to me at the door

It really is a grim ritual that we have so many acts of violence that evolve into another grim ritual of everyone waiting to see what team the maniac played for, and half the time that has already been decided by the grim ritual of everyone speculating before anyone has any clue about it

I think the internet is bad for us

the (perhaps obvious) explanation for the different responses to the MN leg assassinations, the CDC shootings, and Charlie Kirk

The president is posting an AI video of him giving a speech because for the actual delivery his mouth visibly and audibly doesn't work. The president is using AI to hide how old and decrepit he is. I hate the fucking future

My current Rome (real life more than TV show but also TV show) compels me to say Ezra Klein's op-ed is coming from the same place as Caesar/Sir John Franklin yelling HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME when presented with Pompey's head

Yes. Fuck off

An instantly-leaked internal bulletin at the politicized federal law enforcement agencies just so happens to say what the Trump admin and its allies want it to say. This is how it works in authoritarian regimes, the cops are too busy with propaganda and repression to actually solve crimes.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Honestly, I think an influencer ends up accidentally killing him as a prank that gets out of hand. Like, they pop out of the bushes and yell BOO, the old man has a heart attack, the secret service starts blasting, and that’s the end of Mister Beast as well.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I've been reliably told that the people sucking the blood out of American farmers are all in (((New York)))

Working on a historical fiction project about Pompey the great and historically accurate Rome is so fucking cruel in ways that historically inaccurate Rome, even when it's feeding people to wild animals, just isn't

Caesar wore red boots and turned down his naked buddy's offer of a fancy hat

And the other thing, to make use of my favorite FDR quote is you cannot tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it, you cannot negotiate with an incendiary bomb

I really hate that in the post covid world we all have to accept referring to a shot as a "jab." My ancestors did not die on Bunker Hill for this

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

What if instead of an opportunity to be creative in how I expressed my ideas I had an opportunity to learn something from this class

Library haul

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: We welcome anyone to join this movement.

Must suck to live in a nuclear power run by a sundowning tyrant who thinks he’ll be in power forever and who will leave only ruin in his wake. Couldn’t be me lol

J.B. Pritzker is like if Gavin Newsom wasn't shitty about trans people and had even more money. As much as it pains me to give another win to the Midwest, I'd prefer richer and less bigoted to cowardly and more beholden to Silicon Valley

The country is being informally ruled by a woman who once handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter HQ in a way that allowed everyone to walk right past her through the other door.

The American experiment is based on the idea that citizenship is not based on ethnicity. We tried to conflate the two with slavery and the constitution failed as a result. The reconstruction amendments made this principle explicit. This shit is fundamentally anti American and anti patriotic.

I dream of a country where I can be a teacher and the idea of a freak with a gun or secret police coming after my students doesn't even occur to me

Airport drunk is the only kind of drunk to approach the quality of freshman house party after party drunk

This is such a fascinating view into his mind. "They show me numbers I liked, but if other people don't like it, they clearly don't have the numbers I have." Like he just can't conceive of people coming to different conclusions than he has with the same information

People obsessed with this country's "heritage" are violently opposed to ever actually addressing its real heritage, so all they're left with are consumerism and symbols chosen for their plausible deniability. Imagine claiming the Cracker Barrel logo as your birthright.

Guy who is both white and a liberal: God white liberals am I right?