A lot of people think Bo Bichette's father was former major leaguer Dante Bichette. Actually his father's name was Jan Gochette.

I would love to be able to say, "OK weirdos, go live in the boonies and enjoy your hour-long drive to the closest good restaurant." Except that we've catered to these people and given them privileged access to this country's one source of generational wealth.

Rebooting the show "Is it Cake?" except now it's "Is it Cindy Sherman?"

I put black pepper on my blanquette de veau.

Share someone who looks stylish wearing the color brown ❤️

That was some Roy Hobbs level shit.

The right accused Obama of doing this, and just the POSSIBILITY of it was the biggest scandal of his administration. Now it's just an ordinary Thursday.

Explain this to me like I'm 60.

In part because expressing things openly turns inchoate thoughts into actual beliefs. These guys are radicalizing themselves in order to impress each other.

I'm looking forward to seeing some ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER group Halloween costumes. Black girls with leather jackets, start recruiting your white male friends (one jacked, one bearded).

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

No lies told.

When a Marxist professor farts.

I'm increasingly drawn to the conclusion that this is happening BECAUSE there is no crisis. Crime is down, the economy came out of COVID relatively well, no major foreign threats... Nothing to justify usual conservative policies, so the only thing left is a cult of personality.

Mine is in my profile banner.

It seems like what's at issue is whether the professor asked the student to drop the class because of his Israeli citizenship or because of his pro-Israeli opinions. It's crazy to me that the fact that the student was derailing class and discomforting other students is not what admin cares about.

My "Make Liberals Cry Again" t-shirt has journalists asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

The loyalty of the armed forces to either Trump or to the Republic will be crucial if things come to a crisis. Gathering the top brass could backfire by giving them the opportunity to coordinate networks and strategies for resistance. But one of Trump's actual skills is coopting people, so...

Staff uniforms exuding authority… how Saudi imagines The Line and Neom…

This is not how it works, NYT Connections.

No, the reason you don't engage in a data-driven argument with fascists is that it gives the illusion that fascists are interested in data as a way to get at the truth, rather than merely as a way to back up their pre-existing bigotry.

Is there a market for people who want to sell their house to me cheap, before the big day? I know they won't need the money where they think they're going, but maybe we can work out some kind of deal.

Well at least SOME people on the right are being honest about what Charlie Kirk stood for.

Wilhoit's Law out in force at the moment.

Even if this were true, a big part of his brand is that the elites hate him.

Vincent van Gogh, Rain, 1889 philamuseum.org/collection/o...

He found out they gave the Nobel Prize to Henry Kissinger.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

It turns out that even though LLMs can perfectly mimic human conversation, they still can't pass the Turing test.

I consume a lot of one of these three.

If you're proud of what you're doing show your face 👏👏 If you're proud of what you're doing show your face 👏👏 If you're proud of what you're doing and you don't care that we're booing, if you're proud of what you're doing show your face.

One must imagine King Midas happy.

Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Maya Angelou, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Maryse Condé, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Han Kang, Wole Soyinka, Edward Saïd, Gayatri Spivak.

My brain's first reaction: This is such a magical, impossible image! My brain's second reaction: No, it's not that complicated, all he had to do was turn the camera upside-down.

And it's the default in public places like airports.

My first thought was that this was a waste of a good sandwich, but it came from Subway, so it all makes sense now.

What a crap historical analogy.

Oh, you're a fan of history? Name three historians from the Annales School.

In Georgetown. The point is not to stop crime, the point is to intimidate urban liberals.

Returning to the scene of the crime.

Holy shit

Right wing belief that cities are crime-infested hell-holes is plausible because if everyone in them held right wing values, they would be.

You hate these people because they are Asian. I hate these people because they went to Harvard. We are not the same.

Ghislaine Maxwell has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

Kukla, Fran, and Ollie Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Twin Peaks

Oh man, I could totally go for some Pierogis right now.

The Epstein developments are really exposing populism's contradictory attitudes about elites. Do they deserve elite impunity? Or are they engaged in a conspiracy to exploit and undermine the true people?

Lots of examples of this. On the Waterfront has a similar scene. Not to excuse it, but I think it's better to classify this as "clumsy attempt to show the guy convincing the girl to admit her true feelings" rather than "they thought sexual assault was nbd."

You know how people put white bicycles at the spots where cyclists were hit and killed? We need to do something like that for the ICE disappeared.

"What perfect albums came out when you were 16?"