Key to understanding contemporary American politics is that the Republican Party's defining characteristic is that it's a welcoming home for unlikeable people. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m52ndshej22l

The Democrats need to have a message ready to go when the fatal high-profile crash happens It’s gotta be coordinated and it’s gotta have teeth Trump’s resignation is hardly too small a demand

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Trying to play the blame game with Democrats now is so funny. You spent 9 months acting like a dictator, posting pics of yourself wearing a crown. And now you're powerless in the face of uhh Chuck Schumer? Ok man lol

She's not even that far off from doing it

I think a lot about the leaked signal chat, in which it was clear that folks were claiming presidential backing without any evidence. That’s how our government is running. People lying that they’ve talked to the president.

This is an interesting thread and all I can say is: read MASTER OF EVIL when it comes out on Tuesday. Droid sentience, free will, and freedom, is a part of the story.

Aspects of our political system which are currently failing and long overdue for reform: - The two-party system - The US Senate - An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency - A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive

i've talked about this before but it's interesting how bathroom bills in the mid 2010s were partially defeated by "it isn't happening" - that republicans were flailing at imaginary problems, so they created an entire media system to find people who say there were harmed by trans women

FRANKENSTEIN is on NETFLIX but- still in many theatres- please consult your local listings and choose your watch/rewatch preference!

me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted should have known better

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

so, the plan is to ruin thanksgiving, ruin christmas, make everyone’s lives harder, all stick, no carrot, and then… what? january 2026: “hey, we are the party that ruined fucking everything, let’s talk about the new year!”

One Ping Only, Antilles

some day i will go on my soapbox on how Raylan Givens and Nick Miller from New Girl are the same character

[Thread] Do you know the story of the V-19 Torrent starfighter, introduced in Clone Wars (2003-2005)? This anniversary is an opportunity for a short thread on a ship... whose creator didn't even know that he would see his design used in animated series... 😌 1/16

My mom was a lab tech for Watson & Crick when they did their DNA work. (Mom was a lab tech for two sets of Nobel Prize winners. She rocked). My parents hung out with them in Cambridge for years. (I have a photo of W&C holding me at my christening). No matter how bad you think Watson was--

"I may look like a girl, but I'm not! I'm a cyborg." In this essay, we explore Terror of Mechagodzilla from its original and intended perspective: transsexual.

this is going to be a common issue going forward— where americans outside of public health policy start demanding that we fix/do stuff that is no longer feasible. republicans obliterated our field and no one stopped them. if we want that capacity back, it’s going to take decades of work & investment

You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns

I’m not saying “Biden was a bad president who was punished at the ballot box; Trump is a bad president who’s being punished at the ballot box” is a perfect theory, but I think it’s better than most of the theories getting thrown around Your theory shouldn’t have LESS explanatory power than that

This feels not thought-through Like They want to starve kids to put pressure on Democrats But They just got walloped in an election that proves people aren’t buying the line that the shutdown is Democrats’ fault Now they’re doing something that is VERY hard to spin for them

Imagine the kind of greedy shit bag you’d have to be to fight this hard to make sure children starve.

a government agency is mad that somebody did some batman art depicting them as the bad guys.

This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done

NEW COLLECTOR INTERVIEW! Many of you will know David Willis (@damnyouwillis.bsky.social) by reputation, but now the legendary comic creator & Transformers fan is taking us behind the scenes of his collection! With Dinobots, Hot Shots, Ratchets & Sunstorms aplenty --> tfsource.com/blog/2025/11...

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

My hot take is that all villains are tragic villains, if we're given sufficient access to their interiority & backstory. Redemption arcs & empathy with villains aren't about excusing harm - on the contrary, acknowledging humanity is to emphasise our constant, ongoing capacity to *choose otherwise*.

It has been wildly irresponsible and probably actively mendacious that the media painted a picture of a GOP/fascist realignment rather than prioritizing 1) the *unprecedented* last-minute candidate swap due to that POTUS’ infirmity 2) the intense fatigue and disgust that D voters had with the admin.

Happy @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstien day to all who celebrate

With what we're seeing towards not only Mamdani but towards his voters from Jewish institutions, we white Jews really, truly have to accept the fact that our communities have MASSIVE Islamophobia, anti-Arab, and anti-Black racism problems.

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants. This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I am not fucking joking when I say the English-speaking video game world would be nothing without GameFAQs. Everyone and their mom used it (literally, my mom and all her friends). If you played video games in the 2000s you probably knew GameFAQs in the same way most people know, like, Wikipedia

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

If the state didn’t want to create public civil rights martyrs they should perhaps stop trying to make examples of people by publicly taking away their civil rights

Everyone’s already weighed in on the lack of Dante but I WILL say that the two creatives returning are interesting in that Columbus wrote a sleazy gore-spattered hard-R horror and Spielberg was the main force pushing it into a kid-friendly Gizmo direction

Love a good Gaines dunk because much of MAGA’s rise has been down to the cultural destigmatization of poor sportsmanship, cowardice, and self-serving dishonesty

lol, lmao

I can see that on an individual level but research suggests that what we see on TV normalizes shit in the public consciousness. Will & Grace (for all its flaws) for example helped normalize gay relationships. CSI has gotten juries to accept quack forensic science. And most cop shows /1

i love bluesky because everybody says they really fucking hate Republican war criminals and then cries tears of blood on behalf of a show from a decade+ ago that lauded John McCain as a human saint it's okay to like problematic trash and it's okay when people don't like the same trash as you do

for all of the axiolitico talk about how dems are on the verge of caving, reading between the lines, every story suggests that they're not ready to cave without getting something more than a handshake deal, and a handshake deal is all thune is offering, and he can't even guarantee the house on it

The fact that people who would have described themselves as “policy nerds” between 1995 and 2015 are currently falling all over themselves to defend the social relevance of “Parks & Recreation” is evidence that “Parks & Recreation” wasn’t nearly mean enough to “policy nerds.”

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

I have thought about this at least once a day since Kris posted it.

-called it -maybe ironic but I doubt it’s incidental -DJT may not understand the extent to which scotus is trying to save him from himself which could lead to…funniness

You really can make some sense out of the seemingly absurd 2024 election of DJT if you accept: -elites and media were fully behind DJT -Biden was a Bad pres and Terrible campaigner for round 2 (to put it in the most mild of terms!) -failure to punish DJT for 1/6 undercut Dem narrative

They also believed he was innocent of crimes because the DOJ never prosecuted him in a meaningful way, including for sedition. In early 2021, most Americans DID think he was guilty. That changed over three years thanks to DOJ inaction. They thought "If he were really a threat, they would stop him."