If this is true, they sniped ICE detainees. Jesus christ.

i hate unga high-level week

unlike in the Republican Party, this conspiracism has received close to zero institutional support… but the lane is wide open for any candidate that wants to be the vessel for these people

had some fun writing this shit

ok, i'll give rfk jr this: "it's a kennedy miracle!" is an extremely funny punchline

extremely powerful midcentury boston accent

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

this might be the most incredible Q&A I've ever seen

cass sunstein has written against "partyism", which he defines as disliking people based on the political party they belong to, but i would like to argue that a lot of the US's problems are "partyism", as in "elites whose sole motivating principle is getting famous people to attend their parties".

to be abundantly clear, murray rothbard endorsed david duke when he ran for senator, viewed black people as inferior, and had a tenuous-at-best relationship with liberal democratic institutions

So cool that our ambassador to Türkiye and special envoy to Syria is a corrupt real estate mogul who is equal parts racist and ignorant.

laurie anderson on her grandmother

man the wifi in heaven is fucking phenomenal

trying to explain how i got my hands on a vintage 1988 michael dukakis collectible figurine doll at an estate sale and this guy keeps interrupting to ask if i’d be into the kink scene at all and if im seeing anyone and im like ok????? i dont see how that’s relevant to the discussion at hand

we should be very blunt and call RFK Jr. what he is—a eugenicist who does actually believe that certain kinds of people are “undesirables” who should be eradicated from the population at any cost

there is a terrible, bitter irony in how the Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962—a lesser-discussed achievement of JFK that made funding available to guarantee all children could get vaccinated for polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and other diseases—is now likely to be undone by his nephew.

the most pro-measles administration in history

listen, i'll accept just about everything except someone describing other people as "neurospicy"

janet mills seems like a generally palatable governor, but idk why you'd put an 80yo, relatively conservative democrat up against susan collins unless you are just really risk averse and want to avoid the possibility of a huge blowout

lost with a partially exposed howard hughes disavowing the campaign run in his name and telling everyone not to vote for him

literally not in the text of the EO but okay

the admiral in this convo understands that deliberately killing civilians is a war crime and people who do it are war criminals

the attempts to remove jimmy kimmel from television are outrageous and should be resolutely opposed. i also find it pretty dismal how difficult it was to get many powerful people to care about far less insulated figures like rümeysa öztürk, mahmoud khalil, and badar khan suri.

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

im perhaps a bad christian but i think part of faith is learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, with a lack of perfect clarity, with your own weakness and inadequacy before God and that He doesn't operate like a vending machine, bestowing health, happiness, and wealth upon you for devotion.

so how do the rapture people square “you do not know the day nor the hour” with having a very precise calculation for the day of judgment

feel like @quoproquid.bsky.social's thoughts on Nixon are just as relevant to Trump II, tbh broke: Trump is Bush II woke: Trump is Nixon II

"knights of guinevere" has some extremely impressive animation and designs. beautiful to look at. vibes are immaculate. am hoping we'll get more of a story instead of just the general "world", but as a pilot, i think you can do much worse

wow, met joyce carol oates and the avakians on the same day. what a lucky fellow i am.

until someone makes a save button, i would really discourage people from making campaign trail scenarios longer than 30 questions

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

oopsie, doopsie, i appear to have accidentally degloved part of my finger

i will confess that i did not expect the conservative movement to treat the death of charlie kirk as a bigger deal than 9/11 or pearl harbor

Born too Late to go to war against Afghanistan Born too Early to go to war against Afghanistan Born just in time to go to war against Afghanistan

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

adam mckay is funny because he’s moved considerably leftward over the years and all of his satire has remained some of the dumbest shit being produced in Hollywood today

This is what I mean when I talk about why all of talk of a modus vivendi or a negotiated surrender is futile; the driving engine of right-wing politics now is grievance podcasting. What they want is to have access to modernity, and also to be frothing with fury and hatred towards it at all times.

getting some intense “paul wellstone memorial event” vibes from every promotion i see of Kirk’s funeral

wow. that's incredible. im learning this for the first time. imagine being an anonymous rando that people obsess over.

ben smith, boy, i dunno

no disrespect meant to lawyers, but whenever i canvass with a lawyer they treat every undecided voter like a hostile witness at a trial and seem to think they can beat the person into submission with facts and logic

this is never mentioned in W. but i want to declare that canonically no 9/11 somehow makes Eidos interested in publishing a fourth Gex game and it's a huge hit that completely redefines the landscape of the video game industry. by 2004, Gex is as big as Mario. everyone loves Gex

these ads drive me nuts. why is jimmy fallon trying to get me hooked on a shitty mobile game? why is lebron james? why the entire cast of modern family?????

“The FCC under Brendan Carr uses mergers and business interests of media companies as leverage to extract concessions, extract bribes, and extract censorship.”

i’d like to take him up on that offer

i legitimately cannot believe we entrusted the survival of the republic in the person of joseph robinette biden

what a cool and normal president we had

MRS. SCHLAFLY FOR VEEP? "The possibility that Alabama former governor, George Wallace, will have Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly as his running mate is being widely discussed among Republican women. It was revealed that Wallace is considering favorably the value of a woman candidate for vice-president..."