Worse than 2018, which was about D+8, is how we get the Senate

It’s very weird that Opening Day is Wednesday. It’s still mid March

*salutes beaver comrades*

Salt Lake County Auditor Chris Harding palling around with Nick Shirley and this piece of racist inbred trash is pretty shocking if you know how normal Chris had appeared as recently as 2 years ago MAGA and Twitter corrupts all

men whats stopping from you wearing slutty little shorts like this

It was always obvious that the "Return education to the classics" framing was just a smokescreen for getting rid of other humanities, but that when push came to shove, the classics themselves were not going to be protected.

Basically the shifting goals means Iran won, and I don’t say this flippantly

If you have no sense of irony, are you still really Jewish?

Did the economist do an x man cover homage

incredibly good news

Ethylene is vital both to the production of many plastics, and for controlling the ripening process of fruit.

he's like a walmart greeter in hell www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/a...

"Beware the green menace" are the dying words of a bowler-hatted civil servant who has collapsed in woodland in the pre-titles of an episode of The Avengers.

Everything about this including the byline is hilarious.

people, I am tired of repeating myself. re-file skulls when you're done with them. that means back in the skull filing cabinet. not on the cabinet, not near the cabinet, in the cabinet. we have a skull filing cabinet for a reason

And there seems to be no amount of commercial failure that will get the maga media to change the story that they’re maga-fying because that’s obviously what the people want and surely this will restore American faith in the media… eventually.

Granted, I don’t follow Ezra Klein closely, but it seems like he never revisited any of the assumptions he was making when he participated in the attempted martyrdom of Charlie Kirk. He never thought to himself “gee, I wonder why this opinion didn’t go over well, maybe I was wrong about things”

The media just seems to keep doing stuff that goes according to that original script — Trump 2.0 is chill, good economy, pussyhat types given up — no matter what actually happens and no matter how often it fails.

And, of course, the attempted martyrdom of Charlie Kirk was another extremely vivid example. The media and political elites trying to drive it seemed to be caught absolutely flat-footed when it didn’t really catch on beyond the already dedicated maga faithful.

Like, I get that the point of Bari Weiss is to make CBS news maga-friendly or die trying, but she keeps seeming **genuinely surprised** that it’s not going well in a business or reputation sense.

Trump 2.0 has been marked by an increasingly wide and obvious gulf between media elites and the general American public, which the elites themselves seem oddly confused about.

“The wealthy cultural elite who run the media really, really wanted Trump to win” was a much better way to explain what happened in 2024. And the things we’re learning from the Epstein Files give some pretty solid evidence as to both how and why. The anti MeToo backlash was EXTREMELY important.

This is where the MTSW principle (do we have a nickname for that?) helped me more than anything else. bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

Also, I think immediately after the election a lot of us Trump haters spent a few months feeling devastated, hopeless, and powerless, like we’d lost a war, and we had to spend a little time processing that.

That’s why I point to DOGE as the moment it really started to crumble, because that was when even people who weren’t dedicated Trump haters started to go “wait, what the hell are they doing over there?”

This narrative, of course, required that Americans have the general sense that under Trump 2.0 things were going well, which the media did their best to manufacture, and it was going great! Until Trump actually got into office and started doing stuff!

They were preparing a narrative for him to step into which was basically that all Americans were now in perfect agreement that Biden’s presidency had been an unqualified disaster and they had learned their lesson that Trump was actually a GOOD president and that’s why they wanted him back.

I remember the period roughly from November 2024 through the start of DOGE was characterized by a pretty all-encompassing media narrative that Trump 2.0 was going to be chill and have a good economy, he was genuinely popular this time, the pussyhat types had given up completely

Beginning to think this Sabres team might be something special

[NBA Jam voice] HE'S HEATING UP!!!

this guy's combination of obscene wealth and inability to keep his dick in his pants ended vaccination in America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fetterman is a sellout! Yeah, I said it. No Democrat should be voting to confirm Mullin.

Bill Raftery dropped "Take me to the Balkans, please!" tonight, we do not give him enough credit for being an champion endurance lunatic

Tough loss for High Point, but sometimes you just run into a more prayed-up opponent.

As Paris elected a new mayor today who literally biked to his victory speech on the city’s bike infrastructure network, it’s hard not to feel like things are going in the opposite direction in the US capital

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I think it's incredibly funny that these guys won in large part on the principle "if you're explaining, you're losing" and now they're pretty convinced they can explain their way out of all of this

I’m honestly curious if writers like this are just completely unaware of the changing direction of American public opinion on Israel, or if they are in fact aware and so are trying to grab whatever they can before it’s too late.

Israel's foreign minister is scolding the German ambassador to Israel and implying that he's an antisemitic bigot for being "obsessed" with "Jews living [illegally] in Judea and Samaria".

i was talking to a friend of mine who lives in DC and she talks about how there are huge pics of trump hanging all over the place and it feels like north korea. grim shit obviously but also that is happening exactly nowhere else

*offer not valid for young women in STEM

I need Congress to do something about this shit. I placed one goddamn order. I do not need four fucking emails about it.

“We don’t want to be used as political pawns” Clausewitz:

He could have ridden the maverick-in-Carhartt shtick to the moon but he doesn't want to be a maverick, he wants to be an asshole

But also, an R-majority Congress isn't going to pass 1️⃣ anything of substance 2️⃣ on something as controversial as AI 3️⃣ in an election year 4️⃣ where Rs are expecting to get thoroughly schlonged bsky.app/profile/itsj...

Does it count as a "policy" when it's just demanding Congress to pass a law?

it's like the 10th or 12th most salient thing about this post but... "mutilization"?