Tech Right/TPOT discourse makes a lot of sense if you realize they're stuck in a perma-2024 time loop. They never have to reckon with the fact that their support for Trump was foreseeably stupid, just pretend like Trump isn't actually president!

Hundreds of people googling to assess whether they agree the mummy is hot

Don't like how ZOG posting has gone mainstream like this.

eventually we’re going to acknowledge that Burrito Taxi discourse is not a subspecies of Treats Discourse but instead belongs to the Gambling On Your Phone clade

You must be *this feminine* [💅] to use the bathroom facilities

I have no idea how to make anybody care that the actual "pronoun policing" is coming from the people who want to create a surveillance state in order to regulate gender nonconformity out of existence to a degree that has no precedent in modern society.

Hard-to-face fact: Congress was more functional when it was completely dominated by lawyers The year Medicaid was passed, lawyers made up ~75% of the House and 67% of the Senate.

Problem here is that I don't think LOTR is actually a good setting for games, it's a setting that serves Tolkien's stories

One big problem with Bezos' statement is that I doubt Bezos pays much tax, he probably lives off loans. Bezos' taxes need to increase a lot more than "doubling."

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

incidentally, a problem I have not yet seen covered - free to a good home! - is that AP plays a pillar role in election calling in the United States and their financial condition is such that they will be stretched to do this this November and may not exist in anything like today's form by 2028

A recurring pet peeve of mine is an assumption that if X has a poor reputation or low trust, it's necessarily the fault of X - either because X behaved badly or communicated poorly Frequently other actors have a motivation to attack X, and there's no perfect thing X could've done to nullify that

you can tell it's a sports day because people are inexplicably talking in manic code words

In Georgia they speak of "the 3%l

My hottest parenting take is that Raffi is not only the great to ever do it, but he’ll probably never be bested. Michael Phelps-ass children’s songwriter.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, at CAP event, on how House Democrats see this moment: “Either MAGA extremists are going to break the country, or we’re going to break them. And our goal is to break them. We will defeat them. We have to beat them electorally and then we have to break their spirit.”

A hobbit sacrificed his health and happiness to destroy that thing, and people go "pfft, fossilized coral"

My cat walked into my room, yelled at me, and then settled down to snooze comfortably He didn't even actually want anything, he ruined my last hour of sleep for nothing Worried that he voted for Trump

the American electorate has not exactly covered itself in glory with regards to Trump and politicians are responding accordingly they might be misreading things but so might we

Not to defend Mike Johnson, but we really get the government we deserve. If you want fewer millionaires in Congress, you need to increase the salary of members, but more importantly, congressional staff. Banning stock trading without a concurrent pay bump means only rich people run for office

Why would I thank this website for exposing me to toxic chemicals

Boo, Trump is alive and I missed the few minutes of intense hope that he was dead

I would like to hear a politician explain by what mechanism they expect to do better investing than a blind trust with professional management would if it isn’t insider training

This is worse than taking the lawsuit to court. He would have lost. He had no private right of action to sue the government over this and he suffered no damages in any event. These were tax returns he pledged to release voluntarily.

Cleanliness is taking a shower after camping for two days I feel so alive

We can conclude that socialists believe in nothing but ruin, then. Looking at the scoreboard.

it's been obvious this is where we're heading for at least 4-5 years now — trump and his paymasters in the oil industry and petrostates are trying to shackle the US to fossil fuel so Americans can be the buyers of last resort for otherwise stranded oil and gas assets.

The rapture came and Congressmen Kean was the only one good enough for heaven 😢

Also it's in color. Color didn't begin to hit major dramatic events until the 1930s, and didn't become universal until the 1960s

This was a mourning ritual for a fallen vehicle, please be respectful

Some rules change, but the fundamentals are set in stone - teenagers can never have the correct amount of sex

Every time some dipshit conservative economist or magazine columnist writes “actually the problem is that young people aren’t drinking, smoking or screwing”, I should get to kick them in the shins twice. WHERE WAS THIS ENERGY WHEN I WAS A SMALL TOWN MORMON TEENAGER?

A librarian lured me into checking out a classic of Russian literature by saying it has a talking cat

The note-writing juror, probably

How many football fields is that Why are they improving instead of using standard American units

We are governed by people who are deathly afraid of power and seem unaware that they do, in fact, have a majority in Parliament.

This implies that in a thousand years, ersatz "it" happening will become an MCU tentpole

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Consistent theme in the Trump era that his supporters see invoking his name as a form of racial antagonism

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

Similar strategy in nature led to orca cannibalism

I do not think ensuring your child eats their vegetables is rape, no

Honestly I think you have to consider the MCU, the original Harry Potter octology, and the Peter Jackson LOTR trilogy as just "wow, this was really good project management on top of being some pretty decent films"

this is fucking infuriating, why tf is everyone deciding brownback had a point all of a sudden, and not remembering kansas still hasn't fully recovered, and also NOT ADDRESSING ANY OF OUR CURRENT PROBLEMS PROPERLY

I’m willing to give someone like Petola a slop pass, I am not willing to give people from D+a billion states that privilege