I was talking to my (pretty progressive) younger brother about DSA's...weird relationship with the Cuban government and I'm afraid he landed a hit with 'it's their emotional-support communist state'

Am I shocking my cats, or are my cats shocking me? (They say #1)

Once again the internet demands to know: if not friend, why friend-shaped?

This is how it starts. You turn 40. You hear the new version is terrible. And then you don't upgrade. You just sit on the old iOS, because it works and you know it. Before you know it, you're asking your grandkids to do the computer for you. (Also you acquire grandkids)

*grits teeth* NIMBYs...welcome to the resistance

You actually only miss 99% of the shots you don't take.

Who knew that moving other people's blankets around was a coast guard pilot job

Suspect there are several Cook Gov ratings shifts coming, all in the same direction, including this one from toss-up to lean Dem. (If Dems sweep all the toss-up or better for them Gov races, they'll have Govs in all of the swing presidential states in 2028. Can't hurt! Not a done deal yet though).

A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.

It’s so difficult being a big-tent party when some of the factions are too damn determined on burning that tent down. And then they blame you for making them light the matches.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

like!! bsky.app/profile/dipl...

this is a legitimately staggering waste of capacity and resources

Good use of Speech or Debate Clause immunity by Khanna here.

In the glory days of America (2024), we could point at Lysenkoism and laugh

I see a lot of Republican commentators are confused on the question of 'are Puerto Ricans American' in a way that the law and the basic facts of history and politics are not

i fucking hate handing it to piers morgan so much and the only reason i have to do it is because so many american talking heads are so completely toothless

Humans: nothing is so satisfying as the smell of your suffering, grass It is the smell of a job well done.

The way I know I accidentally went to the "discover" page is the horny explosion

social media is an mmo that happens to sometimes pay out in realworld influence and one of the important factors for success is how many NEETs and schizophrenics your faction commands, like cavalry and archers

Fun fact: The divorce scene in the Kid Rock show was an actual divorce showing a wife leaving her conservative husband.

Me, to my wife: I wish we need not have had the whole troop’s Girl Scout cookies at our house. My wife: So do I, and so do all who live to see such cookies. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the cookies that are given us.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

Two Dakota walked so that Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast Columbia could run

Just something deeply wrong when a government cannot follow processes and values that most human beings would deem minimally acceptable.

Curling is always the most wholesome sport

Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

Just remember everyone. He has to have it not happen every day, we only have to have it happen once.

The point is incentives. Democrats have no incentive to deliver to a left that will continually draw a line in the sand and then move it. Dems delivered what the left asked for. Then the left said “actually wait, we also want this, and if we don’t get it, we’ll torpedo you.” That’s not good.

Sullivan wasn’t a leftist! He was a right-winger - the original publisher of the Bell Curve in TNR - who went extremely right over Iraq and called for people to be imprisoned for opposing the war, and then had a repentance arc and went nominally liberal for a while before returning to form.

do not honestly know if this title is literal or metaphorical

Not unless they're duck-sized anyway

I know many Normies who have seen someone, usually a guy, blow through thousands of dollars on sports betting Very much the origin story of a 21st-century temperance movement

Made some nesting wooden owls!

this "heritage American" thing needs to be stamped out and verboten by the end of Woke 2.0 it's blasphemy against the founding principles of this nation and should not be tolerated in polite society

Chiropractors as a group are aggressively antivax. It's no surprise that this administration continues to support them. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

This is the thing I find most infuriating about centrist voters. Like I totally get not feeling like politics affects your life that much and so not getting very informed. But the utter *arrogance* with which they assert that both sides are the same and can't be dislodged from it by any information?

no it's much more philosophical, it's about whether or not given all the weight of the world and other things to be thinking about, Punxsutawney Phil *noticed* his shadow

I wrote a short story: borretti.me/fiction/julia

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Statutory miniBivens

Why does a senior Senate Democrat think that our country's relationship to another country ought to be primarily contingent upon that country's relationship to Israel? It should be needless to say but it's a bit strange, Israel isn't the US and this method obviously limits American maneuverability.

Absolutely wild that the party whose president keeps threatening war with NATO is better on national security. Real failure of messaging there (not assigning particular blame)