Because equal application of the law would seem to disadvantage a Republican elite, do not expect to happen in this case.

States can and should enact laws requiring the paid staff of members of Congress to report any actual or potential inability to perform the member’s duties to the governor in a timely fashion. Also withholding or lying about that information should be a state felony.

Article I defines a Senate vacancy as being like a resignation, not as being equivalent to death. Absenting oneself from Washington and refusing to return to Washington without explanation is in effect resignation and would be treated as such by any private employer. Beshear should declare vacancy.

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they're not obsessed with sparta really. It's like fight club. They don't read books. They're obsessed with the cinematic adaptations (in this case 300. They're really into abs)

(Pops head up) People are talking about white people in heavy makeup playing other races in old movies (thanks to a tantrum about a certain film) and that is an important topic but here’s the deal: more often than not, they didn’t bother with makeup and everyone was just white. Still happens

In the Wisconsin governor’s primary, I’m currently a bit torn with my ranking of which candidates I think would make a good governor diverging from my ranking of which candidates I think would be a good candidate.1/

So, let me get this straight- Lettuce from Taylor Farms had been linked to the cyclospora outbreak. Taylor Farms CEO flies to the White House, makes a "donation" to Trump, and all of a sudden, the FDA walks back its finding, claiming it was a "false positive"?

I'm both relieved and humiliated by the practical level of competencies this administration demonstrates. If we're going to have a personalist authoritarian regime, a really stupid bad one is probably best.

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

Congressional testimony of Justices Kagan and Barrett raises the question whether, in light of Slaughter, the Supreme Court Police are unconstitutional. 👇

Ahem

it's sooo funny that the marvel movies eventually replicated the exact thing people disliked about the comics and preferred the movies for: overstuffed event crossovers that intimidate readers, demand you look at a whole bunch of other shit to know the story, and don't even tell a good story

I would be more down with the DSA as an institution if A) Their platform included literally any socialism at all and B) If the white dudes among them spent less time whining about how Bernie Sanders failed to win much support among Black Democrats in 2016 or 2020.

19-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales died defending this country. Think about that while politicians demonize immigrants and terrorize Latino communities. Americans with names like Gonzales have always fought, bled, and died for this nation. RIP to her and Lt. Tyler Feehan. 🇺🇸

“He is willing to sacrifice six crew members for his own survival: Not a red flag. Everyone must come up with their own answer to the trolley problem. Never judge another person’s choice until you yourself have taken a turn at the lever.”

FDA: We found Cyclospora in this company's lettuce. [company visits White House and donates millions of dollars to the grift funds] FDA: No we didn't.

See, when Hunter Biden consorted with prostitutes, that was everybody's business, but Barron Trump palling around with accused sex traffickers is a private matter.

A different, clearer view of Trump not holding or carrying the 14-pound World Cup trophy but merely putting his hands on it while a younger man carries the trophy. If I were too weak to lift 14 pounds, I simply wouldn’t demonstrate that fact in public.

I’m so old that when I was a kid, Italy was the byword for unstable parliamentary systems with constant new governments and Britain was the model for stable parliamentary systems.

matthew always brings the receipts

I haven’t written a creator owned book since 2022’s BLOOD STAINED TEETH. So I thought I’d hit you a double hit of two of the best comics I’ve written. One is about something I love : Art One is about something I hate: climate change ( and billonaires )

Show me a “libertarian” who eradicated a disease.

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If Trump accepted the new plane, he should be required either to use it or to travel some other way. We spent $1 billion in taxpayer money to outfit the plane, and it was his job to see to it that the work was acceptable. He accepted it. Put the whole USAF 747 fleet into mothballs.

It is deeply shameful that this is what the president was doing the same weekend more American service members were dying in the war he started.

To be fair to Troy, one of the trashest movies ever made, Sean Bean was the ideal Odysseus circa 2004.

Trump got utterly humiliated at the World Cup. Booed, pushed out of frame, photoshopped out, and he looks morbidly obese standing next to these athletes. He’s AT LEAST four Spanish soccer players wide.

Just watched a Brie Larson movie because I’m a sucker like that and holy cow it’s just an earnest glorification of parental child abuse. “Yay abusive dad, he’s awesome!” starts the film as icky subtext and finishes the film as viscerally disgusting text.

new “come on, grandpa, time for bed” meme just dropped

If I was an old man too weak to lift or carry the World Cup trophy (14 pounds) I would simply not pretend to hold my hands on it during the award ceremony while a younger man lifts and holds the trophy. One could just not publicly demonstrate one’s physical infirmity.

That’s a funny line but to be serious for a moment, Rodri’s cabinet will not be full until he wins the Henny Derby.

So my suspicions were right and he isn’t strong enough to lift the trophy. Instead a man lifted it and carried it and presented it to the athletes and old man Trump just held his hand on the trophy for a moment.

What are your Mount Rushmore of comic book movies?

The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

love them or loathe them, there's one thing you can't deny about the Argentinian football team: they're a bunch of cunts

Allow me to be the first to say: ¡Viva España!

¡España!

“What if we let our opponent, who previously could barely complete a single pass, just possess the ball for minutes at a time? Let’s try that now.”

Why is Spain suddenly no longer playing like a team that wants to win a soccer game?

Offsides should count feet only. And never apply to balls played from within the offensive penalty box.

Shocked Torres wasn’t called offside for passing to himself in a forward position.

the yard sign understander has logged on. the nicene creed understander has logged on. the combination yard sign/nicene creed understander has logged on.

White House Border Czar Tom Homan has the audacity to blame shooting victims for not complying with an unmarked car. He smugly insists the vehicle had flashing lights—until the anchor reveals the video shows absolutely none. His pathetic defense? "I haven’t seen the video." Absolute garbage logic.

Wild how Argentina’s offense doesn’t even try until they’re down 1-0 with ≈10 minutes left. Seems a suboptimal strategy to me but 🤷‍♂️

I miss the golden goal.

THE BELGRANO SINKS AGAIN!!!

A thing I’ve appreciated about Messi is that he’s so skilled that Argentina has played a much cleaner game with him than they used to. They’re showing a lot of their old, ugly, thuggish ways here today. Reverting to form.

“Bumped off it!” Dude was shoved hardcore, but Argentina gets away with that all the time so fair enough.

1. This was always a likely scenario — a match that degenerates. 2. Spain should be able in the extra period to play around with their prey. But you still have to kill it. 3. Dibu Martinez is a hell of a keeper.