Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

If you want to know why Pete Hegseth is confident he'll face no consequences for blatant war crimes, just look at the list of people who attended Dick Cheney's funeral.

If some guy tells you that masculinity is in crisis right now what he’s actually telling you is that he is personally experiencing a crisis with his own masculinity. A real man wouldn’t notice a masculinity crisis because real men don’t notice things. Be a man. Be oblivious.

I’ve long suspected evangelical beliefs were a slop version of the original texts so all this scans

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

It's honestly astonishing how few other CEOs do not seem to have understood this quite basic point

Yes. It's a very common misconception about the past that horses were just a one-to-one replacement for cars - only the rich had carriages, few people rode on horseback for transportation, most horses were used for hauling, not transporting people. Most people (like most of human history) walked

On the one hand this is heinous, on the other hand under this logic an enterprising Democratic president can declare tech billionaires to be terrorists who are poisoning the American people with their products

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

how many times has the Seattle Times run a "compassion is great, but" editorial arguing for a lack of compassion at this point? we get it, you think homelessness should be illegal, find literally anything else to talk about. (Also, no Seattle neighborhood has been "destroyed," good god.)

“Cancellation limbo”: when you’re definitely not cancelled but not as celebrated as you used to be. This is one reason why “cancel culture” discourse is so tiresome: a lot of people are using it to mean “my life was affected in some negative way by my actions” www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

Everything with conservatives is a pretextual lie to declare why you can’t argue with them. We’re at war. It’s in the Bible. It’s genetics. Your side cheated. It’s bad for business. Everything must be set up so they cannot lose

I wish the press would draw the line between Trump saying all of Biden’s policies are null because of autopen and the larger conservative project of declaring all votes from nonwhites are invalid. There’s a long history of white supremely and nullification

Welcome to the Age of Just Giving Up. Everyone simultaneously decided human cognition is no longer necessary and outsourced their creativity

The purpose of a system of is what it does.

Venezuela has become the Trump regime’s comfort atrocity. And it’s only a matter of time before it gets even worse. Possibly far worse. Possibly very fast.

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

i hate this account but legitimately why is the wife of the deputy chief of staff for policy on CNN demanding basic legal answers out of educated people. is everything really slop vs people who think words still mean things

This bleak (but unfortunately compelling) thread makes me think that the individual human mind/psyche is just ill-suited to being plugged into machines that allow everyone everywhere to be simultaneously talking about everything that has ever happened or could have happened at any time in any place.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

In sworn testimony during his trial, a witness testified that former President Hernández once said that he wanted to “shove drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” Now he is going to be granted a pardon by President Trump — not even a commutation — and be freed from a 45-year prison sentence.

The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window

Great now I’m thinking of squirrels wearing little George Washington wigs

Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government

The part that pisses me off the most is there will never be a reckoning for this, like many of the atrocities the US has committed in its relatively short history. None of these people will be held responsible. And years from now they will be on dancing with the stars without a care. Sickening.

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

Handing out nuts to the squirrels and crows, telling them that today only they have exclusive access

Worth watching this whole clip. Indistinguishable from Nazi leaders talking about Jews in the 1930s.

how do you come back from this, we don't even have broad agreement that people are entitled to choose their representatives and elected officials. there's no baseline of shared values

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Happy DeathBlart Day to all who celebrate! www.themcelroy.family/podcasts/til...

Eric Adams pardoned a turkey for a $5,000 bribe today

There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Near Me

Because West Virginia national guard absolutely shouldn't have been there, the administration reaction will be that much more extreme to head off those questions.

Really can’t come up with a better summation of the economy than companies arguing that it isn’t illegal to break the law when you use tech

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration. It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Go Zahn or go home

I am not an expert, but judging from these results having a water view turns one into an unbelievable jackass

Brain is part of your biology in case any of you “biological sex” freakos need to be reminded

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Remember when you had to shove an old lady out of the way to get at the best Black Friday sales? We used to be a proper country

I grew up in a conservative community, so this is easy for me to see. Women are often the loudest advocates for patriarchal values, because they believe they can carve out their own power by punching down — controlling other women and especially children. Anti-vaxx women fit that model exactly.

can’t decide if i’m too stoned or not stoned enough for what’s happening here

For a moment I thought this meant Australia had helicopter sharks

A sad irony in Washington, D.C., where West Virginia National Guardsmen were shot today. Six days ago, a court ruled their deployment was illegal, but stayed the order pending appeal. My heart goes out to these public servants and their families. oag.dc.gov/sites/defaul...