Some Onion articles belong on continuous replay. theonion.com/man-with-20-...

whole lotta people holding on to real-life "fell for it again" awards right now

Evergreen: "Man With 20 Rifles Can’t Remember If His Goal To Start Or Stop Violent Overthrow Of Government" www.theonion.com/man-with-20-...

Quite apart from the historical illiteracy on display here, she works for a man who, when he's not pardoning convicted violent insurrectionists, sells pardons for cash.

Sinclair wanted their stations to run a 2-hour special celebrating his life. the reason it was not made is almost certainly because they couldn't find two hours of footage that would make viewers think 'it's a shame this guy died.'

Seems almost quaint at this point, but Patel and Bondi both testified under oath at their confirmation hearings that this would not happen.

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

There's more of this today than usual, and it's remarkable how, in these peoples' imaginations A) they speak for everyone; and B) none of us have European colleagues, friends and relatives with whom we interact every single day.

The “tax is tyranny” libertarians seem to be fine with actual tyranny.

Google Gemini is going to be a life changing for technology for anyone who doesn't know how to point at their own car

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

I would like a profile setting that says "ask users who reply to you with the word 'actually' in the first sentence if they really want to do that"

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

I think we need to get back to insisting on this:

“You have a right to flee for your safety, and so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you.” - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, June 2025

Danish guy gets it

Kirk kills at least three AIs by talking to them, but in real life it turns out it works the other way around.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

If Maduro was so dangerous, why has Trump spent the last year deporting the people who fled his regime? saltypolitics.substack.com/p/if-maduro-...

Whatever's going on between Trump and Putin will soon be made clear. Trump now has world's largest oil reserves and a powerful lever. If he cuts Venezuelan production, prices rise and Russia fights on. If he lowers prices, Russia implodes and Ukraine wins. Which path will he take? (h/t R_YP) 5/

The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

lmao jfc

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

I don't even want to imagine what the "least holy" water is like

"Did you wash your hands after using the toilet?" "Well, in a way..."

They're desperate to rationalize "heritage American" as if it's some serious intellectual theory and not a white nationalist twitter meme. Which doesn't work because it is, in fact, just a white nationalist twitter meme.

As an aside, someone needs to make and sell a glass bottle lined with this design and with a stopper in that shape.

Crikey

Hmf. Just stopped in at #TraderJoes and saw one of the worst bits of #shrinkflation I've ever seen: walnut halves and pieces, same price ($6) but now 12oz instead of 16. That's equivalent to raising the price by one-third, at a stroke. And the same amount of plastic packaging of course.

Okay, are you ready? Here goes: #Pluribus, but with #Neuralink instead of RNA from space. And instead of everyone thinking together, #Grok is introducing, amplifying or suppressing things. Go on, tell me #Musk hasn't been thinking about it.

I know I’m not the first person to say it but the hyper commercialization of the Grinch story is pretty sad and a perfect illustration of the ability of capital to absorb critiques painlessly

STEAL THIS PILLOW

Well, congratulations @digitalocean.com: the proportion of spammers, vulnerability probes and exploit attempts, and scrapers that don't respect limits or exclusions hitting my servers from your IP address allocations is so high that I finally blackholed your entire ASN. Including IPv6. Bye-bye now!

Historian: AI has no place in historical research or writing. AI pusher: You don't know what you're talking about! Historian: I do. I am a historian. AI advocate: Luddite! Historian: *writes twenty-seven post thread about Luddism*

The way to persuade a competent, disciplined professional is to condescend to them and presuppose that they can't possibly know what they're talking about.

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I mean it is a really courageous of James Comey go after Martha Stewart and Hillary Clinton when Epstein, Trump, Weinstein and more were kings of NY

Is there any better example of "joyless" than "can't enjoy Christmas because of the thought that somebody, somewhere is saying 'happy holidays'"?