Why not rest and be content with 25x 'output' and why do they never tell you what the output IS

I have picked up my cat and said “this is a good boy, this is a nice boy, this is a mother’s angel” like Young Frankenstein many, many times so I’ll go with that

wonderful episode! (You could put like half of these movies on your Top 10 of the 1990s and be justified)

This long quote is, incidentally, a decent general description of How Things Work these days

Here’s what the air conditioning discourse illuminates: to deal with climate change we need to electrify & we need zero carbon electricity, we also need more electricity- like double or triple what we have. And we need more cooling & cooling equity. There will be folks fighting against all of that.

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

girlfriend with a korma i know i know it's savory

GUIDE: Welcome to the Great American State Fair! TOURIST: Incredible! And which state are we in right now? GUIDE: (violently shaking their head) Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

If you want to know JD Vance’s character, he demonized Haitians with an ugly and pernicious lie that they ate dogs and cats, joked about it. The Supreme Court has killed their Temporary Protected Status and they are scrambling. www.thebulwark.com/p/after-supr... www.thebulwark.com/p/after-supr...

when the right is in power it’s extremely important to platform them because they obviously represent the spirit of the people and when the right is out of power it’s extremely important to platform them for intellectual diversity and fairness

we’ve popularized Performative Assholes in weird ass ways. Like, there used to be sorting/sifting mechanisms like “standup comedy” or “shock jock” radio, to identify and find the few charismatic angry guys worth consumption (NOT saying it was all good). Reality TV, social media, it loosed the hounds

SCOOP: The CDC told state and local health programs that they have to align with the agency's new priorities -- including a move away from proven overdose prevention and a greater focus on "parental authority" in education. They got five days to align. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

this whole chain of posts is fascinating

This is nice!!!! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Very funny that Third Way's first candidate was Michael Dukakis, who also got his ass historically kicked, and their response was "Ah! Well, nevertheless"

But but but... SURELY Republicans will give us credit for moderation THIS time!

“lingering resentment against the people who didn’t think you were cool in college” doesn’t explain 100% of political punditry but it’s undeniably a lot of it

if you're an elected Democrat and you spend your time and energy making a big public stink about how much you oppose the unacceptable radicalism of your co-partisans, you are actively doing your opponents' work for them, for an audience consisting entirely of a small number of center-right donors

15 justices, 15 circuits, and senior status for long-serving SCOTUS justices, starting with assigning Alito, Roberts and Thomas to a new three-judge district court in Barrow, Alaska

This + fuck the police = how Gen X white people of the “punk rock” generation became pro-cop and anti-protestor.

Hormonal contraception is a gift to human survival, capacity, & health on par with vaccines. But because it’s mostly women’s survival, capacity, & health that it preserves, the right’s attack on it isn’t seen as the anti-science, anti-human regression as the anti-vax campaign is. That’s a mistake.

for what it's worth, James Carville *was* a professional political operative, 30 years ago, and for the subsequent decades has been a famous person who play-acts as a political operative on cable news and in Boomer-aimed political texts and emails.

...which is surely uncomfortable for a whole lot of Democrats!

It’s so fucking bad ass when a guy loves the president and the cops. Wears all their merch too. That to me is cool.

“NBC News estimated attendance at “more than 1,000,” while The Washington Post reported that “the crowd thinly covered an area about the length of the National Museum of American History, smaller than some summer outdoor movie screenings.”😂

I suppose I'd put it this way: small steps toward a big goal plays differently than small steps toward a small goal, even if they don't seem like they'd be that different in practice. The orientation around it actually does matter

that's well put. eg, Thaddeus Stevens aimed as high as possible but he'd always take whatever sized loaf he could get when it came time to count votes. a guy like Rahm Emanuel negotiates with himself and then gets bargained down from there

a grown man who thinks when other people have sex it needs to have "consequences" is a creep

Long term care is especially reliant on immigrant labor. Direct care workers are among the fastest growing categories of healthcare workers, and are disproportionately women of color & immigrants who are paid <$15/hour

Not sure how the lesson people draw from Trump’s past success with independent and low propensity voters is that such voters prefer moderation.

“‘Nobody is laughing at us anymore!’ declared Trump, like a school shooter explaining himself.”

great point by @juliaazari.bsky.social here: goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/does-the-d... and quite a good newsletter in general

Trump and Republicans "Big Beautiful Bill" has already taken food assistance away from more than 770,000 American kids: www.propublica.org/article/snap...

Truly difficult to find a more pro-cancer American government than this one.

Sophie’s Choice for a certain kind of Gen X nerd

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

The goon administration (both meanings accurate)

the white man with a gun is the normative citizen of Roberts Court jurisprudence and anything that doesn't feel like it's about him and for his benefit is extra-Constitutional

"is air conditioning ok" discourse is insult to injury when i'm in our nation's swampy capital waiting for an HVAC guy to show up to give me a second opinion about whether i need to replace my whole system and for how much

They want you to Broom. The Fucking. Soup. You cannot be mad your centrist waiter who brought back "it's mostly the same soup but bette rnow I promise" got yelled at. 8/x

No see when Roberts says the Constitution is colorblind, he means that much like the condition of colorblindness, the Constitution strongly favors white males.

sort of on the nose to be sitting in my house reading the news and hear the boom of massive military aircraft overhead getting ready to do another flyover for King Baby Dipshit

Alito, writing for the majority, sneered at the refugees’ argument that the admin's racial bias against Haiti played a role: "None of the cited statements by either the President/Secretary was overtly racial, + in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifications"

they have completely legally captured and redefined "racism" -- it still exists in their logic, it's now anything that tries to address actual racism (which again no longer exists and is also, just fine)

similarly, Alito thinks cutting up Black communities and drawing them into 3 separate majority-white districts is "race neutral" because it reflects GOP state legislators' "obvious antipathy" to Democrats having a chance to hold power

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it