why is the treasury secretary talking about this

i won't say names but it rhymes with "shnaritza schmivera"

if only his ritzy private school offered five full years of latin, he might have had a chance to figure that prefix out wait shit

peak bluesky is seeing the drummer of your favorite band make this comment on a post by a famous lawyer(!!) about a year-old washington post op-ed in order to shade jeff bezos for being a sycophant

the most impressive thing about john fetterman is that he's not just incredibly stupid he's also unbelievably bad at legislating

meg just wants to police other people’s vices and i gotta say once you watch a family member die of liver failure you have a lot less patience for this shit

the best part is that noem was living in government housing so i think she also just got evicted

markwayne mullin once fought bobby "huggie bear" kelley, marking the future senator's peak intellectual achievement

about 50% of my country is republicans so yeah i actually do feel that way about them and as a former canadian resident i really did love my neighbors and friends there we didn’t need this study

“peak-woke” so far

i mean yeah tears of joy i guess

that's me in the corner that's me in the riptide losing my composure

can the guys go "pod save" some other fucking country

rfk definitely gives olivier/marathon man

living like richard ii of england jfc

republican staffers all have that vacant, sweaty, can't-tie-a-tie sort of look

imagine a less cool anthony bridgerton but also much less hot

columbia journalism school, meet the impossibly low standards our society has for dudes (and also fortune magazine absolutely cannot admit that groceries are expensive as fuck)

from a seattle resident who deals with sunset at 4:15 pm for several months annually kindly shut the fuck up on this one

impossible to know if this is about school board budget policy or international war crimes

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

🎶 to the laaaand of the braaaaaave and the arse of the freeeee 🎶

but will their attorneys be human, that's the real question for you dorks

i thought disney cut this scene from peter pan

"[city name] i am in you!" cut it out it it wasn't funny in 2003 and it's not funny now

that coworker who is suddenly interested in phrenology? you guessed it

unrelated note i've become increasingly persuaded that after appomattox the union should have executed all confederate officers and elected officials as a condition for cessation of hostilities

nobody whines like a cop

there is only one dickens, sorry

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

aww the chuds went to pay homage to their favorite podcaster, how cute

former teacher here, it's the tech. lockdowns contributed inasmuch as they forced more kids onto screens. but it's the tech.

is it still a rule that if you meet the host in person you can’t be on the show? that’s why i’m not at that screening right now ken

a solid amount of modern political research suggests that national elections are best predicted via 1) incumbency reactions and 2) economic factors within 6 months of election day. so i’m gonna hold off on any predictions until summer.

here's a question: did kash patel benefit in any way (access, other vip-type privileges) because of his official position? if yes, then he accepted a gift, plain and simple

looking very regal sir keep it up

oh look all the high-density housing in the cover photo about how traffic noise can kill you is ON A FUCKING ARTERIAL seattle's comprehensive plan perpetuates health inequities for renters and generally for lower-income people by relegating them to loud, dangerous, and dirty zones of the city!

every single thing about this is wrong

unintentionally bringing us one step closer to 2029: the wrath of lina khan

john yoo? the torture guy? i don't want to hear a single peep about him until his obituary comes out

it's almost like THE MARKET ITSELF will tell you that white collar workers are not that important and should be compensated less relative to food workers, custodians, teachers, etc.

conflating an llm with wikipedia like those two products are identical is some peak smooth-brained nonsense

as a lifelong fan of the olympic games, who has always cheered for my country, i gotta say, with all due respect, fuck @usahockey.bsky.social for this specifically the men’s team can eat shit forever, y’all don’t represent me

why choose, i got two hands

against a salary cap but in favor of performance disincentives for baserunning this bad

💯💯💯

first time seeing the nuggets in person with jokic in the lineup and is there another league for him to play in, he’s so fucking good

i’d probably leave seattle more frequently if my somatic response to traffic on I-5 wasn’t “panic attack”

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Get ready for some very normal stuff over lunch