You’ve just opened up a Star Trek-themed restaurant. What are you calling it? Edith Keeler Must Fry!

Mark 15:24 “And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.”

Hey it's Christmas this week, which means we've made it through another year. Being alive is the most punk rock thing we can do rn, so good job, I'm proud of you. You're good exactly as you are and I'm glad you're here. The world is better with you in it. I love you and hope you have a good holidays

The ads write themselves if Democrats have the moral courage.

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

They can start with how Christians are willing to toss aside their beliefs, ethics, principles and own family members to support a raping, adultering, felonious old ghoul. Trump Derangement Exists, but like so many things conservatives bellyache about, the accusation is a confession.

IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: It seems people usually rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life' just before Christmas. Can I commend to you this marvelous essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that classic movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...

Normalize the two-day work week

My family and friends sold their soul to this guy because he was “pro life.” Now they have no soul, and abortion rates are up compared to Trump 1. This may not be true. I hope it’s not true, because if it is we aren’t worthy to be a civilization anymore. We put him in the White House twice.

like, vader/anakin's arc in the prequels is "talented young man is neglected by the system and struggles to find place in the world only to be taken in by fascist promises and then badly burned by those fascists and left wholly dependent on the systems they built with his help" - that's a good story

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers Hard Mode: No Gundam series, Battletech or Macross allowed

Churchill said the loss of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales was the greatest shock of the war. The era of battleships was over before Trump was born, and Trump is a wrinkly old man. Governance by shitpost and vibes is bad. Doing it with war is criminally stupid. Generational damage here.

I can only watch It’s A Wonderful Life every couple of years because it wrecks me every time. I made it to George telling his boss about the poison in the pills this time before I got emotional.

Vance has no core. I don’t mean it’s a black hole or void, I mean there’s no center. Talking to him or entering his mind is like walking through a slight mist. Nothing of substance. Just as fog turns the color of the light shining through it, Vance adopts his positions to the strongest in the room.

Something that should be noted is that this, right here, is the side effect of the absolute institutional rot and destruction that Vought, Trump, et. al have created by chasing out career civil servants who are competent. The DOJ just doesn't have the people or admin cycles to do this cover-up

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

In other contexts this note would be incredibly mundane. In the context of Jeffrey Epstein, it makes my skin crawl.

“Erika Kirk announces bid for First Lady.”

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Part of me thinks conservative guys like Romney, whose brains haven't been completely cooked by Twitter, are starting the sense the growing hostility toward the wealthy and if they don't find a compromise now then President AOC might be on the horizon.

Not so easy to govern as it is to shitpost and conspiracy peddle, is it, Dan?

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

It’s a hive organism. “Santa” is just a social interaction drone.

Our local news recently reported that a nonprofit is collecting toys for kids whose parents were deported. FB commenters were overwhelmingly negative. Many suggested ICE raid the toy drive and arrest the kids, too. I hate that I’m now aware of how much of our country craves this sort of cruelty.

If you haven't heard it, give the World War Z Audiobook a listen. The late great Rob Reiner voices "The Whacko," the US Vice President for the majority of the Zombie War. Its a great performance among many.

I am new to alcohol as I approach middle age (thank you Mormonism) and I just tried whiskey and eggnog for the first time. I regret that this combination may be what makes me an alcoholic. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Ok but really I had a quote in my bedroom growing up, attributed to Ezra Taft Benson and Reagan, saying Rome fell because men grew long hair and became effeminate, and as a consequence Rome fell in their third century. “We are now approaching the end of our second century.” I was an idiot child.

This is extremely “I am instead cheering ‘Go Robert Mueller and the rule of law,” energy, just way more racist.

This is entirely off topic, but for a second I thought the left was a single image, and was trying to figure out why two Bromdignagians were looming over a bookshelf.

one if the greatest disservices of my lifetime has been democrats and the media colluding to pretend these evangelical psychos are Fine and Normal People and not dangerous fanatics who should be shunned

There is a war on Christmas, it turns out, and it’s by the same Pharisees that would gleefully murder Christ with an AR-15 if he showed up on the steps of the White House, all before heading to church the next day to sing Hallelujah.

My favorite part of this is that for years conservatives claimed that Democrats politicize everything. “You can’t step outside without the woke mob making everything about politics.” And yet here we are, a movie based on the works of a very anti-Nazi author is being appropriated by conservatives.

The thermostatic backlash against the anti-vaccine movement may take a decade, but when it comes not even the ghouls on the Supreme Court will be able to save religious exemptions. Imagine sleek iron lungs with modern chrome finishes and built-in AI monitors encasing children. We’re headed there.

Graham Linehan has such little self-awareness he *really* doesn’t understand how totally unhinged he seems in his ‘woe is me’ batshit crazy ranting! 😬 He’s the ‘cautionary tale’ of what obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobia leads to: no friends, no life, and spaghetti carbonara for one!

cryptkeeper-ass president shouting at the median voter that they're stupid pieces of shit who deserve nothing is a brilliant strategy, sir, no one's ever motivated an electorate like you can

The nice thing about being an ex-R is that I can honestly tell you I have never not despised Chomsky.

Walking into 2026

“Which claims without foundation the power to override states,” good lord this isn’t hard.

We’ve entered a rather gross (but in historical context of human leaders, normal) period where the President’s powers are whatever he can convince people he has, rather than the powers he actually has. Legally this isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. If he gets people to believe it, though…”

People loved taking pictures with this guy in an era where you had to make an actual effort to develop them

The President of the United States is so weak he cannot even bend podunk state legislators to his will.

The absolute beatdown Scott’s Scrooge gets from the Ghost of Christmas Present is fantastic; by the end of it Scrooge is negotiating with himself in a storm drain.

I love the differences in every adaptation of A Christmas Carol. George C. Scott is mean, petty, and cruel, and gets slapped around by the ghosts. Patrick Stewart’s Scrooge is filled with regret and melancholy. The spirits more remind him of what he once was and could be again.

The Constitution says that there must be a Supreme Court with a Chief Justice. Fair enough. But Congress can set its appellate jurisdiction with simple legislation Under the Third Reconstruction, John Roberts will hear every single parking dispute in the Northern Mariana Islands

Who is the intended audience for this drivel? I mean really, is he just very dumb and this is all he can come up with?

The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.

you WILL be open to new experiences. we are no longer asking.

Everything old becomes new again. History rhymes.

I want to live in a world where Marjorie doesn’t get death threats for differing political opinions. Marjorie does not want to live in a world where she doesn’t get death threats for differing opinions. This woman is a snake, even if the snake now sings a tune we like.

This, FWIW, is why I think the killing of Charlie Kirk shocked them so much. Besides how he was just them (ie guy mugging at a camera all day), it put into really stark relief that left-wingers can use violence too (“the enemy gets a vote”), which they’d never really engaged with