Audie Murphy looks infinitely more like a 2020s Soy Boy than he does any of the he-man hunks in the fash propaganda and the guy was basically an unstoppable one-man army

(Incidentally, this does make all of the fash RETVRN propaganda featuring strapping square-jawed macho men all the funnier pictured here, the scourge of Nazi Germany)

A typical 40 year old today has more teeth than a typical 25 year old back in the distant past, has better skin, has better hair, and has less joint damage. They're worse at physical endurance but they can reliably *get* better if they actually work half as hard physically.

One thing that really fucks up the gender discourse is the public--both men and women--not understanding that modern 40 year olds look better on average and are in better health than premodern 25 year olds. Ppl imagine away all the deformities & frailties that a world w/o modern medicine imposed.

ADHD AJ, he can get you somethin to take the edge off that attention disorder. real nice and legitimate like

you go to the oncologist and put down a takeout bag full of cash, the oncologist casually picks it up and leaves another takeout bag with your tumor in it. this happens at burger king

you know joey putz? guy can do anythin with an ass. little tony's the pussy guy, all my guys go to little tony when their goomar needs her pussy did. you blow a little guy in there, tony makes that guy go away. or if you want he makes that guy grow arms an legs, makes him the size of a real baby guy

i think it would be funny if your GP acted like a shady guy introducing you to his mafia friends when he refers you to a specialist. he'd be like got a problem with the ear nose and throat i see. could be i know a guy could help you out with that

'Listen, you say 'Dr J' sent you, and Bobby the Nose, he'll fix you right up'

…. to himself

You mean he transferred a record $474 million.

Capitalism baybee

What the fuck are we doing here guys

Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls

registering my 401k as a charitable donation

Over 1,500 mentions in the Epstein files is a statistic. One "Quiet, Piggy" is infuriating.

That's why I hope everyone sees it. We hear about appalling things Trump says all the time, second-hand. But it's another thing to see it on full display.

Through Nuzzi’s interview and book excerpt, we are to understand that her journalistic malpractice was excusable because it was underpinned by genuine emotion. She was the victim of her emotions, and not of the way she behaved as a result of them. But how many others are afforded that privilege?

Reading Nuzzi’s glossy tale of woe told from a Mustang in Malibu while there are so many talented, ethical journalists struggling to make ends meet is an indictment of how far this profession has fallen to elite control. Success has become more of a riddle than a road map.

My mind has been spinning the last few days as multiple crises of journalism converged—the Nuzzi book, Epstein’s emails revealing journalists hid information, Trump berating a reporter with no consequence—and it occurred to me they all stemmed from the same source: elite impunity.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

I think @dinfontay.com summed up the moral fracture in journalism really well: “I feel cliché referencing George Carlin, but after a week like this what else can you say? There is a big club, and we aren't in it.”

We saw on Friday elite solidarity rather than professional solidarity when Trump called a female reporter “piggy” and not a single one of her colleagues came to her defense—presumably because they didn’t want to threaten their own proximity to power.

As the wise @karenho.bsky.social told me for this piece: “Any journalist of color I know with a tough childhood would not be given a book deal to write about blowing up their life and career to sext with a Kennedy and then a job at Vanity Fair.”

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

You can just tell him no! Practically everybody hates him!

on the one hand it would be ludicrous for them to release extremely damaging information when they control what gets released on the other hand they are very, very bad at their jobs

lot of people on this app seem really committed to the notion that nothing damaging will come out of the Epstein files. let yourself hope a little! it’s free!

Now are there going to be some years that don’t work out? Sure. Kids born in 2007 are going to be named Norbit Chigurh, but is that worse than Bradeden? Is it?

This rules, this is the way to name a kid. Stop all the bullshit with baby name gurus and just pick the two movies you went to last, pick two characters in those movies. Boom you’ve got a kid named Zora Galactus, you were never gonna pick a name that good Hollywood did it for you.

i had to laugh like hell

And still not a single person in that press pool is gonna get the fuckin message

you should never, ever take someone seriously but not literally. if the thing they are saying is literally bad, either they believe the bad thing or are lying to you

i do like to at least HAVE MY EYE on the risk. i like doing this SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE i run to high-risk choices! if i did not keep my eye on the risks of the things I did, in my life in general, I would be dead. anyway that's the thing the companies are all doing

i am completely comfortable with going fast. i am completely comfortable figuring out where as you're going. i recognize that this is risky and weird, but i tend to high risk tolerance. i should maybe not be in charge due to this. the dominant paradigm is "not even trying to figure it out"

In "On Tactics" @bafriedman.bsky.social says "Tactics takes the form of geometric fractals that deceptively promise victory if repeated in proper patterns" and I think about that a lot when it comes to "just use the right messaging 4Head" commentary

The remaining 38%:

we should be arresting the saudi guy not asking him questions in some gaudy ass room

FDA is approving a new form of nalmefene for “prophylaxis” for “opioid exposure,” specifically citing fentanyl. “Fentanyl exposure” is not a thing. Fent has to be intentionally ingested to cause OD. It’s being made by a “blockchain-focused digital finance company” whose “biotech arm” is only this…

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

an important message to the media: no matter how much you flatter and curry favor with this man, he would enjoy seeing you dismembered with a bone saw

can we just take a minute to admire the Chuck Schumer number here, nobody has managed to tank their approval with their own party this hard since, I dunno, George W Bush

by explicitly basing their gerrymander on this Stephen Miller fever dream of a letter, and trying to sell the map based on "oh we're not REALLY doing this for partisan reasons, we're just trying to create new hispanic districts" they opened themselves up to this kind of clusterfuck

SCOTUS being SCOTUS you assume they'll just stay this with an unsigned order and let the maps stand for 2026, but Texas really fucked this up they did not do a partisan gerrymander, as they could easily have gotten away with - they explicitly did a *racial* gerrymander in a hamfisted, blatant way

I mean I'm absolutely certain whatever they do release is going to be redacted to hell and contain none of what we want but no, the reason this went the way it did is that nobody wanted to be on the record voting against releasing the files once it actually got to the floor so they gave up

lmao, total and complete failure

can we appreciate just how badly Johnson and Trump played this Epstein vote? total failure of a pressure campaign, delayed for months to ensure it stays in the news and immediately swamps "the Dems caved" as soon as the shutdown ends, and now it passes 427-1 couldn't have gone worse if they tried

an important message to elite society in general: this is an unpopular, weak and failing lame duck president and you can just tell him no

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT is part of an honest-to-goodness mini-genre of movies in the 1990s that you could sum up as, "what if the president was horny?"