Right on point. Democrats need to stop expecting their politicians to satisfy every policy desire they have.

Remember folks! Ken Burns's "The American Revolution" premieres tonight at 8pm! Two hours each night for six straight nights.

Nixon tried to hide his underlings' illegal activities, and was forced to resign for it. Trump is literally ordering the government to make multi-million-dollar payouts to himself and others who broke the law for him, as "recompense" for their troubles.

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@danschkade.bsky.social continues to knock it out of the park with his daily #FlashGordon comic strip. You can read the recent daily’s for free, but access to the entire run is easily worth the cost of a subscription. My highest recommendation! #comicsky #scifiart

So say we all.

there's always a dril tweet but it's wild when the dril tweet is about the actual guy

Great live version! youtu.be/_oNauUw53HM?...

I wanted to try a can of the Arlington Brewing Company's Marley's Ghost that we have. Can is a pint. Only after finishing it did I look at the label and see it was 8.4% ABV. Oh boy! 🤣

So the chilling thing about this - & you should watch the video x.com/i/status/198... - is the reaction of the Students for Justice in Palestine students to whom she was giving the lecture: Nothing. Not a damn thing. Spend a moment thinking about that. It's not a coincidence. SJP is a hate group.

Somebody needs to do a supercut of: 1) The first 10 seconds of this 2) Trump intro of people he hired who later turned on him, describing how amazing they are 3) Trump calling those people terrible 4) Return to 2 and 3 until you run out of people or the Internet runs out of storage space

Brings back memories! 😂 One episode of a streaming TV show we watch ended with an old Italian woman exclaiming “Mannaggia!” right into the camera. Pronounced ma-NAJ of course.

They really are going to do the "akshually it's ephebophila" defense.

FYI, folks.

“Your somewhat unique amusements”. 🤨

As someone deeply concerned professionally with securing elections, i think making unfounded claims that elections are being rigged is an extremely harmful grift, that deserves strong condemnation.

Agree. Anyone who thinks “globalization” is some sort of US economic policy that we can turn on or off has no concept of the modern world. The world outside the US exists and they’re racing ahead with or without us.

Here's what people don't get about H1B in tech: it's already a globally competitive labor market. The question isn't whether foreign tech workers will compete with American ones - they will - but whether they will hold their jobs and spend their incomes here or abroad.

A sweet Oak Titmouse pauses for a portrait. Just a picture of an ordinary little bird, rated Common. Common, that is, if you live in California. Seen almost anywhere else, this bird would be a rare vagrant, an exciting sighting! Everything is relative. #birds_matter #birds

We're officially live. It's incredibly important to have a real record of how our public servants are behaving and this database will be a powerful tool for researchers, reporters, and ordinary Americans.

Excellent! www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr...

Does any man know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? 😢🫡

“What if Frog is lost in the woods?” said Toad. “What if he is cold and wet and hungry?”

This one might actually cause the SCOTUS majority some problems. Maybe.

Gahhhhhhh. Though I wonder how that compares to a normal day at Newark. (Having no experience with EWR.) bsky.app/profile/guan...

I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police. It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.

A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Calling things by their right name is never a bad idea. There are many ways to fight an authoritarian movement, but trying to convince people that the movement has already won and instituted fascism is just stupid.

"Putin attacked Ukraine, not Russians" fails to grapple with why millions of ordinary Russians were willing to follow orders in a devastating war against Ukraine. This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.

#birdbot

i say thank you to the bus driver when i get on and yell thank you when i get off every day i ride the bus, and i take two buses to and from work, being nice and friendly costs you nothing and should be your default expectation for yourself because it improves your day and everyone else’s day

there’s a thing here about for the last decade or so, online people have been very negative about small talk - the weather, or local news, or whatever - and small talk is the grease that keeps physical interactions going, and i am tired of ceding that to shut-ins

It's funny. I've watched the final 11 minutes of _All That Jazz_ (www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCZH...) many times but I've never actually seen the movie! I once randomly caught the final scene on TV years ago and was struck by it. And then at some point went looking for it on YouTube.

Yes, exactly! Best strip going these days. Easily.

“Here is your button!” cried Frog.

Fucking amen.

Grant Sanderson is just amazing. And here's the latest amazing video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE-h...

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

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Why not both? (Well, all.)

"Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" finally got a music video! (Well, 4 years ago): www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzM...

Yes, that exactly.

I know I should wait until after Thanksgiving, but having run across this today, fuck that! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM10...

America is being run by mean girls and shitposters and trolls and the Comic Book Guys. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”

TIL that Alan Dean Foster's "Splinter of the Mind's Eye" was written with the intention of being adapted as a low-budget sequel to "Star Wars" if the film was not successful enough to finance a high-budget sequel.

Sure, LED Zeppelin is great, but you should really upgrade to OLED Zeppelin

Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey Roy Scheider as Heywood Floyd Patrick McNee as Count Iblis Lorne Greene as Commander Adama Ted Knight as Henry Rush

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