One (enormous, highly educated, diverse, wealthy, and now radicalized entirely by the design of the ruling party) ring road exurb to rule them all.

I wholeheartedly endorse any and all sophomoric games that lead to the defeat of fascism. Poop jokes, terrible puns, prank phone calls from puppets... all on the table if it wipes these fuckers out.

One of the foundational texts of my childhood.

A lot of us have been ready for some Gog and Magog business for nigh-on a decade, and maybe we would be happier if we didn't have to watch the news, but I shudder to think where we would be without a large number of the people standing watch.

Raphael is cool but rude Michelangelo is a party dude

Anti-king, pro-axolotl

Well worth reading. There are ways to legalize gambling without allowing it on everyone's phone. There are ways to legalize gambling without allowing bets on the suffering of others. For now, there's no way to get back the feeling of a baseball game with friends as just a fun day out for everyone.

I, for one, am shocked that the SecDef with the Crusades tattoos and the "infidel" tattoo is leading some sort of "Christian holy war" against a Muslim theocracy in the Middle East. It would be a truly perfect metaphor if the religious trappings were a largely insincere excuse fo -- oh

Someone set up us the house atomics

ITT a DOJ lawyer "decided to quit" and faces professional sanctions because he's AI-illiterate and profoundly irresponsible.

Essential reading.

27% crazification theory strikes again

This is a hard read, but it needs to go nationwide.

There is a very "interesting" subset of the left that doesn't seem to realize the effect of being constantly, vocally pissed off at a party and also never voting for that party. "I hate you all and would never vote for your coalition!" "So we don't have to waste time trying to make you happy? OK."

The "everyone is 12" theory of why things suck is gaining international traction. Except that no self-respecting 12 year old woukd be obsessed with Candy Crush, of course.

Evergreen

The 27% crazification factor is turning into an enduring theory of politics.

I cannot recommend shoveling through five inches of ice, by the way. 100% cannot.

Threatening them with years of free drinks and Tinder matches, OK.

*eyes roll back in head* so good

Bovino's part may be over, but let's see if they actually change course writ large before we start popping bottles.

"Trump appears to forget word for Alzheimer’s during stunning interview on his health" Yes, "stunning" signs of mental decline in a guy with a family history of dementia whose inability to separate his own thoughts from those of the last person he talked to has been the news analysis for a decade.

Say it with me, everyone: "Life without parole"

If your dystopian novel centered on the fascist anti-immigrant forces killing a white nurse named "Pretti" and a white mom named "Good," your editor would DEMAND that you stop talking down to the reader. When the universe gives you this kind of symbolism, you need to listen.

Also, they're not mutually exclusive messages? And may be complementary messages?

The main reason I laughed at this is that only a government agent can "infringe" your first amendment rights, so maybe there is a new Constitutional right to bring loaded guns into government facilities now. That seems good, right?

Meanwhile, on Earth-3831, President Harris gave a speech in the Rose Garden today about the legacy of Martin Luther King. She then proclaimed a day of service from the East Wing with the USAID administrator, a distinguished professor CNN hadn't heard of. Their top story is a cold snap in Arkansas.

You can rough up as many U.S. citizen adopted Latina bartenders as you want, just dont come for the white people. Signed, An uncomfortably large number of Americans

"VERBALLY ASSAULTED" from the fuck your feelings crowd.

People dunking on this skeet are very wrong, as he raises an incredibly important point. Cutting loose an armed opposition that numbers in the tens of thousands is a terrible idea. On the other hand, there is a known solution we can riff on as seen at various points in time in other countries. 1/n

What's interesting about this is that the apolitical elements of the federal government figured this out by accident AGES ago, but the political actors therein keep interfering when career people try to enforce it.

Amazon is subtitling The Secret Garden with the protagonist name "Mary Linux," which is maybe the most hilariously damning case against AI I've ever seen.

100K just in ad expenses per 14 employees onboarded? This is a payoff to the tech bros.

This short, set to "Hell Bent" by Kenna, as seen only on the Internets about 25 years ago.

Hang on, someone at Reductress has been reading my diary!

One of the most interesting throughlines in American nativism has ALWAYS been the descendants of recent immigrants valuing other descendants of recent immigrants as if they were both inarguably In The Club. No one gets me more fired up than the people making a case for hating their own grandmas.

Being a video game fan on Christmas is spending hours downloading and patching your Christmas presents before you actually use them.

Well, I'm sure if they just keep doing this it will be a great permanent solution with absolutely no downside.

Here comes Christmas dinner.

This photo documents the only time in the history of the Internet that I've ever felt a twinge of anything positive toward this fool. Pity can be a positive feeling, right?

Go ahead, ask me how I knew this story was about race. As a bonus, click through for the worst text messages a court-appointed attorney ever sent a reporter on the record.

I don't know when I've felt older than just now, seeing "The Antiques Roadshow: The Gen X Years" on the TV.

Who exactly would rather have a stablecoin that a barely regulated company SAYS is worth a dollar instead of... a dollar, which IS worth a dollar? I just don't see how you can be into this absent some mix of gullibility, cynicism, and corruption, which of course is exactly why this junk is legal.

DOJ employees' investigation of Trump DOJ political appointee? Break out the popcorn.

New all-purpose pinned post.

Thing that happens every time also happening this time, shocked historians report

New Pulitzer contender just dropped.

I'm not the first to say it, but this (very good) article is the latest one pushing me toward politically prioritizing "algorithmic content recommendation as a public health concern." Ending 230 immunity for platforms with both user-posted content and algorithmic recs needs to be the first debate.