My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Liars and cowards

A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”

people as things, that’s where it starts if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track

This is the way someone might talk to their grandparent while they’re on their deathbed and need comfort

Homie we just won multiple important elections on Tuesday and Trump’s approval ratings are falling by the minute, how is it not working

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

If only there was some recent metric or bellwether to judge public opinion of the democratic party by Perhaps a series of decisive election victories within the last week showing the voting public was overwhelmingly in favor of fighting the GOP/Trump rather than conceding to them If only

These are the questions political candidates actually need to be asked. When is the last time you bought your own groceries for the week? When is the last time you cleaned a toilet? When is the last time you were stressed about being able to pay a bill? Weed out normal people from rich weirdos.

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans

i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic. He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

It's bad that cogent argument and data analysis doesn't matter at all.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

I am just so fucking proud of her.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

There's Terry Pratchett quote for everything

The worst thing I’ve seen happen to the United States through all of this is that it’s now cool to be an asshole in the US. Stupidity is celebrated if you’re loud and if you don’t care about anyone else it’s viewed as a positive trait. It makes me sick really and I’m sad and mad about it.

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

"Next FDR" is available to the first Democrat with guts right now

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Good reminder that public/private censorship of mass media was common in the 20th century. The Hays Code, the Comics Code, blacklisting; we have been here before and arguably more oppressive in the past. It took 75 years of 1A jurisprudence to make us all believe It Can’t Happen Here. But it did.

I just don't understand how the party that has built itself up as the party that loves America could so truly, genuinely hate most of what makes America it is. They hate free speech, they hate free religion, and they hate the entire half of American people who don't vote the way they want.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

1/3 My hot wash of yesterday:

I think the thing that’s really messed up about the world today is that they could be making more Muppet movies constantly and yet they actively choose not to

The more we learn about the U.S.-Japan "trade deal", the more we learn there is no deal. Trump rushed out an "announcement" after a 70 minute conversation with Japan's trade negotiator and the press dutifully reported a deal. 1/ No text and widening disagreement on terms.

ICE is out of control. This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.

My three kids, born in South Korea and China, became U.S. citizens upon adoption under the Child Citizen Act of 2000. Because of increasingly obscure differences in adoption from different countries the two older kids, from South Korea, also went through a citizenship acknowledgement process./1

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

While Iran and Israel continue to attack each other, Israel continues the mass murder of Palestinians.