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Very sorry to report I bought this for my daughter today

doesn't even have the guts to sign it on her sole behalf

I played Broken Arrow

So about a year ago I gave my gaming pc to my little brother to make room in our apartment for a play kitchen for the Girl. He’s out of town for the next month, and left me his key so I can go over there to play while he’s gone. I’m going over there tonight - what should I play?

Read on to learn all about Ilhan’s deep abiding love of… fight sports ?

Wrote a thing about my old boss, @ilhanmn.bsky.social, why her story is so American, and why it makes the Right so stupid mad. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

jfC

a few people here can testify how weed becomes inert upon contact with me. still feel bad about wasting @isibb.bsky.social's edibles. I'm biologically Mormon.

Just finished up Richard Evans’ Third Reich trilogy, and I gotta say, after 2000 pages of Nazi Germany, getting to the end chapters where Hitler and his boys all kill themselves and the Red Army occupies Berlin feels extraordinarily satisfying.

if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble

ill be damned

guys have literally gone to the firing squad for this exact crime lol

I think it looks like they’re all staffing her lol

the last Lizza post ended on a cliffhanger where Lizza teased a recording of Trump talking about the assassination attempt that would potentially "shatter our understanding of recent history." in the latest drop he reveals that he doesn't know what the recording was and also it has been destroyed.

Lizza plz

Ope, just gonna keep that axe.

Honestly, the worse the story gets, the worse Lizza comes off for publishing it this way.

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

I really am at a loss at the Nuzzi story. I’m not some old head, I worked on the hill for 5 years and on campaign for 4, but still, I have never heard of someone doing such a thing before. It is truly one of the most vile things I’ve ever read about a journalist.

on top of everything else, nuzzi has the sensibilities of your most embarrassing friend. a guy alternates between saying he wants her to have his children and ghosting her, and she's wringing her hands trying to figure out if they're really in love

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

the idea that it would’ve taken some special insight to be suspicious of Nuzzi’s reporting is so funny

there’s an elite sickos class solidarity story about how the kind of people who should have been reporting on things like Epstein are also weird sex pests

I need your best recipe for mashed potatoes. ASAP plz.

Whiplash is actually a movie about the failure of university administration to do its primary job of managing faculty. JK Simmons isn’t the real villain of the movie. The real villain is whomever is the Dean of the College of Music and Arts at Shaker University.

I only just saw this thanks to @ed3d.net and I don’t have time to do a full fisking before my daughter’s bedtime but a few hundred words in and it’s utter nonsense. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

if i were the kid in whiplash i would try to suck jk simmons off

Wrong. The point of Whiplash is if a band teacher calls you a “fag” and throws a cowbell at your head, you bring your Glock to class.

I feel like if I were the kid in the movie Whiplash, it’d take about 3 minutes in there with JK Simmons until I started secretly recording him with my phone, and it would be about 12 hours after that that I sued the university for $8 million and lived happily the rest of my life.

This book whips, and is the first piece of history I’ve read that suggest the Treaty of Versailles, far from being a proximate cause of the war for being too harsh on Germany, was in fact a proximate cause of the war because it was not harsh enough.

Minneapolis for 2 weeks tomorrow. Get at me, let’s hang out

The GOP’s maneuvering around Trump and Epstein is astonishing. I’ve never seen such awful spin from top to bottom.

Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson! Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention... www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This week’s book

it's got to be kind of surreal, gathering in the white house SITUATION ROOM like you're in some kind of high-stakes political thriller but it's for crisis meetings on what to say about your boss paying for handjobs from underaged models in the 90s

It’s funny that one of the most competent people in Nazi Germany was an architect with 0 industrial, political, civil, or military experience.

I've been watching a bunch of foreign WW2 movies to go along with what I've been reading, and its hard to decide who gets depicted worse, the Japanese in Chinese movies, or the Nazis in Polish, Ukrainian, and Soviet movies.

New Epstein emails "seem to show Trump understood who Epstein was, how he and Maxwell were acting, and the kinds of crimes they were committing. He was adjacent to, if not involved in, those crimes." On the pod Nicole Hemmer is brilliant on bigger Epstein-MAGA story: newrepublic.com/article/2031...

lol, lmao

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

No one cared who I was until I put on the mask

Contempt can be a healthy emotion. Sometimes, it’s your conscience telling you there’s nothing worth saving.

Michael Shannon cooking with gas here:

God bless Michael Shannon. '“I’m sure anybody who’s associated with promoting and selling this movie to the world is going to be horrified by everything I’ve said in this interview,” he agrees. “But I don’t really care.”'

BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream

Watched City of Life and Death (2009), and my takeaway is we don’t hassle the Japanese anywhere near enough for what they did during World War 2. Fuckin freaks.