In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys.

The reason why moderate libs buried the "defund" idea, and why they're still complaining about it to this day despite it no longer being relevant, is because they like the police. All the discussion about slogans is just window dressing

we used to make (nice) things in this country

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

LOL

Another W for compassionate religious socialism: took this guy 4 posts to call me a Nazi and threaten to shoot me

unjustifiably sinking ships in international waters near your shores is, historically, a top five way to create a world war

i feel like it's an even simpler lens for them (not to entirely discount their rank misogyny): if you get ill that's your fault and that's your problem

Back in the days of the Weird Cardinals Twitter vs Best Fans St Louis wars, this Matt Shaw story would have been our Gettysburg

i think everyone needs to get a lot less religious

Actually, the fact that Trump himself obviously isn't religious in personal belief or practice, yet nonetheless built a devout following of highly religious people because he's a cruel bigot, perfectly reveals religion's inherent flaw

These teams reek

i need to move to a country that is experiencing mass religious psychosis, violent civil rights erosion, and a hyperconsolidation of economic and political power among the moneyed elite. But I ALSO need it to be opposed in name only by a coalition of feckless aristocrats. Does anyone know of one?

if i saw homer simpson disappear backwards into a hedge in real life i would just start screaming

Fellow vinyl collectors: are there any artists you own the entire discography of? I think the only ones I have are Knocked Loose, Nails, and Turnstile

Everything is Gamergate and no corporation will ever learn any lesson from it

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

walking into a dark room where everyone i love jumps out with noisemakers and confetti and unfurls a banner reading "INTELLECTUALLY INCAPABLE OF STANDING TRIAL"

time for me to man up and fill this out

Everything is getting lost in the fog: defector.com/everything-i...

I'm trying not to overstate this just because it personally affects me. But viewing this is another proxy measure to gut the rights of criminal defendants and turn DA's offices into puppets of the regime, lined up with Vance's rhetoric the last few days, things are starting to look quite scary

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

only the right wing is allowed to attack its opponents in any way and on any terms they see fit and simultaneously only the right wing is allowed to claim victimhood

Study Shows Benefits Of Skin-To-Skin Contact Between New Players, Coaches

Between Colorado, Kansas State, and UCLA, it's a big night of TV for football teams that suck

its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment

millennials are band directors now and I think that’s terrific

The single most disgraceful fact we can point to in the domestic response to 9/11 is: more people have died as a result of Ground Zero-related illnesses developed from working in the recovery effort than died in the attacks themselves. Now, RFK is making it worse: www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/11/h...

Oregon appears to be a better team than Oklahoma State

Remembering some Cardinals

Lakshya is probably the poster child for how a lot of blue state libs don't have the same kind of threat assessment for the right as red/purple state ones because his frame of reference for republican governance is Arnold Schwarzenegger

This seems important:

S/O to whoever assigned Joe Tessitore to call the Bama/FSU game

*whispers* well done greenies

Watching football @jonbois.bsky.social

Kenyon Sadiq is insane

If Texas comes back and wins, do we get a classic Ryan Day bitchmade press conference about the catch ruling?

It's never been more apparent to me how much of sports broadcasting doesn't feel like it's meant to actually be enjoyed anymore.

Probably a satisfying revenge fantasy, but certainly unsound strategy both politically and logistically. Also, y'know, morally indefensible.

“I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. Covered in measles”

Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.

Or, alternatively, you could stop being such a massive cunt

The right knows it has a stranglehold on media and is just running up the score. From everyone getting away scot-free with the anti-Haitian slander during the election to the completely inscrutable Cracker Barrel backlash, they're just playing with their food at this point

For the Super Bowl this season, analysis tells me that either the Bills or Ravens finally break through. Eagles are good enough but repeating is difficult. Lions and Bengals looming as possibilities too. However, the world is horrible, so the Chiefs are probably gonna squeak another one out

Right-wing virtue signal businesses all flaming out immediately because they didn't realize their perceived market is astroturfed by other right-wing virtue signal businesses