I don't mean to sound petty, but Pete Hegseth really is a little bitch. Or at least gives off "little bitch" energy #lbe

Anyone pissing and moaning this much about an escalator not working in New York has clearly not spent much time in New York.

I'm pretty sure the Rapture happened but that none of us deserved it which is why we're all still here.

Holy lord is the New York Democratic Party a mess. I'm not a DSA type but you're goddamn right I'm voting for Mamdani in November. I feel like the whole state party is trapped in amber or something. And that includes our congressional leaders.

I want to call it the Orange Scare #orangescare

Their side: "The Cracker Barrel logo change is a woke attack on American culture!" Insufferable. Our side: "Today's the first day I've heard of this dump and the food is garbage!" Equally insufferable. Eat the hash brown casserole or don't. But let's all make better electoral decisions.

Pam Bondi: Sorry we respect law enforcement here, so you're fired for throwing a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki at a cop. Also Pam Bondi: I see you were at the January 6 insurrection and yelled for the cops to be killed. Welcome aboard!

The tragedy in Texas is a prime example of how politics works in this country. Did the Trump cuts cause delays and inefficiencies in the weather warning system? Perhaps. It's debatable. But if the roles were reversed the GOP wouldn't care about nuance. It would be wall to wall "Dems killed people."

I'm certainly not a DSA type, but all the pearl clutching about Zohran Mamdani's primary victory in NYC yesterday is really galling, with one businesswoman saying it was "time to panic." After what the average American has had to put up with in recent years, I have one response: kiss my ass.

I see that Dave's Hot Chicken has been acquired by the owners of Subway. Increased prices and decreased quality in 3...2...1...

Considering how much personal information and data Elon was able to access (and take?) when he was at DOGE, this stupid pissing contest with Trump could get real messy real fast.

You mean, like, probed?

Stephen Miller is an awful person. Like, 'Roy Cohn' awful.

I see the new pope chose Leo as his name. Nice, but think I would have gone with Capricorn or Sagittarius.

Found in Huntington Beach. Açaí Bowls that have saved 258 million lives. You hear that, Media?

Something to appreciate this weekend: the winner of the Kentucky Derby was a horse named Sovereignty, ridden by Venezuelan jockey Junior Alvarado. Something not to appreciate: the inevitable tweets that will come from the MAGA-verse. I still like the symbolism of it all, though!

I've seen porn that was less pornographic than these cabinet meetings. The sycophancy is off the charts. It's performative horseshit, much like the past 100 days have been.

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With all the Cardinals meeting at the Vatican right now it's sure to make their series against the Braves a lot harder.

Not content to just be like Liz Truss economically, this administration also felt the need to meet with a world leader who'd drop dead two days later.

I gotta say I don't love that a governor has this power.

Heard this on a podcast today, and couldn't agree more: we're living in a time where we've given unserious people deadly serious power.

I used to say entitlement was the trait I found least attractive in a person, but in recent years it's been replaced by another one: certainty.

This infamous Mencken quote is misanthropic and reactionary and kind of the opposite of my politics, and yet on a day like today…. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

Me in the national security team group chat

City I like: London City I love: San Francisco City I think is overrated: LA City I think is underrated: Taipei City I feel most myself in: New York City I most want to visit: Buenos Aires City I dream of living in: Milan Most inspiring city: Tokyo Favorite city of all time: Seoul

Protesting in Santa Monica today. Not the worst way to spend an afternoon 🙂

Person: How could Schumer vote for cloture?! I know a shutdown is bad and we have two bad choices here, but he completely ceded our power! Unacceptable! Same person on 11/5/24: (votes for Jill Stein)

Out of this whole drama, I think this is the most fascinating development and something I think could bear some very interesting fruit for the fight.

I was never on Twitter / X so Bluesky is my first foray into this type of social media. It's interesting, but holy God is there a lot of self-importance on display.

As Michael Scott might say, "yeppers."

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Teslas are priced to move with $0 down and no payments for 48 months

Lands End - San Francisco

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters."

Marco Rubio leaping into action to stave off diplomatic disaster. Way to go, lil' guy!

There's a segment of our population that saw today's Oval Office meeting and loved it. I am not one of those people. Fuck those people.

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

Big Balls and everyone else at DOGE can suck these average size balls.

I've always giggled but rolled my eyes when people joke that Idiocracy was a prophetic documentary. But here we are!

I'm frustrated by the folks who keep screaming at Democrats to "do something" when what I think they really mean is "perform something."

I'm an American and I don't bend the knee to a king. Fuck off.

I read a think piece warning Republicans who are urging Trump to ignore court orders to think twice because the next Democratic president can do the same. But that assumes these Republicans care about ethical consistency and precedent. They do not. They'll scream "dictator!" and be happy about it.

"If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." I would have added "go fuck yourself," but this still works :)

Every time I see a big blue square on my feed with white text in it, the message is so laughably basic I don't even know how to react. "Something something constitution something something Hitler was bad. Read that again." Um, good one I guess?

Ridership = up Revenue = up Crime = down Traffic deaths = down Traffic fatalities fell 44% compared to a year ago. That's remarkable if it continues. I couldn't be a bigger supporter of congestion pricing, but it's at risk of being destroyed by Trump.