Jesus Fucking Christ. The only reason they were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT. You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?

reminded me of a matt groening "life is hell" comic strip about very stupid kid at school trying to come across as a brainiac via slinging insults like 'you are in fact a grade A piece of what is to be known as prime baloney'

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

Listen I’m sorry to be probably the 675 hojillionth person to make this basic snarky observation but: Bragman had a real chance to advocate for things that could have advanced progressive priorities in America. Instead, he wrote the “liberal case” for voting for Donald fucking Trump.

It's always something awful that also didn't happen

the talentless mr ripley only replied because he wants to crash on Olivia's couch

I’m skeptical there’s anyone who can unite the party or whoever replaces him wouldn’t similarly reflect broader institutional problems or be dealing w same problems of having been dealt a bad hand but regardless it’s one of those “has to be done” things given Schumer’s transgressions.

Triple labubus

trump was couped is true but most people willing to believe that are fascists, not people who correctly think it was good and right. also pretending it didn’t happen is the ideal path to preserve civ mil relations whoops maybe we shouldn’t have preserved them

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

i do think he is smarter than Musk here, even if he's absolutely evil

I see. I wonder if the families of the people you’re terrorizing can “opt out.”

It honestly doesn’t seem like the kind of thing you should be still thinking about five years from now though

Later adding “If you are one of those guys who loves inflation”

Good mix of artists and selections. Glad and surprised to see someone picked “Philadelphia”. My favorite for a long time has been “Lost in Space” from “Hawks and Doves” but I probably re-listen to the doom trilogy albums the most.

The collapse of Noah Smith from 'interesting writer whose occasionally a bit random' into 'complete idiot and mentalist' is one of the most clear cut cases of twitter-poisoning I've seen

This makes no sense. There have been many Bonds now through the years and every time there’s a new one it’s basically been a complete reboot.

I can see the Senators who caved reiterating this fact to themselves but I think an important thing to consider is that Trump 2.0 itself is so abnormally destructive that historical comparatives like this just aren’t very meaningful.

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

I enjoyed the motion picture “Hundreds of Beavers”

The single Late Night With Conan O’Brien bit that I contend best exemplifies and crystallizes the brilliantly absurdist comedic sensibility he fostered…

Donald Trump still owes me $2000

My kids soccer season this year was so exhausting and consuming that it’s hard to process it having ended.

oh my god

The extent to which these people will go to avoid placing blame on Republicans for bad things Republicans do is actually remarkable I do not actually think Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding guest list was at the top of mind for the Virginia senator when he voted to get federal employees a paycheck!

Even I (a known “prequels defender”) finds this embarrassing.

Ennio Morricone (with scenes from " Once Upon a Time in the West", "Teorema", "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" and "Novecento " for which he composed the film scores) - BOTD

erin reed is a grifter and a money suck mini thread

People have a “well obviously it goes without saying” response when you remind them that the stark differences between the parties and the imperative of keeping one out of power still exists and in most of those cases they sound to me like they are working themselves up into a froth of forgetting.

This is actually a valid argument imo and the fact that the cavers won’t make it makes the decision indefensible. People are right to assume disqualifyingly bad judgement or intentions in its absence.

i think the argument the cavers should’ve made/should make is “i couldn’t let people starve - we made a run thinking they would fold on aca, but trump really is that psychotic” that’s an argument i think people could respect, but the won’t even make it

the Twitter acquisition was a generational win for reactionary forces and all the “good luck with THAT lmao” smugging out is really embarrassing in retrospect

M83’s closing credit theme for this was so good. Strong design elements and staging throughout that overcome its overly familiar story elements.

like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure

just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly) light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM

The biggest thing that’s harder to ignore imo is that these Senate Dems just helped vindicate and make real the fake right wing narrative that it was a “Dem shutdown” when we’ve been stating and restating the reality that Republicans had the power to end this at any time.

It looked to me like Trump was about to rip up his Congressional relationship to kill the filibuster, and, like maybe even find a way to get himself big, wet impeached. And yet the dickless wonders didn't want to let that play out.

This is infuriating. You can’t capitulate based on “we’ll see”.

I got back to my office after the vote last night and recorded this. There's no way to sugarcoat what happened. And my fear is that Trump gets stronger, not weaker, because of this acquiescence. I'm angry - like you. But I choose to keep fighting.

“primary every democrat” only becomes a serious threat if bsky doesn’t go goo goo babies over platner-esque candidates

If I’m seeing Dem Senators defend it this way that alone means the deal is indefensible imo

and somehow, the winner of “most incoherent take” out of this entire saga is… Nina Turner, who is using this to dunk on Gavin for… passing prop 50????

Only one major American political party is trying to preserve and expand access to healthcare and it’s not the GOP This is bad shitposting

“We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of [Dem] Party —[…]one that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. […] [T]ake this big step in the right direction …over the last month and pocket it and move on to the next battle.”

"There is no incentive for virtuous behavior, but I expect virtue nonetheless"

this is the trump guy urtext

I’ll see what I can do.

I cannot tell you how annoying it is to know that basically everyone I know is smarter than the most powerful people on earth

In some times and places, it has been much, much worse than this. The chance that a child born in Poland would die before age five was 55% . . . *in 1875.* (Today that number is 0.44%.)