It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

How dare anybody joke about the very normal funeral where our wet President came out and started dancing next to fireworks.

There has to be a left lib influencer or dem leader who can just maybe break the ice on the concept of departing democratic norms for progressive ends and we would see so many people be grateful I think. They are waiting for it and need it so bad but the language has to be good and succinct.

I can’t believe how much meat I saw this one guy get one time at a deli.

I’ve seen this take in the wild a couple times before and I don’t think there’s a more illustratively insane example of anti-Dem brain rot:“Why didn’t Dems stop the thing Republicans were planning to do if they got power again (and telling us to vote for them again is not a sufficient answer!)”

trump was president during that, not biden! they had to ban half the government social media accounts because he tried to evade his ban like a 14-year-old! and it isn’t a violation of the law, and lmfao at “trump wouldn’t do that”

This is the difference between woo and true religion, which it seeks to supplant. Faith helps one understand the reality of human frailty. Death is not avoided but transformed and sanctified by the Cross. Woo is the promise of the Serpent; you can escape sickness and death and be like a god.

you don’t hate the media enough

Twitter is great for liberals/leftists who hate leftists/liberals more than fascists, because it’s a constant deluge propaganda about how whatever left of center tendency you dislike is the source of all the world’s ills.

If antisemitism is the socialism of fools then transphobia is the therapy of fools. A desperate attempt to find a reason one feels bad and blaming people taking drastic affirmative steps to improve their lives.

Stancilism is at least in part correct as demonstrated by posts like this, where you see it popping up in the wild without any contribution directly from Stancil. Multiple minds, arriving at the same conclusion independently.

No peace for #ICE agents staying at #MedfordMA hotel www.universalhub.com/2025/no-peac...

It’s almost like they are daring you not to joke about it.

“Oh oh so I can’t be mad at their not fighting the Charlie Kirk measure?!” No I don’t like it either but the fact that it makes us so quickly act like the meaningful stark differences and stakes don’t exist anymore reveals much worse about us.

@adamkinzinger.substack.com tweeted a compendium of screenshots of Tim Pool calling for civil war, and Jake Tapper retweeted this reply to Kinzinger without comment. If you haven't been relentlessly bullying Tapper in his replies when he posts here, you should start doing so.

Given the stark materially grounded life and death stakes between GOP in power and Dems in power, if you truly think that Dems not fighting something as emptily symbolic as the Charlie Kirk measure will make it hard for you to vote then you are telling me you don’t care about the people hurting now.

Rare ad for THEY ALL LAUGHED, Bogdanovich book coming soon. Audiences are warned to come on time or they won't know what the hell is going on, which is true!

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

There was a short lived independent airline that tried to be the pro smoking alternative that called itself “Freedom Air”

really hoping they're right about Tuesday being the Rapture because a world without Evangelical Christians sounds like a literal paradise

Yeah okay it’s getting to a point where you kind of basically have to joke about it now imo

I told my son it was okay to play a little dirty in his soccer game today. “Plausible deniability dirty” I called it.

People need to understand and absorb that Anti-Dem clout chasing misinformation posts are genuinely more of a threat to trans people than any Dem politician and it’s not even close.

The law of the United States mandates the provision of gender-affirming care to prisoners in federal prisons. To take issue with Harris saying she would "follow the law" is to say that you think that prisoners should be denied transition care. You are a repulsive little worm.

This seems more like a problem with Ezra Klein than the Democratic Party. The actual Democratic Party is made up of Democratic primary voters, who largely do not and will not nominate anti-choice candidates.

We simply have to stop treating the Democratic Party as if it operates like some closed-list parliamentary party that chooses candidates. It isn't.

When you guys say Gavin Newson does not govern as a trans ally and wouldn’t protect trans rights as a president and that he is somehow a “threat” to trans people you are putting trans people at risk for cheap clout in a way that I do not. You are failing trans people in a way I do not.

The Veto is just nebulous and neglible inside baseball stuff that ends up being reported in a way where excess of “info” ends up making people less informed. On that same right wing podcast people harp on he said parents of trans kids told him transitioning saved their kids life and it moved him.

I’m not a transphobe. I have smarter better criticisms of Newsom than the dumb narrative popular on Bluesky but it kind of gives the game away when they do the hacky trope of “hahaha Republicans will win again I hope you love iiiiit!”

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Wow. From an article in The Guardian.

I like Mamdani but why is Dave pretending there’s an actual policy here? He just stops at “tickets too expensive”. The Biden Admin literally lowered concert prices by making Ticketmaster eliminate junk fees and twitter people screamed at them when they tried to brag about it @daveweigel.bsky.social

lmao

This 100% applies to me also I should say

cocaine is a helluva drug

#LastFourWatched @letterboxd.social 1. A well staged beautifully intimate Jane Austin adaptation, 2. incredibly horned up lesbian Cohen brother detective story, 3. very lazy and ham fisted Jordan Peele produced quasi horror/bad satire about football, 4. And lastly one of the best movies ever made.

There is just a huge swath of people who should’t be living and dying on granular congress day to day bullshit or really be following politics at all and in an earlier better time they didn’t and only do so now because it’s on their phone.

The whole "mini-primary" idea was the brainchild of load of Very Serious (Democratic Party) People who all agreed that they would do things better but they weren't sure how exactly so they wanted to boot that question and responsibility to someone else.

“I never found Jimmy Kimmel funny”

My body hurts and will probably hurt way more tomorrow. But it’s a lot less pain than what our neighbors are enduring inside the Broadview ICE facility.

A presidential run isn’t nuts. In previous cycles I would have said Dem voters are way too over cautious to nominate a DSA politician but things are shifting in a way w normie Dems where that is no longer true but ultimately it might come down to just not wanting to risk running a woman again.

I wouldn’t go back to doing “bits” again even if it would literally save somebody’s life

Pretty good song. Also (for the people out there who are too young to know this) it’s important to note that at one point McGruff was considered THE GREATEST of all crime dogs.