When you can’t say “sorry we capitulated to bigots” because you’re afraid the bigots might hear you, so you just throw some glitter around and hope for the best.

Conservatives sure did set a land speed record going from “states rights” to “bow down to King Donald or starve”

This was literally a Parks & Rec joke

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

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Because when one eccentric billionaire can literally buy a stake in the military, when the Supreme Court has declared that the president can do anything he wants while in office—anything—you should be terrified. This isn’t “America first.” It’s America for sale. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

We are in the middle of a prolonged constitutional meltdown, where the president is seizing vast powers he should not have, eviscerating the existing constitutional system that has kept America stable and prosperous for most of 250 years. And our leading political outlets are doing… this

I’m sure it’s merely a coincidence that the guy who bankrupted casinos is now responsible for the first, second, and third longest government shutdowns in our country’s history.

Human garbage 🗑

1) it’s a ceasefire, not a peace deal. Biden also got a ceasefire that included a prisoner swap and it didn’t produce peace 2) Democrats need to stop pretending that jumping to prematurely give Trump credit will encourage him to do good things. All it does is make him look strong. Stop helping him!

I'm not sure that's a defense so much as a confession.

Wilhoit’s Law, folks.

this is the guy schumer and jeffries are like "yes, we need to negotiate with him"

“An escalator can never break down. It can only become stairs. You’ll never see an escalator out of order sign. Just escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.” - Mitch Hedberg

In short, it took 30 years of RW violence before the authors could cherry pick a shorter span of time that they could use to pin on “the left”. @theatlantic.com has descended into NY Post-style propaganda.

One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.

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We have got to jettison once and for all this cultural notion that it’s improper or “in bad taste” to point out a person’s harmful behavior just because they’ve shuffled off this coil.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

Every little bit of good news helps.

Will be interesting to see which news outlets omit his years of violent white nationalism. I'm guessing practically every single one.

have spent the last 12 hours in some sort of pre-grief for what's clearly coming, an imperial boomerang with x-ray vision now unconstrained by whatever law we had left

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

i know its corny af but theres a line in superman where he says something to the effect of "my parents sent me here to do good and to be a good man." that's how, in my opinion, i would want to be remembered if i kick the bucket. not as someone who spent MY ENTIRE LIFE pushing hate and harm.

Trump and Hegseth are going to continue committing war crimes that will make GWB look like Ghandi by comparison.

Mamdani has raised the max he’s allowed to spend. So he’s created this brilliant ad.

It’s weird how if you artificially increase costs and slow trade it leads to reduced hiring and reduced spending therefore further slowing the economy and reducing hiring and… *waves in I only partially paid attention in high school math/economics class and even I understand this shit > trump*

Wake up babe, new kind of do-rag based eugenics just dropped from the dumbest man alive.

His pattern of projection really should be obvious by now. This is exactly why he’s using it as a pretext to attack his political enemies.

"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"

democrats would win more elections by larger margins if they centered themselves around the needs of the people who vote for them. which seems obvious as fuck but every cycle the democrats fall in love with the idea of maverick mccain clones crossing party lines. it doesnt work.

Trump’s DOJ says their gun restriction proposal is about the mentally ill. Notice how they have no plans to restrict guns from this group, however: www.psypost.org/trump-suppor...

I've long said the only folks who will ever "come for your guns" are the republicans. Every accusation is a confession.

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This is a pattern by now. REPORTER or SENATOR: You made this statement. RFKJR: No I didn’t R/S: *shows video of RFKJR making statement* RFKJR: *short-circuits, pretends none of this ever happened*

Did everyone's dad not make this clear? Also, don't touch the thermostat.

Only 34 minutes before the Employment Situation Report, nbd. *BLS SAYS DATA RETRIEVAL TOOLS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON WEBSITE *BLS SAYS IT'S EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

look at this insane way @cnn.com sanewashes what is obvious 2020 election conspiracy theory horseshit

Turns out the foreign countries didn’t pay them

'Yessongs' another superb seventies live album. It captures Yes in top form with all the epics here. Side1 with 'Siberian Khatru' into 'Heart of the Sunrise' is Wow! And #SteveHowe is in awesome form, esp his solo in 'Yours is no Disgrace' #YesBand #ProgRock #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #DailyVinyl

Nonzero chance Hegseth literally does not understand the term “legal authority”

Listening to Alex Lifeson’s isolated guitar on the Grace Under Pressure album is something I’d normally only do to learn the parts; as it happens, it’s a “non-work-related” transcendent listening experience. youtu.be/mf3TzvLZXvc?...

i am watching clips from the kennedy hearing and one thing that comes across is his petulance at being challenged. he is like an overgrown baby (if that baby were a hot dog you grilled too long)

Threads is feeling exhausting and overwhelming. Going to try hanging out here more.

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The number of people who have bought into the AI grift is unbelievable. My whole IG timeline is Gen Z telling me why I need to use AI for everything. People, not only is AI not infallible, it is incredibly fallible. It gets basic facts wrong all the time.

One of my Supreme Court reform takes is they should be completely barred from taking any outside income (incl. publishing deals) and it should be particularly frowned upon, normatively, to be writing books. Memoirs are for writing after you retire, not five years into a lifetime appointment.