Well, when you are as old as Kid Rock, neurodegenerative disease is an increasing concern. btw, once you are old enough to qualify for AARP membership, you can't call yourself Kid anymore. Thems the rules.

Merry Super Bowl Day to those that celebrate

Imagine hating your husband so much that you would rather sit next to Jake Paul

Even Fartcoin??!?

@jamellebouie.net is 100% correct here, but there is the other likely goal of Bannon, which is to distract the media from how much Bannon sniffed Epstein's throne, as was revealed in the latest Epstein files release.

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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

A useful and timely comparison is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their sister organizations. They number about 200K in a country almost 1/4 the population of the USA. And they're barely holding the dictatorship up. MAGA just doesn't have the numbers.

I dunno about you, but my Nanna's famous Chicken, Broccoli, and One Other Thing in Corn Tortillas were delicious!

The REAL truth THEY don't want you to know...

This is just despicable. These clowns joke about how working people are too afraid to do their job because the US military might destroy them with a Hellfire missile because they might be confused with a "narcoterrorist" whatever the hell that means.

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

Exactly. Politics is the art of persuasion, to get as many people to change their minds and line up behind your bold vision. Politicians that only talk about poll-tested ideas are doing it backwards.

This isn't wrong per se, and, yes, the opioid crisis is awful. But this is a weird way to characterize the stats and requires context. Nearly 1 in 100 Americans died from heart disease over the last five years. 1 in 120 Americans died from cancer. 1 in 200 died from accidents!

As everyone knows, we lost Vietnam not because we were supporting an unpopular authoritarian regime opposed by a well-funded gorilla organization but entirely because we changed the name from the Department of War 20+ years earlier. That and drag-queen story hour.

Graded the first genetics exam for the term. Nearly half the class failed...

The Constitution does need significant revision, and maybe starting over would be a good idea. But it is absolutely true that there are parts that are just being ignored and not enforced. e.g. the emoluments clause

The Right-Wing perfected the art of Cancel Culture a long time ago. One of my favorite examples is how Phil Donahue's show on MSNBC was literally canceled because he questioned the pretense for the invasion of Iraq. This was over 20 years ago!

Called it.

“We need a liberal Joe Rogan”

There are tons of schisms on the right that would be fascinating to liberals and would be effective wedge issues for the left, but the MSM ignores all of them.

This is the absolute truth. Too many Dems think the way to win over the American Heartland is some complicated tax-deduction plan for small businesses. F that. They want red meat. If the next Dem presidential candidate says they will release Epstein docs, we're looking at FDR-sized landslide.

Elon Musk is a world-class bull shitter; he lies ALL THE TIME. He promised that his cars will drive be fully autonomous by the end of 2017! Flash forward 8 years later, and his robotaxis need human intervention and is STILL crashing into parked cars.

Emperor Palpatine, he said, should deliver an ultimatum to Bail Organa, Senator of Alderaan, and order him to agree to the complete dismantlement of the rebel fleet or face “the complete destruction of your planet and your regime and your people.”

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

I applied for a management position at this facility on Monday. Had an interview with them and was told that I would be moving forward to the next stage. Got a call this morning that the position is canceled. Just a disaster for science. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social shows that many prominent conservatives come out of Harvard. Yet much of the conservative movement is deeply anti-intellectual. There is a reason that crackpottery such as young-earth creationism, flat-earthism, anti-vax, etc is almost entirely conservatives.

We laugh about AI not understanding how to draw hands or feet or genitals, but it turns out AI's "understanding" of human anatomy is even worse in written text!

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The Emperor's New Breakfast

Dictator shit

Curious about how America could possibly elect a mad king... twice? You couldn't do better than read When the Clock Broke by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social. He shows that this level of crazy has always been there, just under the surface.