separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

This guy needs to be removed from office either via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. This isn't normal, this isn't funny, this isn't personal dislike of the man. He is not cognitively equipped to be commander in chief

Let's check in with Belichick's Tar Heels: Last week: lost to UCF 34-9. However, they are *not* the worst team in the ACC (Clemson and Boston College have only 1 win each) UNC plays Clemson next week in Chapel Hill. Real clash of the titans here #CFB

Here are two of the most influential people in liberal media, David Remnick and Ezra Klein, telling each other outright lies about what the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said because years of exposure to conservative grievance media pounded the original facts of the case out of their skulls

So the Netherlands is having an election in a month. It's a snap election because crazy guy Geert Wilders' PVV threw a hissy fit and withdrew from the parliamentary majority. Why are any Dutch people considering voting for him? Even if you agreed w him, won't he probably just dissolve govt again?

Do we think that Lionel Hutz would be an upgrade over several of Trump's DOJ hires

“Mental health” differences disappear when you ask about “mood” bc conservatives don’t want to use the words “mental health.”

Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good). Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.

Well don't I feel stupid

@democrats-appropriations.house.gov Put together a timeline showing how this shutdown has been inevitable based on R refusal to let Ds be part of, what is supposed to be, a bipartisan process, since the day Trump was sworn in. I can’t properly articulate how phenomenal this timeline is. 3/

Pirates beat the Braves 9-3 in a fun game at Truist Park. Atlanta at one point was two runs behind but the Pirates had an insane top of the ninth, extending their lead by four. Spencer Horwitz and Tommy Pham had a great game. #MLB #Pirates

I think it was Bouie who noted a few weeks ago (paraphrasing here) that Dems are trapped within this affect of seriousness that actually often works against them, which I think is true but also that comes out of the fact that the country writ large has decided that thats the role they must inhabit.

Animation test for Genndy Tartakovsky's 'The Black Knight' ⚔️ • Follows a knight who controls a 20ft suit of armor in the 14th century • Tartakovsky released the footage to convince Sony to make the film — the studio is unsure if there’s an audience for it

This is what I’ve been reporting on for months. Agencies are taking money and repurposing it against Congressional instructions, and there’s no way to know what they are taking the money from or what they are using it for.

Slipped into a 10:40pm email last night: USDA is “repurposing” $285 million to start a farmer assistance program 1 year earlier than Congress authorized. They don’t say where they are taking the money from — aka the program Congress actually wanted the $280 million to fund

New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀

imagine something new that can give people prosocial outcomes, meet them where they are now. just for the love of god stop telling them that everything will be fixed if we bring back the 20th century

Trump V US will probably go down in the history books as the moment the Supreme Court broke the legal system. It’s possibly the worst decision since Plessy V Ferguson.

y'all were talking about violent global revolution, and dumping sand into a mostly-dead part of the ocean is terrifying?

twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis then he did this

Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc

There's a reason why Congress was responsible for tariff policy for most of American history and I think we need to RETVRN TO TRADITION

nothing any of the people getting fired are saying could ever hope to be as callous as his own allies and loved ones

I want the Trump regime to eat shit on the Comey indictment so that I can go back to referring to Comey's 2016 actions as "careless"

Affinity fraud is an underutilized way of looking at the conservative movement. Realized this in, like 2010, but Brad Delong is one of the few who shares the view.

Tulane realized the real money for a university is housing, not tuition, so they forced students to live on campus for an extra year. Now there's a glut of rental housing surrounding campus and prices dropped. Critical geographers are flocking to NOLA to understand what made landlords less greedy.

To be clear, Comey did not make the quoted statement on 9/30/20. He made it on 5/3/17, far beyond the statute of limitations. He reaffirmed it on 9/30/20 but the indictment is incorrect on its face.

ABC News says James Comey has been indicted in a transparently political case, shortly after other prosecutors who couldn’t justify a charge against him were fired by President Trump. abcnews.go.com/US/former-fb...

saying shit like "follow your sesame street crossing rules! take responsibility for your own safety" is so condescending and clueless it makes me sick. you are genuinely stupid if you think that's a substantial cause of drivers murdering people.

I'm reading Balko's Rise of the Warrior Cop, and Ramsey Clark was mentioned offhand. I still can't believe that a former US Attorney General thought the best use of his time was giving legal advice to Charles Taylor, Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and Lyndon LaRouche.

Honestly this is actually kind of a serious problem! A lot of rhetoric around I/P appeals to the *people* of Gaza or Israel and not the *governments* involved, because Hamas refuses to act as a responsible government & surrender, but Israel refuses to obey the will of its people & negotiate.

It's a good article, but I wish it had been titled Republicans in Disarray

A survey in mid-November 2024 showed that 2/3 of American adults (including 59% of Republicans) believed that tariffs would increase domestic prices. Everybody knew what tariffs are. Some might claim ignorance later but they're liars

“Dance with the one that brung ya” is one of the oldest and simplest rules of international politics and yet people across the political spectrum seem resistant to learning it. You see it with liberals baffled why South Africa likes Russia more than us and leftists confused why Poles like NATO.

Do we know for sure why nobody else stepped up?

CHOTINER: I don't know, I just feel like I've been tacitly operating in a moral framework that would fall apart with even the barest scrutiny. But maybe that collapse would bring new clarity DOCTOR: Listen, there is an interviewer I want you to talk to. The best in the business. CHOTINER: ...

Conservative Islamists, Anglicans, French Catholics, Hindus, and Buddhists under one coalition proof would simply undergo psychotic fusion into the most unspeakable paternalistic anti democratic globalism imaginable

Listen Russ, you are a malignant political hack. We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings. Get lost.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Lesson for Democracts from Jacobin is don't help the poor - since if you do and the GOP rolls back a dime of help, the left will blame you for the GOP rollbacks. In fact, poverty dropped to 7.8% in 2021 because of Biden policies - the lowest level in modern history- and then GOP took Congress.

New definition of blueskyism dropped

Little bit of tension here between Trump boasting that he's "in great health" and then also being like "I could have tripped on the stationary escalator which would have of course killed me"

it's an absolute miracle that GameFAQs is allowed to look like this in 2025 and hasn't been shitted up by a ton of graphics or annoying sidebars. keep in mind: this is with no adblock!

The decision by a small rural district in Poland to declare Jesus as its king has been annulled by the government-appointed provincial governor, who determined that local authorities do not have the legal authority to name Christ as their monarch.

It is the ur-grift and it exerts an inexorable gravitational pull on grifters everywhere.

I do think the cultural changes we've seen in the GOP over the last decade or two are downstream of the exurbs becoming the heart of the GOP instead of the suburbs, and we're seeing a reflection of what exurb elites are like and Jesus fuggin Christ

the virgin: the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses. vs the chad:

There is a libertarianish common thread in the opposition to all things Trump at the moment - immigration, trans rights, tariffs, universities, etc and it's- "Why don't you just leave people alone?" That is a very resonant American theme.