This weekend I completed some tasks I'd put off for some time. They together took about half an hour of my time and it felt good to mark them off my mental to-do list. Will future me remember this result and change his behavior accordingly? Yes! (No; that's a lie.)

Bills won. Sorry for doubting you mr mcdermott

The usual suspects are going to tell you how little this all matters, but Massie getting on national TV and saying "you're protecting pedophiles" to his own fucking party is not something that happens, even involving Massie, if DJT is an unstoppable electoral force and all elections are over forever

These people do not believe that the middle and professional classes have moral standing to do politics in their material self interest.

People say this because they have not actually bothered to look up the US’s NIIP since 2008 and assume it is unchanged. Since COVID, foreign investors have *actually* accumulated a massive position in US equities, to the tune of $20 trillion, double their Treasury holdings of only $9 trillion.

I've told this story, but last year I went to Ellis Island, and the museum noted that of the millions of immigrants who showed up at Ellis Island, 98% were allowed into the country, despite health checks and (racist) psych profiles. And the museum clearly felt guilty about the remaining 2%!!!

Dammit! Tampa just got a touchdown. Tampa takes the lead, 10-7, in the second quarter #BillsMafia

It is interesting to me how the media seems far less interested in Trump's Murder Memo than you'd expect. Only a few reporters seem to be even trying to get a hold of it, and very few commentators are talking about it. Contrast that with Bush's torture memo, which was a national obsession. Weird.

being stupid is such an incredible life hack

Star Wars Episode V live thread! I feel like the tauntaun population must be huge to sustain Hoth's local Abominable Snowman community

Is Anne Applebaum the pundit who wrote an article a few years ago about how all our her conservative friends turned out to be Nazis (or at least very sympathetic to fascism)?

I just saw an ad for Simpsons Fortnite and I don't understand the gaming industry anymore

this is why my stance on gambling and a few other things are "it should be legal but you should have to get up, put on pants, and go somewhere to do it" like, i think fairly intense drugs should be trivially legal too but you should have to go to Drug Church to do it

While for-profit universities enrolled just 8 percent of students, they were responsible for 30 percent of student loan defaults.

Regarding gambling, I think that the landscape is going to change once people realize they can only deduct 90% of their gambling losses. (This change takes place in 2026)

The amount of money in the US private credit market went from $100 billion in 2005 to $900 billion in 2021.

King Victor Emmanuel II invaded Rome in 1870 and took away the Papal States, and Pope Pius IX got so mad that he codified the doctrine of papal infallibility to preserve clerical authority against more earthly rulers

What percentage of Teen Vogue's readership are actual teenagers?

as stated, that's not what the government data show.

In big cities, no one gives a fuck about you (laudatory)

I wonder how this guaranteed future change will interact with social media. A relatively small number of tech enthusiasts had their 2005 support for Bush saved for posterity, but there's a *lot* more people who won't be able to hide their political history. Will people keep those screenshots? Yep!

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

I wonder if larger animals than us, like elephants or giraffes, have this desire as well

I learned just now that "tabby" is derived from Arabic. ' Attabiya was a district in medieval Baghdad

Like, this is the mainstream GOP response to an off-year election drubbing: invite nazis to the capital. There's no reforming this, there's no bringing these people back to moderation & reason. They have to be resisted tirelessly at every turn and ultimately crushed or they'll destroy everything

I mean there's an argument that the results of any medical test, procedure, imaging, or consultation that the president gets should be released to the public as a matter of law

Star Wars Episode IV live thread! C-3PO and R2D2 walk through a volley of laser blasts in full sight of the storm troopers, making the upcoming line about "no humans on the escape pod" a real Dunce Cap moment

I saw people posting about MTG running for US Senate and that's not true; she's running for re-election. The GOP people running against Ossoff are Mike Collins, Buddy Carter, and Derek Dooley (Kemp's guy).

I'm not really a fire-and-brimstone kind of guy, but "You have to pay more to speak with Satan" is bringing out the Jonathan Edwards in me

Any wagon circlers want do defend this? Because the previous bad faith behavior from NYT to advance fascism wasn't a problem for them, in fact they called us stupid for thinking that the NYT did shit like this.

it's nuts that most cities don't have an office of economic analysis and that the state housing agency doesn't do economic analysis

Ahemhem journalism is a guild that thinks it is a priesthood ahemhem

One of the most subtly insane aspects of the unrelenting car dependency we’ve deliberately built across North America is the incredible reluctance we have to remove the driving privilege, even from those who clearly are a danger to themselves & others, because “people have to drive.” #CarDependency

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

Oh and if none of you asked him why committing genocide against Native Americans ranked #1 for him on list of historical wars he'd most want to have fought in, I'd say you didn't push hard enough about that either

This looks pretty cool!

I yelled about the NYT yesterday, but I actually am a little curious about the timeline of Landon Thomas' employment, because it seems unclear. Was he fired right after soliciting a $30K donation from jeff? How much of his conversations with jeff were relayed to upper management?

I was today years old when I realized that Leavitt is A. younger than me and B. married to a 60-year-old real estate developer from goddamn New Hampshire and just why???

First state AND first state to make child marriage illegal… in 2018.

The lack of understanding (most charitable interpretation) on here between documents that were produced by the estate under subpoena from House Oversight (lol Comer and thank u Ro, I say for the first time ever) recently and what DoJ possesses from investigations/etc is going to drive me batty

Cannot emphasize enough that this is something really easy to do that, with sufficient volume, could really protect many vulnerable people from abusive situations. A lot of states will have legislative elections next November. I'm calling my Georgia state and senate reps this week

The info from the estate and the info that DOJ collected weren't the same. This was unfair to Mr. Garland and the Justice Dept. Mea culpa!

Have any NYT management answered any questions about how many emails from mr epstein are sitting on their servers

Y'all, holy shit, "But Her Emails" was *projection* and NYT *knew*! They were publishing Hillary's emails while sitting on Epstein's Trump Dirt!

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...