A big reason for Democrats to promise prison time for Republicans in power and the use of the state to undermine the Republican Party as an organization is because our former allies need to believe that someday soon, America will cease to be like this.

Odysseus, Odysseus, and Achilles

Had a couple of real "that kid is BACK on the escalator?!" moments today with poorly supervised kids& the hotel water slide

This has always been the case. “Go Woke, Get Broke” has always been clownish untruth. No movie has ever failed because of Black folks, POC, LQBTQ+, or women. There are a myriad of other reasons why some movies fail to connect. But bigoted chuds don’t have that kind of power.

Every time a union endorses Brian Fitzpatrick they admit that they care more about having a token Republican friend than they care about enacting an agenda with a Democratic majority. It is embarrassing and enraging. Treat every endorsement as though that seat could be the majority maker.

The hotel we're staying at has entirely too many signs that say this is a "no drone zone", not that I disagree with the policy, but I'm just concerned about what incident happened that requires this much signage.

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

Congress has always had the power to shape the federal court system, and as part of that, the number of SCOTUS justices has expanded and even shrunk before. The idea that the current setup is not only permanent but also somehow vital to our existence is just incredibly stupid.

reread Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey today and you know what’s pretty fucking great is the Odyssey, thanks Christopher Nolan for this magnificent experience (me reading a book in my house)

Wawa's expansion south has been a boon for trips down 95. "Come in traveler, I know you are weary and miss the comforts of home, here, have a hoagie."

Was thumbs upping all the other people driving heavily laden cars with northeast state plates & sleeping families as we made it though Richmond, VA with no traffic before 7:15 am.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

this is an incredibly important archaeological site for so much. please leave a comment opposing this.

Also, it does not matter if Russ Vought is against DEI policies, if Congress has instructed NIH take to into account health disparities in an assessment of a grant. An executive order cannot overcome a formal statement by Congress. Somebody needs to point that out to him.

Chuck Tortilla

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

omg Argentina brought out a "THE FALKLANDS ARE ARGENTINE" banner after the win

It's not often you can credibly accuse the president, the White House, and the Treasury of conspiracy to counterfeit.

<galaxy brain> permanent DST will be terrible for children and especially teenagers, who will see learning loss from school starting in darkness but the sleep data shows that school already starts far too early for teenagers this could force reforms of school schedules for teens' natural rhythms

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos

literally this meme:

MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL

Increasingly deranged gambling ads during televised sports events will be what turns me into the Joker

The ads during the All-Star game wore me down and I looked up the cast for nations dumbest and I just kept going "oh no, oh no". it's all so sad. Faded celebrities should be doing the match game & Hollywood squares, not this baloney.

Want a quick way to check if your food is safe? Too bad, we made a QR code that causes diarrhea

On race and age distributions, NJ is eerily similar to the US as a whole. Makes weighting poll data much easier!

It has so many implications & consequences too. One is, whatever secret cabal you think is running things-- the DNC, AIPAC, globalist elites, George Soros, take your pick --you're wrong. No one is in charge. Everyone is winging it by the seat of their pants. Everyone is fumbling around in the dark.

Not the biggest issue with mainstream media coverage but not the smallest: There was no plan. There never was a plan. Trump just says shit. An unbiased headline would read, “Trump’s Hormuz Bluster Turns Out to Be Total Nonsense, As Usual.”

No freebie here. If the court wants more money for security, they should agree to binding ethics code administered independently and streaming video of oral argument. Yes, this is hardball. And amply justified. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Dealing with a bit of a Rats of NIMH situation here. Saw evidence of mices by the water heater, so I put down a trap last night, noticed it had been triggered this morning, when I went back to clean it up, something had dragged the trap behind the heater into an area I can't get to.

Good arts education is a gateway to more and better art. E.g., kid's English teacher made Romeo & Juliet come alive and showed them Westside Story, which led to them seeking out and watching Rita Moreno on The Muppet Show.

Hunt for Red October is such a great procedural with fantastic details, it's too bad we didn't get a shot at the beginning of Jack Ryan on the moon buggies at Dulles.

One enjoyable part of this home run Derby is the announcers constantly shit talking the magic (sponsor tie-in) final ball and saying because the seams are different colors hitters can't hit it (and they can't)

They’re making the Cryptkeeper woke. He’s gonna say “boils, ghouls and slay/phlegms.” It was on the news.

the maine election is, unfortunately for susan collins, now a referendum on her voting for brett kavanaugh and to give ICE tens of billions of dollars with no strings attached, and no amount of Susan Collins Is Very Concerned posting is going to change that

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

I have no struggle with this at all. Who is this "most of us"?

The third act of A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous examples of "don't die a dickhead, " was the ghost showing Scrooge how happy everyone was that he died and it was a big motivator for him to stop being a piece of shit and still we got a bunch of dickhead Dems talking up Lindsey Graham

The media routinely papers over that by grafting onto red state Evangelicals the views of New England Unitarians. That is not how Evangelicals see things. Catholic? Hell. Non-bigoted Protestant? Hell. Jewish? Hell unless you convert at the End Times, which are upon us.

it really bothers me when pundits etc urge everyday folks to treat politicians like normal people working normal jobs. they're not. they hold positions of extreme consequence and i would argue very few of them take their jobs as seriously as they should. it's not fucking data entry.

the fact that our elites cannot, ever, just call a thing what it is will be the death of this society. he was a vicious, antisocial scumbag. his crimes are literally legion. if the opposition can't vocalize that what good are they? and werent they trying to jail this loser? grow a pair

I’ll put a finer point on it: The actual solution to our birth rate “problem” is substantially increasing immigration. Lyman Stone is a virulent racist and nativist bigot, so he rejects or ignores this solution in favor of pushing heterosexual Christian couples to reproduce more. That’s my response.

Mamdani should declare a random Sunday Sacco and Vanzetti day just because.

"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing

Murder she wrote nephew of the week looks like a combo of Ken Marino & Michael Showalter

Qualms about the end of S5 of The Bear aside, they should get a 6th season, and I know tv budgets are going down, so this should just be a 3-camera, traditional sitcom in the restaurant. Ayo gets to be really funny and Richie gets 30 sec applause breaks on his Kramer-esque kitchen entrances.