i think the reflecting pool has gone from “haha what a dumb ass” to “appointing a horse to the senate” level of story here

I’m not too embarrassed that we are losing to Iran. It’s a big boy country with missiles and drones and so forth ran by stone cold killers. That’s NFL ball for you. I am a little embarrassed we are also losing to algae.

noticing a lot of people forgot what our greatest modern philosopher said about patriotism

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

Oh please spare me on this, oh moderate Republicans. Care to talk about Max Cleland, swiftboating, birth certificates, Vince Foster, or hell Nixon operatives rat ducking Muskie?

Sitting outside waiting for my order at the local taco stand, watching the cars go by on 16th st and enjoying the 76 degree weather. Doesn’t get better than this

It took 250 years but American cops finally racially profiled a white guy

the reason i think this deal collapses is Trump can't take more than a week of angry conservatives without capitulating back to them

instantly one of my new all-time favorite sports videos

“The President owns and operates a bank” is satire-level corruption

sun tzu says shit like "don't set yourself on fire" and "feed your troops" and apparently those are lessons we have to keep re-learning.

people make fun of Sun Tzu for being not terribly profound stuff like "do not needlessly anger your allies before you need them" but you do kinda gotta hand it to the guy, White House would have been well served with someone who knew those things

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

Back on my bullshit (watching Barry Lyndon for the 40,000th time)

do you want your election results fast or do you want them accurate with real verification because these two things are mutually exclusive in large cities and counties

we are in the dumbest and most dangerous possible situation with elections and democracy being undermined because a bunch of people don’t understand or don’t want to understand how basic counting works

Just one of those many little stories that characterize this era. They dream of making a thousand year burgerreich and couldn't even paint a big stupid man-made pond without bungling it. A squad of dipshits who are constantly mad and even when in power are trapped in their own buffoonery

there shouldn't have been a war in the first place, lmao, but it's hilarious to talk about yourself as hard men making hard decisions while hard and end up with a deal that is objectively worse than the JCPOA

it's genuinely hilarious how like for all the insane MAGA ideology, they created a deal worse than JCPOA

naps are so neat you either wake up super refreshed or the most tired you have ever been in your entire life

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

hmmm

This really is incredible.

I'm not exactly gonna blow any minds with this take but: the way video game studios are organized is anachronistic, clearly dysfunctional and producing bad results for workers, consumers and publishers.

No one is more corrupt than Trump, who is openly cashing out in an orgy of crypto and self-dealing. But the crimes of Dana Williamson are a bad fucking break for California Democrats.

To be clear, I’m not saying Newsom or Becerra did anything illegal. But Trump will do everything in his power to boost Steve Hilton, and the guilty plea from the top aide to *both men* provides a ready-made narrative to be fully exploited. Sacramento is a cozy place full of blurred legal lines.

This looks like pure political retribution. But keep in mind that Newsom’s former chief of staff recently pleaded guilty to a slew of federal crimes and faces decades in prison. She was also Becerra’s top political adviser. A perfectly weaponizable clusterf— that some of us feared.

Now that we have a lot more votes, here is the current breakdown of Democrat-only votes in the Sacramento-area congressional districts: CD3 Bera 62% Hall 23% Bennett 13% Cervantes 2% CD6 Pan 42% Tomlinson 22% Ho 19% Guerrero 14% Vandenberg 3% CD7 Vang 49% Matsui 46% Others 4%

an account I like on the other place posted this asking why they’re isn’t more development in the Salinas Valley so here is a fun geography lesson: The area in the red circle is a unique microclimate where 75% of America’s lettuce is grown. It is some of the greatest agricultural land in the world

All of it comes down. The East Wing gets restored, the rose garden regrown. That Qatari bribe plane gets repossessed and used for target practice. The currency he puts his face on gets invalidated. Everything to drive home the point that this Temu Albert Speer Ceausescu nonsense won't be tolerated.

Orban was held up as a model for enacting an enduring “nationalist” regime, and the moment he’s passed from power, they’re looking to reverse his influence. Good reminder there’s no such thing as a permanent settlement of politics…anywhere.

Gavin in a nutshell

It's disappointing how effective this propaganda is, because you get people on the left acting like they should be in solidarity with the guy who owns a 25-employee plumbing business in suburban Ohio, when it's service workers in the urban core that are the beating heart of America's working poor.

It is actually a disaster that Iran will get to run the Persian Gulf as a point of naval access. A disaster that we should all roundly blame on the United States of America.

only New York City could come up with “the way to defeat fascism is for our basketball team to win championships”

Being on Bluesky is in itself a form of age verification.

The thing is that while lots of people more or less refuse to view it this way for both socialist and anti-socialist reasons, sometime between 1848 and 1920 socialism achieved an absolutely cosmic global victory by forcing the state into subservience to society, which it had never been in before

relocate the nets

With the Knicks winning the title, the longest championship drought in the NBA…is still the Sacramento Kings. 75 years and counting, with no end in sight.

wild that the Mavs had Brunson and Doncic on their team and consciously decided to get rid of both of them

Mike Brown singing who let the dogs out is cinema

Given how Dolan had one of the most incompetent runs in professional sports ownership for decades, this does give me some hope Vivek will finally figure things out one day

congrats Mike Brown

the entire concept of “nba champion new york knicks” feels so weird

wow

what's interesting about this split within urban Democratic Parties is that faction aligned with the professional gentrifier class supports more generous policies for the poor and minorities and the faction aligned with actually poor and minority voters is more likely to oppose them.

Once again begging people to read what Fukuyama actually argues in the End of History.

wild

ngl pretty surprised 4th quarter Fox appears to have been a Sacramento-only phenomenon