I can never delete this account, man, the gems on this site are such gems

libslop articles on the supreme court are so funny sometimes just saw urgent reporting with the breaking news that Justice Thomas said precedent “isn’t gospel” you read that right. extremely concerning and out of the ordinary for Justice Thomas to say that precedent is sometimes wrong

The number one thing you should be doing right now is catastrophizing and panicking. Stop exercising. Stop reading books. Eat like shit. Fuck up your sleep schedule. Eschew fresh air. Doom scroll all day.

you all owe will an apology, okay? the article itself is a motivated slant piece and draws unsupported conclusions, as is typical of ken, but these are obviously not the private chats of a “groyper” twitter.com/kenklippenst...

As a (relatively) "sensitive young m[a]n," I can tell you why coupling is done online: it is because it is expected to be done online. Not "seen as" — expected to. There are implied social sanctions to approaching any real-life situation (besides, maybe, a bar or church) as a "coupling" opportunity.

Okay I’m gonna say it: I don’t think the available evidence suggests this guy is a groyper, and if anything, he appears to be more left-leaning. And frankly the fact this entire site is convinced he’s a groyper is a pretty revealing demonstration of the alternate reality bubble that happens online

Among the many reasons not to start posting your takes yet is that we literally have no idea what happened or why

what are the “masses craving” that a party who only has a minority in both houses actually do? be specific and offer deliverables.

this is less an argument and more a boast

nationwide injunctions are still on the menu, in cases where an affected class may be certified

I, too, have antipathy for that particular corporation

I knew a guy this happened to while he was still in high school. like early onset MPB. tragic, really

The local political story around the DC military takeover is rich stuff. The zombie delegate who refuses to retire or appear in public, the mayor who will assent to anything if it gets her football stadium...

if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history

MAGA, faced with the same question, thought the same thing. The answer, to them, was always obviously “yes.”

strange to see a mass of unopposed people in the replies and quotes to this posing various types of “when did you stop beating your wife?” and “why will you beat your wife in the future?” style “questions” seems strange to predicate so much hostility on what a group *might* publish in the future

... just stick to the "Following" page?

what the fuck do you mean dramione fanfiction is being really actually published by real actual publishing houses in the year of our lord 2025

If only it had wit.

So the “deal” here is basically that Trump threatened to withhold the CHIPS act grants that were approved but not yet distributed until Intel issued him 10% of the equity?

the bluesky experience is a wave of people who I saw arguing for the efficacy of “deplatforming” c. 2020 now make arguments (generously) for why it’s good to deplatform *themselves* everything else considered, including how wrong it is, this sort of gesture at association is just so boring

what on earth? how are these arguments mutually exclusive?

curb your enthusiasm theme

which of these articles is supposed to be “scolding leftists?” I don’t any much scolding in the tone at all

I don’t think the general tenor of this site would be quite the same if it was revealed that elon musk checked “african american” on a college application form

it’s so cool that the smithsonian channel mostly just makes tourismslop skimming over extremely basic history and begging you to visit, like, West Virginia

There is not a single person in the Democratic Party who is treating the death of USAID with the gravity it deserves. There’s no political issue more important than the death of 14 million people, but they’re just delivering boilerplate condemnations and nothing more.

BBB seems bad

Funding cuts to USAID by the Trump administration could lead to more than 14 million additional deaths globally over the next five years, according to a new study.

this is so insane every day it gets more tiresome

Seems bad.

Good on Hochul — smart instincts.

“People should say things they believe are true, instead of engaging in petty social politics” is one of the most unpopular ideas possible on any sufficiently specialized internet forum

Why is this so obviously “rage bait?” It doesn’t share any of the hallmarks of anything I’d recognize as “rage bait” Is the presumption that merely having a different opinion, no matter how civilly or plainly laid out, *inherently* rage bait on here by nature of *being* different?

decided to go look at what is meant by “ragebait” here and it seems to literally just be “having an anodyne opinion other than my own”

american lawyers should get those little badge pins that japanese lawyers get. it’s unfair

You won’t hear a lot about this!

Why is an appellate lawyer narrowly quoting a line of dicta dredged pretty much directly from the depths of Yoder (I have read Yoder) as if it is new, dispositive law?

well, jamelle, no, the issue at hand here was whether a federal district court may (effectively) do that through equitable injunctive relief, rather than the court serving their role through a different way, like properly applying the law to private class action suits.

how it feels to be someone who thinks the law should be followed in 2025

well. that’s not what they said, now is it.

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lol no.

Original tweet is obviously ridiculous, but what’s with so many people acting like rural counties where the government controls all sale of liquor are a 1:1 comparison or that they’re… good? that that’s a good thing?

Why does everyone seem to think anybody who criticizes anything about a political candidate must think he can’t win anything and also is Bad in All Ways. Is that how they operate, and so they assume everyone else does the same way? I don’t get it.

Maybe the most disastrous endorsement since Gov. Schaefer endorsed Bush over Clinton, which I think Carville called "the rare case of a rat jumping onto a sinking ship."

Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.

lol

Did you know that Zohran Mamdani was one of only three people (and one of only two Democrats) to vote against making revenge porn a misdemeanor (and a basis for civil suit)? legiscan.com/NY/rollcall/...

well, no