Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

At this point in the show, Carol is an asshole and the aliens have so far drastically improved the human race. But I guess it fits an agenda when taken out of context.

There’s a part of me that thinks they’re covering it up as much as possible so that when it’s all finally revealed, it won’t seem like a big deal. That would be a huge gamble and they’re not remotely that smart, but it’s the only thing I can think of why they hide shit like this.

I guarantee you that all of those Trump voters still blame liberals/Democrats for the denial of disaster aid.

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I don’t use social media to argue about politics with strangers. I use social media to talk to people about fish. When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.

“I WILL be next if I allow this to happen to other people. That’s what brings me out here, man.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

(7 days from now) BREAKING NEWS: Netflix gives Trump "Bestest President ever" mug; acquisition quickly approved

Who has made this 🤣

I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.

Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

“We threw the witch in the water and she didn’t drown, indicating that she was still an active combatant.”

There's this part of me that's mad at FIFA and Apple, etc, but I also can't really blame them. If you know that all you have to do is flatter a corrupt president and give him gifts and he'll do whatever you want and no one will ever be held accountable...I dunno. Go for it.

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

She has the moral clarity that a lot of elected Dems could use: what is happening today is evil. You don’t need to analyze it much more closely than that

in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

Convenient new way to find the fascist assholes on your Thanksgiving flights.

Guys, there's PLENTY of non-hateful reasons to have nooses around. It can just be a simple way to say "thinking about you"!

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

this take gets annoying as a southerner. you should not give up on the south, but no, it is not red because of voter suppression or a lack of funding for dems. doug jones raised shitloads of money and lost. it is red because the overwhelming majority are extremely racist white conservatives

Doesn’t this also apply the other way around, though? Ask for consistency, yes, but don’t call it out unless you’re also going to be consistent.

the Democratic Party should have 2 major goals for the next time it holds power: (1) completely rebuild the destroyed federal government capacity, and (2) crush the GOP, which enabled so much corruption and immiseration. destroy their funding, jail their leaders, make it so a new party has to emerge

When @reiddossinger.com and @kevinalvir.bsky.social both coincidentally recommend the same band to you in the same week you listen. Sharp Pins is the nom de plume of a preternaturally talented Chicago indie kid (he of Lifeguard). Guided By Beatles? Yes please!

“I didn’t love the idea of protecting pedophiles, but it was ultimately the right thing to do,” explained the Republican, “because that was the only way I could hurt the economy, get secret police tear-gassing kids, end Constitutional democracy, and pocket some cash while I’m at it. You understand.”

Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope

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There's a real "Mueller is coming" vibe to "Release the Epstein files". I don't see any reason to think that a damn thing is going to change.

My God. Imagine thinking that Trump says dumb shit because someone else is telling him to.

I’ll believe that Republicans will vote to release the Epstein files when (if) it actually happens.

I think that the caving is hugely disappointing, but I also don't think that Kaine's wrong. Republicans are nihilists (which gives them credit for being smarter than they are, but anyway) and will keep the government shut down for as long as they can, which would be catastrophic.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

The only person who would get a worse reception is Musk. There would have been an all-out riot if he was there.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

You'd hope most people would have an "are we the baddies?" moment if they had to acknowledge they're a member of a party with a substantial "Cool With Hitler" Wing.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

It's not delusion. It's propaganda. It's 100% 'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.'

This is dumb, but I bet it's Ezra Klein's take, too.

Dems in disarray. Wonder what Matt Yglesias and Nate Silver think about this. (I don't wonder that, actually)

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

There really is violence against Christians in America driven by religious bigotry. Though there are often lies about who and why. The worst this year killed four (plus the assailant) in an attack on an LDS church in Michigan by a right-wing extremist, a Christian and Republican, who hated Mormons.

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support