More MGS4. Better gameplay than any of the prior games, trying valiantly to tie up all the lose ends created by a franchise that was originally only going to be a single game with sequels made more based on “that sounds rad as hell” than with an eye towards a coherent overarching story.

“My ‘I only casually corresponded with a pedophile ring my husband was also connected to’ shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.”

“We tried to give a group we oppressed for centuries a “one-time boost” and it didn’t erase the centuries of oppression, so obviously that’s on them” is just a profoundly ahistorical and fucked-up world-view.

If the artillery bombardment of the Somme happened during the Christmas truce, it wouldn’t be called the Christmas truce.

There is no organization which represents the majority of American Jews. It’s not for nothing that one of our fundamental religious texts is transcriptions of Jews arguing about Judaism.

There will come a day that Jeffries realizes that when the Speaker isn’t going to do what you call for, theres no reason not to swing for the fences. Sadly I’m pretty sure it’ll be in his memoir.

There’s a certain naïveté to thinking that this is a “failing to grasp” rather than “knows exactly how much harm they’re doing to vulnerable communities and likes it”

I’m honestly curious what benefit you think there is to the “golly, credit where it’s due that Trump didn’t actually commit genocide” opening. What population of voters do you think only wants to hear criticism of Trump couched as “well to be fair he didn’t do the absolute worst thing”?

The level of delusion required to believe that, if armed, "the people" will install a pro-American regime is simply baffling

Hell, in my lifetime “whatever republicans want is bad” is the most reliable barometer. It’s like saying acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s^2. It’s not complete, it’s missing some details, but the overwhelming majority of time it’s sufficient to correctly predict what’ll happen.

I’ll admit I’m not great at math, but two Democrats in the senate is about 45 Democratic senators short of talking about what “Democrats” are doing.

A prion is just a collection of proteins which simply by existing cause other proteins to fold incorrectly. It lacks the sapience to decide to cause harm to anyone or anything. To be a right-winger/Republican/Trump supporter is to deliberately decide you want suffering to happen.

People are not a disease. People are not a cancer. No, not even republicans. At least a virus doesn’t hurt people out of hate or malice.

It’s okay to say that even the right-wing agrees that what Trump is doing is both wrong and stupid. But don’t mistake that for being on the same side or being worth rehabilitating or listening to about anything else. We already made that mistake with people like Rick Wilson.

“What do you mean they’re stealing our content for their chatbots without our permission? Hellllooo haven’t they heard of intellectual property rights?” - Chatbot CEOs

What’s great is that there are two equally-valid things this could be referencing.

The subtle point of whatever your outfit is enormously outweighed by the very obvious point that you’re showing up in the first place.

The reason we invoke the idea that troops didn’t sign up for this is to allow us to care about what happens to them (your #3). If you want me to believe someone signed up to bomb civilian energy infrastructure in contravention of international law, I’m going to have a harder time wanting them safe.

The temptation to assume that “opposes Trump” means someone isn’t also a neoconservative who opposes everything the left wants has been a huge weakness since 2020. Don’t give the people whose politics gave us Trump a voice in our politics.

I do like the “well but it’s still bad news because there hasn’t been a big spike since January 2025” replies. That much obsession with “did line go up” is bad enough when you have money on the line, much less when it’s “I can use this to vaguely criticize people on a microblogging site”

Credit where it’s due, I have to admire the chutzpah of a layperson sincerely thinking it’s more likely the Colorado Court of Appeals did something unusual and/or misinterpreted the law than that he just doesn’t know much about the subject.

I will never understand what madness seized Polis and caused him to desperately try to find common cause and mutual respect with bigots and fascists.

Have you considered just not writing articles so bewilderingly ill-conceived and internally incoherent that you wind up arguing that correctly understanding the right-wing was only ever pretending to support legal immigration made it more likely the right would stop supporting legal immigration?

I don’t know if the issue is stunts vs substance. I think it’s that he represents a “golly Trump sure did corrupt an otherwise honorable party whose ideologies we should still compromise with even if we win” approach while may voters want a “we’re going to fuck them up real good” approach.

I had to use some special Colorado lawyer back-channels [note 1], and I need you to know exactly how much I'm risking by showing you this [note 2]. But I'll put that much [note 3] on the line to give you the decision straight from the source. 1/

The deceit that Peters was convicted of was in giving unlawful access to voting records via fraudulent credentials. That’s not what the judge was referring to as her being a charlatan peddling snake oil. He wasn’t talking about her prior actions, but her ongoing speech. Explicitly. 1/

Also, don’t miss the dude right in front of that with the sailor moon lanyard.

This is literally claiming that "carrying into execution [Congress' powers under Article I], and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof" is synonymous with the President's "executive power"

If there's one thing I will never understand it's the centrist adherence to some weird de mortuis nil nisi bonum when it comes to disgraced Republicans. You don't have to complement them, or pretend they were led astray. Kick them while they're down.

It’s obvious why the “OMG Gen Z is totally becoming more religious” articles had to shift to anecdotes after it turned out the only statistical source for that was a right-wing polling firm. It’s less obvious why y’all so desperately want to make fetch happen.

“They say the idea is catching on and who are we to dispute that? Our journalistic obligation requires we present their position on their own popularity first and foremost”

Seeing anything about four types of children during Passover is triggering a Manchurian candidate-level compulsion to argue over whether “what does this mean to you” implies “it means nothing to me.”

I was prepared to make a quip about how Democrats are so feckless that their “demands” are really just requests. And then I got to the “we hope to hear details… we urge the president” and realized I apparently wasn’t joking.

Of the handful of times Gorsuch hasn’t just been a right-wing stooge, most seem to have been because he has a monomaniacal focus on Native American rights.

I was not expecting to tear up. Humanity can do such amazing things, I can hardly imagine what we could do if so much time, energy, and money weren’t being put towards some people’s desire to hurt others.

It also says something that my excitement for a NASA launch went way up learning that the rocket was contracted out to normal defense contractors. Northrop and Lockheed were the less-evil options.

Weird how he chose to defend a surgery which predominately benefits men, while blaming women for not doing enough unpaid work to support the system.

“And damn it we’re the only ones supposed to be violating international law and acting like Nazis!”

If your response to Chiles v. Salazar is “pack the court” please remember that it was decided 8-1. Only Justice Jackson actually dissented from the nonsensical contention that regulating mental health counseling is different from regulating other medical practices because it involves talking.

It's like Murrow's famous line about McCarthy: "There are people who want HUAC and its activities to be held up as wrong. We don't believe our broadcast should be taking an advocacy position" And that's what the Murrow award is for, right? Excellence in bothsidesing?

When the strongest, manliest, own-the-libs thing a writer come up with for a dude's puff piece is how he puts dressing on his store-bought salad and then shakes it really hard, good god must he be pathetic.

"We also don't like AI slop which is why we're using AI to make slop code rather than slop novels and slop images. Anyway, it's only slop if it comes from the Slopé region of France, our chatbot is making sparkling environmental devastation" - Bluesky

It's never been surprising that Trump is a godawful negotiator when he can't leverage "suing me costs money" and "well my company can declare bankruptcy." But I'll admit I'm surprised just *how* pathetically bad at it he and his sycophants have turned out to be

Really godawful taste in Star Trek properties (honest to god I can only think of three properties that feature a lot of “Romulus and the Federation shoot at each other” and they’re among the worst) aside, this is just such a boomer way to think about being able to guess the end of a story. 1/

Whats wild is that “watch Romulans and the federation shoot at each other” isn’t a big part of any of the shows. It would imply he’s a fan of the Abram’s reboot and the TNG movie Nemesis. No one has taste that bad.

So YouTube is just fully open to scams.

Money spent on creating and disseminating speech has to be protected as speech or it’d be stupidly easy to censor speech the government doesn’t like.

The first question we would need to ask is whether we trust that a brainworm would be able to tell if a map were correct.

“We’ve reviewed our own reporting and despite being accused of bigotry we’ve been nothing but accurate and factual” - Der Stürmer press release circa 1940

I saw a clip from the Nathan Fillion cop show and… y’all, even if it’s not intentional the copaganda is insidious. It’s one of the training cops telling a trainee who’d been in the military that as a cop people she’s “up against… aren’t military combatants, they’re our fellow citizens.” 1/