Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

You can draw a direct line between the elite reverence of Buckley and their coming support of Vance

@caffeineandhate.bsky.social I'm coming in to Chicago for a conference. Is there a good dispensary in or near the Loop?

Jaysus Christ, the lore with these people. I can't take it. We're far beyond Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones

Stop listening to/watching podcasts that teach you to be unemployable

Top. Men.

The Trumpian intelligentsia is entirely composed people just smart enough to know what the Avignon Papacy was and stupid enough to think this even begins to make sense as a threat. Every one of them is the smartest person in a room full of idiots.

Ahem. The reason rules like this exist is to prevent employers from intentionally understaffing and making people do extra work outside their job description. If you've ever waited tables and been asked to clean the bathroom, you know why unions bargain for these punitive measures.

Right off the bat, I'm not capable of chain smoking the amount you need to do to master crabbing.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

This is the most I've laughed at something involving Pauly Shore since "Encino Man"

areadoug777: My wife likes the house so hot. I turn the thermostat down to like 65, and then my wife turns it up to 70. Joke’s on her. I wanted it at 70 the whole time lol. It’s all about how you play the game, fellas Jacques0: en france, we do not have this idea. this échecs de femme… uh wifechess

"hostage crisis"??? It's called they're a fucking POW! Why the fuck are we governed by fucking children who don't understand the terms of their own enterprise? Why the fuck are their misadventures covered by people who don't appreciate the fucking gravity of their profession? Fuck all these idiots.

These assholes aren’t just trying to turn back the clock, they’re trying to create a future that’s worse than the past was.

I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military

one of the things that has to change dramatically going forward is that congress needs to viciously retake their rightful first amongst equals status

Like, antisemitism should keep you out of the coalition because it's bigotry. So should backing crypto, as a private money supply undermining the social contract and the growth engendered by fiat currency is inimical to left/liberal governance.

Most people probably do not care, given everything else that's going on, but it is genuinely one of our biggest crises right now that the president has apparently acquired the power of the purse

WIRED analyzed Border Patrol use-of-force reports alongside body cam footage and public records to identify masked agents involved in incidents with US citizens. We found hundreds of names. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d73...

I couldn’t help but wonder…could I really find happiness with a self confessed party dude with an emotional shell as hard and rigid as the shell on his back?

every one of these guys would be the hugest loser you've ever met if there wasn't a massive makework program for men willing to act on their most sadistic impulses in this country

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

The contradiction between what Wurman put in his scholarly writing, versus what he put in a court document, where he is under penalties of perjury, is enough, IMO, to initiate tenure review at any self-respecting academic institution.

in my opinion there should also be trans day of audibility where everybody spends all day posting dope experimental music by trans women for me to listen to

you can do both of these things at the same time, it’s very easy actually “all your shit is more expensive because Trump tariffed everyone, started an immoral and unnecessary war, and fucked the global energy trade, we will stop doing those things if you elect us” there, done

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

Score one for the preservation of art!

"Charlie Brown had hoes." No he didn't. That's not true. He kidnapped people in his van; that doesn't count

They're also misandrist, in a way that I'm very serious about. We make it impossible for men to even discuss their experiences of rape.

one argument that gets trotted out occasionally is that "the demands of national security" entail that the executive *must* have discretion in deploying military force my reading of history is that this is ass fucking backwards. "executive discretion" winds up "dumb fucks in high places"

Sorry that's stupid and you're alienating some of the the biggest Dem voting clusters in the country you twit. Run as a Republican. We're done with this dogshit.

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

WAR DON’T SEX AND YOUR DADDY DON’T ROCK AND ROLL

The "wine mom" thing is a rhetorical cudgel used to reinforce patriarchy and delegitimize groups of women making a difference in their communities.

Chicago people sound off

Evelyn Normielib wants to water the tree of liberty.. And only the blood of tyrants will do. Woe to democratic politicians who don't understand that.

Imagine dying overseas because Rob Schneider successfully lobbied for a return of the draft

Two important notes from the No Kings march to the Capitol in Saint Paul: Two bald eagles are circling over the crowd, I shit you not. And an old woman walking behind us was chatting about hot dish.

Please stop spreading this rage bait. The quote everyone's angry about, about "crappy identity politics," is not from Weir.

we focus a lot on how these are galvanizing events for the good guys but don’t sleep on how demoralizing they are for the bad guys, too

The men who currently comprise the regime have spent the last eight years saying that they wanted a military as capable as that of Russia’s and they have gotten precisely that

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.