It is very funny that Elon talks about building a city on Mars or a city on the Moon when we all know him building a city in Indiana would be an unmitigated disaster

america could be such a cool fucking place if we’d just let it be

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

Everyone talks about the Schmitt-ian basis for Trump/MAGA and the crisis they have foisted on us, but this from @mattpolprof.bsky.social does it so well: jacobin.com/2026/02/mann...

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

Mariah Carey is there because Long Island is technically part of Italy

This isn’t actually true but it sounds like a solid plan to me

JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled

I personally believe it’s good when people who had bad opinions change them into good opinions. I think we should celebrate that. Just not as much as we celebrate people like me, who only have good opinions

But most of all, I regret that my actions have led to negative consequences for me

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

if you push them on how exactly they think this will go down, they generally end up at "you're naive if you think trump isn't gonna try something" and no shit, no one's saying he won't. but there's a bit of daylight between "trying some shit" and "rigged/no election", so knock it off w. the latter

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

The Devil: A guy who has never had a friend will yell at you for saying something that's not wrong, and not said in the wrong way, but in a way that the guy thinks is wrong. Me: That sounds very cool. And this all happens on my telephone?

A revenue-sharing recipient possibly trading away an ace who costs a measly $8 million is a much bigger problem for MLB than anything the Dodgers are doing.

never forget what they took from you

but i think bouie is correct to point out the logistical barriers to “cancelling the midterms.” trump admin clearly has little interest in actually understanding/manipulating the workings of govt. and if you don’t go that route then you need brute force, and he also doesn’t have that +

the sort of liminal space american politics exists in rn — a fed govt that *wants to be* fascist and *is* doing a ton of violence/damage but is also very clearly outnumbered and losing battles left and right in elections, courts, the streets — is i think hard for a lot of us to get our heads around

Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.

I *think* that appealing to the basic decency of most Americans in the aftermath of Renee Good's murder is smart politics. But mostly I think it's worth doing because if that decency really isn't there then this whole rebuilding democracy thing isn't going to work.

Matt Shaw really beginning to doubt his "Jews will not replace us" poster.

Safe to say, we are all tired of ice

the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray

ICE is responsible for the *only* shooting and homicide in Minneapolis so far in 2026.

John Stuart Mill had a great quote about the history of ideas that was very similar: "Most heretics seek only to make their heresy, the new orthodoxy, rather than making common cause for the rights of heretics in general".

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

billionaires can buy the cupcake factory and then start producing piles of shit that they insist are actually cupcakes but it doesn't mean anyone has to believe them, or eat the pile of shit

it's irritating because it's bullshit, not because of some need to define it more precisely

He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows you would taste really good So be ready with your stake Oh You'd better not shout You'd better not cry He's moving to London, he's sexy and bi Dracula is coming to town

Here he is taking the photo.

if you are going to plead on behalf of black and brown people to oppose efforts to place restrictions on people convicted of driving under the influence, you should also acknowledge that black and brown people are more likely than others to be killed in traffic accidents, especially as pedestrians

“I never watched baseball on TV,” Kent told Sports Illustrated’s Franz Lidz in 1999 with no apparent trace of irony. “It’s slow and boring. I’m not a fan. Never was.”

I'm at the combination

"AI is just a tool" yeah, well so are you, and i don't want anything to do with you either

we have such sights to show you, charlie brown

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

Guys like Freddie and Ohtani and Mookie are also there because the Dodgers were the organization willing to pay workers their fair market value as opposed to most of the rest of the league working as a cartel to depress worker pay!

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

well well well www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...

My god Playoff Kershaw looming out there like Checkov's Gun

that splitter tho

really too bad the dodgers ruined baseball by introducing shohei ohtani to the playoffs

ironically, roberts tests our faith by continually going back to treinen

"you might look at alejandro kirk, with his t-rex arms and his stubby hobbit's legs, and think, my god, what manner of creator would birth such an abomination? but by gum, that little homonculus can swing a bat"

zoë saldaña rocketing up the annoying celebrity rankings these playoffs

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

there is some irony in democrats loudly insisting that they need a joe rogan, but from the left. and then they get an edgelord redditor running for senate and are like, no, not like that