Every day I become more and more convinced that we should smash the internet until it’s just digital libraries, bulletin boards, mailing lists, and email.

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

the Mariners win 13 of their last 14 and look what that causes

This Syracuse Clemson game is Schadenfreude Central

Dangerously Syracuse-pilled at the moment

It was an honor to have Dan Evans, Jr. at my inauguration. Thinking of Governor Evans’ family today, a year after he passed away.

“We are at this moment experiencing great challenges — challenges which test an administration, a legislature and a people. To meet these challenges, we cannot be leisurely when the times call for action.”

Dan Evans was one of the greatest Washingtonians who ever lived. My mom and dad hosted one of the very first coffees for Dan Evans’ campaign at our home. I'll always remember the words from his first inaugural address:

Walked into GameDay on the kitchen TV and was assaulted by Pat McAffee emerging from a pool in a Speedo. I just tune in to watch Some Guys Talking Ball, I don’t need or want that man’s bro antics.

Waiting to hear from Michael Ovitz.

Trump take tech biz.

Also to be clear even if they were right “lower prices by a dramatic aggregate demand shock” is a recession, not an inflation reduction tool lol

It’s finally time for the hosts of webrings to get serious about the violence of the discourse that they p

I’m not a doomer but I also think it is quite naïve to believe we are merely at the brink of a catastrophe and not in the midst of one. Maybe that’s a minor point to some people but I think it’s important to recognize it and strategize accordingly.

The Oregon Republican Party hasn’t been electorally viable statewide for a few decades now, so it appears their new approach is to have Poppa Trump declare Democrats to be Antifa and lock them up. That’ll make the GOP more popular with Oregon voters. Great thinking guys.

A guy who can kill people with a phone call is posting like a wallstreetbets loser

Will not be watching The Terminal List: Dark Wolf: An Origin Story, a TV show that looks like it was written by a sentient bag of Black Rifle Coffee.

Herb Kirkstreit is this anything

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I sent this to my wife and she immediately canceled her subscription. Really inexcusable, and it also brings home the fact that the media is a little club for the savvy and there is very little someone could do to get themself kicked out of it.

They couldn't have known it at the time, but the Pharaohs did build a really cool backdrop for an EDM festival when they built the pyramids.

I do want to say that the FCC has always been a bit of a problematic agency IMO in how it's operated historically, and this whole incident (as well as others this year involving it) make a strong case that it needs to be put in the same category as DHS for a serious rethink post-Trump.

This party used to dominate the suburbs and it is increasingly difficult to comprehend that.

MAGA libertarians after an FCC threat turns into ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air hours later

This just gets funnier and funnier everyday. Never a more transparent group of frauds.

I think they did not wholesale fabricate texts to put in a charging document absent anyone involved making that claim, no

A fun thought experiment is imagining what Swalwell’s predecessor Pete Stark would have done if a witness said that to him. (If you don’t remember Stark, let’s just say he was given to “intemperate” outbursts, and there is a nonzero chance he would have leapt from his seat to take a swing at Patel.)

announcing my new PAC “can I run for something without anyone getting mad”

When a serving wench and a leather mug salesman from a renaissance faire get married.

If I had to pick which of the two major political parties was actively shrinking its tent I would probably pick the one that reoriented itself around white grievance politics and a cult of personality.

I can’t move past the fact that the shooter used a rifle - an 1895 Mauser rebarreled with a stainless steel barrel and set in a composite stock - that was unique and easily identified, yet somehow didn’t have a plan for getting the rifle away from the scene, so he just ditched it in some bushes.

"It always made me feel less alone." I've heard this said by other MST3K fans, and I think it's just about the most gratifying thing you can hear about something you worked on.

“Matthew, it’s Eric Swalwell. I’m alone & sad right now & not sure what I’ll do if you can’t send $5.”

Speaking of “vigilant maintenance of appropriate behaviors within our publicly accessed social media forums,” I wonder what Clay Higgins thinks about this behavior from Clay Higgins.

My alma mater on a manhunt because someone made fun of Kirk’s death at a vigil. Not a great time for free speech anywhere.

The FB page that churns out AI images of Bob Dylan along with improbably stories about him has created an entire series of stories about Bob Dylan honoring Charlie Kirk in the week since he was murdered and it’s quite weird.

oracle aren’t even good at UX for products people *have* to use for their jobs, i am, we will say, skeptical about their ability to keep a consumer product going

Woke up with “Tyrant” by Judas Priest in my head, that’s such a great riff.

Libertarianism ends where the private sector begins in Rand’s world, where your employer can fire you for utilizing a protected right while *not* acting as a representative of said employer because they disagree with you. This is, of course, bad when it is done to people Rand agrees with.

As upsetting as today has been, I don’t think threatening to go after liberal groups and prosecuting Office Depot employees is a sign that these people are secure in their power. They’re flailing and public opinion is going to get worse and worse the more they flop around.

the problem with celebrating a dumb guy is like 50% of the time he's thinking about doing something dumb

Having a fun discussion with a friend about the moment in the third verse of “Spanish Harlem Incident” where Chris Hillman hits a note so flat that the first time I heard it I thought something had gone wrong with my stereo.

“Don’t attend the violent pimp’s funeral” is a completely understandable decision when you aren’t in power yet.

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Over on Threads people are attacking MsRachel for posting that violence is wrong if you’re wondering how the discourse is in the metaverse.

I get it’s within 2 minutes but don’t make that throw dawg you’ve been in the league for two decades

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