Clicked over to a Threads post of mine at a fortuitous time

Every now and again, I dip my toe in the men's fashion commentary waters, to get the sociopolitical temperature.

Add a laugh track at the end and this an absurdist SNL sketch intro from any time before 2015

Warner Bros specifically has had THREE utterly disastrous mergers in the last two decades that ALWAYS result in layoffs, price hikes, shittier products, and everybody losing their shirt, but I want you to notice how the U.S. outlets covering this story don't think that's worth mentioning

GenX, pour one out for one of the architects of our childhood www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

The replacement of Jesus with Trump as the messianic figure in right wing American Christianity is predicated on plausible deniability, and Trump breaks this contract every time he explicitly acknowledges that he has taken the place of Christ in their worship.

and here's their story:

Trump calling the pope "weak on crime" is unfortunately a great bit, but we'll see better as the feud progresses. Trump only really has so many rhetorical moves at this point and is rapidly regressing into fey Broadway insults, but we could see "he's losing his 'look'" and "his 'hat' doesn't play."

One down. Three to go.

“The pope is soft on crime” brought me back to this…

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To all those men asking why these women didn’t file police reports, I direct you to the Epstein files as an example. Despite police reports, in some cases depositions under oath and NO justice has been dispensed from a court of law. The women are re-traumatized and the men are free.

I used to have a felt-on-cardboard mitre, made for a Sunday school costume party, that served well in lieu of a colander, for playing colander head, at college parties. "Popehat, Popehat, you're a fucking Popehat!", went the call, which comes to mind now, every time I see a Popehat post.

Calvin Duncan, a man imprisoned for 30 years before he was exonerated, won an election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in

RFK Jr. can no more avoid "weird stuff" as he can avoid roadkill on the highway.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

What does it mean to "pursue" something that at the moment is wholly in the hands of Trump's handpicked VP and handpicked cabinet? What are you talking about? The 25th amendment wasn't written for a moment like this, and you'd know if you talked to the guy who wrote it. prospect.org/2026/04/07/w...

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

the time has come to send elon to the strait of hormuz

just so we're all super clear on what the threat was, what france actually did was send goons to break into the pope's house and beat him to death and then replaced him with a series of popes they liked better, who lived basically in captivity in france

I don't honestly think there is any deal. He's a liar. He just needs to be impeached

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

bleak

Trump is directly copying Orban's approach to mass media: autocrat-friendly oligarchs buy up all the corporate media outlets, then pummel the public with 24/7 propaganda while the government harasses and murders real independent journalism just out of frame

Much as I "enjoyed" the tragicomic a24films.com/docs/andr%C3..., it's nice to have available a similarly positivist cancer-battling outlook, albeit one with communally beneficial action steps! Granted: had André been tipped off at 15, to what lay ahead... we likely wouldn't have that movie, for one!

It's boggling to me that there are people eligible to vote for a rep who'll work to stop the Clown-King's depredations, who *don't* actually cast a vote‽‽‽

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

Ugh, I really, really, *really* wanna believe the current set of US NatCs, and their enablers and colleagues are gonna get the cultural smackdown they deserve, but the news cycle rarely ever seems to feed such hopes.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

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I will never think of Elon Musk as anything other than a mass murderer for the USAID cuts. I’ve long felt he’s one of the most villainous people alive today, the real-life equivalent of a comically annoying and cruel supervillain

I don't wanna get up any premature resurrection hopes, but scaffold up one side of Anchor Brewing at least suggests work in that direction may be afoot...

I really don’t understand people with tons of money not doing something fun like this. Folks with world-saving money hoard it like it’ll eventually transmute into happiness if they wait long enough, while folks who start with happiness inside just try to make their corner more enjoyable for all.

All the moonshot nostalgia has me wondering if we're ginning up a chance at a do-over on the 70s. I am THERE for it!

"Glory be to God" is fine but for Easter, "And on the Second Day Christ Shall Rise and He Shall Bury Your Ass in Bombs" would have been more observant.

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Today's long commute back and forth along the length of the peninsula was enlivened by this eclectic playlist of aggressively anti-authoritarian music, collated by mixtape maestro @musicophilia.bsky.social, as timely now as it was when published 13 mos ago musicophilia.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/r...

I'm glad that I do *not* gotta hand anything to Chuck Schumer, ever, but nonetheless, I will gladly acknowledge whatever wins he brings, once they actually occur.

Oh, cool, it's like what that kooky drunk Fox judge was saying the other day, gotta get our hands on these kids!

To my mind, this is the most honest thing Trump has ever said. To his mind the only proper function for the fed gov't is to the use of violence. All social programs that actually benefit ordinary people are "little scams" that should be eliminated. bsky.app/profile/head...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Check out this incredible resource from @refugeesinternational.org and @humanrightsfirst.org. www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

Soon enough (?), we'll no longer need to lick toads, forage through cowshit for magic shrooms, or book an ordeal with an Ayahuasca shaman, in order to trip serious balls -- we'll be able to find it in a cigarette! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

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Here in the US, we barely have the bandwidth to appreciate how hard it is for dictators, elsewhere in the world, to maintain their grasp on power. Orbán, in Hungary, is in dire straits. Fortunately, a charitable organization has arisen, to kick him while he's down!

“Can’t a sitting president come watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court? You know how much I love an oral argument. I am a big fan of the law. I like the faint, wheezing sound it makes as I trample on it, and the mountains of litigation that result.” Great laugh from @petridishes.bsky.social

BREAKING: MAGA Republicans eager to get hands on kids