running DHS like it’s amy’s bakery

if you went back in time and told bush-era democrats they’d win “sports” in the national divorce they’d put you in the psych ward

god imagine being a chud and having to pretend to both hate the bad bunny halftime show AND enjoy kid rock. i’d rather die

it’s bullshit that “edtech” doesn’t mean “an app that lets you rate pictures of ed asner.” we fucked up

it’s very cool and funny how MAGAs have opened the oldest vault and found that all of our institutions are immutably Woke and Gay. that’s just the way it is in this country. if you don’t like it there’s the door!!!

i guess i just don’t understand the point of looking at this new shit heap of traumatic information. every day we’re already having our faces rubbed in the knowledge that this gang of pedophile murderer bandits will never be punished

i now only drink in extreme moderation, but every time trumpist fascism lurches into a new circle of hell, i up the age of the fine bottle of scotch i will buy when [redacted]

zirp and ebitda are beautiful names for a pair of twin baby girls

don’t recall millennials begging for our own kyrsten sinema but ok

not feeling great that republicans and their freikorps can bully, harass, and threaten our people out of public life but their numbers (almost) never get called in return

riding the uptown train with my friend Wet Coughman

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

not getting tickets for this show might be my biggest regret of 2024

there should be a way to shop for things online that doesn’t result in being gangstalked by brands

went balls to the wall at the record store this weekend

cuomo was the candidate for the cruel, stupid, bigoted, arrogant, greedy, and lazy. in a way am sorry that they cannot be part of this beautiful moment because of the existence they have chosen, but more than that i treasure their humiliation

they say we don’t build things in this country anymore, but thats not true. we still build a damn good ballistic sandwich

now, more than ever, we must reject civility discourse or tone policing. let ‘er rip

perhaps he’s just paying tribute to japanese avant-garde legends yamantaka eye and hanatarash

what makes the opening line of anna karenina even greater is that it’s a red herring. you think the OBLONSKYS are the operative “unhappy family” in this story? that’s cute. you cannot even fathom the misery of the family we’re gonna meet in a few chapters

renate reinsve and adam pearson had me howling throughout the entire film but i want to note that in addition to his many hysterical line deliveries sebastian stan does some of the funniest silent facial acting i’ve ever seen in my life

Nice shirt. For a clown to wear. To the toilet store

started watching a tremendous picture last night, new to me, almost completely without context. that picture is called Interview With the Vampire

last 200 pages of ‘a place of greater safety’ feel like this

at this point the litmus test for a new york elected official should include willingness to withhold federal taxes

no weapon formed against Disney Adults shall prosper

“violence is Never the answer!” is such a superior and morally satisfying stance until the right points at you and calls your actual, literal, physical existence violence and then it’s like. uh. haha?

damn. maybe conservatives will finally become loved and accepted if they become strident, moralizing, dogmatic, humorless hysterics who go after peoples’ jobs

we’re going to need a lot of people to learn how to discuss Certain Events like adults. calling things what they are, correctly assigning responsibility, refusing to let the right set the terms of engagement. shouldnt be this hard.

what season of life is it when the only album you ever feel like hearing is ray of light? maybe don’t answer that

no more rebrands. every single one of these things just turns into a chorus of 100000 riled up jug hooters braying about their childhood memories and making death threats against the whole c-suite. tedious!!!

abe lincoln in 1861 looking at all the germans and hungarians who fled the failed revolutions of ‘48

not to be “person who just got really into the civil war/reconstruction,” but the more you read, the more you are haunted by our nation’s failure to purge itself of the poison of the lost cause. real “nightmare on the minds of the living” hours

are you a bad enough motherfucker to eat the oysters at the hard rock hotel buffet raw bar in august

jackie kennedy giving a tour of the official white house funko pop rooms

like i was saying bsky.app/profile/smal...

if you haven’t seen it in many years, it is trivially easy to forget that JAWS ends with roy scheider blowing up the shark

i have zohran-supporting friends whose families have been spewing hysteria at them for 48 hours. older people have a decision to make here: do they want relationships with their kids/grandkids, or would they rather live the rest of their lives in a lonely fog of racist paranoia?

it’s…..starting to feel like donald trump is no longer the protagonist of reality?

no shit!! well i’ll be damned

democrats: we’re so directionless! we have no leaders or compelling messages or ways to win young men! [zohran mamdani appears] democrats: jesus christ NO. turn the donor spigot ON. we need voters seeing 50 racist attack ads per second. call bill ackman. call bill clinton RIGHT FUCKING NOW

(alicia keys voice) THIS FLOWER IS WILTING

i like to singa/about the hinga and the dinga and the durgen

the world is in an unimaginably bad place and all i can think about is “pokémon but they’re cigarettes. gotta smoke ‘em all”

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actually leveled by this news.

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” ok so you are a baby? i know we’re steadily undoing all the child labor laws but letting an actual baby do spreadsheets or drive a car is a bit much

is “screamland” by father john misty a devastating track because of the lyrics, alan sparhawk on guitar, or both?

i’m just a simple country bumpkin but it seems to me that if you become an “ICE agent,” a “job” that involves tearing apart communities and terrorizing already-quite desperate people, you shouldn’t expect to live a safe or comfortable life