One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

the phrase "acoustic bike" implies the existence of acoustic bike amplifiers and given everything else we know about the company we have to assume that Yamaha makes one

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

WE protect us.

I guess I need to find a way to buy a DVD player for the youthhhhhs?

Setting aside for a moment that Nate's basically saying to jettison all your convictions to chase popular positions, it still makes no sense. This is not how American politics works. If it did, the GOP would be totally unelectable, because they are on the wrong side of public opinion on most issues.

Weekend reading: Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision. My new piece:

Related, but a little convoluted. My wife likes to play a lot of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and hearing leftists from the 1940's say "racial division is fascist and hurts the worker" really does reveal the absurdity of the anti-woke left or dirt bag left, or these "incurable socialists" etc.

Unless there is punishment, there is no reason not to lie when asked even the most aggressively leading questions. She will be at most, slightly embarrassed about this. That's nothing. She doesn't care about this, she doesn't even accept Congress's legitimacy. This is an annoyance to her, that's it.

Protestant: "Jesus is my copilot" Catholic: "A macabre relic from a medieval Dominican friar is my copilot."

The Republicans voted to send this to the floor for a vote a.) because they want to rob me of representation in Congress and b.) because they know Trump would whine and his supporters would try to physically harm them if they didn't.

"Say he's not consubstantial with the Father, ONE MORE TIME asshole"

I can’t believe that in this day and age, people are still wearing fir.

the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism

Part of what I think she's getting at when she says she'll take the label is that the press simply does not care about any constituency that reliably votes blue without an "angle." Trump voters get heard as the true herrenvolk without qualification. Dem voters have to be "interesting."

“And what is the charge? Eating a seal? A succulent Chinese seal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!”

You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭🐡🧪

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Reposting for current events reasons.

His name is a corruption of the Hindi word for "bear." In a world where multi species groups form, calling the Indian Sloth Bear in your particular friend group "Baloo" is the equivalent of calling the Texan guy in your group "Tex."

yes, it’s really that bad.

The only reason you alter the Hep B schedule is if you want to kill children. They want to kill children. Vaccines aren't the cause of allergies, and I can't believe I have to say this but even if it were true, some kids having allergies is better than kids being killed.

Without getting into the ethics of the bomb - the reason Americans OVERWHELMINGLY approved of nuking Japan in 1945 is that Americans were mad about Pearl Harbor and the atrocious way the Japanese treated civilians and prisoners during the war.

Watch this space

Well, he can stop worrying about that, because evolution doesn't happen in one or two generations.

This is difficult because Die Hard IS a Christmas movie, but the people most insistent on saying so are really, really annoying. It's the "Bacon Makes Everything Better" of movie opinions.

Trumpism is a violent movement that welcomes violent people.

My 2 y/o son and nephew were playing on Thanksgiving and my nephew had put a FP Little People figure in a picnic basket. My son picked it up and was walking off with it. His cousin yells, "AHH!! THERE'S A PERSON IN THERE!"

"If you want results, I need to know who this belongs to."

I hate making this a criticism of the media, because murder is the story, but I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what the difference is between what Trump, Hegseth, and Vance BRAGGED about publicly doing, and the act Hegseth was doing with the reported "kill them all" statement."

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I believe the following to be true. I also know it's an absurd thing to say. One of the most insidious, pernicious, harmful institutions in the USA for more than a century now has been the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Playing Final Fantasy 7 as an unsophisticated child with peanut butter all over my face vs playing it as a sophisticated adult cognizant of important themes and motifs

All of the cabinet members involved in killing Venezuelans on boats should be charged with murder, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There is no other way to respond to their crimes. "That's a political witch hunt!" Ok, so how do you actually deal with a politician committing murder?

i’m being radicalized by peacock charging $10.99 per month and having A MILLION COMMERCIALS

He was a sex machine

I have nothing of value or interest to say, so here is a heron blowing a smoke ring

The sad part about this is the girl gave her permission to print this and TP agreed to do that, because they truly believe she's cooking.

Whatever your job, imagine the most noble reason you do it. Whatever gets you out of bed and motivated on your worst day. Now imagine that someone with no scruples whatsoever, someone lower than the dirt under a mole's asshole tells people you are a liar trying to kill them.

"My culture is the best and no one else can have it" is a baby thought for babies

“So our polycule schismed” “… say that word again” “Polycule” “No the word AFTER that”

There are 3 camps on the right wrt the GWOT. The neocons who thought we could spread democracy at the end of a sword, the racist isolationists who thought it was a waste to "civilize" "those people," and the racist interventionists who wanted to kill everyone and take their stuff.

It makes me laugh that at some point a consultant has had to sit down with him, Trump Jr, and Vance and say out loud, "Sir, no one takes your masculinity rhetoric seriously, because you look like a 15 y/o pie-faced dweeb. Grow a beard."

I think @brendannyhan.bsky.social is exactly right in this piece, but I’d go one step further here. Elites very explicitly told young people to sit down and shut up. Society punished them for standing up for their beliefs, and targeted and vilified the organizers. Now we need need them.

I have a pretty low opinion of the American voter, but even I think that it's wildly condescending for him to stand up and openly say, "We're gonna wag the dog, aren't we folks? You stupid hogs love it, don't you?"

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Post a movie where you are from

Fun fact: November 28, 2001: "ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."

Things people don't tell you about parenthood: You will find yourself plagued by bits of (indigestible) food like flax seeds on the changing pad and wonder, "Did this never make it into the child's mouth and fall off his shirt? Or did this come OUT OF THE CHILD?"