people stealing wheels and catalytic converters from parked vehicles is one thing, but absconding with a full set of masts and rigging is a new level of brazenness altogether

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.

Guillermo del Toro’s Rejected

*Aqualung riff*

people stealing wheels and catalytic converters from parked vehicles is one thing, but absconding with a full set of masts and rigging is a new level of brazenness altogether

this thread is a fascinating journey

speaking of David Ruprecht, how come they don't make movies like this anymore? (Ruprecht plays Thurston Howell IV, son of the millionaire from the original Gilligan series) www.imdb.com/title/tt0082...

saints fans trying to justify signing tucker: if i see you, i'm gonna drag you, you deserve it, fuck justin tucker

"why is there a raccoon on the fire escape" and other questions above my pay grade

the Matt Patricia of cabinet secretaries

the lads mention Joe Pesci's song "Yo Cousin Vinny" but I need everyone to be aware that he recorded an entire ALBUM in character: "Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You" www.discogs.com/master/52580...

Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE PAPER OF RECORD: YOUTHS TUNING OUT TEACHER; BORED BY CLASS. RECESS AND LUNCH OUTPERFORM HISTORY

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

hell yeah Baker

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

you bite through the big wall / the big wall bites back

[Me, seeing anyone at all playing the drums:]

just bc I’m gonna DO it doesn’t mean I’m not gonna complain. I’ll go into the dark night but I’m gonna be a huge bitch about it, etc

the line from GWB to Trump 2.0 runs through both Obama and Biden saying "look forward not backward"

me a couple of chapters into MOONFLOW: "what is this, STALKER but with Sam Elliott as the Stalker?" me a couple chapters later, once the STALKER similarity has been lampshaded: "right but Tarkovski wasn't this horny, or at least his horniness was of a more depressive kind"

"swastika in the nth dimension" feels like something out of a Charles Stross novel, and "this feels like something out of a Charles Stross novel" is something I've been saying more and more recently.

ZOHRAN IS BUILDING CONSENT WITH TRUMP TO ARREST NETANYAHU?!?!?! Oh my god I haven’t seen a US politician with this much juice in my lifetime

48 HRS (1982) is a very 80s movie casual racism a young Mike Ehrmantraut multiple diegetic musical numbers

YOU SAID NO TO MUPPETS KNIVES OUT?! YOU DEPRIVE US OF BENOIT BLANC SURROUNDED BY MUPPETS?! JAIL FOR RIAN! JAIL FOR RIAN FOR 1000 YEARS!

there's a great bit in the directors' commentary for THE NAKED GUN where they talk about the scene in the hot dog factory apparently they shot on location, but they did such a shitty job of lighting it, it looks just like a generic set

Also, Sen Slotkin, you voted to confirm Secretary Noem. Am I to believe that you will extend some kind of protection for disobeying an order (till the USSC determines its lawfulness) from my lawful superior THAT YOU PLACED THERE? Seems unlikely.

Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.

Oh Home Depot’s earnings are down? Having a bad quarter? Gosh who’d have thought that colluding with the police to arrest your regular customers would have consequences

So you mean to tell me the first time I ever saw Olivia Nuzzi was when I went to see the Adam Sandler vehicle BIG DADDY in a movie theater in 1999????

goddamn they really ran the Epstein Files ad during Monday Night Football

Wild how the Boy Mayor age for cis white men overlaps with the geriatric pregnancy age

i am the very model of a fascist surgeon general

SHEDEUR TIME

Rosengarten is guilty of felony murder out there

The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb. For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.

It's funny seeing how the moment an American pope was chosen, every tradcath adult convert suddenly started going "oh no I need to schism" Like the whole Catholicism thing stopped being fun for them the moment the pope could go "hey what the fuck are you doing" in English at em

About this - there are so many quotes from powerful men, re: Epstein, where they say they weren't involved and had no idea how bad Epstein was. But even taken completely at face value, why do they never go on to say, "I no longer speak to the person who introduced us. He knew."

“we will kill you” while posting boats getting drone struck (containing people they killed) really feels like the glorifying of violence & harm

someone get that man a Hartford Whalers jersey

Jeopardy response: "What is something that has never been true about Big Naturals Tom Bombadil?"

emily brontë coming on strong

POV: you have a grease man

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

*slaps you on the abdomen* this baby can cause SO much pain

genuinely can't tell which part might be funnier, MTG slowly putting together the dots on this, now, at the end of all things, or the possibility that she thinks that nobody else has already

Dr Sketchy's was tonight, you should have come and drawn