The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

Look, here’s the very obvious thing: RFK would have no fucking clue what an accurate map of the Middle East looks like or what the troop strength of every country on the map was. It’s like my dog saying my cat produced a perfect proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.

LMAO

The man whose Timothy Olyphant Josh Duhamel is keeps getting poorer and poorer.

My son got his art displayed in a student exhibit at the Baltimore museum of Art, so we got to go check it out, along with the rest of the student art and an Amy Sherald installation. It was really wonderful.

When Obama made noises about maybe excluding Fox News from the White House press briefing room, the whole WHCA stood together as one to resist this, the worst attack ever on freedom of the press. This stuff Carr’s saying? “We’re so fucking back.”

Oh ho ho if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

This show kicks ass and I wish more people would watch it. Betty Gilpin is amazing and it has some of the most jaw dropping plot developments I’ve ever seen.

Hegseth’s military was definitely calibrated for maximum lethality (when they shot themselves straight in the dick).

The most insidious part of posts like this (which suck completely, don’t get me wrong) is “Trump and the Feds permit them,” which is meant to give everybody the impression that Trump’s victory is complete, that he could, if he wanted, suppress all protest. This is Stephen Miller erotic fic shit.

My son has gotten into learning about White House pets and I went to the Wikipedia page. Besides Trump, only Polk didn’t have any, but Andrew Johnson has the most deranged entry of them all.

My garbage congressman can’t be bothered to do anything for our district but at least a couple of days he attended CPAC Hungary to campaign for Viktor Orban.

lol Wurman’s method of originalism has required him to move his understandings away from uncontested black letter law and *toward* his political ideology solely because Donald Trump said it needed to be that way, so the accusation is pretty rich.

Yeah when they did this for soldiers, they were clear that they were raiding a housing fund. This is just “anything that you can squint at that isn’t nailed down, take it.”

The thing about this “character attacks aren’t persuasive anymore” argument is that it’s equivalent to saying that having done stuff you’d previously have to apologize or withdraw for (like having a Nazi tattoo or blaming women for getting raped) is an asset, to you.

Do republicans have a right-equivalent of online leftists who say they’re the base of the party and then also burn GOP leaders in effigy near constantly and refer to GOP losses and climb downs by histrionic titles like “The March Treason”?

Today I went to be a mystery reader for my third grader’s class (we give clues and they have to guess whose parent the reader is and then we bring a story to read). I was gonna read The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss but the school nixed it because it was anti-war while, you know, *waves hands*.

Genuinely they could not be worse at this. For senate republicans to have a humiliating cave to democrats only for house republicans to say “lol no fuck you.” If republicans had the equivalent of our online left they’d be calling it The March Treason or some shit.

This guy fucking blows chunks and I followed him for way too long. He’s on a fully self-sustaining grievance spiral at this point, a mythology of perpetual betrayal that needs no external stimulus to thrive.

You don’t get a “he’s been against Hitler all along” glow up if you spent some time in the middle as Hitler’s biggest cheerleader.

I mean look, at the end of the day Democrats turned a potential whole government shutdown into a DHS shutdown and turned that into an ICE/CBP shutdown (plus or minus the deplorable funding for those from OBBBA). This is genuinely no mean feat!

Hegseth is probably the most open white supremacist of the whole bunch outside of Stephen Miller.

I very much remember republicans “analyzing” Barack Obama’s speaking to “prove” he used “I” and “me” and “my” and “mine” an inordinate amount. All bullshit of course but it was definitely a real line of theirs.

Once a guy worked his way through Oxford as a bouncer and graduated with honors. When he was done he couldn’t find a good job so he wound up working for DoorDash. One day a local tween, a really snotty kid, ordered some German sausages, and the bright brute brought the Brit brat some brats.

The ideal podcast is one you only sort of like, so you don’t get sad when you zone out and miss ten minutes of it and you feel comfortable just deleting some episodes, but not the whole subscription, when they start to pile up

Maybe unpopular opinion: 98% of the outrage about Timothee Chalamet saying ballet and opera aren’t popular came from people who will never for the rest of their lives ever go to the ballet or the opera.

That the Pentagon would present these as “final blows” when all of them would obviously deepen and prolong the conflict is itself troubling. I know they’ve got to follow commands from civilian leadership but it should kill a career to have your name on something like that.

I watched the trailer for the new Harry Potter show, and like, setting aside Rowling’s awfulness for one sec, it looks like the most inessential thing ever made. It doesn’t look meaningfully different from the movies, it’s just gonna be longer. How could *anybody* want this?

I feel like I don’t really have an example here? Most favorites are favorites in part because they’re consistent, for me, and even a relative low isn’t unforgivable on account of it being part of the shape of the whole.

My oldest is older than I was when I started on the Path of the Beam, but getting him to read anything for pleasure is like pulling teeth at this point, even when we’ve allowed him to read anything in the house. But one day he’ll get there, I swear he will.

Pretty sure Colbert’s entire career has been a setup for him to write a Tolkien adaptation.

This is what would have happened if *I* were brought in to run CBS News*, and for broadly the same reason (I wouldn’t have any fucking clue what I was doing). *and decided to forego any help or advice because I was animated by the hypotheses of Messrs Dunning and Kruger

Also from what I can tell the piece argues from the premise that liberals are only against voter ID because it disadvantages them politically, not because it disenfranchises people illegitimately. The world of the first premise is one where democracy isn’t a principle, it’s a pose.

Also like, how many of these things are just JCPOA but worse, plus thousands dead for good measure, from Iran’s perspective?

@sgj.bsky.social spitting fire in Don’t Fear the Reaper.

Bob Honey Who Just Say Stuff

This is one thing that really makes me mad: people looking to exploit and monetize other people’s relationships and sources of joy. It’s sports betting, it’s MLMs, it’s dating site scams. Just arbitrage of joy. It sucks.

This is a small thing in the scheme of things (but maybe one of the key things): sports gambling substitutes enjoyment of the thing itself for having money riding on it. They sometimes feel the same but they are very much not.

My reaction to stuff like this threatens to push me in directions I’m not comfortable with, à la @kjephd.bsky.social’s earlier piece, if I’m not on top of those feelings.

The thing I don’t think Paramount is considering in going all in on anti-woke Trumpism is that whatever their ideological agenda, they’ve got shareholders that aren’t gonna indefinitely be content with “throw my money into a fire as long as it pleases Daddy Trump.”

I usually like Stephen’s takes but this goes too far I think. There’s overly rigid adherence to canon, certainly, but the post he’s responding to says *the very idea of continuity* is a problem, and uh. Holy wow. No.

It’s not even in the constitution that there’s such a thing as “Election Day”! Statute refers to it as “the day for the election,” but it’s not clear at all that that should mean mailed votes must be received by then, and if so, why wouldn’t early voting be illegal (monkey’s paw curls)?

Here’s what happens when you have 13 chickens and it’s spring and they’re all laying and your five kids have decided actually they don’t like eggs as much anymore, lol.

There’s a thin line between not starting beef (good and correct) and saying forthrightly to someone that they’re being harmful rather than hiding behind screenshots where possible (also good and correct). It’s impossible to walk w/o sometimes teetering to one side or the other. Still worth trying.

If you think the problem right now is "turbolibs," you need to stop performing cool and touch some damn grass

This guy doesn’t realize it but this is a “masturbating and smoking crack on public transit is a positive good because it scares off the normies (not me, a cool and gritty person)” take.

If something like this were to happen, if he were to assert control over international affairs in his capacity as chairman of the board of peace for life, rather than as president, it would genuinely maybe be the most impeachable thing he’s ever done, could ever do.

This is all about conquest and personal aggrandizement. Trump make map bigger. Maybe the strait of Hormuz doesn’t become part of America but he wants it to be a protectorate and maybe that’s good enough, and he thinks that’s what he’s already done to Venezuela.

I haven’t dug in on this but I saw a mutual, who has since departed, saying that all the fertilizer worry is overblown and experts have said it’s no big from a US perspective because we produce plenty. Is there anything to that? And if so, is that only US-centric?

Cross Kant with solipsism and moralizing of literally everything and here we are.