Wow, that’s a pretty big point of disagreement, NPR. Maybe someone could investigate which point of view is correct and report on the truth of the matter. Do you know anyone who does that sort of thing?

So much of what the administration does is signaling that peaceful coexistence with them is impossible because they are just true assholes

ME PRE TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: hehe yeah bro ME POST TRANSITION: lava is so cool THE LADS: aha easy mistake to make but actually it's very hot

now remember, this guy's trying to kill you, ok and you think you're safe here until WHAM the knife bursts through and so of course now you're thinking "i wonder if someone made just one step on its own first or did they do like a set of three right out the gate" and ACTION

This headline is the end of civilization.

This would be a fantastic issue for the Democrats if they ever decide to become a competent political party.

A big ugly yellow-and-red igloo cooler full of generic orange drink at a McDonald's birthday party. They had to move an ashtray out of the way to set it on a table. See how easy it is to make Gen X misty-eyed with nostagia?

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Marjorie Taylor Greene compared MAGA dead-enders to battered wives "MTG's arc from the kind of freak Donald Trump inspired into power into the sort of freak Donald Trump chased out of power provides a nearly perfect cell of the MAGA ID to put under a microscope."

The thing about the "you're going to have gambling anyway, might as well be open and free" retort is that it... is obviously not true. We do have significantly larger amounts of it now that it's everywhere!

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It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this

I'm just at the end of doing an edit pass on three books and the em-dash is the fix for at least 1/8th of the sentence structure issues.

Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.

We just accept it because it’s always been this way but ‘Ringo Starr’ is a bonkers thing to call yourself when the other guys are John, Paul, and George. It’s like having a band where everyone else uses their real name and then the drummer goes yes please call me Crackers Creamsworth

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

tis the season

The best theory I have comes from someone who works in compliance and suspects that Vivek used some scammy consultant to fundraise and got caught taking money from people who didn’t know they were giving it.

The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974). Shaw Brothers and Hammer meet and create a secret third thing that doesn't quite hang together but has a lot to like in it. Definitely make note of this one, Big Trouble in Little China fans.

Not only excellent reporting, this is the clearest and most plainly stated article I've seen in the mainstream media so far, mincing no words and pointing out every single one of the Trump admin's canards and misdirections. As one of the quoted experts says, it's murder, full stop.

“As a matter of plain reality, an unarmed speedboat, even if it is carrying cocaine, is not a warship. And none of the 11 people aboard — not merely the two initial survivors, but also the nine people the U.S. military killed in its first strike — were fighting anyone.”

the obsessive focus on political deepfakes -- which have failed to pan out -- has blinded people to how pervasive they have been in pornography over the last decade

unbelievably contemporary music like pink floyd and the doors

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

we make fun of the Jimmy Fallon show for being embarrassing and unfunny and having a host that everyone hates but it’s time to stop being so unfair and appreciate the hard work that goes into lighting a large set

doomerism is a product of a bad combination in which irrational right-wing enthusiasm reinforces (and is reinforced by) left-wing pessimism

It's wild to hang everything on, "The heterosexual metaphors above all else have to keep making perfect literal sense" considering it already hinges on, "The Body of Christ is the polyandrous bride of all priests."

It strikes me as strange that for certain people, marriage — probably the least clearly "sacramental" of the sacraments, the only sacrament not explicitly instituted by Christ — has become the lens by which every other sacrament is to be interpreted www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...

It turns out that Dollar General and Family Dollar routinely overcharge people—their advertised price tags are fictions. These are the only stores in many small towns. Scam culture. It's all scam culture. On this matter, Democrats should run on audits and serious fines for overcharging.

Bizarre: Vivek Ramaswamy refunded 728 donations totaling $162,281 on his latest expense report. Refunded donations range from $30k to $1. Here are the top hitters:

I have spoken to Dems and Republicans tonight… nobody has seen anything like this before. Refunds are a rare occurrence and must be filed manually.

Good question. Unfortunately I tricked Vivek into thinking he was going to meet head coach Ryan Day at the local chicken shack and his team would rather give comment to Hitler. So somebody else will have to run that down.

the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.

it is absolutely unbelievable that the Trump administration is systematically persecuting Cubans and Venezuelans, the most Republican Latinos in the US. what are they doing

I didn't actually realize it was nearly universal in the Americas

Someday this cruelty will be reversed for Rachel Levine. It will be covered as a touching moment, a "correction" of an injustice. People will expect her to be grateful. Fuck that. The expectation of easy forgiveness & the shaming of rage at injustice is what brings us back to this awful place

Oh, it’s because all the tech stuff started out as hippie stuff, then it was new age stuff, and the through-line up until the Web 2.0 era is fairly fanatical devotion to a flowery, utopian libertarianism

The phony "controversy" over this rests on the idea that it was only supposed to apply to former slaves. But that's stupid because the authors of the amendment knew what slaves were and they knew what immigrants were, and could easily have said so if they only meant for it to apply to one group

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

It sounds odd but this is how we may know we are going to win. If I must have a fascist government, by God do I want them complaining that it's unfair for moms at the park to yell at them while holding their kids

cannot stress enough how bad it is to give teenage boys a "see this person naked" button. massive, multi-axis disaster

Times staffer: which photo of Trump should we use Times editor: the weird one staffer: uh, okay, well this one is pretty weird— editor: no. weirder. staffer: are you sure because it literally may be too weird editor: I SAID WEIRDER

He’s got the exact face of a kid at Chuck E. Cheese who just cashed in 4,300 tickets for a $6 plastic globe. Pure, uncut, childhood pride. ...and the trophy looks like it was designed yesterday and handed to the first person that asked for it. God damn, this timeline is fucking stupid.

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

Lots of people dunking on the FIFA "peace" prize and rightly so but it's a valuable reminder that all prizes are completely made up and there's nothing stopping anyone from making up their own prizes at any time, which is to say there's nothing stopping you from giving your friends awards for shit.

"The Jezebel Spirit," David Byrne & Brian Eno. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdHS...

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.