Buddy I haven't made the switch to Stata 14

What a lot of anti-shutdown Dems have forgotten is that the man is physiologically incapable of not making everything about himself, and thus was always going to take the blame for any shutdown

I really want to know if (and if so, why) solar/wind haters think smoke-spewing coal plants are like, paragons of aesthetic integrity?

This graphic kind of makes it looks like Brendan Carr is going to be Jimmy's first guest when he comes back and I have to say I think it'd be a great convo

Beyond Vaccines™️ is a fabulous option for your meatless Mondays

This game rules

Dox and endanger the professors who dare express a negative opinion about Charlie Kirk, but these deranged Call of Duty cosplayers, they need masks to protect their identities.

I know this wasn’t meant to be total snark but I’ve earnestly wished for the same thing. Maybe you all have photographic recall of every poem, highlighted book passage, longform article youve ever read or note you’ve ever taken but I do not!

We can't really expect Black Mirror to keep up with us anymore can we

If I truly engaged with algorithmic social media, my FYPs would exclusively be videos like these 🤌

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

OUT: “cancel” as adjective, “culture” as noun IN: “cancel” as verb, “culture” as all-encompassing direct object

it ought to be interesting to see how everything shakes out

Tried to put into words the frustrating series of "and yet also"s that kept sliding in atop each other while I've been thinking about Charlie Kirk's murder over the past week. youarehere.substack.com/p/15-complic...

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

Me, after reading the reviewer reports on my manuscript:

its also imo no longer acceptable if you wanna cover politics in 2025 to not understand the internet. saw a person on here the other day complaining about being confused by discord and its like, well…

Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.

No wonder Voldemort was able to hide out there for upwards of 11 years

I am in…

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

Liberals say the Supreme Court had destroyed our democracy. They're wrong—it has destroyed our Republic.

Listen, if someone accused me of writing a predatory, skin-crawlingly repellent letter intimating the unspeakable, I would hope my friends could come up with more than, “That doesn’t look like his signature.”

It's sooooooo cool how the APSA program doesn't list participants' email addresses so that chairs have to google them individually and find their contact info

I recently turned off my watch history on YouTube to see what the algo suggests without the benefit of knowing what I've watched previously. Here's the top of the "recommended" sidebar as I was watching a video on buddhism today. I know it's hard to tell, but see if you can spot the outlier!

brett kavanaugh’s pretty little mind can’t be bothered to imagine the mother desperate to calm her sobbing child as ICE agents threaten to whisk her away to a secret jail for looking “illegal”

By “weakening” CNN means “usurping” and by “centuries-old power” they mean “constitutional authority”

I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's my fault Jerry is retiring

yo this guy is cooking

: my name is hov

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

LFG #polisky

Ew omg buddy go back to work

We spend lots of time parsing through all the preexisting trends that made the rise of an American fascism possible, and that's all true enough, but it's still a huge contingent factor that Donald Trump is a literal freak of nature, a sui generis pathological bundle of min-maxed personality traits.

Yo journal editor you are gonna need to be more specific

I'm just choosing to be grateful today that I'm not this miserable of a person. It really must be a bummer being like this.

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

if somebody says the words 'here's how i plan to save nyc with memes alone' the response should be to laugh at them loudly and walk away shaking your head before they can say anything else

I talk to my best friend by phone when we’re both free (both moms of two) and she lives in New Hampshire and is very much not online or following politics closely and she’s always like “I just don’t understand what’s going on” and I can hardly even think of where I would start to explain

Oh hell yeah

Everybody's a pundit now, baby, and holy shit is it annoying

Only Ron DeSantis could name a gulag something so ridiculous it sounds like a black mirror episode of thomas the tank engine

I think a lot of the right wing's spiral in the last 20 years can be explained by them replacing everything enjoyable with "getting mad", and that this is less a chart of Republicans drinking and more a chart of them not socializing as much anymore

I feel like once a week somebody shares an unbelievably useful elections dataset with me, and each and every time it turns out it's produced by @the-downballot.com. Heroes' work, guys!

These guys all think this makes them the coolest dudes in the history of the world, when in fact they're fascist dweebs who think and act like they're in a video game (i.e. no actual consequences for their actions, respawn at any time)

The way Denver includes high-up signs with flight destinations and numbers out on the walkway, rather than on peripheral signs you can't even see through all the people, to me is a game-changer. And the people-movers in the middle + walkways on either side seems really smart.

DC is amazing, it’s “Washington” that you hate

Texas Republicans, pushed by Trump, are aiming for a mid-decade gerrymander in hopes of ensuring House control after the 2026 midterm elections. A political scientist warns this could lead to what's known as a "dummymander." buff.ly/14dXeAx By @charlesrhunt.com