This is because I thought the Texas SCOTUS admin stay was this week's last-minute news drop, isn't it.

Mamdani is so good at this Trump didn't even rage out at a reporter. It really does highlight that Trump sucks but the full level of harm he's reached is because he's surrounded by people amplifying his worst traits for their own purposes.

Exact opposite of the message the Comey prosecution was supposed to send; instead of "Cross me and I'll make your life hell!" it's turning into "Cross me and I'll repeatedly trip over my own feet and land bare-ass-up in public! Just see if I won't!"

People confused by Trump's pivot on the Epstein vote confuse me--Trump literally cannot hold an L. He tried and failed to convince Boebert, etc, to flip. When he couldn't stop the vote from happening/passing, he HAD TO act like he was for it. The alternative would be admitting failure--unthinkable.

Every excerpt I see from the Nuzzi book reads like she vaguely remembers the whimsical romanticization in the Weetzie Bat books and is desperately trying to channel that vibe into her very boring story about the consequences of scrapping professional ethics because of her terrible taste in men.

I... really think the president is crashing out. I don't know that his base will actually notice or care but.

Schumer has to go at this point because he is bad at being a *leader of Democrats*. Two CRs in a row, the Senate caved when the base was nothing but primed to resist. He has failed to lead the Senate to a resolution the base likes, and he failed to prepare the base to accept the resolution he likes.

I got to use this to file my taxes this year, and it was less annoying than the experience I'd get paying $40 to H&RBlock or whoever. So, of course, Trump has killed it.

AppleTV came back, I finished episode 2 of Pluribus. I'm a sucker for most of the thematic stuff it seems to be going for, it's well written/acted/directed/etc, and I'm really looking forward to more. Hopefully being a miserable romantasy author gets Rhea Seehorn the Emmy Kim Wexler couldn't.

Halfway through the second episode of Pluribus the image froze while audio kept rolling. Backed out, and now just get 'there was an error playing this content' for everything in AppleTV, even after a reboot. So far I like it; it's not quite Mrs. Davis tier for me yet, but I'm optimistic.

Have we considered the possibility that they knocked down the East Wing so there's just physically less White House for Trump to get lost in?

People in the future will literally not believe this happened. Nobody will believe that, in 2025, our idiot billionaire king held a literal GREAT GATSBY THEMED PARTY at this moment in politics. It's too stupid. People are going to suspect we're all eating moldy bread.

Grokipedia is like all the drawbacks of AI concentrated in pure form in a way most people will brush off as 'but it's so impressive!' I give you the entry on Monoco: grokipedia.com/page/Monoco The summary is about industrial supplier. Everything else is about a video game character of the same name

A fun thing about 2025 is I, a non-legal-person, will listen in on an appeals court getting deep in the weeds on appointments law, try follow the various statutes they're discussing, and then about an hour in fall into despair as I realize literally none of this will matter to SCOTUS.

Weirdly fun to block the White House

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

I think a lot about how The Shield ended; the exact same end point for Vic would read INSANELY differently in today's climate.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 released this year to really show how passionate creatives coming together to realize their own vision could, with a relatively small team, make one of the best gaming experiences in recent memory. Elon is apparently going to release the exact opposite of that next year.

I hate so much that the world being constantly on fire means I have to think about things that are way less hilarious than this.

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

Man I bet the South Park guys are glad they didn't get this week's episode finished in time. I wonder if they now throw it out and make a completely different one for next week.

Age verification? I remember parking DOS.

I live nowhere near NYC but I need everyone who lives there to vote for this man solely for the brilliance of having Spector/"train daddy"/robber baron we occasionally empathize with do this.

This last paragraph here is that Dems should pick their fights based on how the Republican base feels. That is patently absurd--have they polled how popular "running the party based on how what the average Republican wants" polls with the Dem base? Guessing it's not great, Bob.

Reading this, I really wonder why the other GOP justices are OK with his being the only voice. Have the other five thought through how embarrassing it is to leave explaining their choices to The Dumb One? Dress up their eventual decision however they want, this is the take we'll remember. It dumb.

HOW IS HE STILL THIS STUPID? HOW DID KNOWLEDGE NOT JUST OSMOS THROUGH HIS HEAD?

As an old, I was working at Hollywood Video when this movie hit home video. Store TVs had to be playing either G-rated movies or the terrible trailer loop. This became such a favorite that we wore out copies, and this may actually be the movie I have seen the most in my life. So, here for it.

In "Stupid Things I Can't Stop Thinking About" news, Trump's hand sent me down this "What if they're Patterns?" spiral and now I'm mentally recasting the Saja Boys with the Trump Admin. Trump as Jinu, Vance as Baby Saja, Hegseth as Abby because I hate everything, RFK as Mystery, Rubio as Romance.

Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

NPCs? Really? This is a bit, right? This whole entire guy is some exaggerated bit, time-traveled from the distant past to watch someone fall down the GamerGate pipeline in a quaint and nostalgic way?

Chat, is it bad when the President jokingly suggests we'll be in a war in three and a half years and won't be able to have an election?

Super weird to know that the president of Ukraine + a bunch of EU leaders are going to be in the White House tomorrow to meet with Trump, and my biggest hope is that they tell the US president to eat shit and kick him out of the coalition. Trump is just Putin's creature, and not to be trusted.

We used to think John Roberts cared about the legacy of his court; no way to believe that now. It's not even about the corruption; Trump's level of desperate, slimy patheticness is hitching levels of cringe to the Roberts' court that science previously thought impossible.

I absolutely hate that all discussion of what Newsom and Pritzker are doing is met with HE SHOULD GET THE NOM IN 2028. Normalize governors standing up for democracy. Using the power their voters gave them to fight for those voters should be the bare-minimum expectation, not grounds for promotion.

This a billionaire on Team Rich explaining how plebs can bribe the wealthy to exploit them less. They'd just exploit loopholes to maximize tax breaks with as little benefit to us as legally allowed. That's not innovation. They already do that.

The point of the 'lol AI can't count' isn't that AI is bad at counting characters. It's that this is a basic deterministic computer task AI companies have apparently made no progress in figuring out how to integrate with LLMs, OR how to make their models refuse to do.

If you see this, post a castle

Starting to really think the future of Trump's connection with his base is going to depend on how the Rogans and Theo Vons take the BS they're about to pull with Maxwell. Trump's connection with his base is fraying; I really think the base is going to follow where the 'outsiders' lead.

I know the Golden Dome thing is out of the news right now, but I will give $20 to any journalist who asks Trump if he's at all concerned that the Golden Honmoon South Korea's been working on will technologically outstrip it. If he acted like he knew about it, the resultant memes would be legendary.

The MAGA conspiracy I'm currently hoping catches on: That Trump flip-flopped on the Epstein list because he learned that one of his sons is somewhere in it. I don't believe it, but I do like that the "fatherly love" angle lets them start believing he's doing the Bad Thing for a 'pure' reason.

Trump giving big Ramsay Bolton 'my dogs would never harm me' energy; he spent forever working up their appetite for the Epstein stuff. Now they're ravenous and his genius plan for handling it is "Trust me, bro."

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

Trying to imagine explaining to teenage me that I just signed up for a for-pay search engine because it's better than Google because the Google I have is infinitely worse than the Google teenage me had.

Why is the news acting like this is Trump playing some kind of genius long game, when what we saw this week looked more like Netanyahu leading him around by the nose? America's role in this feels more like dumb henchman with impressive strength than, you know, the mastermind.

Usually I think the "guys, they're trying to distract us" stuff is overplayed, BUT. JD Vance trying to bully trans people and pick a fight on BlueSky is absolutely about getting us to waste energy for his amusement. There is no point in rational discussion with an admitted liar. Block and move on.

Why are the songs being played at the end of the 250th parade for the military some random guy singing about, alternately, his addiction to a bad relationship and getting the electric chair? Happy 250th, here's some shitty music!

Trump's parade is failing so hard even Jerry's making good posts.

Trump's snoozefest of a military parade is embarrassing for the nation--No, not for the reasons you're thinking. If there's one thing America does well, it's entertaining spectacle. Dude managed to make a propaganda parade less entertaining than North Korea. It's just so... cringe.

I seriously can't think of a more craven and embarrassing role than GOP legislator at this point--the admin lies to you, immediately betrays assurances they gave you, and you're so terrified of the MAGA base you can't even work up the courage to say they shouldn't.

I'd like to suggest ground rules for appreciating the Trump/Musk breakup: You MAY - find joy in them insulting one another. They both suck. You MAY NOT - pick a 'good guy' in this. They both suck. Them wasting energy on each other is good and entertaining. That doesn't redeem either.