well, Pudge is happy I'm home.

wow so it really took less than a year to sink dreams of a third Trump term huh www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

The abandoned storefronts of small towns are abandoned for a reason. It may not make sense to have a town there anymore! We've forgotten that the existence of a town is not a foregone conclusion; thousands of populated places have dried up and blown away when they stopped being economically viable.

I will keep my 2023 Mazda CX-30 Turbo until it dies. The cockpit is human interface perfection - high-mounted non-touch display with console control knob, physical HVAC controls, plus a HUD.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Charlamagne utterly distraught at the Frankish Empire erasure occurring on Bluesky dot com.

Now wait just a minute, I was reliably informed there were oodles of underemployed Americans lining up to take these blue collar jobs that pay $15+ an hour...

they achieved their goal of total power over the government and they thought that meant the Cathedral would collapse, the spell would be broken, and everyone would shower them with adulation. turns out none of that is true, and people only hate them even more. it's broken their brains.

You don't have to bake the gay cake but you do have to sing for the Nazis

lmao so now it's cancel culture if an artist refuses to play in a Nazi bar.

just got back from the lesbian bar what's goin on bluesky

a lot of [gestures] can be traced back to this

I know people hate Will Stancil, but this is simply objectively true. The democratic socialist future is not piecemeal private mutual aid, it's sufficient taxation and spending to sustain the state capacity to bureaucratically ensure that no American goes hungry, homeless, or without health care.

psst. wanna see the darkest night skies of any national park in the Lower 48? (we measured, it's official.) come to Great Basin National Park - we're a thousand miles from nowhere and there's no place you'd rather see the night.

One good thing about me is that my brain works and I don't fall for Orwellian, propaganda nonsense like this. The Israelis are breaking the ceasefire and NBC News is actively running interference to support the Israeli government (as are most other American corporate media outlets).

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

I get that this sounds like a good idea on its face. But political campaigns are inherently ephemeral organizations - they are formed and dissolved according to the personal needs of a politician, and rarely have any cohesion beyond a single cycle. They cannot sustainably administer public services.

I think that this belief is more common than any of us would like to admit and it is also extremely fucking wrong. This is why it’s important to learn about the rest of the world.

in any sane country it would be a national scandal that the chief executive of the nation is wasting his time micromanaging the armrests in a theater.

We threw $50 million worth of guided missiles into empty farmland on Christmas Day to assuage the president's ego.

one thing of many that would be really good to rebuild in this country is local news reporting

a dozen tomahawks to put a dozen craters in some Nigerian farmers' fields, that's about $50M worth of holes dug via cruise missile 👍

Seems bad

what share of modern conservatism is "it's your fault for making me feel bad for my actions"

271,000 people have lost their jobs and federal spending has ctually increased. So people get less services, while we added debt paying for private jets for Kristi Noem, bulletproof cars for Kash Patel. This is what the rust belt voters demanded.

The Scott Foster Show is never late and always on time.

This is a completely different function than taxation to fund public and social services, which is necessarily much more broad-based. Rhetorically it’s good to conflate them into “tax the rich,” but as a matter of policy design we need to keep them distinct and complementary.

The WSJ on Scott Wiener: www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Dubs win!

lmao oh my god I'm old, the oldest game on this list came out when I was 19. Childhood memories? They don't call us the Oregon Trail Generation for nothing.

uh Al Horford four-for-four from deep in the first quarter was not on my bingo card but I'll take it

A tradition unlike any other: my mom and I and great seats for the Warriors on Christmas Day.

There’s something in here about how after Jesus was born, Joseph fled with Jesus and Mary to Egypt under the cover of night…for ~4 years until Herod died.

Stopped in the Richmond Target this evening and shared it with the descendants of African slaves, Asian refugees, English settlers, and Hispanic immigrants - all doing that most American of activities: last-minute Christmas shopping. That's the America I swore an oath to support and defend 🇺🇸

there's a difference between Dems not being an effective opposition (they aren't) and being in the minority (they are), but it's a difference of messaging and politicing, not policy differences

There's a lot of people I respect who cannot come to terms with the fact that this is what the American people voted for, they're getting it good and hard, and there is little to nothing a minority party can do to stop it. Republicans ran on a platform of mass deportation and they're delivering.

I am telling you that a large part of their dysfunction is that several Trump officials imagine themselves, constantly, as being in a social media sizzle reel where they display status and dominance over others. Their online personas are driving their actual behavior.

Well we're newer doing this again in my lifetime

tfw my hometown shows up in a list for a positive reason hell yeah I'm from the Rich. Straight-up Iron Triangle.

There are 78 Burke-class destroyers and we're planning to build 99. They say they're going to build "20-25" Trump-class thingys instead of the Burke's replacement. Taking them at their word, that's a 75% reduction in surface combatant numbers. Congratulations navalists, you played yourself.

Non-negotiable for any democratic candidate to restore every last one of these functions and staff.

if I had a nickel for every time someone on the left blocked me because I believe it would have been bad to shut the government down indefinitely and cause mass financial crisis and resignations among federal employees, I'd have two nickels. which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice.

It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.

Over 30 selfie thread - over 40 for me too.

i'm sorry this is one of the last things epstein ever wrote

epstein: im going to kill myself but before i go trump molested kids with me

Uh thanks Apple Intelligence, but when I added Parmesan Goldfish to my shopping list, that's not the intended category...

I'm sure there's a completely innocent explanation for the president spending a ton of time on a pedophile's private jet.