Chuckles running quite the ratio this evening

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

Host finks, no drinks

I mean, I have a guess

Not the hero we need, but maybe the hero we deserve

ice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees

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For me the two quotations that really sum up How We Got Here are the Karl Rove one about the Bush administration creating its own reality (complimentary) and the unidentified GOP leader's "What is the harm in indulging him for this brief period of time."

it's me i'm paying them

I know I post this every year, but it's too fun. St. Blasé. What? You want your throat blessed? Whatever. #🕯️😇🕯️

I admit I'm a little curious what he'll demolish next. Pentagon? Lincoln Memorial? Holocaust Museum?

[megyn kelly voice] Helen just is white. She just IS

The fact that I am forced to use *this* to emphasize on social media is a crime.

Ran across this classic while looking for something else

Looking forward to the follow-up article, "What a 'Melania' Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish by Talking to Isaac Chotiner"

there are so many impeachable offenses that you now need two wheelbarrows full of impeachable offenses to purchase a simple loaf of bread

This is who runs this account. 🤨

There will need to be trials, and for this person in particular.

We regret to inform you

Okay, five courses I took in college: 1. Intro to Film Studies 2. Greek Prose Composition 3. Impressionism 4. 20th-Century Italian Poetry 5. Vergil's Georgics

Momentarily disconcerting to pull up the Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and be confronted by @byzantienne.bsky.social wearing her office hat

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Friends in Oxford, MS are a week into having no power, water, heating, sewer and there’s no news about when any of it will be restored. No FEMA, no national guard. Not much news coverage

i get that it had to be done and said at the time in order to secure no republican votes, but maybe next time we can get no republican votes for less effort and time

The movie trope where the horse turns around for another charge and then the rider slowly topples off

It's five o'clock somewhere. In fact, it's five o'clock here.

Today is the day Donald Trump truly became president-for-life

oh boy

I feel like Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil may start on the early side this week

Kind of impressed by how effortlessly Stancil attracts annoying discourse, like Pigpen and dirt

It would honestly be less insulting if he just directed Bessent to move the money to his private account.

diminishing and going into the west

actually it's a commonwealth

27% Watch!

MELANIA wasn’t made for the critics or the coastal elites, it was made for the fans

It's just the tiniest fraction of a second, but it's there, the time I take to mentally untangle Mo Rocca and Ro Khanna.

People are wondering how to reconcile the dating involved in marrying early with the 9-9-6 schedule and I think the answer is probably "arranged marriage."

Sometimes I was in no condition to say whether I was sick or well. – Lichtenberg (Waste Books, J-75)

Do you think his wife made his hood, or is it store-bought

Obviously they shouldn't be doing this, but also I don't think it's going to go the way they imagine it's going to

And when ICE doesn't do any of those things?

"Warns" or "is pleased to announce"?

oh i'm sure it's fine

Dreamed about the end of the world last night, so that was fun

Not only does it feel like Friday, it feels like Friday of NEXT WEEK

c'mon man

Nunca pensé que los leopardos se comerían MI cara