I think this is probably right on the law. But I also think the states should pass these laws anyway.

Do you think god was sending some kind of message when he made sure all these guys are bug-eyed fuckbats who can barely form sentences

its just not defensible in 2025 for democratic candidates and officeholders not to have a clear position on asserting the equal rights of transgender americans. if you're unwilling, step aside and let a patriot take your place.

What movie do you consider perfect?

the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy

It’s really underselling it to call this a corrupt administration—it’s more an ideologically pro-corruption administration

From time to time most of us are a little bit Greg

I admit, I am going to hang my self-respect up like a temporarily unneeded raincoat and dive straight into this emerald nightmare the instant I can.

If it's not pushed back on now at the very least we will have a two-tier publishing environment, where established authors get the human infrastructure and the newer/less prominent authors get a substandard experience, and then the surprised publishers will wonder why new authors aren't selling

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Seriously, watch The King's Choice (2016), a film about the German invasion of Norway in 1940. It's absolutely impeccable in its illustration of what whiny bitches the Nazis were at all times. Even when actively invading other countries, they protested hysterically about being shot at.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

the reason you keep seeing the same names in major Trump administration failure before the courts -- the reason Emil Bove did everything -- is that they have entirely destroyed the DOJ. they don't have enough guys.

Second, a hearty recommendation for STRANGE BEASTS by Susan J. Morris (@susanjmorris.bsky.social). Necessary caveat- nepotism alert, I knew Susan way back in the day in Minnesota, yadda yadda, but I would simply say nothing if I hadn't actually found her debut novel to be rad as hell-- 🧵

Yeah, the world is full of assholes, but people are still doing good work, so I wanted to take a few moments to highlight some stuff I've read recently that really moved me. First up, HARMATTAN SEASON by Tochi Onyebuchi (@tochitruestory.bsky.social)-- a novel that opens with a masterful use of-- 🧵

Now and then lovely things still happen. Like you might get a random e-mail from someone saying "so hey, I'm in a band called Karma and the Killjoys, and I wrote a piano-rock song that's about Locke Lamora..." youtu.be/wG8pc8atenA?... Karma + the Killjoys Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3x52J...

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Every time I'm confident that David Brooks has proven he's barely house-trained he's like "No, wait, I have so much more!"

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

This, in every particular. Y'all hired GF-M because you were looking for edgy cred for your edgy book. Then you fired her in three seconds flat. You knew who you hired! You can read a social media timeline! You hired her BECAUSE she's an abrasive asshole! Spare us the fainting couch routine.

Tonight!

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025

"that's not funny, no one should lose their lives to gun violence" so true! that's what we've been saying all along. I'm so glad you agree

Fave characters from 59 years of #StarTrek... I'm a simple guy, I'm just gonna give you my all-timer.

For decades everyone on the list argued they only knew Epstein in a professional capacity while all the notes to him are "I sure love being pedophiles together with you, my friend Jeffrey Epstein"

There have to be serious consequences for the violations of norms that have occurred here, not just us putting back all the shit Republicans have broken. I signed up to live in a democracy, not an abusive family where the non-abusive family members always paper over what happened after an outburst.

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

Another example of civil society censoring itself, creating a simulacrum of normality when things are not normal

The FBI uses a lot of shitty people as cooperators and informants but Trump is a great example of someone they wouldn’t use — a pathologically narcissistic braggart who could never keep a secret or maintain focus. It would be like asking the Trix rabbit to wear a wire.

Favorite TV theme songs... War of the Worlds (2nd season) Airwolf Thundercats Silverhawks Twin Peaks The Sopranos Secret Army (Gerry Anderson's) UFO Doctor Who (classic series 12-17, classic 24-26, new series 5) Taxi Hill Street Blues aaaaand Mystery Science Theater 3000

Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong.

"I am betting heavily on Sebulba."

oh jeez

Look, I know how it is. The market is absolutely saturated with intelligent sapphic steampunk horeseback-ridin' silent movie filmin' murder-solvin' action comedies that wear their hearts on their sleeves... oh wait. No it isn't. This is the only one. Grab it!

If this is true, the managers responsible should be hounded from the service. Firefighters should turn their backs on them when they enter rooms. Fucking blue falcons. Fucking collaborators.

IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

CHINA: Ha ha free energy from the sky let's grab it THE TRUMPIST USA: free energy from the sky makes you GAY

Grand Admiral Prawn! #dragoncon #dragoncon2025 #pepethekingprawn #muppets #chiss #starwars #starwarsmeme #puns

Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚

Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...

the thing that worries me is that basically all routes out of this mess involve some significant segment of our sclerotic, insane elite admitting, even obliquely via the sheepishly belated passage of necessary reforms, that they were catastrophically wrong in a way that cost everyone