Tylenol Lannister was a bad man and he deserves everything coming to him Scott

The local Tampa weather guy who does over the top holiday decorations put out his giant 12 foot skeletons, so we're probably all good for the rest of hurricane season.

That is not a denial.

To build on this, just as AI dooming is really a form of AI hype, dooming about how the authoritarians have won is really a form of cheerleading the authoritarians.

most of it is reasonably popular (abortion rights, generally egalitarian, pro-environment, etc) & even changing the stuff that's a lightning rod for criticism (ie immigration, trans rights) would likely just fracture your own coalition without gaining votes see the UK bsky.app/profile/polp...

i'll go further actually - & i know this is basically heresy to both centrist & lefty critics - but the policy package the dems seem to have converged on probably already *is* optimally calibrated for competitive races or at least there's diminishing marginal returns to reworking it

people will say "dems need back off unpopular positions to win", then suggest *abortion rights* like, what? that our one solid wedge issue in red states

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

So, you know how the current cold water realism response to "put humans on Mars!" is "no matter what the problems are making Mars habitable, they're harder than keeping the Earth habitable"? The "the Democrats are useless we need a new opposition party" gets the same cold water response, sorry.

really hoping they're right about Tuesday being the Rapture because a world without Evangelical Christians sounds like a literal paradise

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

lol. Emil Bove intervened. The guy that Senate Republicans just confirmed for a lifetime position on the federal bench. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

if im paying bribes, im giving it to you in a *really good* backpack. I want you to remember me fondly, and the bag should be good enough that you wouldn't think of throwing it away. I think i will prefer to accept bribes in one of those fancy Harry&David fruit boxes (fruit too, please).

Posting on Bluesky that posting on Bluesky is a waste of time is a waste of time hope that helps

Stop citing that MIT "95% of Ai pilots fail" study - the headline appeals to my prejudices too, but 1. its data is the authors' 18/19yo mates 2. all the $ appear to be "ARR" 3. I don't trust a single number 4. THE PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE THE AUTHORS' Web3 GRIFT! JESUS! pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/21/m...

Important to understand that many Americans are Resistance Libs.

this is a lightbulb moment for everyone

i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

A big problem with the Dem fundraising ecosystem is that in the past 24 hours I've gotten about 5 texts from scam PACs asking me to sign dubious petitions to support Jimmy Kimmel. This can't be the first request for mass mobilization that people get.

Star Wars George Pearkes be like “Uh oh ITHOR: HORN WINS DUEL AGAINST SHEDAO SHAI ITHOR: YORIK CORAL PODS SEEN STREAKING TOWARDS PLANET ITHOR: FIRST SIGNS OF VONG BIOWEAPON DEPLOYED”

this should be a bracket

wow, I really thought this was measurements for a minute, maybe head circumference?

Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

I just saw someone calling for a Colbert-Kimmel ticket, and.... Like, I know that's an immensely silly idea. But its just not the *worst* idea I've ever heard, is all. (In actuality, Colbert should probably run for Senate.)

Wouldn’t it be wild if Kimmel ended up becoming our Zelenskyy

to @proptermalone.bsky.social 's shutdown-related thoughts from a while back, I do think this could be a concrete long-term benefit, if we're considering what democrats can get out of it: GOP, while unpopular, ending the filibuster. do I think dem leadership thinks in these terms? No I do not. :P

they organized it openly on discord. www.indiatoday.in/world/story/...

what Will and Imani have most in common is that they have been conditioned by their entire public and professional lives to never, ever, ever, ever, ever, stop posting. honestly, we need 30 more of them, and then we just keep aiming them at problems. Like dropping the Hulk into a city.

IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?!

fuck these people, by the way

you mean the civil rights movement wasn't a completely organic, spontaneously organized series of mass gatherings where the members appeared out of nowhere and then anonymously faded back into the general public? you mean actual organizing requires lists and, you know, organization?

It's not super encouraging to consider that Isaac Chotiner has gained a reputation as a kind of Anton Chigurh of interviews simply by asking relevant questions, following up on them, and not trying to be the subject's best friend

See how this works?

The US is one of the most aggressively pro-free-speech countries in the world, both in legal protections and public sentiment, and they are going after Jimmy Kimmel for making a joke about a guy a supermajority of the country doesn't give a shit about.

okay, real question and i am entertaining any expert responses i can catch: do we think its riskier to sign up for a political mailing list with your real name that could be subpoenaed, or riskier to physically go to a protest with your real human body? I have no dog in this fight

My contribution to the day's discourse: Actually, climate and LGBTQ issues are already among the Democratic Party's strongest issues. www.pbump.net/o/climate-ch...

dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

Remember when ICE was reported to have shown up at the LG battery plant in Georgia with " a search warrant for the whole site," and 400+ officers, buses, chains, etc.? The warrant was real. But it was for four (4) named Mexican nationals. Someone, somewhere decided to arrest 300 Koreans anyway.

he's been aggressively anti-gerrymandering for a long time, kind of a signature issue for him afaict

*heavy sigh

RIP to one of the hottest men this country has ever produced

This is what David Brooks meant when he said a conservative had texted him that Kirk was their George Floyd. They didn't mean that Kirk was a victim of a profound injustice. In the conservative mind, Floyd was used as a symbolic pretext to reorient society. They want to use Kirk that way.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.