16 seeds should be allowed to have one NBA player

maybe doesn't matter in the scheme of things but these bad trial balloons serve to effectively signal, to everyone, that the admin is completely wrong-footed and has no idea what to do

As a maybe obvious aside it makes me uncomfortable how symmetrical this right-wing antisemitism (i.e., Kent's) is with the liberal criticisms, which i often perceive to be reasonable, of Israel's behavior over the past few years

sean penn should show up late and drunkenly demand his "dumb little statue"

best part of the oscars is when someone knocks their speech out of the park. oscar for best oscar victory speech

imo if you're going to get into one of these sort of lavish and almost fetishistic categories of consumer goods you gotta be a little sheepish about it

Is that a KLH or Advent speaker in the background?

trump when he sees the shit Iran is talking:

"TO WHICHEVER KHAMENEI IT CONCERNS, NO MINES OR ELSE I WILL KILL YOUR FATH..., I MEAN YOUR WIF..., LISTEN IT'LL GET BAD!"

it'd be funnier if chalamet just posted the hannibal buress "why are you booing? I'm right." meme

it's been like a full decade of trump just saying whatever bullshit comes into his mind that he thinks will float the markets and it ... working perfectly

this is like a top-5 "oh he really is sundowning" story tbh

I read Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! last month and really enjoyed it (inventive, ambiguous, funny, self-aware) and while it's not really about Iran a thing I do think is that if I were an Iranian who remembers flight 655 I think I'd be quite pissed at these goings on (at everyone really, but def at USA)

why the fuck isn't donny wriggling out of this one i bet my entire life savings on wriggle

no fucking way

gonna get some of them trump "i did that" stickers for my next journey into Trump Country (Kentucky, Reading, OH, my brother in law's pool house, etc.)

Attacking Iran so recklessly is like a funhouse mirror oil version of Trump's sabotage of NATO -- just impulsively wrecking a series of delicate agreements that helped to coordinate long-lasting global ~peace and ~prosperity and which mostly benefited USA. Kinda like vaccine skeptics that way too.

god fucking dammit landsman

whenever the stock market goes down is one of the times he stops wrecking things but what i'm hearing from the experts is that it's hard to un-assassinate the supreme leader of iran

I guess I would really like to read someone summarize some worst case scenarios arising out of this action bc so far it seems like the worry is ~chaos (which I'm against; I repeat, i'm against choas). I don't feel like i have a good handle on direction or magnitude of bad outcomes here

Trump really wants the initial perceived popularity of shock and awe, and really does have goals, but can't stomach the unpopularity of sustained conflict required to actually accomplish his goals. True in everything he tries

Terrible meeting at Dairy Queen headquarters. I keep arguing to launch our new line of smoothies, Operation Epic Fruity and the boss keeps telling me to fuck mysefl

If you stand in opposition to Trump's attempts to remake our government in his grotesque image then I don't really care about your pet issues, you do not have to hand it to him

always cool when my congressman acts like a fucking moron

You remember that Seinfeld scene where Kramer and the car salesman try to drive the used car until it runs out of gas? What if that, but Trump is the driver and the car is the US of A?

you know in the game Risk where if you have a lot of armies but you run out before you take over the world and then uh oh your opponent now has the colossal amount of armies? This is some half-baked analogy for what Trump II is trying and inspiring in Dems

Ds often have political problems bc their goals are more to build functional governmental structures (which is hard after Rs destroy them) but antitrust is interestingly one area where Ds' goals are destructive and they can make life miserable for disfavored companies

like, it's all bad but 1) it was already bad pre-2024, 2) this prob doesn't move the needle too much electorally (media is diff now), 3) this can be thought of more as bad faith partisan warfare against Ds, so Ds have every incentive to fuck shit up in very obviously partisan ways if they win

Doesn't this situation kind of read like she was held hostage and Trump wanted the good press in exchange for her release?

ah yes the super secret article ii election control powers that are neatly locked away and which are accessible via unilateral "executive memo" and which trump, showing self control heretofore unrecognized as within his capacity, has not yet unlocked but will unlock bc of china

So is China just kinda looking at Iran like "sorry, friend, but you're gonna have to take a bullet on this one"?

All the Ds not attending the SOTU is a nice signal to the base not to tune in but also that they genuinely find him aberrant

There's something funny about scotus using MQD and in response trump yelling "laws aren't real!" Everyone's sort of converging on legal pragmatism but getting there in their own special way

hahha yes john roberts YOU SICKO, YES

i think i'm misunderstanding but if domestic companies are able to recoup tariffs then won't consumers have been left holding their portion of the bag?

doth no one have a paintball gun?

everyone's rightly pointinig out that *impeachment* doesn't really capture the urgency of what's required. It's a dead letter, sure but the crimes are >>> than it. I wonder if after the midterms are over we'll see heightened rhetoric from the D field re remedies, including up to [redacted]

If you squint, he might be just talking about sort of the cosmetic or aesthetics of Trump (i.e., constant bull-horn racism/attacks etc.). But if so he should find a way to signal that he's still goign to absolutely savage Rs substantively if he wins

mcardle: i'm sucking up to a hoover, get it?please click my paper is dying

we call this the david perdue defense in the biz

now watching (very extremely loled at this cut/scene)

[grumbling through gritted teeth] "every dollar they graft is a dollar they're not putting into concentration camps"

oh cool everyone is just talking about ai love these days

Don't worry Pam, this will all be a lot less pleasant next year when your party is in the minority

my rule is that if someone texts me a link without any context for why i should click on it i will never click on that link and will be annoyed i was sent it

I wonder how many federal judges (or fed prosecutors for that matter) are on bluesky. Probably not zero.

Are we gonna get to contempt hearings here at any point?

it's not even that they're too online, though they are, it's that they have no other register than glib Fox News Commentator. They have no clue how to talk to anyone who isn't already part of their tribe

holy hell man stephen miller is trying to do ethinic cleansing on the back of an ostensible electoral mandate and the NFL is like yooo fuck off super bowl halftime show entirely in spanish you wet bitch

Thank god this band green day isn't a bunch of woke scolds. I think I'm gonna look see if they have any other cool albums.