My response to anything over the next two weeks

Wonder how often his opening word was SNIPE

Today we get to witness the difference in the public's response between the murders of true cultural heroes and that of a racist, misogynist propagandist artificially propped up and funded by a network of white supremacisrs and pedophiles through advertising and PR campaigns. Don't forget this

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

With the benefit of some massively large hindsight - American Beauty all day

Damn. RIP, king.

They should do MyChart Wrapped

Mamdani, increasingly exasperated, takes his fourth 1am phone call from Trump this week. He asks who the main guy from Night Moves was and then they briefly discuss fondue. Trump recommends manhattan steakhouse that closed in 1998 and says goodnight.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

Becoming a History Man from Mad Max but for pointing out to the young wastelanders which videos are AI slop

So I guess every few weeks a quarter of the Internet just breaks now

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

Dispatch was so much fun and I think I got the best ending possible. Highly recommend.

Well well well if it isnt the Blowjob Brothers

Great piece that efficiently lays out everything most of us already know but won't admit to ourselves about algorithmic SM. Bluesky being free of that mess (for now) is why I spend most of my time here. Really wish the moderation around here wasn't increasingly problematic.

If Bluesky bans well known anti-authoritarian voices with no explanation, everyone will assume they did so for pro-authoritarian reasons, either their own or those of someone else with influence. That's the only explanation available, "just trust us" isn't an explanation.

Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Growing up were there any moments in movies that traumatized you? 😬 The AC freakout from The Brave Little Toaster stuck with me for a long time.

Resolved in the best way possible!

The D.C. man accused of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent with a Subway sandwich was found not guilty by a jury

LFG!

Chase Utley will forever be public enemy #1 to Mets fans, but I do remember that brief moment at the turn of the century when we all wanted to kick John Rocker's ass for being such a bigoted fuckhead. Nice to see he's grown as a person.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Mayor Mamdani please fulfill your campaign promise to get the Rangers a win on home ice

Cheney dies, Mamdani wins. Best day for the left since Nevada in 2020?

I don't even get mad at this anymore, honestly. This juiceless loser knows it's the end of the road - he's the picture of weakness v. Trump, Israel has obliterated its reputation with America, & AOC will break his back in a primary. He's up in 3 years. If he even seeks re-election I'd be stunned.

"You threw food at the Gestapo. That's gotta be resolved."

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future. I hope you will too.

Capital will align with fascism and hollow out everything that's even remotely a public good rather than pay a little bit more in taxes, example number eleven billion.

And stay out

Mamdani is not a radical. He has run a tight, smart, fairly standard local campaign. He'll probably get 20 or 30 percent of his platform if he's lucky. The one radical thing he's done is told the Times to go to hell. He has campaigned every step of the way like he doesn't need them, and he's right.

This is part of the war over How We Remember the Pandemic Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since

Usha Vance sobbing and logging onto polymarket to bet on her own divorce

Well well well if it isn't the Blowjob Brothers

Didn't think I could have any pity or empathy for someone who wrote an article about how Gaza starvation victims were already I'll and therefore don't count, but here we are. Yikes.

You know there is time to get someone without a Nazi tattoo and who isn’t 77. The sad part is the amount of political capital defending him instead of finding another alternative.

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?” No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

The response to MAGA and the ontological evil of Trump could go one of two ways: - a harder edge on traditional liberal/left values of kindness, empathy, and inclusion (woke 2.0) - looking past any and all problematic behavior with a shrug because "he hates who I hate" Path #2 way ahead in Maine

Same. Most of us voted blue, donated, and have tried to do the right thing with what little power we have. 95% of elected officials and institutions have proved fucking useless in the face of fascism, and a not insignificant number of them have actually helped it along. There's no "we" here.

Nice to see these two scumbags going full send with the Islamophobia in the final days of the campaign. Hope they all fucking choke.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.