Hell with it, I'm happy to say it -- I don't know Ed at all, but I've been reading his writing for twenty years or so now, and always enjoyed it immensely. Subscribe to his Patreon. Buy "Chaotic Neutral." Wanting good writers and thinkers means supporting them. bsky.app/profile/edbu...

NY Post if it wasn’t a fascist rag: HOAGIE HERO SERVED JUSTICE

Bro is communism bad or not

I have never seen a human being react to anything the way Trump reacts when an assembled audience is paying attention to anyone other than him, for any reason.

*performers holding still, panting heavily* agent, disgusted: my god, what do you CALL this act? performers: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES!

Deeply disappointed to see a convincing case made that a foundational work in social psychology that I've read many times was falsified.

All of the Welcomefest unindicted FTX co-conspirators are throwing a fit trying to blame Dunlap because their bought-and-paid for centrist Great White Hope voluntarily decided he’d rather be a lobbyist than stay in Congress. That’s a risk you take with guys willing to be bribed!

"the president gets to choose what gender everyone is" is actually much stupider than "there's gold fringe on that flag, so this is a military occupation court", and so we should look at the reasons why it isn't treated as such

i am glad that trying to pogrom hispanics reduced his support amongst hispanics. the laws of gravity still exist somewhat

It’s not untrue

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

The only way to argue against this is to imagine there are voters who will walk into a polling place one year from now with “the Democrats ended the shutdown last year and saved my Thanksgiving travel plans” at the forefront of their minds, which, I’m sorry, is not a real thing.

I am not an apologist but if you think what happened in the Soviet Union in the 1960s/1970s is worse than what happened to Russia in the 1990s you are either deeply ignorant or intellectually dishonest.

Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State. Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.

Is there ever, or will there ever be, a bunch of stories the day after a GOP win about how all the people they openly want to hurt are scared, or

Virginia Republicans have learned the difference between having a one-mile flood barrier that's 20 feet high and a ten-mile flood barrier that's 2 feet high. But while you celebrate, don't forget that their reaction won't be "We need to change" but "This is why we gotta stop having real elections."

I went to Cooperstown in 2014 to watch Frank Thomas inducted into the HOF and (uninvited, unrelated to any of the baseball HOF or MLB player events) John Rocker was standing on the main street selling t-shirts that said SPEAK ENGLISH from a card table.

Virginia Republicans have learned the difference between having a one-mile flood barrier that's 20 feet high and a ten-mile flood barrier that's 2 feet high. But while you celebrate, don't forget that their reaction won't be "We need to change" but "This is why we gotta stop having real elections."

Dissatisfaction with the status quo leads people understandably to project every candidate that makes them feel a little excited - AOC, Mamdani, Bernie, whatever - to run for a higher office but it’s worth remembering they might be best suited for the jobs they already have, which are important.

Last night’s election results were the first public evidence that Trump’s political standing is a lot weaker than folks want you to believe. It’s important to note that it was not Democratic politicians but voters who delivered the first big blow. This feels like when Drago got cut in Rocky IV.

Everybody put cnn on RIGHT NOW

It was me, I ripped one.

I like it when everyone is happy and having a good time.

is there a Balls Cheney

mods are asleep post smooth schumer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_P... - "U.S. Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, brought the case to national attention."

Nobody remembers 2006, I know, but Google "Dubai Ports World controversy" and have fun.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

******If you’re in line to tell Chuck Schumer to eat shit, stay in line!!******

The Avignon papacy but in, like, The Villages

Sauce Gardner and Quinnen Williams to Breece on their way out: They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.

Chat, is it smart for a 3-5 team going nowhere to trade its 1st and 2nd round picks 12 hours after a two-score loss to the Cardinals backups that was worse than the scoreboard suggests? Time will tell.

Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning. They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.

If Mamdani does win and that upsets you, the appropriate target of your ire is establishment Democrats trying the "You WILL vote for this loathsome person everyone hates, because we told you to and you have no other choice*" strategy for the ten thousandth time. *whoops, people had another choice

The kids in Fake disciplines like history are plowing their way through an 800 page Adam Tooze book. What do you think the coursework is for this: news.asu.edu/20250924-uni...

You can tell the campaign staff is good because you don't know any of their names.

re: Glasnow

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.” Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

me: Pailhead is the worst "collaboration" ever medicare-eligible Ian Mackaye: hold my fizzy water

If you can’t see a straight line running from Bush and Cheney arguing with straight faces that the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch to Trumpism I can’t help you.

The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars

Ahh that’s a shame

I thought there was a chance Cuomo could win, but the shameless desperation of the last couple of days of mudslinging have convinced me he’s going to get blown out and he knows it.

How about, “she was lonely and depressed. Now she’s lonely and depressed and talking to her computer.”

one of those funny little things where a one-term democratic administration picking the wrong lawyer with an inflated sense of doing things as written rather than as intended leads to catastrophic downside (in this case, Carter, 1980, and government shutdowns) www.govexec.com/management/2...

Chat, I'm not sure if a system that endlessly rewards being a cruel, dishonest, soulless hack and endlessly punishes doing something useful or good is a system that will survive, or a system that we want to survive.

His most progressive accomplishment as governor, coordinated by Lis Smith, was to convince the democratic state senate majority to give the GOP the state senate majority.

This week everyone in NYC will be annoyed to death by people elsewhere chiming in on their local politics but I remind them that this is the price one pays for making everyone learn the names of every neighborhood, street, and landmark in the city.