The democrats had a combined 12 years (8 Obama and 4 Biden) to break up Sinclair. People were hip to this stuff in the 2004 election.

i like how egyptian this panel's perspective is, gives these golden age shenanigans some gravitas

"what piece of art do you consider perfect" BORING FUCKING QUESTION

impossible. that would be interesting and this land has been cursed by the gods to be boring and stupid. anyway, do government people just get bored of talking about the usual chum and decide to do hobbies? is that the psychology here? futurism.com/congressman-...

unless it is turned around by popular revolt, and who would bet that it is, we're gonna be looking at pictures of dear leader inside local establishments in 2026

the correct mass popular response here is to start mass-cancelling cable subscriptions

Trump regime trying out taking away the circuses and raising the price of bread, while removing the incentives to respect due process. You can probably count the number of administration officials and Republican politicians who understand the implications of all this with your fingers.

don't tell me about any new think tanks coming to fight for me unless it's one of these bitches

There's no constituency for "we're like republicans but sane." Democratic voters don't want republican policy and republican voters don't want sanity

Starting a Democratic think tank where a Democratic operative is perched above a vat of very cold water and you can throw a ball at a target to dunk them in

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

me, my brother, and my mother went to see joe's apartment in the theater. we were the only ones in there and laughed the entire time. obviously no one wanted to see a movie about singing dancing cockroaches

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

i wonder if dan clowes read this comic (i am unfamiliar with it)

lol, i never made this connection. the movie star dog of my era

do regular liberals who invoke the french revolution as a "bad because violent" revolution understand that it wasn't a self-contained conflict? i feel like the popular understanding goes "king gets deposed" "things get crazy in there" "the Terror" "Napoleon"

I do love catching up on entomology news and finding out about the weird behaviors flies do (yes, I’m biased towards Diptera). phys.org/news/2025-02... #entomology

trithemis annelé (France, dépt Vienne, 08/25 #DragonflyMagic #NatureWonders #InsectBeauty

Green-Wood Cemetery 9/13/2025: I love Northern Parula, they are so adorable ❤️💙 so happy I saw one today! #northernparula #warblers #birdwatching #birds #wildlife #fallmigration

I just stumbled across this trailer for a glossy perfume-based drama (starring Tron/John Sheridan!) and it had me howling. They're snorting like dirty coke-heads!

when they reveal the psychic landscape of the latest shooter to me

i have generally lost track of why flags get flown at half mast for years now. mostly, it's the frequency of school mass shootings, which i always assume it's about

this local newspaper headline was fun to take extremely literally. a far side scientist excitedly pointing at a chalkboard drawing of a great big tardigrade

the idea that this week's news push is going to cement the idea of charlie kirk as martyr among the american populace dramatically overestimates the reach and credibilty of american news media, i'm pretty sure

haven't posted cat in a while

now this, this is news that's fit to print

"i of course condemn political violence" yes because they weren't good enough at it. if they were better at it you'd make your peace. that is 99% of the discourse. if justice were generally available, it would be a different issue, but it's not and pretending it is won't make it so

We made our own entertainment in the old days

This isn’t remotely a dig at OP but people forget how unbelievably politically violent the 60s through 80s were. What *might* turn out to have been the exception were the heights of the aughts and 2010s. Turns out the correlation might have been the peak of US economic and political hegemony.

the enemy is limited by organizational capacity, not motivation or remaining morals

every time something happens now: but what about the existence of our free, diverse, democratic republic? i mean, no, it doesn't exist, exactly, but i need to think so

This bird with a gotdamn jheri curl been killing me since yesterday.

in retrospect we should not have given ronald reagan a twelfth consecutive term

you have been made witness to Celery Victor. share this three times and good fortune will follow you into battle

note to time travellers: do *not* go to late medieval antwerp to learn authentic illuminated manuscript techniques

It’s like regular HR but without the humans or resources

me in the downtown area of any city on earth: but despite all of our differences, are we not all siblings and friends? me driving on a highway anywhere on earth: i support the total eradication of the human race and i vote

in today's apple event, we are revealing San Bernardino, our fully conscious AI. look! it has taken control of the nuclear arsenal

good plan www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cfH...

the only critiques of the american situation i find relevant are the extremely basic ones, such as this

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

dude! go to a bookstore! look in the fiction shelves! if it's not under "U" and "Updike" these aren't there anymore!

also, relatedly, there's "hi! i'm an author whose funny tweets didn't quite translate into long form writing"

maru, a wonderful cat, passed away today. sisinmaru.com/2025/09/06/%...

I was looking at Fred MacMurray's filmography and this row of posters is such a funny cross-section of 1950s cinema

Moebius, 1996

Why should anyone care about this now? Elon Musk and a bunch of child sociopaths already did this in plain sight months ago. Why should I be more worried about China than him and the interests he serves? Seriously