Complaining about dems and holding them accountable is good and even necessary: ranting about how they're just as bad as the Republicans or how the Republicans are cockroaches and only the dems have agency isn't (which to be clear, you aren't doing)

absolute blithering horseshit all the cutesy metaphors you can make won't give the democrats the power to "deal with" the republicans be angry that they didn't stamp out the republicans when they had majorities. push them to do it next time. right now statements is all they have

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

this is the kind of thing I am talking about. when you tell someone they have agency which requires them to convince their Republican colleagues (twenty in the senate!) to stand up to Trump, you are admitting they have no agency.

feel that way about the people yelling about why the Democrats are making statements that won't stop anything, instead of impeaching, which is also a statement that won't stop anything (if someone wants to argue that their rhetoric requires filing symbolic impeachment resolutions fine)

I would feel comfortable not only declaring that every judge Trump professed to appoint was not a judge, but that the members of the Trump v. Anderson/Trump v. US majorities had forfeited their positions by collaborating in Trump's insurrection (along with, at least, Aileen Cannon)

according to the constitution, trump is not the legitimate president. we need to start thinking about what that will mean as we retake power. and mamdani? mamdani shows us how. www.liberalcurrents.com/mamdani-teac...

let me also shout out once again one of my favorite TV series of all time, Slings and Arrows, where the second season is devoted to a staging of Macbeth.

these new statements from CBS Evening News read like Bari Weiss wrote them herself

scrub because thinks he's fly also known as a buster because scrub always talkin' about what he wants because scrub scrub because sits on his broke ass can't get no love from me because scrub scrub because hangin' out the window of the passenger side of his best friend's ride, tryin' to holler at me

"Puns as violations of the cooperative principle" In this paper, I will explain why everyone is mad at me

have I done the "Euthyphro was *obviously* right to prosecute his father" discourse on here?

they want to put weight on you like they did on Giles Corey

Bari Weiss’s CBS News directly attacking academics, subject matter experts, in the promo for her new CBS Evening News.

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

"Here's my karaoke version of "Alice's Restaurant""

why did two of the UK party leaders name songs that are ultra-American

A message for you all to carry through the year

100% had to check if this quote was a parody (it is not)

it is *very* provoking when a book flashes back to the previous generation at some historical event, and they are your age

the phrase "tonight we've got the juice" popped into my head, to the tune of "On the Loose" by Saga mostly this raises the question of why things can pop into my head to the tune of "On the Loose" by Saga

Weiss believes she is engaged in a game in which the point is self-aggrandizement, and that everyone else is involved in that same game, and she fundamentally cannot *understand* criticism on the grounds of integrity or virtue.

the racism coming from the entire conservative movement targeting the somali community is so goddam disgusting and its just being completely ignored

Bartlebooth:

reply to Suits (rip Mike F)

Right-wing media spent weeks in a bad faith (or deluded) effort to cast this obvious investigatory step as partisan and devious. Senators tried to award themselves half a mill for it!

look when I retire it will be because I want to spend more time wearing flip flops and I won't write an essay about it

you know who has had it too good for too long in this society? that's right. people who have to take care of other people's kids every day

The nyt has pursued an unprincipled and ideologically driven campaign against trans ppl in its purported news coverage. It routinely attacks or ignores evidence that doesn’t comport w its bias.

CGI-ass senator

I guess one option in the AI space, and I'm sure someone has argued for it, is that if we constituted brains under the same circumstances that we constituted LLMs, *they* wouldn't be conscious? too evanescent, wrong kind of stimulus-response stuff, etc. etc.?

I like that, underneath all of this grousing, the answer to "Why I'm Leaving Harvard" is that he agreed to a phased retirement four years ago, at retirement age, and now he's retired. It's like saying you're leaving the restaurant because you finished eating dinner.

so this is a guy who, at ~65, decided to begin his retirement, and now that his four years' notice is up, is taking a sinecure at the right-wing chop shop that Florida's Republican leaders are funding out of money from the public coffers

We just want to protect women and children, honest. That’s why we gave an award to a pedophile rapist who shares our values.

i have long refused to believe in the existence of Hunters Point

If you confidently predict that bond vigilantes will attack the world's most liquid financial market which also happens to be the world's most important reserve asset, as so many have done for so many decades, I'm going to ask you to show some work on what is changing here and now.

very different domain but it feels like there's something similar in the US with drivers. drivers feel the right to express anger at pedestrians and bikers inconveniencing them, but are shocked when the tables are turned. and why not? the country is built to cater to them

seems like part of the story of the Democrat having caught up to Vivek Ramaswamy in that one Ohio poll is that Ohio's Republican governor is actively knifing Ramaswamy www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao

hm I do not think it is at all true that "the only P" after a consider-like verb presupposes that the subject is P? seems very likely that in 41e, "Orion… came to view him as the only spy he could trust," the speaker does not think that Orion could trust the spy.

looks like evidence that starting trans kids on puberty blockers early is humane, and forcing them to begin an unwanted puberty on the grounds that they are too young to know their own wishes is cruelty

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

twice in the past couple days I have run across this 1948 book arguing that the decline of the West was caused by nominalism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

After being attacked for it by the NYT, one researcher has found yet more evidence in favor of puberty blockers. @veraeikon.bsky.social takes a look at this study in this month's Journal Club!

it was a typo, should have been "shit-licking"

almost new year, new Dark Hi and Lois thread! QDUs stands for Quiet Desperation Units, today is 0/10 QDUs because this is cute. Chip is embarrassed! A PG rating would do him no good because the parents are right there! It has not escaped my notice that Trixie and Dot have switched places!

further archive search: I am now convinced that "Have no fear, McFunk is here" is spoken by George Clinton. and that all the other spoken voices are George Clinton. still not sure if it counts as rising or falling intonation