it's not a coincidence that this is how republicans talk about elections now, maga is not patriotism it's toxic America fandom bsky.app/profile/chri...

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

We elected the billionaire bosses guy and now wage growth is down. Oh well at least the acolyte didn’t get a second season

Woke 2 is distinctively an ideology of Trump II, when we no longer need to go looking for some hidden enemy, no longer need to work to uncover the infiltrators and the enemies hiding their power level the enemy is out in the light and screaming about how much they hate us, there is no mystery there

I'm being completely serious that you can draw a direct line between the introduction of instant replay to football and the widespread toleration of Donald Trump's bad-faith lawsuits and election overturning. Sometimes a touchdown is a touchdown.

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It's much simpler than that. The Boy Scouts aren't maximally cruel to trans kids and so Republicans believe it should be destroyed.

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”

People want to believe that the GOP’s electoral success in red states is the result of dirty tricks and gerrymandering instead of the sincerely held beliefs of a majority of the population because a mechanical issue is easier to fix than wrestling with how to make people not believe what they do.

Bill Clinton seems like the kind of guy who reacts to all his sex scandals with “still got it”

In addition to being straight-up Nazi rhetoric, the "undocumented immigrants caused the housing crisis" lie seems designed to drive me, personally, insane.

This paper gives Ms. Rachel less benefit of the doubt than it does the average Trump adviser, fuck outta here.

MAGA sowing QAnon: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! MAGA reaping QAnon: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

2026 Primary Woke Wave

you know what cures a lot of intracoalition friction, is winning

I’m ecstatic Mamdani won. I’m also loving the fact that Spanberger and Sherrill destroyed their Republican opponents Democrats won big all across the country and THAT is incredibly important to me I don’t give two shits about factional disagreements, I’m gonna get drunk and lib tf out for a day

These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.

Let’s do this

if you’re upset about how poisoned our societal conversation about AI is, I get it, and also, this is very much the fault of the unholy alliance of sociopath Silicon Valley billionaires and MAGA goons that have spent the last two years working VERY hard to make lots of nice normal people loathe AI

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

I think someone over here forgot to genuflect on the way in

More police chiefs should be doing this

For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city. So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

Furthermore public transit teaches you how to live with temporary minor annoyances and cars teach you that you're god's most special baby and your moment-to-moment comfort is the only important thing in the world

“To understand the Modern Church you need a Doctorate of Divinity and Latin“ - Wack, False, Busted “To Understand the Modern Church you need to understand The Red Line and Ozzie Guillén“ - Factual, Enlightened, True

drake turning off the game as it gets to 18

Sometimes it feels like the 2024 election was a referendum that just said: WOMEN YES [ ] NO [ ] and voters were like: WOMEN YES [ ] NO [x]

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

I spend all this time trying to figure out what the master plan is, and it always hits me: nothing. Just conspiracy brain worms all the way down. And the most smug self-righteousness as Kennedy and cronies destroy over a century of concerted scientific effort and hard work.

Portland resists with whimsical improv theater, Chicago resists by screaming at weird jagoffs that don’t belong in the neighborhood. Every city brings its own strengths to the fight

42 million people are about to lose SNAP benefits. Despite this, a lone white man has dominated the political conversation on this site simply by being an overgendered failson inked out with a totenkopf. This is, to put it mildly, is as representative of America’s problems as anything.

"men who clearly have hang-ups about their ability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity" is a society-wide issue. There's a reason pickup truck sales have continued going up (to the degree the F-150 is now America's best selling vehicle) even as blue collar employment has gone down

Hope is active. Doom is inactive. Every time you say “it’s over” you have completely given up and simply handed it all to the fascists.