This is the sort of thing the 1619 Project was trying to get at, but it got lost in often-bad-faith debates over slavery as America's secular original sin.

In the eyes of folks like TCW, a sinecure is a measure of merit, a teaching job a measure of academic worth, a fellowship a measure of accomplishment. Each new accolade justifies further accolades. It's all self-licking ice cream cones

it's okay, eventually you'll not be paying attention & it'll be prompting you to get a passkey & then you'll get to negotiate that menu endlessly instead

The Democrats who get votes in 2026 & 2028 will be the ones who put their bodies in front of this stuff. I'm not saying they must do it to deserve my vote, I'm not saying it'll stop the cruelty, but I'm saying that if they want to win it's the best thing they can do

Fat activism

"Is smoking cigarettes cool" is a really good shibboleth for if someone is an asshole

One step out of line & the gravy train stops. That's the most conservatism will promise women

My goodness!!

Get your students tennis balls for christmas, they got to work on those hands

I don't have the ability to do this without being hurtful so I wish all the snowball fighters the best

Mayo is an acceptable egg substitute in lots of baking & probably does fine here. I guarantee it doesn't taste like mayo when it's done, it just tastes like eggnog

Gem tones, baby

*now* we're really getting into that Christmas spirit

Really digging what she's doing with color right now

Nearly had a panic attack after doing my business before I realized that my daughter had dropped a piece of her freeze-dried beetroot snack in the toilet bowl

For the record, I am not convinced this letter is real or that it is a hoax. It is an exceptionally interesting artifact either way

This is why I don't mourn wagons & subcompacts too much despite them being objectively superior forms of transportation for anyone under 50: the market wasn't there & the new car business is unforgiving in the extreme. If you want that to be less of a problem, destroy car dependence

Justice Kavanaugh realizing that he has the authority to set standards but not the authority to interpret or enforce them; this is very funny, to me

It's fun to watch him squirm even as I don't look forward to what comes after. Joy is in the here & now

The community remains divided on how much of this reflected his own preferences versus those of his second wife, who became his indispensable editor, & some argue co-author, as his health began to fail

lets remember the REASON for the SEASON! ❤️

King John is always ready to step in & be the voice of reason, at his discretion

Hot take: the West has already won the war with Russia in Ukraine, in that its objectives regarding the conflict have long since been fulfilled. The West has so far failed to win the next war by plainly demonstrating to the world & to Ukraine that being the West's proxy is a worthwhile bargain

To be clear, this was the only Il-38N *in theater*. The Russians have more than one. But they already had less than ten & now they have one less, so that's going to hurt more than the sticker price

this is one of the most @swolecialism.bsky.social data points I've ever seen

The hammer keeps creeping closer & closer to the presumed nail

I too make Zeno's paradox part of my leadership philosophy

If incomes aren't a proxy for merit, a lot of other assumptions break down. Preserving those assumptions by treating the poor as deficient or abject is worth the price of less effective solutions

i don't know who needs to know this but his name isn't grogu it's baby yoda

Trump should appoint himself Fed chairman

If she were doing this as a grift first & foremost she'd have a better response lined up than "actually I completely biffed it". She's a dumbass & she's determined to make trans people pay for telling her so

America can have little a fuhrerprinzip, as a treat

It's all dinner party conversation the whole way down

Consumers in 2025 respond to the overwhelming sense of crisis by buying more pie

How much of that goes in people's pockets? That may be a decisive question in 2026. It was the only thing that kept Trump afloat the first time around.

The Biden theory of everything was that talking about anything from the Trump Administration would only make it harder for the country to move past it & get back to normal. It could not have failed more dramatically.

This goes in both directions though. Bill made bank while being a definite sexual harasser, high-profile dissembler, & all around bad husband, at minimum. He has been a featured Democratic Convention speaker since the Reagan Administration. The flattening involved excusing a lot of what we shouldn't

If you don't want to take my word that Epstein killed himself, here's his own

This is the power of publicity. The Wrights had a practical aircraft by October 1905 & promptly wasted the next three years trying to sell it to the Army without letting anyone see it, while Santos-Dumont flew in Paris on camera.

I do not know how I ended up with a daughter who sleeps 1130-8. Makes me awfully glad I mostly work from home I tell you what

Wish these people paid attention in history class. One kid is an heir. Three kids, maybe you have a succession fight but probably there's enough to go around. You have a hundred kids? That's a tontine. That's how you get plots & assassinations. That's a plan to empower eunuchs, sergeants, & viziers.

truly apocalyptic numbers and also we need to bring back "look at all these fucking weirdos" for the party as a whole because they are quite literally, as illustrated, all fucking weirdos

I strongly believe we can get these numbers lower

Why does it have a railgun Why does it have a railgun??

This exists entirely to make Trump feel good & maybe direct money to something that will be useful when he's gone

Looks like they're... cruisers with a couple extra guns so Trump thinks they look cool?

Every detail that leaks reinforces how extremely never happening this is never happening. And it's leaking because the people in charge of making this happen hate it just as much as you do