The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."

I'm getting old and every time I scroll by a post about this asshole I'm like "ooh, is this a useful post about plantar fascia, because that shit hurts like hell and is really annoying," and no, it's not helpful for my foot pain, it's just a post about another disappointment in the democratic party

Usually when we talk about someone acting as judge, jury, and executioner, there's at least a LITTLE bit of reading between the lines going on

It’s funny how I swung from “every issue is complicated and it’s important to explore all of the subtleties” in my 20s to “some moral clarity is sorely needed” in my, uh, later years

If I were president I don't think I'd refer to a payment from the federal government as "I'm paying myself"; wonder why he sees a federal payment that way (I don't wonder, actually)

I understand non-violent resistance and protest, and think things like No Kings are great. But I don't know how far non-violence goes when white supremacists are playing slave-catcher under color of federal law. 2029 feels too late to recover and the human toll will be staggering by then. Not great!

I mean, when you say it like that, it sounds kinda bad

Oh hell fucking no; not interested in getting a push notification for AI slop advertising on an app I only ever use for communicating with people abroad, thanks

Also inadvertently confirming he's a mouthbreather, strong work

my sources in DC are telling me that trump has obviously diminished capacity and the people around him are taking advantage of him

Savannah, GA #NoKings

It's a meritocracy now

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

Reading about the épuration sauvage with a faint smile

Not a jury in the world; and I'll leave it at that

Honestly wonder how much of Pritzker talking tough but not ordering local authorities to confront and arrest ICE thugs is (1) genuine deference to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution versus (2) knowing local authorities are sympathetic to ICE and will ignore him when push comes to shove

Just searching the NRA's various websites for the word "tyranny" to see what suggestions they have about these kinds of raids

I genuinely feel like I'm losing my grip on reality; I was trying to find news about the latest horrific mass shooting and stumbled onto an article about a mass shooting the previous day I didn't even know about. Might just disassociate the rest of the day, idk

I want proto-fash-curious shitheads in 2060 to have to say to each other "idk guys, we all read about what happened to Trump and Stephen Miller and their pals, probably shouldn't try that again"

Trusting the proper medical authorities on Tylenol tyvm youtu.be/gD6olRJ8S3I?...

15 years ago you could trust that off-brand products would be almost as good as brand names because retailers had buyers who stocked good stuff. This is no longer the case. Thanks to the internet’s disintermediation of retail, you have to buy the brand name or take a real risk of getting garbage.

Holy shit cuse

Once when I was a very young child, I asked about MLK Day and celebrating his death; and an adult very patiently explained it celebrated his life, not his death. Anyway, I find the wording of Ryan's tweet interesting, and if I were an investigated party, I'd be tempted to take it at face value

Where are his glasses? He can't think without his glasses!

DOINK

Every time I see one of these, I think every marketing department needs a 14-yo boy on staff just to see if they start giggling when the name is rolled out

Idk, seems to me like he's got a pretty ironclad fifth amendment right to remain silent

Violence is never the answer. Also check out this blooper reel of us nuking Venezuelan sea vessels.

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

Dear Bane, It has been some time since I prayed to you, but I am coming to you now with a request . . . bsky.app/profile/yash...

congrats to your grandma in heaven on finally being able to fulfill her fantasy of being eiffel towered by paul newman and robert redford

At long last, we are going to do a Sicario from the hit movie Don’t do Sicario

For the last five years I've gone to work and parked in the same lot as a brodozer with a sticker reading, "Fuck Joe Biden and Fuck You for Voting for Him," so I'm kinda done with people crying about how we need to call bosses about employees' incivility towards conservatives

I think every lawyer has had the experience of knowing a client's decision is a fait accompli and having to put lipstick on that pig as best they can; anyway,

I had an absolutely surreal conversation with a work colleague last week where I had to explain "no really, because I think people should have free healthcare and shouldn't starve in the streets for lack of money, this guy thinks it's cool and would be funny to push me from a helicopter at altitude"

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Make a band singular Joy Private

To summarize: -the murderer was Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm -no wait, it was a different guy but we got him -fuck, no we didn’t -I bet transsexuals did this -okay but the fact it feels like they did says something about society -we’re fairly sure he’s either in Utah or somewhere else

hey @aaron.bsky.team, just saw that you follow me. thanks for that. I’d really like to know if you’d have banned Trump from bluesky for posting what he said out loud today. thank you for your time!

Calm down; we hate ourselves, too

look at my FBI director dawg we are never finding this man

My wife texted me on her way home “wtf is Charlie Kirk” and I’m struggling to remember a moment I’d ever been more jealous of her.

Wonder what the difference between a "high-powered, bolt-action rifle" and grandpappy's deer gun is

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Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Big gambling story on mid-major MBB NCAA teams today, but other than that, not really

There's still time for the people involved in planning and executing these actions to Do the Honorable Thing