Yet more Air Guitar governance.

A strong argument for total victory.

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

I’m sorry a WHAT?

Establishment Democrats aren't against Iran bombing, they're just pouting about not being asked.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

He was the anti-complexity president. MAGA doesn’t oppose war. Just complexity. They love violence, and everything vindictive that happens in 24 hour arcs. They hate anything complicated that needs to be tracked, explained, planned or resolved. They want everything to be Air Guitar.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Wars can only be declared by Congress. Taxes can only be levied by Congress. Spending can only be appropriated by Congress. Laws can only be passed by Congress. Any President who refuses to work with Congress is an enemy of the Constitution and the rule of law.

Getting hired by paramount is gonna be a hell of a public statement. You’re saying, “I’m an unhireable predator.”

Last I heard from my member of Congress @beyer.house.gov he was going to push for a war powers resolution and I'd like for him to add some impeachment articles to the queue and get that going immediately

Fat Dracula Cat Thread!

@slotkin.senate.gov Shut it all down.

No votes on ANYTHING untill we vote on the War Powers Resolution.

The algo delivers the content you want to see.

If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise

This is algorithm logic. The algorithm makes editorial decisions by sorting all possible claims on a topic and presenting them to audiences to see which sells more shoes. And so we surface claims that no human editor could have imagined would find an audience. Which legitimizes the claim.

He'll join Santa Ono at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford.

One of the best parts of the SOTU. Classic.

So oversight Dems are saying that FBI teams were late to both the Charlie Kirk killing AND the Brown mass shooting because Kash was using the plane?

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

The proper trilogy to watch in the wake of Robert Carradine’s death would be REVENGE OF THE NERDS, FALLING DOWN, THE SOCIAL NETWORK. If you want to follow the trajectory of the character of “the nerd” that he established. Lewis Skolnick to William Foster to Mark Zuckerberg.

For all of its ambiguity now, REVENGE OF THE NERDS meant a lot to me as a kid. And I think it meant a lot in its cultural moment. And Robert Carradine’s performance in the lead should be remembered as iconic. I’m sad he’s gone.

Trump has engineered an administration that will deliver custom awfulness for every voter. Whatever your line, he promises to find someone who will cross it.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

The proximate cause of our crisis. Google/Facebook destroyed the print ad business, the newspaper business collapsed, people lost touch with their community, and lost the solidarity that came with it. All politics became nationalized. That’s why my wife and I founded @manchestermirror.bsky.social

When tech bros are blithely monstrous like this I call it a Read A Fucking Poem problem. They care about poetic and priestly questions, but they implicitly reject poets and priests. “First principles thinking” is a synonym for “genocidal solipsism”.

RIP Tom Noonan, an excellent character actor. Very scary as Francis Dolarhyde in Michael Mann's Manhunter.

"Anti wokeness is actually Anti Elite Accountability" is a huge insight that everyone needs to take to heart.

My generation grew up with AYSO soccer, a sand lot baseball. Now everything is expensive travel, with expensive professional clinics. We grew up with a mass love of sports for fun, and some of my generation decided that what their kids needed was to privatize play and take it away from the community

I've been seeing a lot of people disparaging democracy as a failure. It has not failed us. We however as a nation have been failing it. For it to succeed, it needs an engaged and informed populace. Which is why those who want power but not responsibility, attack Free speech and public education

Our present moment is that millions of good people relied on the constraints of corporate 20th Century media to hold the status quo together while they built happy lives as doctors and nurses and lawyers and accountants. But that is gone and we have to do that work on our own. In the streets.

Anagnorisis is an essential dramatic process. The story first tells you that you don’t know something important. The story gives you the weight and shape of your ignorance. This focuses the audience at a primal level. It’s why radical and immediate transparency can kill a story.

Anagnorisis is a term from Greek drama. It means “an” “un” “a” “not” “gnosis/gnorisis” “know/knowing”. Unnot knowing. It is the moment in a play when a major question is answered. The audience knows they don’t know something, and the drama is about anticipation. The Epstein file redactions are this.

New Model Army.

I miss when you could post Brave Norman Rockwell Townsperson and the caption could be, like, “R.E.M was wrong to leave ‘Fretless’ off of Out of Time” instead of “The secret police should stop murdering people.”

Femmebots in fiction that act as sex servants and/or mothers should be treated the way we treat slurs. They just commodify stereotypes of femininity, reinforcing counterproductive cultural attitudes. They’re just bad. And it doesn’t mean we censor them. Just that we morally frame them.

“The rapists are murdering people” is a factual description of the current political situation.

It’s just what happens when no one with power has even been in smelling distance of a humanities class. They don’t have any idea what culture is.

This anxiety is behind both ancestry dot com and every white person I knew in high school discovering the culture of their Polish/Irish/Italian/etc ancestors even and especially when they were 3+ generations removed from any family traditions regarding it.

What’s with all the equals signs in the Epstein files? @joshdzieza.bsky.social dives in with an all time expert source motivation www.theverge.com/policy/87901...

Map this chart against Democratic vote share in the last presidential election and it’s almost the same chart.

Taking it FROM a billionaire and dumping it into the sea would be better than the current state of affairs.

And to be clear, enormous taxes on billionaires is how you put the money in teachers pockets. Not fucking grants from a foundation. We take back our money. The bills say UNITED STATES on them.

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."