I definitely want to ask the Pod Save guys if your totenkopf is now meant ironically if that makes a difference, then I have a follow-up question about goats

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

okay first of all, we're sending him back to the oyster flats, not the oyster farm lmao

Wow HUGE missed opportunity to say quack me up

I have never wanted anything more; shoutout to Mrs. Coogler for impeccable taste

btw, he is *also* telling the ranchers to eat shit

In fact, it helps the grading curve for the rest of us.

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet people are very mad

did everyone know that Thong Song uses an Eleanor Rigby sample except for me

tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

Here’s a list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Really good upper body day to match the kick ass leg day yesterday. My application to the big back club is in progress. This is 4 months of "progress". It's gonna be a long haul.

Roberts readying that shadow docket like Alfred filling upthe Batmobile

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

if you have been to any of the big NO KINGS rallies, you understand what a hilarious mistake it is to tell people to tune in for coverage of scary black clad anarchists tearing everything apart

You know, to paraphrase @kenwhite.bsky.social , if you joke about some things, it’s kind of like ‘ironically’ fucking a goat. Sure, you may say it’s for irony or performance art or to be provocative or whatever, but at the end of the day, you’re still balls deep in a goat.

A really good long thread.

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

This sounds like a joke but the actual argument here being made by the white voters is that making state policy to enforce Black people’s equal access to the franchise is a violation of the 15th amendment, which was ratified to ensure Black men’s equal access to the franchise.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious: - Super Bowl halftime entertainer - getting a Nobel Prize for Trump - terrifying naked bike riders Topics he thinks are not serious: - Epstein Files - domestic violence - being able to keep the govt open - the neutering of Congress

There is just an endless list of things this regime is doing to radicalize people to the point where it only makes sense that that's their plan.

FREE THE IDS

“A lot of crime these days is driven by poverty and those issues can't be solved by throwing more money at cops, unless the goal is criminalizing poor people.”

is jack skellington willing to stop oogie-boogie, but not able? then he is not omnipotent. is he able but not willing? then he is malevolent. is he both able and willing? then whence cometh oogie-boogie? is he neither able nor willing? then why call him king of the pumpkin patch?

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Donald- So I just admit that I was wrong and I get to go into heaven? Jesus- Yes my child. I paid the price for your sins when I died on the cross Donald- But I have to admit I was wrong? Jesus- Yes my child. Donald- I like messiahs who weren't crucified.

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted: When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

so, butter, bascially

Come for "how do we teach con law in an era of madness?" and stay for "what exactly IS stare decisis, and how badly has the Roberts Court butchered it??" with @espinsegall.bsky.social and of course @lizdye.bsky.social

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

They’re scared so they want to scare us.

Well now I'm definitely going to a protest that day.

Fuck this guy

Which ultimately leads to bad cases because a regular jury will hear that and likely lose.

I presented DOJ cases to grand juries for 25 years. Cases can be legally -but unethically- influenced by the prosecutor. Exculpatory info like James telling her loan officer the property will NOT be her primary residence could be withheld. $18K being below pros guidelines would not be disclosed.