would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

you’re never more than 10 feet away from someone texting “lol” with a completely expressionless face

just saw a cottage cheese commercial that shows two teens eating cottage cheese while gaming. it’s possible that i’m out of touch with today’s youth but i don’t know about that one

Doesn't seem like Jeffries' spokesman calling him "Chris Van Who?" convinced Van Hollen to stop criticizing him

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.

Millennial retirement planning

i like that this guy cant wait until the cat is at least done shitting. i got places to be

I know Tim Cook is just trying to protect his company but saying the president is a “well endowed and quite generous lover” seems a bit too far

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

This game-changing pancake recipe from the chef and owner of Golden Diner in Manhattan’s Chinatown makes your eyes widen at first taste. https://nyti.ms/44XQTI2

Reading up on Dershowitz’s antics in Martha’s Vineyard, it seems that on more than one occasion Larry David has come upon him, shouted an insult, and kept it moving. I love Larry David.

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.

Every website when visited on mobile: Download! Our! App! Me: No. EW: We will become bad and hard to use! Me: I used the internet in the 1990s. You cannot be bad in any way that is a deterrent to me. EW: We will not work! Me: I used the internet in the 2010s. The loss of a website can’t break me.

I'm not a fancy medical doctor like Roger Marshall here, but is a "craving for all the power" typically a side effect from ... tranquilizers?

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

They didn't "fall for" anything. They had a story they wanted to write and Bannon was the best guy - a known liar and self described propagandist! - they could find to give them a quote to write it. Don't print lies in the newspaper

House Majority Leader Mike Johnson said he could not comment on the letter because he had not read it, and could not read it because his son would receive an accountability alert if he did.

One of the most important patterns of the past few decades that has to break is the idea that you only get one shot to stop a crook and if they have the numbers that day, you have to take the L forever, the crook is now a respectable official.

Dude at work made a Mr. Miyagi reference and this kid was like “Who’s Mr. Miyagi?” And we were like “You don’t know who Mr. Miyagi is?!” And he goes “He sounds like a fake ass karate teacher” and I said “Brother you ain’t gonna believe this shit”

I was not old and cynical enough to be fully prepared for the rich people to step up and explain out loud that they literally consider themselves the owners and rulers of New York City and the way the people voted is NOT acceptable to them

honestly I feel like Dems could do a lot with low info voters by demanding a special prosecutor to look into the Epstein stuff

I kinda want to use this in place of "ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention?" I hope people do that.

I will not make the argument that the courts still matter. but if someone is working day and night to save other people's lives and they are fueled by optimism, let them cook and go touch grass you tedious fuck

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

SENATOR @warnock.senate.gov : “Are we reading the same Book? The Book I know says ‘I was hungry, and you fed me… I was a stranger, and you welcomed me… insomuch as you’ve done it to the least of these, you’ve done it also unto me.’” #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

can yall research something nice for once

i know that endless glazing of hideo kojima can get annoying but to me he proves that more weird fuckers with big ideas should be given $200 million blank checks to make whatever

Gillibrand apologizes to Mamdani over ‘jihad’ comments - POLITICO So I am glad Gillibrand apologized but she should really do so publicly, not privately, given her smear against him was done publicly, on live radio in fact.

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

The "proper role of judges" includes acting swiftly and firmly to restrain an Executive who violates the Constitution in multiple ways by kidnapping citizens and dumping them abroad. No amount of hand-waving by you or SCOTUS can justify allowing it to happen to even one person, much less thousands.

3/ against Jews is hideously dishonest and if he weren't in a political campaign would I think be clearly defamatory.

2/ jumped on that bandwagon because she believed it was her ticket to presidential contention in 2020. How do you demand Franken's resignation and endorse Andrew Cuomo? Only if you actually believe nothing and your actions are all situational and cynical. To say that he called for violence ...

While I've expressed a number of disagreements w Mamdani, Sen. Gillibrand's lacerating and tendentious attacks on him just cement my longstanding belief that's she's a self-seeking opportunist of the worst order. I fully respect those who think Al Franken was right to resign. But Gillibrand ...

Speaking to nonlawyers: never let a legal pundit tell you a SCOTUS case isn't a big deal because it's written around a wonky technical issue. The true wonky technical cases are readily apparent and look quite limited in the number of people affected. If it looks big and serious, it is.

OK, but...we're not in an abstract thought exercise where we're considering laws and policies as if they exist in a vacuum. We are not in a law school case study. This blithe, almost contemptuous dismissal of a Supreme Court Justice who *actually understands* the situation is peak Pundit Brain.

i honestly do not understand why or how people do these kinds of willful misreadings. do they not grasp that anyone halfway curious will notice they’ve taken a line or passage totally out of context? do they believe that language works such that every sentence is logically untethered from the next?

Someone tell this dumbfuck you either embrace naked power in the service of fascism and shrug off the criticism, OR you get to whine about "harsh words" targeting judges. You don't get to do both, dipshit, and you made your choice. apnews.com/article/supr...

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