Okay here is my one piece of shade re Lithgow. I don’t understand how you can play Roald Dahl in a play about how a beloved children’s author’s soul was poisoned by hatred of an oppressed minority and then turn around and cash checks playing fucking Dumbledore.

Great news. But also what do you mean that people got to take a vote on whether other human beings could enjoy nature like everyone else?

Huge mistake to try to do this without Arisa.

You, a hopeless plebeian, may think that the purpose of a university is higher learning, research, societal advancement. Idiot. Listen to the Candy Crush businessman. The whole point of a university is to be an economic powerhouse.

Trump is what happens when a bunch of slave owners set up a government to protect their wealth by establishing elite rule through the Senate, Electoral College, and no one fixing it for 250 years

Rewatching Lost. Stranger in a Strange Land holds up even worse than you'd expect. A real stinker in the middle of the best season of my favourite show.

Traveling with a mask during the height of covid and realizing that, as a happy side effect, I was finally able to fly on a plane without a 10-day lingering sniffle afterwards? I'll never fly maskless again.

Best pope

This joke has a 2012 Twitter feel to it that just absolutely delights me

Quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

“Certainty”

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Instantly the hottest theater ticket of the year

“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

This is particularly maddening because the court allowed the election to go ahead when all the legal facts were exactly the same. The only real new information they have now is what the result was.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

This is one of the videos that, when it pops up in your feed, you are legally obligated to stop and watch in its entirety.

First you take the squirrel across in the boat. Then you bring the alligator, and take the squirrel back. Then you take the bear...

I'm still furious that Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg launched this war against Iran.

We amended the Constitution so the people instead of state legislatures elect senators because the old system resulted in corruption and dysfunction, and now we have a system where state legislatures functionally decide the composition of their House delegations before a single vote is cast.

weird they were never like “we have more guns than people now, 2A was too successful and no longer needed.”

*slaps the roof of SCOTUS* This thing can fit so many more justices

And like, words have power and all that. So folks on the left calling them the GOP and lending legitimacy to it is also such a bizarre own goal to me?

I'll just never get over the fact that they unironically refer to themselves as "the Grand Old Party". And everyone is just cool with it. The ruling party is basically called "Antebellum Vibes: the Party", of course their project is the erasure of Black folks.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

If you're a liberal, it's probably not fun to live under a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS. But consider this: Hillary Clinton's email security and retention protocols at the State Department were subpar.

Its weird, living in a country that doesn't just allow people to JUST HAVE GUNS, I almost never worry about a deepening security state.

Would just be so cool if the people entrusted with safeguarding democracy were not literally dying of old age once a month.

4 Democratic members of the House have died in office since this Congress started in January 2025. (That's roughly 2 percent of the Democratic caucus elected in November 2024.)

JD Vance only converted to Catholicism in 2019. He's been Catholic just as long as a class of second graders who just took their First Communion. If Vance disagrees with the actual pope, he's free to fuck off and find a yet another faith he can cynically exploit for his own political career.

Fresh off his trip to Hungary where he begged Hungarians to back Viktor Orban, J.D. Vance has decided world leaders shouldn't meddle in other countries' politics.

I realize this is confusing, but the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran isn’t a domestic political story.

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

We didn't deserve this day.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

Our entire lives are a Princess Bride gag now

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Literally. My job increasing shareholder value seems trivial (at best) on an average day. But how do you motivate yourself to respond to emails - never mind doing anything actually useful - on what is being telegraphed as the next "where were you when..." day on a scale not seen in my lifetime?

You are a senator.

Hard to imagine how I'm going to get any work at all accomplished today.

Obviously not a substitute for Congress doing its job, but now would be a good time for Clinton, W, Obama, and Biden to say something jointly.