i have to drunk drive over the speed limit in order to get to my job: defusing the kind of nuclear bomb which can only be deactivated by the n-word

For a long time, that was THEE affect that signaled you were a Real Journalist: being savvy and smart enough to know that people with principles were quaint, pitiable little curiosities. And if those people happen to be women, well then they're also just downright childish.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.

Valley Girl

Wake Up Dead Man is streaming so I can express more specific thoughts without feeling guilty: there's a Phone Call Scene that starts out as a pretty straightforward frustrating customer-service call, evolves into something transcendent. beautifully acted, almost unbearably lovely. fucked me up bad.

Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.

thanks brett kavanaugh!

Harry Potter, the boy who ruined England

Its hard to read “I would never ask for a service worker who racially abused me to be fired“ as much more than “I’m not like other girls“

If you want to do something like this, why not buy a $150k home in a small town in Italy, France, Spain, or Mexico, instead of having nine people share one bathroom after they eat at a restaurant called "Stinky's?"

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

Jeffrey Wright is also in Wake Up Dead Man? I love it already.

Someday, perhaps, people will learn that you really can’t trust anyone who’s willing to deny genocide to prove a political point. That includes Noam Chomsky.

To give you a sense of how big a departure this year, the government doesn't do this for wanted criminals.

Sir, it's worse than you think:

it's for exactly this reason Trump can't escape turbo-Brandonization.

why would you name someone after the roman emperor who was basically the jeffrey epstein of his time? augustus is right there!

I’m just a simple primary care doc (one of the annoyances mentioned in the 1st post), but I’d humbly suggest rich men consider that there might be entire fields of study, bodies of literature, diverse disciplines of subj matter experts, and a world full of lived experience on a topic before posting

LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

I worked as a professional labor organizer for a decade and I see zero conflict between that and my later organizing work getting Nazis fired from their workplaces. Nazis in the workplace are an occupational safety hazard to other workers, most especially workers from marginalized identities

Working class solidarity lol! You think I would have wanted to work alongside someone that racist?? Why should only the white working class people be afforded safety and comfortableness in their workplace? Because that’s what this means! Tired of these racist classist ass nonsense arguments.

Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.

The emerging left-right consensus--from "socialists" to JD Vance--that it's ok to be openly racist should worry us all. Open slurs were one way Black people were barred from full participation in daily life, including employment. "Socialists" who think this is ok are siding with capital.

Crazy that the UK has both free health care and Paddington fucking Bear, yet still found a way to be as shitty as possible to trans people.

Bigotry is not a working class value, and it's awfully condescending to assume that it is.

Anyway, a very good FOIA to file this morning would be for all emails and calls received in the last 24 hours by the immigration “judge” who issued the order.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Pretty solid week, including the gorgeous, melancholy Train Dreams. Go watch it.

In general, I really agree. Everything everything everything else aside, I just observe a journalist who acted very unethically and abetted evil people while so doing ...

“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”

"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating" This, this a point

In response to the DC shooting, the Trump administration is blocking pathways for rule-following and vulnerable immigrants. “These policies don’t just disrupt paperwork. They derail lives.”

Giving the game away. he has more “scholarly ammunition” than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.

This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!

This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

May he stay free.

Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.

Juice Deficient Vance couldn't get it done in Indiana

been saying it, more and more people will be saying it. streaming apps just fucking suck and you'll really get it once you fully get off em

To lose one indictment, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose a second looks like carelessness. A third, though?!

“The woman in charge of homeland security with zero credibility left can’t handle a few hours of tough questions from Congress. She can’t sit there and defend her policies and her record. She has to make up a fake meeting and run out the door while people jeer at her.”

NO to crypto apologists. YES to cryptid apologists

Would someone ask her to explain why Trump has excused the Tate brothers for their human trafficking crimes and why his sons were communicating with Andrew Tate in the past week?

Always nice when your semi-irrational dislike for a celebrity is corroborated by reality

He didn't go into more detail than that. But yeah, the idea was basically like... OpenAI is going to steal from you anyway. Do you want to get something out of it or not? Kind of grim! 3/3

It’s just so stupid! Disney has been zealously litigious about protecting their brand from dilution or misuse for decades! They’re notorious for it! Why is THIS the thing they want to break down the barricades for? They’ll have clips of Tiana throwing up Nazi salutes going viral within a week.

Stop printing lies in the newspaper. There need to be consequences for printing lies in the newspaper. He literally says and believes exactly this, several times per day and on camera.