Dan Koh's TV ads are so bad.

Skip the box store, take a quick shower, file 750 words under the headline “As Charleston Mourns, Senator Graham Grapples with the Unimaginable: My Work Pants” and fly home early.

This isn't hugely surprising, as he's never seemed really interested in things like "directing actors into food performances" or "writing believable dialog", ie the human bits that AI can't do.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Sure, the cars were the problem and not that ICE thugs are unaccountable murderers

To be clear this isn't me saying "don't criticize Biden for what he legitimately deserves criticism for, including Gaza" but if you were obsessed with inflation in 2023 you were doing Capital's bidding.

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

Old people: These kids only care about screens! They need to go outside! Teenagers: *go outside en masse* Old people: oh my god, holy shit. Oh my god, oh my god, no

Brb, gonna go stand by my veggie garden and yell "hurry!"

Really sweet tribute to Sam Neill from @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

It boggles my mind, that media presents Trump as a real serious official, political scientists discuss his decisions, pundits talk about his policies. Meanwhile he loudly declared to the world he made an amazing discovery that "dumb" has a "b" in it.

ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.

gender is unserious stuff for ladies, “the manly man” is big important politics, got it

My friend the Michigan Strangler has died. A lot of people only know the Michigan Strangler from all that strangling he did and I understand that, but that is not the full picture of the friend he was to me when he wasn't strangling people. We used to go to Arby's. Rest in peace, "Chokey Boy."

No one in the press is at all concerned or interested in finding out why Trump has now been to Walter Reed twice in the last 46 days, especially since he apparently saw more than 20 specialists in May and like six weeks later went back for reasons no one has explained. 🤔

once upon a time, "president threatens the public" would have made headlines

I see we're going with the "learn absolutely nothing" option post-Platner

Before J6, Lindsey Graham called the governor of Georgia and pressured him to steal the election for Trump. He was a traitor. Nothing else about him matters after that.

Saw a post recently calling Amanda Palmer "Steampunk Ghislaine Maxwell."

The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

Part of Spielberg’s genius is basically saying “I’m gonna make three of cinema’s biggest freaks the leads of my family friendly big budget dinosaur movie and you’re gonna love it.”

This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.

I know everyone is sharing their more obscure favorite Sam Neill moments, but come on you have to talk about Dr. Grant. At a time when CGI was still cutting edge, his acting was instrumental in convincing you there were dinosaurs on the screen.

graham choosing to put off medical care that likely would’ve saved his life because he was scheduled to be on meet the press in the morning is the most perfect encapsulation of his career one can imagine

Lindsey Graham called up the governor of Georgia to browbeat him to steal the 2020 election for Trump. He was not a good man, he was a traitor.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Teen pregnancy used to be one of the right's top bogeymen. It's now fascinating to watch how their nativism - falling birth rates which now can't be solved by allowing foreigners to join us as Americans- has led them to bemoaning its decline. They're now shifting policies to help teens get pregnant.

Weird little guy in repose

You can criticize hypocrisy without making homophobic jokes or using homophobic nicknames. And if YOU feel YOU can't, that's just a fucking skill issue.

It's important that Trump's other enablers who are still alive & still actively choosing to side with him see what a legacy people like Graham leave by witnessing how people react to his death. You do not dishonor the dead by speaking truthfully of Graham; you are fighting for those in harm's way.

Little know fact - the guy being interviewed doesn’t get to pick the questions.

Historians speak truth of the dead. Whether that truth is good or ill was up to them.

Same with Haaland's push/Anderson's dive that took away the tying Norway goal. It's not that any of these VAR calls, in a vacuum, are wrong. It's that there are <dozens of similar things> that are left uncalled & the bias always tilts toward the higher-ranked team, especially when that team is 🇦🇷

Lindsey Graham won't see you calling him a spineless ass-kisser who sold his soul to a con man, but all the other Republicans will.

I went to Vassar and I assure you this is accurate. We hobble around campus clutching our criterion movies like grizzled prospectors. If someone gets close we pull out a rusty trowel and screech “keeps yer paws off my jarmusches!!”

If there was anyone who wouldn't wait for the body to get cold, it would be Nancy Mace.

People get to tell your full story when you die. You can hope that if you're not shitty when you're alive, mostly that full story will be complementary. If you're famous enough in politics, some of that story will be talking shit even if you were one of the good people. And it will still be better

I’ll put a finer point on it: The actual solution to our birth rate “problem” is substantially increasing immigration. Lyman Stone is a virulent racist and nativist bigot, so he rejects or ignores this solution in favor of pushing heterosexual Christian couples to reproduce more. That’s my response.

They literally warn you about this when you drive through the gate

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

is this really how you have to write if you want to have a successful newsletter? like your audience thinks you would’ve been mean to them in high school? like your audience is still interpreting everything the way they did in high school?

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

ELIZABETH: Should we… expose Wickham? JANE: I don’t know about it. What do you think? ELIZABETH: Well, I guess we shouldn’t be the ones to do it since it’s Darcy’s account and not our story to tell. AND we have this precise discussion about abusers to this very day!!!! JANE!!! AUSTEN!!!!

“would it be disqualifying if platner had worked at mckinsey” is an interesting question to ponder

I'm solely happy for you Jude www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Born to be a 250 pound TE bullying safeties in the slot, forced by birth to play a sport where they penalize you for being stronger than the people around you.

Gonna be a close one

Norway starting to feel like a basketball team chucking up desperation three pt attempts at the end of a game