Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

To make the rhetorical-fu a little more explicit: we are looking to rob conspiracy theories of their interest and novelty, NOT attack them on facts or debunk them. Those are important to do too, but we first need to steal the oomph from these perpetual (and boring!) two steps people find out there.

My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri Iussit," which means "commanded to be made." It acknowledged the Emperor's orders on Roman buildings. You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."

free tip if you can’t sleep: stare at your ceiling fan and think of the regrets you have and the pain you have caused others :)

can we stop trying to make nice with the guy that says he hates us, Democratic Party leadership? Or nah

“Be vewwy qwiet”

Not enough people realize that the online right thinks birth control is a mind control drug

to the extent there's any thought behind it and not dumb poasting, it's terminal GWOT brain in that they are literally incapable of conceiving of an adversary that can shoot back in the air

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

You can put chicken thighs on top of sliced wedges of cabbage with a little salt and butter and have a shockingly delicious meal in 40 minutes with virtually no effort.

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

Probably important to note this is very standard evangelical lip service that means nothing.

The USS enterprise would be nowhere without Spock Sulu and Scottie

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

I joked the other day that all the Post's editorials are just "what if this bad thing were actually good," and will you look at that

I am skeptical this will change Israel’s position in the short or medium term. But the signal it sends about America’s loss of leadership is immediate.

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

She’s so cool and poised and articulate, it really illustrates how completely uninvolved he was in raising her

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Lmfao the boot isn’t even the best dive bar in New Orleans www.nola.com/entertainmen...

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

They’re draining the piss

remember when he went on the roof

The clips of him talking that they chose for the special were so bad bsky.app/profile/sand...

Can’t imagine what the 82nd airborne thinks about this, image unrelated

This is the second violent threat against another country he's made in the last 24 hours. That Nobel Peace Prize is right around the corner.

“There was no exit wound” okay so that means the blood geyser was coming from an entry wound, meaning he was shot from a completely different place the cops say he was shot from, do you people hear yourselves

How humiliating.

“How many other bribes has the trump administration taken?”

Dems should genuinely just run everything through the simple English Wikipedia style guide

the biggest lesson of the last seventy-five years of politics is that the democrats should have done a lot more ratfucking

It’s honestly absolutely wild how catastrophically poorly the right has played Kirk getting shot

I think everyone involved in this affair did misjudge the mood in the country completely.

Two thousand views in ten hours

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

"pwease stop making fun of us" is what you do when you're on the verge of regime consolidation

begging my femme mutuals to have normal crushes or at least go take a ride on top of your washing machine before posting about how much you want to fuck (redacted)

Churchill, twelve brandies deep:

Hakeem and Schumer sending a letter to Trump requesting a meeting to discuss a path forward 8 months in to Trump's second administration shows they're not leaders. They're collaborators.

it’s real and it’s spectacular

At this point I feel like I am only motivated by spite. This is probably unhealthy in the long run

Grandparents house cleaned out of the stuff I’m keeping, junk lugging people coming tomorrow 😔

Scoop: Democratic leaders face growing revolt over Mamdani