Girl you don't get out because you committed fraud. You get out because you cut him in on it.

Goodell needs to fucking fire Brad Allen and his crew tonight, call up Bowles and Canales and tell them to come back in a week and try again. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.

Another Coen comedy, if pitch black compared to Lebowski: A Serious Man. Dr. Strangelove has to be pretty close to the top of this list, too. I am also one of the world's biggest champions of the horribly funny Me and You and Everyone We Know. "Back and forth forever" has set up shop in my head.

Usually a few lines of Berryman's Dream Songs knocking around in there, along with the "Grass" stanzas of "Leaves of Grass" and, thanks to rhyme, basically the entirety of Kublai Khan and Ozymandias.

I mean look at this point being a Representative is basically a no-show job anyway

Gravity's Rainbow. Jonathan Lethem once put it very well: "For Joyce, history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake. For Pynchon, history is a nightmare within which we must become lucid dreamers." You can see the great curve in Pynchon and then, after that, you see it everywhere.

@fetterman.senate.gov I'd love to call you privately and let you know what I think you're made of - not much - but since you're such a chickenshit you can't hear from your constituents, I guess I'll just tell you that here in public.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Motherfucker stop sending your caucus out to these rallies to drum your world historically tone-deaf healthcare messaging can you even read these signs we wrote for you.

Okay fine I'll say it: Bliowa.

I really hate to tell you this but based on the Facebook activity of the normies I know, that funeral accomplished exactly what they want it to. Everybody is thinking about the widow. Nobody is thinking about the subtext.

I will never miss a chance to rep for @mikeduncan.bsky.social and the Revolutions podcast. Hundreds up on hundreds of episodes about every major revolt that made our present world, from England to America to France to Haiti to Mexico to Russia. Things will snap into focus, I promise.

The last WGA strike was not only 67% favorable, it was one of the most VISIBLE strike actions of Biden's presidency. By the end, 83% of voters had heard about it, >30% higher than the Starbucks, Amazon or UPS strikes before. If you want people to take notice of something, turn off their shows.

At some point this definitely changed underneath our feet. The first few were nerve-wracking because nobody knew what kind of regime this would be. I spoofed my GPS then turned my phone off. I didn't take photos. But when you've got six million people out the vibe obviously changes.

Critical support. One person died in Utah and my friend's MAGA neighbor in the Philly burbs left his truck in the street all night with his floodlights on. Every second thread on FB is currently a call for civil war. They want to start shooting because it's the next step to the world they want.

i think my take on this is: it is good that people to the left of center care about the well-being of people who aren't in our coalition. but it is not our job to do things we can't do because those people kneecapped us

Unthinkable to disappear now, when we as a nation most need leather koozies engraved with a date.

Larry if you want me to swing on an ICE goon for you just say the word

Oh when y'all said Elmo was going on antisemitic screeds over on the old place, I thought we were just starting to call Elon by nicknames again and it read like a normal headline.

I started browsing the Decks subreddit when my dad and I built one in my backyard. Deck now complete, I wake up every morning and hang out... in the Decks subreddit.

Why yes. That's West Philadelphia, land of Ethiopian chicken and farmer's markets and Marxist bookstores and, thriving somehow, Amazing Binz.

Phoebe Bridgers is big business nowadays but "Motion Sickness" is still a sick takedown of a Type of Guy AND specific guy.

Look "Hey Ya" is undeniable but let's rule that out shall we. I'll go first: Spottieotiedopalicous has one of the best brass sections in ANY genre and Andre 3k writing a Dickens story in the lyrics.

Disabling replies after trying to accuse me of being dodgy? I said something rude in that reply. I don't stand by it so I deleted it.

and you deleting a post is not indicative of anything whatsoever, got it.

Exactly this. What we're gonna have to do will take guts, and the people with the guts are true believers who don't have any illusions about the GOP. Gerontocrats and squishes need not apply. Blue Dogs can apply but only if their vote is superfluous.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Saquon offers us a fascinating peek into how deep in the brainfolds bothsidesism gets. It doesn't really matter that Trump is crashing the global economy and flouting SCOTUS, he is a Republican, which means a meeting with him is equivalent in politics points to one (1) meeting with Barack Obama.

Chuck Schumer is going to kill us all because he likes the way Republicans smell on a stationary bike.

I read this stuff and I find myself wondering how many of the latter camp are actually just cowards who don't want to be implicated in some future where Seb Gorka does actually get to call you a terrorist if you opposed the deportations.

What this tells me is that the mission now is elevating names and stories. What do people know about Kilmar, Andry, and the rest? Because each of them has at least one attribute that Americans HATE seeing in their faceless deportees.

monday morning selfie

Tech strivers with bad ideas every time Elon posts one of his "do you really like me? 🥺👉👈" polls on X.

Reskeet if chicken nuggets is like your family

This is a dude who lusts for violence. He has to be forced from office. Dems have to draw some lines. Say something.

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

Thaddeus Stevens was right about everything. A firebreathing Cassandra who believed in our better angels when everybody else was too realpolitik.

I treated my partner to about an hour of truly, truly tenuous connections, courtesy an edible, between the battleship Minas Gerais in Brazil's Revolt of the Lash and the same-named aircraft carrier during the '64 military coup.

End this man's career, @aoc.bsky.social.

This has to be fatal. You cannot lead the Democratic Senate delegation and have a tweet like this out there. You just can't. We need to elect a new leader as soon as we possibly can or the damage gets worse.

@schumer.senate.gov You're a coward. I hope fifty years in the future when we bemoan what could have been, you are remembered as a spineless quisling who forfeited our best chance at salvaging this thing because he was too much a pussy to shoulder bad press and too much a cretin to redirect it.

@fetterman.senate.gov Pennsylvania resident here. If you vote Aye on cloture and give this lawless administration the kerosene they need to light the constitution on fire, I'm starting a GoFundMe with $1k of my own money to put a billboard on I-95 by the airport saying you're a Vichy Democrat.

I sometimes feel I have a lens on this city-bubble types don't. Granted, it's all Facebook memes, but yes: they do think it was all corrupt. They can't say why or how, they just reflexively assume this is BAU, but in reverse. That Trump is doing to "them" what "they" did to him/us/whoever.

Just give her the wheel, Hakeem. She's too good at this not to use.

AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.

I forget who it was that said BONUS ARMY 2.0 but this is very much how you get BONUS ARMY 2.0.

Adrien Brody learned all the wrong lessons about runtime from that movie.

Re: Nate Silver's new spin on Great Man theory, which he's sure to be quick to try to differentiate from garden variety Great Man Theory. Elon's a decidedly average mind and Trump is a less than average mind: they're just cruel and brazen in an environment that rewards that.

Have you ever meant to type Gmail.com and forgotten a letter? First time for me.

Making algorithmic social media a non-viable business with regulatory burdens and massive expansion of liability exposure is obviously one.

Sure doesn't feel nice that having fought the creeping fascism for about 10 milliseconds our nation's media establishment has set up shop as a laundry for blackshirts by day two of the regime.