David Cross folks.

Stories like this are why garbage like "ackshully anti-racists are the real racists" is so anger-inducing. Nobody should have to live like this. BTW: Bryan Stevenson's work against the death penalty is vital and I hope the Equal Justice Initiative can someday end the death penalty once any for all.

Basically a modern version of the car chase from Blues Brothers.

Good one. Mine would be that willingness to compromise is less righteous than holding the line on things like protecting the rights of the oppressed and marginalized.

Is there a rational explanation for why Trump posted an AI video of himself "announcing" a piece of miracle cure medical equipment that doesn't exist and an equally fake program to give everyone access to it?

For anyone who didn't know, one of the big investors in Cracker Barrel is a pro-Trump guy who owns Steak n Shake, was rebuffed when he tried to take over Cracker Barrel, and hated the idea of the redesign so he's suspect number one.

This is the middle of a longer thread, but it's the key point: these medals were originally awarded to make it seem like what happened at Wounded Knee was not actually a massacre but a noble battle. It was political whitewashing just like Hegseth reasserting their validity this week.

Conservatives will always say that socialism doesn't work because "eventually you run out of other people's money," but bailing out farmers because you tariffed away their customers is different somehow?

If the rapture comes today and the last thing Trump does is an airing of grievances in front of the UN, that would be the funniest possible end.

The Trump administration:

Hard to know which error to deal with when dealing with the senator who consistently says the dumbest stuff. First, the FAERS database is a list of self-reported incidents that doesn't correlate directly to actual causes. Second, this is a perfect example of base rate fallacy. 🤦‍♂️

Let's not ignore that he claims the people standing behind him did research when the 2 people close to him are RFK Jr (who has no medical or scientific training whatsoever) and Dr. Oz (who did not study vaccines & has been a media personality for years).

If Biden made it seem like he thought they just keep making bigger and bigger syringes that inject every vaccine simultaneously, Jake Tapper and company would having heart attacks on the air screaming about his lack of fitness to be president.

It's clear to me that there are two groups complaining about Kirk's comments being taken "out of context": People who only heard his religious clips and people who are so used to hearing this racist garbage that either like it or ignore it as hyperbole in service of a greater good (defeating libs).

My kid took less awkward photos coming out of general anesthesia yesterday.

Very funny to say critics don't always get your stuff but audiences do and have the first example be a movie that was only liked by 55% of people who bothered to rate it.

Classic "I'm smarter than you" lefty move to say "no, you shouldn't carry the American flag to tell fascists they don't own it and don't represent our ideals."

Me when the entree is overcooked meat and the vegetable is boiled:

The DPR Congo/Rwanda war that Trump mentions lasting "many, many years" with "10 million" deaths started in 2022, has casualty estimates on the order of thousands not millions, and the peace deal from June requires further negotiations before the work of actually maintaining peace begins.

Klein is making the dumb mistake of buying right-wing propaganda about colleges being not just liberal but uniformly anti-conservative so he equates colleges with the opposite of conservative churches. Obviously they're not. Colleges have all sorts of people; churches are much more uniform.

And the other guy showed exactly how it could go from bad to worse instead.

The current regime thinks they're creating post-WWII hegemonic, growing America when they're actually creating post-WWII East Germany.

@holypostmedia.bsky.social @skyejethani.bsky.social

If you see this quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Every right-winger the last several days:

Utterly predictable from Miller, but (and maybe I should stop being surprised by anything they do) I'm mildly shocked that this is a quote to JD Vance who is hosting Charlie Kirk's show.

@bryancurtis.bsky.social Our long national nightmare is over. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

The tldr is "conservatives do and say bad things but they also say liberals did bad things so obv both sides are equally bad on political violence." 🙄

You can tell @espn.com really cares about the track and field world championship because the top 2 articles are lists of athletes from other countries and I can't find results from the women's 10km.

Probably need to send this to my mom who had only ever heard select quotes from Kirk "standing up for his faith" that she liked because they're the kind of thing that make her feel better about how some of the old ladies at water aerobics are anti-Christian.

Kirk flattered the egos of the powerful and the priors of conservatives. He made right-wing-inclined folks feel like their unfounded fears of others were actually logical. His strengths were in building a coalition around being incurious & distrusting. He was not a saint, idealist, or sage.

Patel never misses. Always takes every opportunity to be a dork. 100% hit rate.

Always wondered what it would take for me to take the 2 secs to unfollow some people from high school on Facebook whom I have not seen since graduation and I finally found it: promoting the nonsense that a right-winger was killed because "the left" embraces violence and calling said victim a saint.

The next post I see here celebrating gun deaths will be the first.

Dream bigger, Mikey. Pretty easy to see how the average person isn't down with armed troops parading through neighborhoods profiling people and enacting the will of an addled racist.

This is the peak example of the insanity of the current Trumpian age.

Walter Cronkite is rolling in his grave.

Guarantee that no matter how many times it's explained that the NG reports to governors, Trump hears the word "National" and thinks that means they're his personal property.

Ah yes, that famously celebrated demographic of trans women. Nobody has any public issues with them. Another genius take from Musk. No notes. 🤦‍♂️

Anti-vaxxers: durh, she said summer and the clip is from March which we all know is either the end of winter or the beginning of spring. Typical corporate media lying as usual.

Kind of beside the point, but it's pretty funny how Trump decided to phrase things as if he came up with the name Rocket City for Huntsville. The Angels' AA team has been the Rocket City Trash Pandas for years.

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future.

Suarez? Spitting on someone? If he'd done that before, I think I would have hard about it.

Embraced at the Kremlin too.

Screaming into the void, but there are also tens of millions of people of faith who believe in prayer but also that we're called to do the work that serves the flourishing of our world and our communities. It's a gigantic cop-out anyway to say "I prayed and that's all I'm called to do."