I WANT THE BOOKS WITH THE STABBY SPRAYED EDGES, I FEEL LIKE ORBIT SHOULD TELL FAIRYLOOT I'VE EARNED THEM 🤣🗡️🗡️🗡️

I see it's "white people say weird shit about the rural south that makes it clear the only rural southerners they care about are the white ones" night on bluesky so I'm gonna go do something less annoying like hit my face against the floor until I pass out.

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

My review of Apple's Lucky, which offers a familiar con artist story, but works relatively well as a delivery system for Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, and Timothy Olyphant:

“.. We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. “All of that’s now gone,” he said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6c31...

It is very important to state things plainly & directly & repeatedly. Euphemism provides places for your opponents to hide & too much rhetorical architecture for false credulity and/or misunderstanding.

This is where Thiel/Yarvin/Vance/Trump/GOP all meld. Yarvin has been howling for Republicans to go *all the way,* to DO THE THING, go past the point of no return. So it is extremely troubling to see the Speaker of the House take up these talking points. Massive, immediate pushback necessary.

There's a related underrated structural deficit for Dems because of Senate malapportionment and gerrymandering. Because virtually 100% of ads are for specific elections and because the most pivotal races are in redder-than-median districts, ads people see are skewed to a conservative audience

NOTORIOUS DJ, Y'ALL

"More than half of those fired or removed by Mr. Hegseth from promotion lists have been female or Black."

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

“If you don’t use the tech that kills Black people you’ll be left behind”

God bless the lady in the tank dress. She’s speaking with the kind of fire this moment demands. More like her, please.

I‘m shocked environmental racism has ramped up again…said nobody that has been paying attention for decades. I’m so tired y’all. Once again…whatever awful bs happens in this country is always much worse in Black Communities. Some of y’all will do anything except stand up for Black Folks.

A recent report shifted its gubernatorial race ratings towards Dems in AZ, ME, NM, and OH. All of these states are on our Target Map, and this shift raises the stakes for delivering Dem wins at the state legislative level to empower potential incoming Dem governors.

this is what those of us who have monitored right wing media seem to understand that blue maga and dem establishment do not: the attacks never stop. you never neutralize it. the only way to win is by overwhelming counterforce. put them on the defensive and quit apologizing for who you are.

It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

Update: E. Jean Carroll has now collected more than $5.6 million after court records show the funds were electronically transferred to her law firm, following an order from Judge Lewis Kaplan. Source: MeidasTouch

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Calling the RFK Jr diarrhea strain “MAHA Blast” since it has now evidently infiltrated Taco Bell

evelyn normielib is real and she is coming to a primary near you I cannot count the number of conversations I’ve had with normal offline liberals that would be TOS violations over here

Unprecedented corruption

good club to have in the bag for this

I thought the reasoning was the basis of precedent

tell emily about your turbo diarrhea pls

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

At the very least, I assume Alito (and maybe Thomas, too) has received an assurance that if Dems lose the Senate, Republicans will replace him during the lame duck. It was 6 weeks from RBG’s death to ACB’s confirmation, which is leaves more than enough time. www.offmessage.net/p/samuel-ali...

Call me a cynic, but I simply think there’s a ~zero percent chance that two low-character fanatics on the Supreme Court have decided to stick it out for another term or two and hope the midterms go OK. www.offmessage.net/p/samuel-ali...

The part of Judge Williams' order that should be getting more attention: Trump & the Govt. can’t claim that they reached a settlement agreement in this case, in any legal proceeding, ever Not in court, not in arbitration, not before any agency Blanche built a deal the courts won’t touch 👇 -TN

Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.

hard but important to watch

Note that we’re getting these updates from Sen. King. Not Sen. Collins. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Does this stupid son of a bitch really want to relitigate the 2020 elections in Georgia, of all places? Sure, man, let's review all the facts in that state's contests and see if there was any obvious lawbreaking. Have at it.

probably still more qualified than tommy tuberville

Heartbreaking: Lestat de Lioncourt received a 3.1 score from Pitchfork. And other revelations from the latest episode of The Vampire Lestat. Let's discuss why you shouldn't invite your ex to your gig in "Montreal”

Someone’s keeping this quiet.

I wish Hegseth would just come out and say, "NO BLACKS," instead of playing these games and denying the inherent racist intent. No more deniability. Are they afraid black soldiers won't shoot POC when they're deployed to US Cities? #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

So Donald Trump's immunity from IRS penalties has been voided by a court. That won't matter with *this* IRS, but it will make a difference to the next president's IRS, particularly if they are a Democrat. Because there is NO WAY Donald honestly reports & pays taxes on his recent billions windfall.

Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson.

It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

live the kind of life that has MUSEUMS posting nicely about you lmao

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California and 11 other states sue to block Paramount's takeover of Warner, arguing it would 'extinguish competition.'

The thing that sets my entire brain on fire is how a significant number of Americans read this shit and accept it as an unconditional win.

Cleansing your timeline with a video of Otie cleansing himself on this sunny morning.

IT'S LOUSTAT TIME BABYYY!!

Per the doctor who treated me today, forget washing, actively avoid bagged salads, green onion, cilantro, lettuce, and esp raspberries. Removing the spore requires actively scrubbing, and these produce items are nigh on impossible to clean fully. RINSING WILL NOT DO THE JOB.

Ahead of tonight’s episode of #TheVampireLestat, I spoke with Jacob Anderson and Delainey Hayles about Lestat and Louis’ intense night out, that emotionally exposing seance, and what happens in the final minutes:

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.