best family trip since january 6th

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

Also stupid because the problem with Charlie Kirk is not that he “promoted hate.” Hate is fine. Who you hate isn’t always fine. Why you hate matters a lot. And the biggest problem was that his hate was in the service of destroying liberal democracy.

The homoerotic memes will continue until morale hits absolute rock-bottom

This is wrong. Many billionaires are evil but many support liberal, even left causes. As a status, billionaire is morally neutral. The enemy is Trump supporters and right-wing nationalists globally. Mansion or trailer, I don’t care. I’m on the side opposing them.

There are a lot of people who didn’t vote for Trump in these states. It sucks for them, but I am still selectively happy when any Trump voter loses healthcare coverage, goes bankrupt, gets sick, or dies. Trump voters are bad people and deserve bad things.

there's this assumption by the admin that there is an infinite supply of buff KKK members ready to fill the ranks of the military and ICE and I have bad news for them both about the overall number of KKK members and their general fitness level

Anyway Trump is right that WWII battleships are objectively cool. I am just not a complete idiot and understand that naval warfare in 2045 is a lot different than naval warfare in 1945.

Interesting thread. It does beg the question of of newsworthiness. The example feels yucky, but I imagine I’d feel the opposite way if the arrested pol were a Trump regime hack. Humiliating and exposing powerful people might not look high-minded but IMO it’s important journalism.

This is a great thread and I hope to read the piece when I have a free moment. One thing I have learned jumping across fields in my career is that many different lines of work provide the opportunity to produce and act on bullshit if you want. Professional ethics matter.

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Be great if this dude stroked out for good and soon.

But somehow the democrats are the out of touch elitists. 🙄

This sounds great but I will continue to have no idea what Bad Bunny’s music is like because it was written after the year 2000.

A highly underrated argument for switching to renewable energy is bankrupting many of the worst governments run by the worst people on the planet.

Thought this might make you laugh.

This says a lot about society

NIMBYism for good. I. I don’t know what to do.

Broken trust between the base and the Democratic Party establishment has unfortunate downstream consequences. Republicans have capitalized for a long time in the fact that they can put forward a moderate face on a host of positions and then do fascist evil stuff in office. The base trusts them.

Had a lovely time celebrating my birthday yesterday, but other than Penn State losing it was not a good football day.

Illinois and KU about to lose after bullshit turnovers. (Not unfair or fluky, just bullshit in a cosmic sense.)

The 21st century has been one long joke and this is the punchline

I don’t agree with Tom’s definitions of fascism or terrorism but I think the ferocity of some disagreement shows how unreasonably we’ve invested ourselves in being able to use specific words. There are many incredibly bad things adjacent to but not in either category.

I remember when I interned at the US Attorney’s office in Arizona the actual US Attorney (not an AUSA) said he missed trying cases. He mentioned that his colleagues in a few tiny districts (e.g., W.D. Okla) still got to do so. Never thought EDVA would be one of those.

A truly evergreen sentiment near the heart of my political convictions.

I’m not the first to make this point but one of the powerful tools members of Congress and state legislators have is to publicly, loudly, and strenuously advocate for jury nullification.

They've lost the 9yos

Agree with the principle about core values. With more specific and narrow issues I do sometimes second-guess myself when I find out that truly awful people agree with me.

Setting aside the bad science, the message here is that pregnant women should suffer--and risk harming their fetus with untreated fever--to reduce their chance of having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Which makes clear his disdain for women *and* people with ASD. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Conservative think tanks are weird because you'll have centrist guys making charts about the deficit working next to guys who spend all day posting "I love Hitler!" on Twitter.

Trump actually said a thing I agree with: “I hate my opponents. I don’t wish the best for them.” He is the opponent, He and his regime are fascists bent on destroying our country and our freedom. They want to eradicate trans people, subjugate women, and brutalize non-white people.

Butker missing wide right is a great bit

My college football takes: - ban the injury tent bc I wanna see what’s happening - spot the ball inside the 1 if it’s downed there to encourage more safeties - no blindside block calls when a QB gets laid out admiring the pick he just threw - picks six, not pick sixes you peasants

GO BLUE

There was a brief moment when I thought Alito actually did some good shit because he was the 1 in the Phelps case and in the case about crush videos. Turned out he just hates the First Amendment.

I’m sorry but I will not pretend that this is not incredibly funny.

The Kimmel situation is another example of how our legal system is fully unable to deal with bad faith and pretext. If the regime made it explicit that it was threatening consequences of any sort because it didn’t like what Kimmel said it would be an obvious First Amendment issue.

I agree with this. It is one of at least three spots—along with immigration and housing policy—where hideously bad policy is pretty popular.

Not to be that guy but this doesn’t work. The first statement can be formalized as IF you’re a Nazi THEN you believe... But the converse doesn’t necessarily hold because other shitty groups hold the same belief.

Best case for Ezra Klein is that he’s so fucking terrified about his career and maybe his family’s safety that he’s taking the coward’s path.

Jeffery Dahmer and I Talk Cooking Recipes

rewatching halloween and rooting for michael myers

Football fame commercials suck enough when they advertise insurance or American trucks. I don’t need an ad to join the American Gestapo. Thx.

chuck's gotta go, man just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Oh, I’m sorry Kansas City. Are you angry about some clearly bad officiating in a high-leverage situation?

Air Travel opinion: the gate agent here says the scanner won’t accept your ticket if you try to board before your group. If this is true, great! But we need a stronger deterrent. If you try that your ticket should voided and someone from standby should get your seat.

This is the kind of thing that makes college football a true joy to watch as a neutral.

Did not see how the Notre Dame TAMU game actually played out until this morning. What a rough way to go. Absolute dogshit. I know I’m supposed to hate Notre Dame but A&M is just oil-rich trailer fascists. I’ll take a real school any day of the week.