OK great, then the poll-obsessed moderates will support the next leftist mayoral candidate rather than trying to tank their candidacy, right?

Just recently watched it. As much as people, rag on Charlie Brown receiving rocks as making no sense there’s an emotional truth to Charlie Brown in feeling like the world is against you for no good reason (although the worst part of his life is that his therapist is the opposite of helpful).

How many deer could a killdeer kill if a killdeer could kill deer?

Again, if you want to create a moderate (by your definition) faction and believe it would have broader appeal go create it yourself. You shouldn’t have difficulty doing so since the whole point is to be popular. Why do you need all of us enthusiastically on board?

But it’s telling the right will often only discuss rape in the context of the minority they’re mad at. The answer to Trump’s question “who’s doing the raping?” is often “authority figures or people you thought were friends.” And that’s more difficult but more important conversation to have…

What happened though? Some compromises restricting access to certain books and allowing parental locks that still didn't please the hardliners. But the chairman notably got tired of the whole debate getting in the way of everything else and limited comments on the same subject due to that...

That chairman, Tyler Mayes, was a Republican. But he understood that just because something was the biggest national issue with special interest groups involved didn't mean they wanted to spend all night on that as opposed to say, ambulance stations, financing a new school etc...

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown needs to be on lists of both “greatest comic adaptations” and “greatest World War I films.” And yet I bet it’s not frequently on either. #peanuts #halloween #filmsky

There are exactly two kinds of public figures I like. 1. Problematic favs. 2. Favs I don’t know what they did wrong yet. (Don’t get me wrong. I do have lines I draw. I just realize people who haven’t crossed that line are still flawed).

It’s also the greatest World War I film ever made.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Just a week late.

Cleaner than my quote: "Absolutely nothing like THE STRAIGHT STORY."

No, Satan would be way more subtle than calling himself “Mr. Beast.”

Users: can we get an edit button? Bluesky: No, but we will hide your posts.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Why is it that I like this more than either Twilight or Dracula Dead and Loving It? Also, I wish I could be absolutely certain this was real editing all the way through and not AI. If you can reassure me that would be good. youtu.be/ye54XTWCUN0?...

Maybe it’s just because I’m a millennial but I’m betting due to King of the Hill’s popularity back in the day that more people have actually heard Johnathan Joss’s voice than Charlie Kirk’s. And yet the amount of media coverage each got posthumously would suggest the opposite.

The actual current housing debate: Dem: “So let’s debate if we need more government or less here…” GOP: “It’s all the illegals’ who conveniently can’t vote’s fault! Like everything else unless it’s the transgenders’ fault!” Dems: “So anyway, social democracy vs abundance…” (2/ )

What younger me thought the housing debate would be: Dem: “Public housing, assistance, rent control.” GOP: “Less regulation and lower taxes will solve the problem.” (1/ )

Judge orders Trump admin to fully fund SNAP benefits in November. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

It'll fall even flatter though. Once MAGA/Heritage Foundation stuff becomes a top-down thing corporations do to look cool, it won't be cool even to the misguided souls who once thought it so.

For a while the mainstream media and corporate culture was banking on "the youth" being, for lack of a better word, "woke" and was making ham-fisted insincere attempts to appeal to them. Now those same institutions are ham fistedly banking on "the youth" being MAGA or "anti-woke"...

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

People young and old walked, ran and even pushed strollers along Riverside Drive and Riverbend Road during the SL Tennessee Clinton 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run on Saturday, Oct. 18. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

The Tennessee Department of Transportation plans to widen a stretch of State Route 170 (Edgemoor Road) in the Claxton community, add traffic signals and crosswalks, and build new bicycle and pedestrian lanes. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

Case in point: in 1918 H.L. Mencken published a satirical book titled "In Defense of Women" in which one of his main points was that women are vain, silly, self-centered, overly-emotional and inclined to gossip, but in their defense it must be said that men are much worse in all those things.

I said free breast augmentation to ensure everyone’s breasts are small and humble. And perjury charges for hips that lie.

My advice to all the consultants who want a new wave of conservative Democrats to run in swing and red districts: why not actually try focusing on running in swing and red districts instead of picking yet another fight against The Squad?

He's a Catholic who's pretty much just repeating what a century ago would have been called "Nativist" talking points and would have all centered around how the Catholics were about to take over our great Protestant nation.

Then they came for the anti-ICE protesters. And I did not speak out because I couldn’t prove 100% that they campaigned enough for Harris. 🙄

Saw an article about someone "redefining what it means to be a pop-star." And just all the comments from people being like "who?" "never heard of her?" and it's just folks, we're in our 40s, just accept we won't know a lot of these people and that doesn't mean "music is dead." We're just old...

With Thanksgiving unless you're in school beforehand you're too busy with family, food, football, etc. if you even observe the day to really care much about pilgrims. Detroit might as well just call it Lions Day. And all that's as it should be.

It's like @solomonmissouri.bsky.social said: we're basically celebrating having a day off.

Pretty much all holidays are about how we celebrate them rather than what they supposedly celebrate. That's the really awkward thing for any discourse about any of them.

One thing I might add with regard to point 1: I think too many video essayists, especially younger ones and even ones I agree with more often than her try too hard to be her minus her supposedly “cringe” stylistic elements. Which doesn’t always work…

Local politics is at its core local, only sometimes overlapping with the national parties and their platforms. Klein's imagination is too narrow in imagining a world in which the only two directions are "left" or "right" in a national sense rather than something else from that.

here ya go

This column gets really close to the answer and then misses. Klein hits an important truth that politics needs to be more local. But he fails to understand what “local” politics actually means because at heart he’s still a national pundit. I however am a local government reporter. 🧵

Oh who am I kidding. To him that is something to brag about.

He does realize that saying his supporters can’t build a sustainable movement and are just a fan club for him isn’t something to brag about, right?

So between the albatross in #TheLighthouse and the pigeon in #Nosferatu2024 does Eggers just have a secret thing about killing birds?

Scene: Homophobe gets triggered when gay people don’t care that he says the f-slur “YOU THINKING IM GAY OR SOMETHING?!”

am i full of regrets from wasting my one precious life (the end of which is approaching by the day, faster and faster and faster) or did i go to bed a little later than usual and it's cloudy outside. impossible to say. probably the first thing

This post-ironic "I love my trash" bullshit has done some serious damage. Sci-fi, fantasy, superhero stuff - these are almost inherently silly genres. That isn't a bad thing. Embrace it.

I think often (not always) this "I love my trash" reaction betrays this weird insecurity about being "cool". Like, they want to share their enjoyment of certain works of art, but have to hide behind layers of detached irony lest their peer call them "cringy" or something.

If everyone's comic relief, no one is. You need more than one person to take things seriously. Hell, and as much (valid) shit as we give Whedon? People forget Buffy was often way more of a melodrama than it was a comedy. I tend to remember more the big dramatic monologues or quieter...

This is a major problem with a lot of online discourse in general. People assume people not on "their team" mean everything literally and are never tongue-in-cheek.