NEW: Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.

Things are going great

This is a Hall of Fame New Yorker Euro Step @davidjroth.bsky.social

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”. RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.

None of this happens without the American people already having total contempt for themselves

these are immensely self absorbed men who pine for nazi germany and apartheid south africa — stagnant, backwards regimes btw — because they imagine themselves the masters of the universe.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Thank you @edsbs.bsky.social for posting the video of the Lion on Romanian TV at a soccer game in 2000 on your IG and giving me this glorious screengrab.

What a chef’s kiss

It's not the MOST pathetic thing Vance has done, but him going to Hungary to applaud man who condemned "race mixing" is absolutely wretched (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tbf there is also like several chapters where Sun Tzu says you don't actually have to do a war if there is no good reason for it and we threw that advice in the trash like it was a female officer

Exactly one year ago today:

Last month in The Onion:

He’s ready to play playoff hockey

i can't help but think about 10 or 11 years ago when conservatives insisted that obama was uniquely anti-catholic because his administration thought that catholic-led orgs could just fill out a form if they didn't want to cover contraceptives in their health plans for employees.

We also instantly validated the entire leadership as heroes who stopped the Great Satan's unprovoked attacks and genocidal threats, the warriors who gave Iran control of the Strait with their steadfast determination and military prowess. It's a crushing defeat on every level. Everything is worse.

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he’s too goddam stupid to realize “logical centrist” was the harris campaign

i really want universal healthcare and high speed rail but i dont want kitty litter boxes in classrooms and did you hear that immigrants are eating your pets? guess im politically homeless

The most nakedly corrupt, quid pro quo, government by auction administration since the Teapot Dome era … can’t fill ambassadorships???

This kind of clean slate is probably the only functional way to move this country forward. See below for this new immigration judge’s resume, which includes opposition to property taxes and COVID masks and an endorsement of wildly racist conspiracy theories

this timeline man

Second: bsky.app/profile/simo...

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

It’s the insider trades we made along the way.

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

If the NBA eliminates tanking, future generations will be denied glorious comments section exchanges like this

1) Unconstrained by truth 2) Tells people what they want to hear so they’ll come away with a positive short-term impression 3) Unconcerned with the consequences of 1 & 2 Is that a description of Sam Altman or of ChatGPT?

Things are going great

A reliable metric for a losing war: notice how often a combatant describes inputs (ordinance dropped, resources committed, duration of operation) as a substitute for outputs (effects a military operation is intending to produce).

NEW: The NYT said that the AI-powered GLP-1 middleman startup Medvi — which is reportedly on track to do $1.8b in sales — cleaned up its act after taking deceptive marketing "shortcuts." But it didn't. More on: fake Medvi clients, fake doctors, and an FDA warning... futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW: I found IRS paperwork for several nonprofits whose addresses matched Border Patrol stations. Some of the groups, named after the military's "morale, welfare, and recreation" program, were selling challenge coins commemorating last year's enforcement surges: www.wired.com/story/us-bor...

the NCAA women's tournament getting Red Panda and the NCAA men's tournament getting the Chainsmokers is a great example of how toxic masculinity harms men too

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

An entire regime and voter base of people who simply don’t understand that the other team gets a vote, too. Truly is a sports talk radio caller government!

Showing up at Saturday greenmarkets all across the country and asking vendors if they've "got any lung meat" in a voice that sounds like a skillet falling down a flight of stairs.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

When you think about it, there really can be no more perfect representative of today's GOP: * wildly entitled, yet ... * utterly dependent on & enriched by gov't policy that protects ... * their shitty, misery-producing, anti-social business model, and yet ... * endlessly whiny & resentful. 🎯

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

We gotta be real about this sentiment, it’s driven by concern-trolling rich people. They are fine with paying for their own child care and don’t want to pay taxes for poorer people to get child care either

Reminds me of this from Hamilton Nolan

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments: The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.

Trump is managing the Iran war and our various other national crises the same way he managed the pandemic—and before that his casino and other scammy business failures—and a huge number of people voted for him three times and continue to support him with zero self reflection. We are cooked!

They used your tax money to buy a fuck jet