Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.

My yearly binge reading (always the most during winter break) was hockey heavy (actually very little hockey, very heavy on heart-y eyes BL) & now I'm doing a super serious palate cleanser about the Jewish women who were forced into making dresses for the SS wives. My media choices mimic my ADHD.

These end of year wrap ups are getting to be too much.

“Anyone can deny their services based on their deeply held beliefs.” “No not like that.”

BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

People are exhausting. No one is good enough or performative enough to make certain lefties happy. Eat a bag of dicks.

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

Consider me influenced.

I mean...

I see the name Fugate and I think inbreeding. This doesn't seem to be a strong case to dispel that connection in my mind.

Wakefield's FAKED data about the MMR vaccine and autism was a published study! (retracted) pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID was a published study! (retracted) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The irony of course is that Black Americans are probably far more likely to be descended from people who lived in North America before 1776 than white Americans are.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

Long live the jury trial in America.

My God I've only been away from my phone for like 3 hours but what the hell has happened in the world in the last half day. The headlines are all over the place. Is this what silver linings and tiny hope feels like?!

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Can't wait for Bari to bring on Suzanne Collins to talk about snap cuts.

it's funny everytime we hear "dems should focus more on economic issues" it's never "we should improve universal provisioning" but rather "how do we do another means tested program" among a certain type of wonk

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

SEN. @schatz.bsky.social : "This is not about money. There is enough💰to bail out Argentina with ($40 BILLION). Enough to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173 MILLION for Noem. Enough to renovate the ballroom. What there isn't enough💰for under this Republican government is YOU."

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

Random Alex Wong dance cameo in SNL 🤣

This SNL sketch is giving me hives. The weekend is my escape from 8th graders and this is too fuckin realistic. I'm about to crash out fr fr

I'm a shit poster but I'm mad I actually caught shit from the people I was trying to stir shit up for. 😭 Give me more attention please.

This tickles me as my two most recent concerts were Taylor Swift and Better Than Ezra. Old white ladies contain multitudes.

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs: 1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt? 2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies? 3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

Fantastic use of cruciferous vegetables 🤌 10/10 no notes

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Before everyone gets all freaked out about this: yes, Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist who believed in contraception to eliminate less desirable babies. Yes, super icky and unfortunate. But yes, she was also a pioneer for women's bodily autonomy. Complexity is one of the lessons of history.

OUR BATHROOM MIRRORS ARE VITAL TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY

The Right telling anyone to “tone down the rhetoric” is like Donald Trump telling anyone not to rape a whole bunch of kids

It’s not lost on me that the only profession mentioned in the Constitution (the press) is a constant target by those who profess their love for the founding document, who loudly say that we can only have a society based on rules set 250 yrs ago.

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”