These four people share the same birthday!

Not to be a broken record, but Trump in the WH with Fox sycophants sucking up to him on TVs in the background, furiously ranting commands in all directions for Comey's prosecution, and then only getting one handpicked prosecutor to sign on to something this buffoonish...it just looks weak and sad

This is pretty much it. A big part of where we are right now is people realizing that no, they DON'T have to carve out space in their life for assholes, and assholes not liking this development.

Temps in the 80s after September 15 are the Summer equivalent of snow after St. Paddy's Day.

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

This made me happy.

If you see this, qtp with a gif of the last show/movie you watched

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

to a pretty significant extent, the "culture of honest debate" which mainstream liberal pundits pretend to charlie kirk stood for is just a conspiracy against the public

For the right, electing Obama was supposed to mean, "That's it, America did it, we've conquered race issues forever and no one need ever bring it up again!" So, by bringing it up, Obama was therefore "fanning the flames of racism" and "dividing the country".

OK, does Buffalo even HAVE a sci-fi fan community? Spokane has had a WorldCon and been a book tour stop for Mr. Scalzi. Buffalo has done neither of those things.

Superhero movies are in a bit of an odd spot rn. But from revamped icons to trans clowns with big smiles, superhero movies have managed to survive 5 years of turbulence with the help of a handful of remarkable filmmakers. Easily the best article for @cultureslate.bsky.social I've ever written.

For those who dont follow right wing media, they have January 6th'd the Charlie Kirk murder. They all believe it was transgender or radical leftist etc and refuse to talk about Groypers. It's a cult. Lost. Concentrate on informing and organizing the majority.

One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.

This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen. The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.

[reconsiders my desire to save America]

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

As usual, @jamellebouie.net nails it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: To eat, apple. (To get hit in the face with? Coconut cream.) Best ice cream: Coffee Best donut: Sour cream Best bar: Dark chocolate with toffee Best cake: Carrot with cream cheese frosting Best other: Vanilla bean ice cream with blueberries

Cannot wait for them to try to get us to stop doing all the cocaine and having 96-hour dance party/orgies when Trump finally dies. bsky.app/profile/reut...

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

They're also revealing their ignorance of the online economy. Kirk was doing the opposite of persuasion; he was chopping up clips of ill-informed students designed to reassure his followers that their opponents were all morons and it wasn't worth inquiring into their ideas any further

I'm not really understanding how we're celebrating the "real, robust support for free speech" of a guy who made a website so people could crowd-source their hatred of what their teachers were saying.

What the fuck?!

The way the mainstream media is treating Charlie Kirk’s bigotry is the way a highly dysfunctional family treats racist crazy pedo grandpa. “Oh come on, that’s just how he is, he doesn’t mean It, that doesn’t count.”

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

Would try.

A Black person dies and we'll move heaven and earth to find their mugshot for something they did one time and make it known they were no angel. A white hatemonger dies and "He was an important and engaging voice who did things the right way." What a world.

I can't stop thinking about how Charlie Kirk died literally framing a racist and anti-trans thought. He died with those words on his lips. The last non-physical thing to go through his head was a thought of hate.

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

Age verification? When I watched THE PRICE IS RIGHT as a kid, the games where you had to fill in the digits in the price of a car had 4 spots.

I spent my weekend in poofy shirts and overalls. Wearing your best look can be an act of defiance against the darkness, right?

Well, if THIS is how we're going to play it, all we need to do to get universal healthcare in the US is elect someone President who lost a loved one to this tire-fire of a profit-driven healthcare system we've got. I'm sure finding one of THOSE won't be hard at all!

Speaking of Republican grasp of facts: they endlessly spout false BS, and honestly it doesn't matter if this is by design or not.

This particular insight is about immigration, but sadly it can be applied to just about any public policy *at all*. I don't think we've come anywhere near to realizing the degree to which Republicans have completely abandoned any kind of factual basis for their preferred policies.

And here we go with another David Brooks piece in which Our Hero valiantly denies any connection between where we are now and the time in history he fetishizes, to which he would do anything to reset the clock. Sorry, Dave, Reagan's dead and he helped get us here. Pass it on to Tom Nichols!

If you’re wondering how much of what RFK Jr said yesterday about vaccines was true—almost none of it was. @FullerLab_UW is one of the most accomplished vaccinologists out there and her article is required reading to separate truth from falsehoods. theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s...

I'll bet I could master not listening to Malcolm Fucking Gladwell in WAY less than ten thousand hours. www.them.us/story/malcol...

Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom. In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.

New on my Site: Pools of Radiance! In which I've learned something about photography and that makes me happy. forgottenstars.net/pools-of-rad...

I still remember when tons of centrists and "echo-chamber avoiders" kept telling me that I should follow the likes of Bari Weiss on Twitter because blah blah blah. That was certainly not a waste of time.

anyway, it is very bleak to realize that a great many people with money and power think Bari Weiss is a kind of journalistic ideal

Tom Suozzi should be listened to here, very carefully. We all need to know what a completely out-of-touch buffoon sounds like.

The Atlantic - A legal resistance led by a patchwork coalition of lawyers, public-interest groups, Democratic state attorneys general and unions has frustrated Trump's ambitions.

Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."

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