guys we have to stop conflating Third Way - a specific pressure group with a largely dumb agenda - and "The Democrats."

They know he’s stupid. Some of them just have been thinking they can ride the tiger.

In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.

tonight I watched a documentary about North Korea and maybe it’s a little hyperbolic but those citizens, living in fear and manufactured hardship and informing on each other based on a cult of personality - that’s what Trump and Vance and Elon want for us, and we cant let it happen

There are no rules, they don’t actually care about respect, decorum, bipartisanship or debate, and only pretend to do so to browbeat you into submission. Nothing is going to change until more people realise that and respond accordingly; including to the media and politicians who have failed them.

"Stop treating the Trump administration as if it's acting in good faith, recognize that it is clearly engaged in bald-faced lying" is such an important message

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

not even kidding, Vance should be excommunicated over this

Something that feels new: I don’t think there’s one single person who actually believes Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. I think every person who claims to, without exception, is consciously and willfully lying. I don’t typically think that.

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

Luke Ridnour

You can watch every biathlon event for free on the Eurosport website. After Johannes Thingnes Boe’s retirement, the men’s crown is very much up for grabs. The women have five or ten contenders who can win on any given day. It’s really exciting and it’s the sport I watch most consistently (high bar)

keir starmer comes out against wearing a “gunnysack”

Rooting Tiers Bills Packers Jaguars Panthers Texans Seahawks Bears Broncos Chargers Rams 49ers Steelers Patriots Eagles

It is so annoying (and makes you wonder where their allegiances actually are) how many people on here define the Democratic Party as its worst members and define the Republican Party by imaginary good Republicans that no longer exist

If you are angry at Democrats (and why wouldn’t you be) it is extremely important to elect *more* of them, not fewer. It is much much better for Congressional politics to be determined by the eighth worst Democrat than by the worst Democrat

luke littler is the most dominant athlete on the planet

They don’t have enough guys. If they ask you to do something refuse

we’re going to win

In an industry that is notorious for protecting its worst people, almost everyone who has ever worked with Chevy Chase is happy, even excited, to call him an asshole. The comparison for him is a less talented Michael Jordan

starting in six weeks or so, you will hear right wing and centrist commentators on cable news, podcasts etc start to refer to Mamdani as if it's obvious that he's failed, extremely unpopular etc. its very important in order for their plot to succeed that any left wing pol be discredited

There is a wide receiver in this game named “Harrison Wallace,” which is also a potential answer to the question “who are the best and worst guys you can think of whose first name is George”

The Westing Game, Infinite Jest, or a printout of the lyric sheet to “The Boys Are Back In Town”

A lot of people in my life are gonna have hella bad faith criticisms of Zohran so I’m going to a) defend him and b) try to make sure those people never hear any criticisms of him from this here website, good faith or no

leaving my job, I needed a break

done. If you allow for a brief break to eat a couple of blackberries, the 46 crosswords took almost exactly four hours.

I fell behind on crosswords and have 46 NYTs to catch up on before the end of the year. If I try to do them all right now will I: A) give up less than halfway through B) give up more than halfway through C) finish before 7 pm D) finish before 9 pm E) finish before midnight

it takes me about 4-5 drinks to feel tipsy (this is bad, and something to work on in 2026) but one time I had a cup of coffee and my arms shook for hours. No idea how people function drinking caffeine

trying to convince my friend that there really was a nintendo DS launch title called “Penn & Teller’s Shithead Basketball”

My college friends successfully pranked me into thinking my senior thesis was due three weeks sooner than it actually was so that I would work on it - I believed the false due date for an entire weekend

House Omertà: We Do Not Squeal

I remember reading an essay by Chuck Klosterman about how he knew absolutely nothing about Harry Potter and would continue not to, and sort of scoffing at being so deliberately ignorant of something so pervasive. But I have *no* idea about anything in Stranger Things and never plan to change that

Stephen Miller will die in prison. Or, all of us will end up complicit in a Nazi regime. Those are the two options. We do have a choice for now.

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

say it to yourself every day, say it to your friends, your family, your acquaintances, your crushes The right wing chodes who want to dominate us are stupid, cowardly, and weak. We can and will beat them together. It won’t be easy but we will do it.

Mutual aid thing great example of the stancil discourse cycle: -he takes strong position on complex issue with grey areas -a few nuanced critiques are made -drowned out by hundreds of insane people arguing with imaginary version of him -shifts to different argument between him and inane people

Here’s two, both directed at me: My four year old sister when I was 28: “maybe if you had a wife and a little baby then you’d be a real grownup” A former coworker, after I said a certain intern reminded me of myself: “yeah I can see that, but he’s a lot smarter than you are”

gotta stay on your toes - I said ”Happy Boxing Day” this morning and got some pointed side-eye from my beloved Irish girlfriend. Happy Saint Stephen’s Day!

Back when people admitted to reading and enjoying Harry Potter the Harry Potter character I most related to was Terry Boot - he was probably a pretty smart guy, but hearing Voldemort’s name made him spill his drink all over himself. I was like yes, exactly

Seahawks-Rams was like the entire MLB playoffs in that it ruled to watch but it must have been agony if you actually care which team won

I remember seeing the memes before the movie and thinking Matthew McConaughey was going to be important - completely inconsequential character, I have no idea what his name was or what he did, he could have been excised from the plot without changing a single thing. But he said “rookie numbers”

The Romanian Palace of the Parliament contains multiple museums dedicated to “fuck the guy who wanted to build this, now and forever” - we can tear down everything Trump builds, or we can turn it into that. If he is the American Ceaucescu that would be a better fate than he deserves

The last half century has sucked for American politics in a lot of ways and the worst of these is easily the pan-ideological consensus that the gutter bigotry of the worst elements of society must be downplayed, coddled, Listened To And Learned From because it’s just an outgrowth of Something Else

repost if this saying will forever make you think of Mark Sanchez

This is not the sort of country I'd want to visit. And not the sort of country I want to live in.

A few things about the statement quoted here: 1) the people who agree with it *do not understand* why anybody disagrees 2) the people who agree with it tend to be very good at a small set of things 3) they’re right more often than wrong, but when they’re wrong you have to catch them right away

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Christmas In Hollis are very easily the best of these two categories, with an honorable mention to the part of Little Drummer Boy where the ox and lamb keep time and the note that is “town” in Little Town of Bethlehem

I have been in attendance at a cricket match for over 5 hours AMA

as is noted by someone else way down in the thread, the US department of homeland security twitter is not based in Israel. Obviously. That was fake. The other stuff (e.g. tons of US-centric racism from Indian bot farms) tracks.