“History is written by the victors” is not a timeless precept but is in fact a critique of particular histories, and therefore implies the possibility of writing history otherwise!

there's a sense that conservatives want me to worry about which liberal elites might catch Epstein strays when in fact I am so married to this outcome that me and this outcome have a home in the suburbs and are expecting twins

Nov. 12, 1925: Carl Wolfe, a kicker and substitute halfback on the Rutgers University football team, wears a specially designed mask for his glasses at a practice on the New Jersey campus.

Auzztraaylyahs a bayeau’ful cahntreh fullah uhmayyzing and yuneekh wahldlaff

Don’t feel pity for Moore. He knew perfectly well what he was getting into when he asked the devil to make him the greatest comic writer in the world

Okay here’s the detail i’ve been looking for. It still has to go back to the House. Which means Taylor Greene has an opportunity to do the funniest thing possible

What absolute chicken shit cowards

Know this, @schumer.senate.gov — if you cave, we will not rest until you are primaried and wrested from your seat. When kids on SNAP aren’t being fed, we’re even more hungry for justice. New York has shown you the people’s power just days ago. You *could* join with us, still, and do the right thing.

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

well that’s as straight up a “at long last, the Torment Nexus” as i’ve ever seen in the wild

the real game-changer would be five hundred year mortgages

This is why Kansas is so poor though: they made it that way on purpose, because they like it

"Tori Amos, inventor of the pumpkin spice latte" feels like a historical detail I should have known about sooner

I still can't decide what's funnier -- that they cited the smell of "onions and mustard" as the "injury" that justified what they tried to indict as a felony, or that even this was completely made up defector.com/if-the-sub-d...

Counterpoint, any communist will spend six hours explaining this about any communist

Every beat of this story is script-ready

Amazing, coogler does not miss

These (totally insane, impossible to accomplish) milestones that Musk needs to make Tesla hit in order to earn his payout seem like kind of important context for the headlines about the quote unquote first trillionaire www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Genuine question: where is this money going to come from? Tesla’s market cap is 1.4 trillion. Their annual profits are in the range of ten billion. Like…how will they get a trillion dollars of liquid cash?

Dearest Martha, this war holds horrors I could never have imagined. As the sandwich kind of came apart on impact, I could smell the onions and mustard

Superb.

AI is amazing

Hoo boy. I sure hope Mrs Vance has a go bag packed

The exception—Rosie the Riveter—proves the rule. I oove Rosie but the implication is that blue collar women are taking what is a man’s place, a spunky but ultimately lamentable wartime necessity.

I always wear n95s in rideshares and in all honesty, health or workplace safety concerns are a distant second to this

I hope that the sound-proofed Faraday cage they keep Mike Johnson in between pressers is comfortable and full of cognitively enriching toys

Fucking wild that the institution leading the charge on actual consequences for epstein buddies is the British Crown

*blender noises, subtly transforming into eldritch scream* *door bursts open* Vincent Price: bitch i TOLD you no more than two seconds on the ravigote sauce. TWO. SECONDS.

Sometimes you’re thinking about the realism of ancient greek statuary, what with the paints and clothes and so forth, and it occurs to you that if they’d had the technology they’d absolutely have made Real Dolls

I think Johnson is completely correct that nothing he says matters because partisan perception overrides facts. The problem he doesn’t realize he has is that: precisely because of partisan perception, no one believes Dems would cut SNAP.

It really is the same fucking picture

Bovino: i put together some references for the shoot Photographer, paging through folder: these are all panels from old Captain America comics where the Red Skull is monologuing Bovino: nodding enthusiastically

okay I’m enjoying sports now

So much to be said about this. Much of it: AAAAGH

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

This thought experiment mostly highlights for me the way debate, as a social form, is incompatible with learning

Much authentic, very populism

TOD (Towards Omelas Development)

I’m putting my marker down: this GOP-led House will not put forward a budget. Next regular budget bill won’t come before November 2026

Excellent choice to use “turbo” in the headline 😘👌

mm, yeah

It's extremely difficult but not impossible for me to imagine the Nazi tattoo thing playing out in a way that leaves Platner a competitive candidate. That's what defines political talent: the ability to get through bad spots without damage, or even gaining political capital. This...simply isn't it.

This is fascinating and opens the possibility that he might’ve got the tattoo to get out of stop-loss 1. It’s probably not true and 2. Isn’t exculpatory in any way, but would be among the funniest explanations

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I feel the second half of this post needs to read the first half

It’s gotta be a blackmail situation, right? Like Epstein but he wants to be a movie star instead of a “thought leader “

Play is powerful. Toys let us model the world. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

definitely not what a man projecting his anxieties around death onto a south American country would say

hmm

“I think i’ll wear hightops to No Kings tomorrow” “Are you INSANE!?! Don’t you REALIZE that the reduced ankle flexibility will make it harder for you to avoid kettling???”