Toshiro Mifune

my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said

Drawings of the Looney Tunes by the great caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Holy shit finally an Op-Ed that Gets It

History may record that America was a fervent supporter of the proto-Al Qaeda in the 1980s, then there was a brief falling out following 9/11, and then we went right back to being fervent supporters of Al Qaeda

Lots of elites, more than you think and more than publicly admit, believe science proves there are racial IQ differences or evolutionary psych proves women are less likely to succeed in certain professions. This has nothing to do with the quality of the science, and everything to do with deflection.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, 1973.

Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.

These are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

As a white man, I hate Al for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

Conservatism is seeing a black person and having an accident.

as much as it's always racism it's always traffic

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.

The postman lets it bark

Killer Mike: Mamdani creativity and the eccentric right, going offline to find the light. We blur all lines, the politicians will fawn! No dumb women and Gooners are gone! El-P: Memes stale, vitality lacking, rising from the ashes, door dashes in caches

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Asking Ms Rachel if she is a terrorist is exactly the level of “journalism” I expect from the @nytimes.com

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Simple as.

This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

someone's gotta do something about all these quislings

Puffer jacket snoopy season is upon us

Stop patting senators on the head unless they are calling for schumer's removal. Everything else is just in the script

They lined up all their defectors in safe positions or who had nothing to lose and everyone else had time to workshop their little posts about how they don't agree with this

Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)

Allowing this to pass is a mistake.

gotta be some ambitious Dems in NV, NH and PA who would be happy to run in a presidential year at the end of a staggeringly unpopular second Trump term get your campaigns ready, folks

when i think of this scene it reminds me a lot of people’s politics

Jeffries is a lousy public face, but he’s managed to keep his caucus together for hard votes and has hung tough through the shitdown. Schumer can’t do it or doesn’t want to.

Compare this fecklessness to Mitch McConnell's ability to keep his caucus organized. @schumer.senate.gov is a true failure as a leader.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

In my experience the vast majority of the people who go "the Palestinians have the worst allies" themselves do not support anything Palestinians aspire to or desire on a political level.

I'll never get over the Baileys honestly. Chuck Schumer decided he needed a pair of racist Massapequa tulpas to guide him through twenty years in the upper echelons of American politics.

I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!

This is an entirely uncontroversial view in international law and usually taught in 101.

These guys are idiots.

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

👇🎯 Yes, you often hear about admin bloat as the key driver of rising costs. Guess where that came from? Yes, that's right: 1) ever-increasing regulatory burdens imposed by the state funders that are no longer funding; & 2) ever-increasing oversight bc federal grants became funding source #1 for R1s.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

The Lawstudent in the attic

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Joyce Carol Oates: “In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured.” Darryl, Joyce Carol Oates’ friend: fuck him up, Joyce Carol Oates

Minnesotans think they can pull some really heinous shit as long as they’re “polite” about it and try to make you look like the asshole if you call them on it.

she's like Stancil, she has the gift of vitriol but inconsistent target selection, we just gotta keep both of them pointed toward the right enemies