"I guess, if I had to nutshell them, I’d say that Cake is like They Might Be Giants if they were trying harder to get laid and didn’t care about teaching kids about science."

Getting a naughty little tingle from saying slurs is loser behavior and also something a disturbing number of prominent middle-aged pols and media types love to do.

contrary to popular belief it actually pays dividends to be an extremely difficult person as long as one is also unapologetically oneself

“I wonder why my bros who refer to non-white people as NPCs aren’t more committed to the concept of Imago Dei?”

No shade on trade school, but when the "go be a plumber" messaging all comes from rich and powerful people who went to elite schools and are sending their kids there too, you should be able to smell what's happening.

It’s going to become increasingly harder and harder for people to separate mass deportation from policing and Mullin and the administration are quite sure there’s no appetite for addressing policing.

Maybe not THE Antichrist, but definitely AN Antichrist.

Good artists do not respect the hogs.

From what I've seen: The Zone of Interest The Mastermind The Boy And The Heron How To Blow Up a Pipeline

The Pope telling the Swiss Guard's best detective, Dirty Hans, to hand in his helm and halberd because his methods are too extreme.

Commercial real estate in NYC was once described to me as "investment banking for dumb people". At the individual level, there are some smart and savvy people, but on the whole it's a dynastic industry where mediocre 3rd gen scions have most of the capital and power.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

The dynamic is interesting though—Socialist Hungary liberalized first, welcomed eg South Korean investment, accelerated crackup of bloc by freeing movement, etc. then led way as illiberal pioneers in the other direction, playing spoiler again in their new bloc.

Hey, so this is cool. I’ve got a Peace Prize too, you fascist ass.

Permanent immiseration and destabilization of the region as "strategy" www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Pro-Trump media bias: frame world events as a reality show with Trump as protagonist. As @larryglickman.bsky.social explains, it’s absurd to cast the Pope saying war is bad as a “punch” Trump is responding to. But also, he didn’t take any action. He just said words nonsensically insulting the Pope.

It seems to me that the Israeli bet was that they could position themselves, theologically, as a kind of middleman to evangelical Christians. And there was space for that for a while. But religious understanding changes, and people like to try and cut out middlemen

I know we’re all shocked that man conceded without sending sex criminals to assault police and shit in the halls of a capitol building.

Get in the bin, Eric.

Since we’re all making fun of Rod Dreher, I think about this at least once a week

A disconsolate Rod Dreher ordering one exorcism after another at his local in Budapest. A manager discreetly tells him that he's cut off and Dreher howls "just gimme the fucking rites" at the barback.

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

If you're using this post to argue that Democrats should abandon trans rights, please fuck off into the sun. bsky.app/profile/kate...

The U.S. takeaway from Hungary is that Democrats need to run a guy named John American.

You gotta think of the Economy more like a star trek episode. You cant see The Economy with your eyes, its too big and it can fire when cloaked. You have to deduce the Economy with sensors. In this metaphor, your sensors are graphs

I think we can consider it case closed

THREAD. This single headline in the NYT contains two outrageous claims reported as fact: 1) Vance "tried" to end the war; and 2) he "opposed" it. Neither is supported, but the thing to understand is: why is lying about the *intention* of powerful people so key to propaganda?

Sophy said she woke up to a rave from Brody, but this is a RAVE

Hoosier diaspora excellence

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

the idea that vance is anti-war and was a skeptic seems really to come exclusively from vance and is not borne out by anything else in his record as vice president so far

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

The future belongs to whoever stops hitting themselves first.

We’re so used to calling the various tech oligarchs and Trump pigs Bond villains but Eric Adams is unique in that he is the only irl Venture Bros villain.

While reading the news from Budapest, take a moment to look at this photo of Hungarian-American Bela Lugosi at an antifascist rally in Los Angeles during the war.

dud

Dispatching three Long Island finance guys who look like they should have ponytails but don't, two 67yo Florida real estate developers named Steven and Stephen, and a nephew I don't think very highly of to negotiate an advantageous peace in the war I started.

OK

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

New Yorker this week: "In the 90s, William F. Buckley had tried to keep paleocons like Brimelow and Buchanan out of mainstream conservatism by banning such ideas from the pages of National Review." Brimelow was a senior editor of NR in the 90s and wrote many articles including cover stories.

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

They’re gonna try to make the little pig man president.

womp womp

All my Serbs become my Herbs when I’m cooking in the kitchen of success.

alan cumming does not get enough recognition for his nightcrawler role in x-2 people don't realize this but they didn't even have to use special effects he learned how to teleport for this role it's super exhausting so he doesn't do it anymore now that he's older but it was worth it for these shots