Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

if you ever called donald trump the “peace candidate” or expressed a similar sentiment, please have the decency to delete your account and go away and let smarter people discuss politics

“what is materially happening?” is the question of our era

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

This whole decade is all about conservatives getting basically everything they want and realizing that what they want sucks and everybody hates them

Santa Claus works in mysterious ways

Thinking about @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's drive to bring back *shame* in light of the NYPD's snowball meltdown. They could have joined in & gotten great PR, but their only value is domination; to them it's their job. Grown men with guns should be *ashamed* of being such crybullies! It's shameful!

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

I’ve spent a grand total of 10 minutes in Miami and I can’t believe they built an entire city out of the “Latinos for Trump” song

Running rackets at the robot casino / Wearing sunglasses like Robert De-neen-oh

Liberal elites’ idea of “what normal people are like” is so condescending it’s insulting. As if people in middle America are somehow unable to grasp their impossibly genius coastal ideas like “queer people should not be discriminated against.” We gotta raise taxes on people who do this schtick

EEPHUS is a thing of wonder. I say that as one who doesn’t care about baseball, has only bad memories of team sports, dislikes movies about swarms of men, & normally loathes the term “wonder.” It’s William Kennedy, it’s Waiting for Godot. I think of Paul Harding’s great novel of tick, tock, TINKERS.

they told us we were the first people to EVER license"monster's holiday"

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

it was sofa king awesome the kids did totally miss out

One of the things that has gone most wrong with US media is that the penalty for falling for right-wing bullshit has steadily dropped to zero. You can just buy the latest thing, shill it, and when it turns out to be BS like all the rest, move on seamlessly to the next one.

this is all racism, obviously, and multiculturalism is great, but i'll note that i'm pretty close to being a median american, and i can't think of too many other people in america with whom i share fewer cultural values that elon musk

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

saw this movie in theaters yesterday and i genuinely had tears in my eyes from laughing too hard while watching. its the movie of 2026 already for me and will be hard to beat. if its in theaters near you you absolutely need to see it

The first few decades of the internet have been “you’re the product“ and now we’re also the problem. They are forcing us to buy the medicine that will cure them of us.

Finally some useful life advice

I do think progressives should be much more comfortable stating their values and dunking on right-wing chuds. But it’s extremely easy to mock them about things that matter rather than resorting to things that don’t.

Imagine watching the Winter Olympics and not following @thekenchilds.com. Personally I cannot.

I was, I am really sorry, excited to see a bird that was like quadruple the life expectancy of the average bird of prey

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

Bernie Sanders asked you if you would fight for someone that you don't know and that's how you get through.

It's corny as hell but the solution to fascism is loving thy neighbor

kids these days don't even know who charles grodin is

i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"

Buddy if you are clicking the fucking AI button to tell you where to go on vacation I am telling you without judgment to save your money and just stay home, or pick a trip to Orlando and call it a day. You're already dead inside and the trip isn't going to help.

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Why does Law & Order need advertised in 2026. Who out there hasn't yet decided whether they're into Law & Order or not

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

i don't see why they can't do all the track and field events at both olympics. put a coat on

Walking around all day saying “oh is there a football on? I wouldn’t know because I have to WORK”

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Epstein Class is a capacious term. Botox? Epstein Class. Crypto? Epstein Class. Obsession with Gender? Epstein Class.

you give me and the fellas 24 ice cold high life bottles and we’ll come up with 8-12 new must see Winter Olympics sports, I know that

Ken is quite literally the #1 bobsled/luge/skeleton expert on the internet. he's posting like this about luge world cup events in November. now is his time to shine and your time to follow along

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him

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Several things going on right now that all come down to the idea that everyone there is so online that they’ve lost all ability to know what’s actually politically damaging

Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...