I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

Let's do this, team!

You dont have to cape for dems to know that a million dead people due to usaid being cut should have in retrospecg meant that defeating the gop should have been an all hands on deck moment.

If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.

As @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com says www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

Rule 5: Everybody can be conned.

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

She didn’t stand for liberal democracy, Jonathan. She just decided that death threats weren’t as fun when they were directed at her.

This whole thread reminds me of my frustration reading The Soloist by Steve Lopez. He laments the horrific treatment Nathaniel Ayers received in mental institutions in the 1960s, then later laments that Ayers can‘t be sent to an institution bc “Reagan closed them down” like … hmmm

“Is he dead yet?” should be the first question asked at every White House press conference. “OK, but it’s happening soon, right?” should be the second. And then maybe “how fucked are you all once he’s dead and can’t pardon you anymore?” if they’re still at the lectern

It is fascinating to me that people think that folks who mask need to explain it to... Anyone. Like, do you want people to give you the murder board explanation of our chronic illness? Talk about our parent or kid with cancer? It couldn't be less of your business.

the crusader states a) spectacularly failed to thrive b) were defined principally by a thin and endlessly squabbling stratum of european nobles who sucked at everything and c) were in part encouraged by church and state to get violent fail sons out of their own country

It remains astonishing that Trump refuses to be briefed by experts within the US government. A huge scandal, and one that relatively few voters are aware of.

What we are about to see is how hard it is to undo this kind of damage.

Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.

I appreciate the forthright acknowledgement of the mistake from the author, and look forward to decisive action by @princetonupress.bsky.social to correct this error, and any others, that made it past their robust editorial process.

I’m not buying MTG’s repentance shtick but I’ll happily take the dirt she’s dishing in hopes we’ll buy it.

a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level

Like so many things with Trump, this is unintentionally a huge tell. Trump is a purely transactional creature so when he says “friends,” he means two things. One, people he’s done quasi- or super-illegal shit with. Or, two, himself. He’s not yelling at her because he’s concerned about other people.

Getting the vast majority of people in this country to vocally and loudly embrace TAXING AND SPENDING is desperately needed as a FIRST STEP to the needed public provision of services and goods.

I wish it had been otherwise. But if McConnell had wanted this, he could have gotten it. He wanted Trump’s electoral juice without making any of his members vote against Trump, and he thought Trump was done so they didn’t have to. That’s the ballgame.

Got called “carceral” for this which means it’s time to lay my favorite game: does this person not know the difference between civil and criminal law, or do they simply think that “carceral” is a magic word that delegitimizes all feminist resistance to sexual abuse?

Mind you, most of the companies announcing that they're replacing coders with AI are lying. They're hiding the layoffs they have to make due to their softening top-line growth behind a fable of efficiency and forward-thinking. Either way: investors should be shorting the hell out of these companies

How my mind works: 'you know, Bardot really had a near identical arc to Morrissey'

The long and the short of it: nothing - as usual - was agreed. It’s empty theatre purely designed to manage Trump so he doesn’t do anything really stupid. For the reality-based community, there will never be a peace deal. The only option is to arm Ukraine and destroy Russia’s economy.

It's a credit to his acting that I never thought of him as Italian, even though his name was Viggo. If you'd asked me previously what his ethnicity was I'd have just said "the blood of Numenor, obviously."

The US invented the solar panel & wind turbine, notes @billmckibben.bsky.social: "We could have owned these technologies, & instead we’ve just ceded them to our theoretical main rival... I don’t think there’s been an act of national self-sabotage quite like this." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How can someone who says that a stone cold racist and trans-exterminationist Charlie Kirk “did politics the right way” have the nerve to tell us why “we” are polarized? The gall.

(!) Just weeks before Jeffrey Epstein was dead, Donald Trump’s Department of Justice was apparently monitoring Julie Brown, a journalist who has led coverage on Epstein. Why?

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

The one thing Bills and Eagles fans agree on today

Bardot was a woman whose son, when an adult, sued her because she had tried to abort him and then disowned him because she'd have rather have had another dog. We really need to call out and stop celebrating absolute c*nts.

I don't hate the guy but I just don't put much trust there; it's a rickety bridge. I reckon he does some good & brings some people along, but I think he'll only ever be of much use to people who move beyond the comfortable place where he has planted himself and from which he seems unlikely to budge.

Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.

My wife and I attended a wedding where half the people got covid. We did not. We attended an Xmas Eve party where half the people got the flu. We did not. We may be the mask-wearing weirdoes, but we're also the ones who aren't spending the holidays sick in bed.

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Man I can’t wait for Aaron Rodgers’ postgame conference so we can find out about all the mistakes the receivers made

RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

whatever 2026 holds i don't think anything next year will be funnier than Chicago Pope. 2025 was overall a huge stinker but Chicago Pope was an all time great B-plot

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

People don’t think enough about Indonesia

never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or brigitte bardot her opinion on “race mixing.”

Sinatra has gone woke

The trad stuff isn’t finding a following because young women are stupid; they are correctly assessing that things still suck for women and incorrectly assuming that giving up progress is easier than pushing progress further

It’s easy to dunk on this and point out all of feminism’s many achievements but I think a more effective strategy is to recognize that women who are too young to remember a pre-2nd wave feminist era are living in a world that still sucks for women and thus are prone to romanticizing patriarchy.

"Why Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley" (2018)

JUST MURDER THE POP-TART ALREADY

I choose to believe there’s only one Eddie Murphy Christmas movie and it’s perfect