We are ruled by mental midgets.

When you always imagined yourself doing the deadly serious business of the hallowed White House Press Corps and instead you're taking dictation from an adolescent groyper who's somehow in charge of Treasury payments, it has to mess with your head.

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

80-year-old American citizen car wash owner Rafi Shouhed injured when ICE tackled him to the ground twice, held in detention, denied needed medical care, sues ICE for $50 million. Arms injured, ribs broken, has heart condition #DefundICE #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2gQ...

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

If you're wondering why Jeffries STILL refuses to support Mamdani, it's because he's waiting to see if Adams dropping out will help Cuomo close the gap with Mamdani. If it does, don't be surprised if he tries to help push Cuomo over the line. Because Democrats hate leftists more than fascists.

I'm sorry but you can't possibly convince me that a Democratic Party that voted with Republicans 99-0 to make Marco Rubio our Secretary of State is a party that can be salvaged by just replacing one or two people. This is a systemic rot and you're not going to fix it by pruning a few branches.

They're never going to have that revelation because they're STILL responding to people as if the problem can be solved by simply replacing Schumer or Jeffries with some other guy. As if the problem is unique to one or two people and not a systemic issue with how the party does business at large.

#Jazzsky #Musicsky

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election. In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

Dearest Gwendolyn, war is hell. I have neither saunaed nor icebathed in a fortnight. The kombucha, I fear, does not have adequate probiotics for my gut biome.

The woke left is alienating edgy young comics like Bill Maher and Jerry Seinfeld

right wingers are going to be so performatively mad about this, they might be performatively madder about this than all the things they've ever been performatively mad about combined

Breaking Away

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Funny because it’s sad, sad because it’s funny

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The strong need NEVER demonstrate their strength. It is readily apparent the second they enter a room. It is the weak that bully, flex, preen, seek to dominate, saber-rattle, peacock. These are comically weak, insecure, feeble-minded, fatuous little men. @gregolear.bsky.social on pete hegseth

Timeline cleanser 🐈

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

In case you needed more material for your “the internet was a mistake file.” “Tucker Carlson talks with Charlie Sheen about tiger blood, sobriety and the lies of 9-11.”

#Jazzsky #Musicsky

the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them

"AI is going to replace actual teaching & instructors & solve the problem of unplugging 20-25% of the entire budget of every research university in America" is an incredible revealed preference. I mistakenly believed we were trying to educate students & conduct actual research. How naive of me.

Duck you, Trump.

Has America become so soft and woke that we can't appreciate why all of our top generals need to leave their posts and fly to Virginia to be lectured by the Fox News weekend host about the warrior mentality?

Things have grown so dire in Portland, Oregon that residents may soon face a shortage of artisanal baked goods, almond milk rose petal beetroot lattes, and cold brew mushroom tonic.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

They pepper sprayed us after this. We washed our faces and are back to singing we shall overcome. They’ll never win.

This is handled and I’m grateful to everyone who kicked in. I could not tolerate this local musician being penalized for doing something brave and beautiful—not when they helped make music that kept us strong while ICE fired less lethals and drove cars into us.

Lucy Dacus invited Zohran Mamdani out at her All Things Go NYC set!

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

The Democrats have allowed themselves to believe their own party is the one depicted every day on Fox News and that’s where groups like @searchlightinst.bsky.social derive their power. It’s like a battered spouse who believes all that shit talk from their abuser. “I’m clumsy and stupid.”

After he loses the gun and gets it back in a panic, who does he scramble to aim it at? Bystanders. That tells you they know who the real threat to their pathetic jackboot keystone routine is: witnesses.

One of the things the right loves to do is insist that the left is fringe, that their ideas and world view dominate and that we are just weirdos who are the underbelly of America. Thats why it’s good to celebrate the wins like the Kimmel thing (ditto the push back to Musk/DOGE). We surround them.

The group behind the statue says a second permit, to reinstall the piece after Wednesday's removal, was revoked without explanation. It has since posted free 3D printable copies of the statue online.

Very illustrative way to frame this: more money has been spent on this lop generator than on the largest and most expensive infrastructure project this nation has ever undertaken. Seems dicey.

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

Tariffs introduced on pizza slices but not whole pies; umbrellas carried on dry days; bookmarks; that thing you need to plug headphones into newer iPhones; all socks except in navy blue

#Jazzsky #Musicsky

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

"Genetic lineage" is only said by folk who have worked hard trying to synonym their way around the word "race" so they can lie to themselves that they're not racist

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

This remake of Bonfire of the Vanities sucks