The “this account was blocked” accounts are fun and negate the X Everything App stragglers who pretend they have to stay there because this site isn’t fun.

I really miss the production style on Earl Sweatshirt’s “Some Rap Songs” w the closed loops that feel restless and frenetic. He never got back to it (maybe only on the later single “East”)

[Detective looking in the bodybag, wincing and then looking away] they beasted on him

Politics will continue until well after we’re all dead and dusted and the form of said politics will not be “leftmost quintile of the US electorate becomes one half of the duopoly with Matt Y being considered a figure in the problematic but acceptable right opponent” & people need to deal with that

My healthcare was expanded and student debt forgiven. Sure ain't nothing to me

This objectively just doesn’t work for much of what is listed here but in general this is a view detached from material realities of policy. Billions of loans forgiven weren’t added back on. Climate and infrastructure investment wasn’t 100% rollbackable. Millions didn’t become “de-vaccinated” etc

The messaging criticism here is just parroting the “one weird trick” trope imo. The far more relevant and real factor here is that post 2016 online politics engagement means people process the exact same policies very differently via politicians who are coded as separate sides of lib left divide.

Americans aren’t anti-abortion, or anti-gun, or whatever, because they’re being paid by (INSERT BOOGEYMAN). They have beliefs, same as you

Yeah until late 2023 “Biden is actually the most successful president of my lifetime” was a fairly popular take and then the last year of his presidency he pivoted to “you can’t trust Palestinians about how many of them died” and laid an egg on the debate stage and the rest was history.

Howard’s a good guy. He just has better days than others as we are all prone to.

I don’t have time for this. I don’t even write the politics posts those are cases where I am interpreting what comes to me from a higher power

the stock responses all boil down to “but nothing lasted because GOP got power again” which isn’t really true (we do still indeed have some Nice Stuff, some of which the GOP even benefits from as they’re in power!) but if your barometer for success is “total victory forever” you’re basically fucked

The pandemic relief bills were the largest and fastest transfer of wealth to the poor in human history. There's nothing that compares. Not even violent communist redistribution.

The Fugitive (Andrew Davis 1993)

Guys like this will share articles about solar power’s exponential growth and then ask what did Dems even accomplish

“Maybe not total victory forever” *describes total victory forever*

it’s been kind of amusing to see as abolish bedtime leftism has waned in popularity, oppositional defiant disorder conservatives have had a huge surge thanks to these moron podcasters

She’s mixing it up with her husband’s company.

i…do not think that is right

The "Mamdani hates Italians" stories seem like they're going to be much healthier for society than the antisemitism angle. It's funny on its face and it takes the wind out of the sails of all the worst actors

I think a lot about HBO MAX said they had to rebrand to MAX to become profitable and it’s like wait hold the phone if “HBO: the streaming service” doesn’t get you enough subscriptions than you can just conclude the streaming model itself doesn’t work.

3) when do we stop calling roving armed israeli assault mobs, operating with the approval and physical support of the IDF, "settlers"

The widespread conviction among a certain set of writers that a political party choosing its nominee via convention instead of a primary is morally equivalent to establishing a dictatorship or rigging an election is one of the stupidest beliefs that gets taken seriously.

Who are the you guys in question here

I heard an awful story last night about someone who got sprayed by a skunk and he had his month open at the time. I have to assume every meal that person ate for the rest of his life tasted like skunk ass 😭

If I have to and if it comes to that, I think I have it within my power to talk a skunk out a spraying me ultimately. If it comes to than and if I have to.

How many skunks are there on the streets of Burbank? I reckon less than we fear and more than we’d like.

As sure as god made green apples, I believe I can talk a skunk out of spraying me.

I believe I can talk a skunk out of spraying me.

I know how it sounds but there’s just some part of me that can’t give up on the belief I can somehow talk a skunk out of spraying me.

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...

Weird how when a Friends at the Table goon Assadist quote tweets your account you end up deluged with juggalos and parents in the notifications.

First look at a Rotta the Hutt Halloween costume.

I must emphasize that Columbus was so bad the same Spanish monarchs that started the literal Spanish Inquisition hauled him back to Madrid in chains for what were essentially crimes against humanity

Love Doig’s work

Eyeball River (1991)

Everyone seems to think the example I gave of a dog driving and getting into an accident because he was so excited about a sausage cart he saw on the sidewalk is something I actually did but I didn’t. It’s something a dog driver would do not me.

I mean, like... nobody cares? The president is bored with it all, maybe a dozen people showed up to the campus antiwar protest (compared to waaaaay more with the Palestine protests,) the markets don't care, domestic security forces seem more worried about the algae bandit than Iran doing a funny...

Excuse me I happen to prefer being alive than have some dog driver plow into me because he got over excited by the sausage cart he saw.

The dogs will kill us w their cars unless we stop them.

Respectfully, it’s ideas like these that can and will get people killed.

This, from Harris, is exactly what you want to see, and I hope it sets the bar for anyone who plans to run. Should certainly make it clear to potential candidates that they can't just ignore structural issues; unlikely she'll let them. Link in next post.

There is only one real American. He lives in a suburb with real american values. He has never had a matcha latte. He is a great favorite. He knows that real education can’t happen at universities. He has never used a laptop. His feet are light and nimble. He says that he will never die.

Biden did this on the federal level and it was blocked by the appeal courts.

i have given up on “can you imagine if a democrat said this” comparisons, but i think the utterly brazen contempt this admin has for the average american is something which should be discussed far more often than it is

Yesterday I came across “The DNC made Tim Walz stop saying weird” in the wild again and began thinking l like idk is this a thing where people see so much value in the myth in the “noble lie” that the objective hard and fast undebatable reality that 100% didn’t happen can’t break through?

Third Eye Blind’s ambitious sophomore record “Blue” had the misfortune to be released in a much too crowded late 99 pop and alternative rock marketplace.

I want assurances that the skunk won’t spray me accidentally before I accept its presence on the Chandler Bike Path here in Burbank.

There’s a “bike lane” and a “walking lane” on the chandler bike path. There ain’t no “stinky lane” last time I checked.

That skunk too stinky for the chandler bike path I’ll tell you what. He need to go somewhere else.