The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

It’s been a minute since the last time Albania stunted on us this hard 🇦🇱🇦🇱

Looks like someone sank the BLS mark.

I’m sure it’s going to go over well with the Generals and Admirals that the SecDef told them they often don’t “Belong in polite society”. If there’s one thing I know about Flag Officers it’s that they don’t care about dinner parties.

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Trump and the USA can’t be sued for defaming Tylenol, I’d be love to see the discussions at Fox News/Newmax about how they are going to stop one of their anchors from exposing them to a Tucker2.0. Fox seems to just not be covering this at all but who knows if that’s going to float long term

Stephen Miller might be the worst writer I’ve ever seen. I’ve literally never heard a worse funeral oration.

something something political violence

If the Dems take back the house next year, Inshallah the only chance we have is for them to start actually doing this lawfare stuff that I keep hearing about. Not just the tic-tac stuff either: inherent contempt needs to be on the table.

What Dave is saying here is that cancel culture is when women from his past accuse him and his employees of sexual harassment

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

Hi, GOP Ratfucker expert here! This isn't funny, archvillan only do this when they are in extreme distress.

If you want to see how this admin is doing you need to go look at what is probably the most “normie” social network left: Reddit. It’s encouraging, you’ve got to be pretty cooked to get /r/flying to start enforcing “no politics” because people can’t stop shorting on MAGA

To be frank, the fetishization of protest tactics and personal/information security theater (theater is a load bearing word) is the leftist version of the Cult of the Operator

Listening to the EK/Ben Shapiro interview. One thing I find funny is that Ben has apparently written a new book with one of the themes being “manliness” (I know) where he divides people in 2 camps: Lions and Scavengers. Mixing metaphors in a 2 category system is such hack writing.

Kash thinks thinking he could get into Valhalla is like a guy who gets a cup of coffee in the majors thinking he can be inducted into Cooperstown. Dawg: you’re hardly important enough to make Conservative Fólkvangr

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

I think I’m missing something when people say “this person wasn’t a RW actor, but a person with incoherent and violent ideas”. Like, those aren’t mutually exclusive categories, lol

EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country? TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.

So the feds are in a pinch, there’s a murderer on the run. There’s just one man for the job, but the boss hates him, he’s a loose cannon, won’t toe the party lie. He’s got a weird nickname, but he’s never quit, the job just quit him. He’s got his own seat at Murphy’s and he’s waiting for the call.

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

Guys what if it was the tariff decision that did it?

It is amazing that most organizations (businesses, media, NGOs, political parties) that worried about the threat of the far right for decades have spent no time or energy to thinking how to operate in a far right world. They just continue to do the same and are surprised by a different outcome.

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Who’s with me for a campaign to stop politicians wearing hi viz jackets and hard hats when talking about the economy and instead being filmed playing Total War: Warhammer

For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.

I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

"sir you're in the epstein files"

So Trump must have started tweeting about Obama and the Russia Hoax within hours of the WH getting a call about this Epstein scoop right?

Lincoln’s memo on the constitutionality of admitting W.Va. into the Union👇, including a discourse on the merits of bending rules “The devil takes care of his own. Much more should a good spirit—the spirit of the Constitution and the Union—take care of its own. I think it can not do less, and live.”

Still holds up

WELL I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I HAVE AC AND I WON'T FORGET THE BRITS WHO DIED IN THE HEATWAVE OF '03 AND I'LL GLADLY SIT DOWN IN MY ROOM AND ENJOY THAT SWEET COLD AIR THAT HOT HOT SEETHE AND EURO COPE GOD BLESS MY FRIGIDAIRE!

POV: it's 2001 and you just ran into Douthat and Colby in the dorm hallway.

I don't like to be the "imagine if Biden did this" guy, but imagine if Biden did this.

The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported. In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.

NOTE TO SELF: Next time google “what does this political party believe” before giving them $277 million

the culture war and the complete destruction of local news in favor of propaganda outlets has been successful beyond the wildest dreams of its proponents

The more I think about it the more I realize that 70-year-old Boomers politicians are actually doing us all a solid trying to hold-on to power for long enough to freeze-out GenX. If we survive another 100 years as a society it will be because, by the grace of God, GenX is a tiny cohort

BDA is hard and uncertain. Normally, I would expect the USG to overestimate BDA (as it did against Yugoslavia in 1999) for totally forgivable reasons like -- "Well, we hit the target and the calculation says that "should have resulted in x damage." But they seem appropriately cautious.

lol

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

Do we actually know that the MOAB will be successful against the hardened Fordow site? Presumably they wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t for sure for sure, but like Iran knew about these bombs.