"It's All Coming Back To Me Now" is the most intense, poetic song there is about getting psyched up to drunk dial your ex.

I see almost no support in the actual details of this Weigel article for the thesis that Israel politics is why Massie lost. AIPAC spent against him in 2024 and he won! Taking on Trump directly is the biggest difference from last time, not his stance on Israel stuff. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

I thought Trump was negotiating with the Castros in order to oust Hated Supervillain... (looks up his name again because I never remember it) Miguel Diaz-Canel

Good for them. Not sure about standing, though it's utterly outrageous if there's no way to block this in court because nobody has standing.

Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining, Bezos.

What a clown

@thedenature.bsky.social He's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukBh...

What?

Like, at some point Trump's endorsement is going to stop mattering in Republican primaries, right? Like it's wild that he's so unpopular with the public at large and can still basically dictate primary results.

I mean, look, this isn't all that difficult. They think the appearance of reasonableness has some value and that it's worth voting for some Trump nominees who are getting confirmed anyway to create it.

The playoffs are alive on BlueSky, the official app of sports. @dennycarter.bsky.social

Bernie Sanders is an absolutely dismal judge of character.

Lauren Boebert looks increasingly like Bari Weiss.

Like what is the New York Times doing here? These are extremely gerrymandered looking districts that give Democrats 26% of the seats despite getting 43% of the vote. They are neither compact nor reflect the overall partisan balance in those states.

Didn't see this had happened. I've read 39, which feels pretty good, but should motivate myself to read some more. (Obviously the list itself open to enormous amounts of quibbling and argument) www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Would a judge have to approve the settlement? If not, would anyone have standing to sue that these payments are illegal?

My Bertie Wooster eldritch horror fanfic, "Jeeves and the Black Goat of the Woods," is up! Corrections and encomia welcome! mattweiner.net/Jeeves%20and...

Good work, Enten you hacky psychopath.

I would simply not be in group chats with Marc Andreessen.

If you think the "Lupita Nyong'o confirmed as Helen" discourse is out of control, just wait for the "Elliott Page confirmed as Achilles" discourse. (though I'm seeing now a bunch of articles saying Page is actually Elpenor, which I imagine will be like an order of magnitude less discoursey)

This guy is the fucking worst.

The Rocketeer

Miliband should run and pull a Wellington caretaker ministry where he is PM and sole Secretary of State until Burnham can get into parliament.

this is so fucking funny

Thanks to our phones, most of us now live lives where we basically never have to experience true boredom, and as such I should probably be grateful for state testing every year for providing several hours of the most complete, pure boredom it is possible to experience to us proctors.

Does the Starmer thing mean Badenoch is going to survive this total disaster for her party because everyone has forgotten she exists?

I do appreciate that the whole “the Punisher gets angel powers” story didn’t get retconned, the next arc just threw in a panel where he was like “yeah I quit being an angel and now I’m back to my usual thing.”

Just thinking about how the PA-03 Democratic primary race seems to mirror almost exactly the Michigan Senate Democratic primary race in terms of rough positioning of the candidates. Stevens/Street (insider/machine) McMorrow/Stanford (mainstream but outsiderish) El-Sayed/Rabb (left)

West Virginia is legitimately a very weird state politically.

Christ.

Time for everyone to get their Chaos with Ed Miliband t-shirts out of mothballs.

Slightly increase a band. The Beach Men

We're doing important work here, people.

It’s Hey Ya unless the song has to suck in which case it’s the reason by hoobastank

Now we're really getting rigorous with this. I think this is correct.

I want to note how proud I am of my timeline for talking mostly about music tonight. We did it guys.

I mean for this to work it needs to be a song that is right in the middle of the millennial era, so Zoomers are too young for it and Xers are too old for it. I feel like that's...late 2000s/early 2010s, probably?

I don't think this is true at all, and I think we can see that it is not true if we compare current Trump scandals to coverage of Clinton's emails, or coverage of Trump's physical/mental state as he ages with coverage of Biden two years ago.

Becoming even more polarized against Chris Rabb by the full court press his campaign and allies seem to be doing on me over the last few days. Still need to figure out who to actually vote for.

This is just the Saga of Crystar, except with candy

This poor guy. Imagine going through most of your life with a perfectly normal name, then suddenly everyone starts associating you with a minor fictional character, then people online decide your name is obviously fake and nobody would really be called that anyway

So to left is a map of the most popular party outside the two main parties in each constituency in Great Britain in the 2024 general election, and here is the map of areas under the rule of Wessex and the Danes in at the end of the 9th century. Like how?

My new preferred text-based social media app is this sheet of paper posted in the bathroom at the coffee shop. It pretty much offers everything Bluesky does, but more concisely.

Good to see the LibDems gradually rebuilding the Kingdom of Wessex one shire at a time under King Ædward of Davey. Just Hamtunscīr, Wiltunscir and the Vale of Teste to conquer before the kingdom is reunited to fight back the Reforme hordes of Mercia and Essex

I think this is what we used to call a Kinsley gaffe. Like I don't think he intended to *say* he wants the courts to overturn the 14th amendment, but clearly that really is what he wants.

For God's sake if you hate Will Stancil block him because not seeing his posts will make your day just a little bit better, not because it will upset him. What is wrong with these weirdos?

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

Dissent is pretty good reading tbh