Wow.

Hugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

Remember when the guy who wrote the definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder for the DSM IV (or some such) tried to say Trump didn't have NPD because of some pedantic definitional bullshit?

David Gelernter.

Walk away from it, man. Sell out your stakes in all your companies, give most of your money away and put the rest in a trust and go on a decades long journey of spiritual discovery in the wilderness.

Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders

What the fuck

We? (I know Snyder hasn't been nearly as obnoxious about his Brave Fleeing of the Country as Stanley, but he's been on it enough that I'm still at "don't really want to hear from this guy".)

Elon could never convincingly steal a Garth Marenghi joke to impress Noam Chomsky.

Say what you will about MGP but she is nowhere near the level of awful that Elon Musk is.

I don't understand why Starmer himself hasn't made any effort to recalibrate.

Like on the one hand these would all be good changes which would meaningfully improve things. On the other hand I wish Schumer could figure out a way to say it that didn't imply that *the only thing* Democrats want is common sense reform for ICE.

This is wildly dispiriting, and what particularly gets me is the idea that sports and metro coverage are not "core areas" of coverage for the Post. What the fuck?

The difference between anarchism and liberalism on this front is that anarchism has never been successful at anything. Anarchists have barely mastered "running an off-putting bookstore"

This is all well and good but I think people should be aware that the hack gap means that Democratic appointed justices aren't going to just rubber stamp whatever novel constitutional interpretations a Democratic administration wants to advance.

This is so dumb (not Stancil, the activity he's describing).

How long is Bari Weiss going to last here?

Look, all kinds of ways to address this point. (I'd go with "yeah, obviously Homer did not imagine Helen as black, but that's...fine to change in an adaptation. Why wouldn't it be?") But "white-armed is English, but Homer wrote in Greek, checkmate!" is just moronic.

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The only reason you’ve seen this post from a random new station float across your timeline 20 times is that it’s the only one that takes an interview with Jeffries where he is forcefully making meaningful demands and paints it in a way people whose fist principle is not liking democrats will share.

Man goes to doctor, says "I have a dilemma. I've been a party to covering up wrong doing, want to do something about it." Doctor says "I have solution. Great Senator Chuck Grassley is in town, huge friend of whistle blowers, will make sure you are heard." Man says "But Doctor, I am Chuck Grassley"

The Kirkification of Emily [picture of Julie Andrews with Charlie Kirk's face]

Is this even legal?

stealing from Reddit

Of course he's had it in the ear before.

ISAAC CHOTINER: Of course. Everyone has to form their own opinion of someone, and you might trust first-hand information over what you’ve heard or read. Have you had much time to gather that sort of first-hand information? COUGHING BABY: *hic*

Am I the only one who thought this most recent Chotiner interview was kind of lazy and bad? The guy is so dumb that he never even realizes Chotiner is hostile and I didn't learn anything about anything from this. The cinematographer for the Melania movie is a shithead? Well I kind of assumed that.

What do people think the Biden DOJ releasing this stuff would have done other than inspire a series of breathless stories about Biden politicizing DOJ? In particular, it makes a bunch of people look like assholes at best, criminals at worst, but there's been basically nothing useful on Trump

Happy birthday Tula-Tu! This petite party pachyderm is 1 today 💖

If every Senate district in Texas swung left from 2024 presidential as much as SD-9 did yesterday, Democrats would control the chamber 26 to 5.

TCJ obit.

It is very much a show that is NOT FOR ME, and I'm almost certainly never going to watch it, but... like is Heated Rivalry actually good at all? I can't tell from the commentary if people like it only ironically and/or hornily or if it's actually well made.

A thing it is worth reminding yourself of is how insanely boring Congress is. Stuff like this is a significant part of what being Majority Leader entails.

I'm glad to see that we're using the Epstein stuff to go after the real most important target: Joe Biden. If you want to disingenuously use a bunch of unvetted tipline logs to attack Trump, go ahead I guess, but I'm going to draw the line at using them to go after Feckless Dems

So this is all just unconfirmed tip line stuff from after Donald Trump was already president, as far as I can tell? Still very funny.

Only Maryland kids will remember

Is all of Canadian politics just Heated Rivalry jokes now?

Last David Brooks column hits hard

This is fucking embarrassing.

The job right now isn't to advocate for more training, or body cams or QR codes or whatever because those things will be effective in their own right. It's to advocate for those things because it will bleed ICE's slush-fund white.

He's about 10 seconds from dancing for Six Flags

Because I am a masochist, this got me thinking about (ugh) the 2028 primaries. And, uh, my one suggestion is "as few debates as possible." Those things are clown cars that make everyone look small and push them to go at each other like crabs in a bucket.

I'm sorry, folks, but we're now more than a year in. If you're new to the fact that I consider it dangerous & unacceptable to presume that the administration won't comply with a lawful court order, that's on you at this point. I've been discussing this here & writing about it at Law Dork nonstop.

Sixers hold a moment of silence for Dan McQuade.

Would a DHS shutdown shut down TSA? I guess they're probably essential, so working without pay?

People just going out here saying the literal opposite of what happened. Thune caved! Thune did! This is a cave by Thune and Senate Republicans, any possible way you cut it.

Again: snorting derisively about how useless bodycams are while ignoring all the other things the Democrats are asking for in the DHS bill is such a tell for people who are not serious.

Something I think is getting lost here in the scrum about Democratic strategy is that people thought starting with a small ask would foreclose getting more later, but Democrats literally started with a small ask in the DHS fight & have subsequently banked those asks & now look to be getting more.

This seems like a preliminary to cutting bait and splitting off the DHS part, right? Like not even an attempt to whip votes by Thune.