It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

Republican willing to acknowledge that Trump was president in 2020 challenge [metaphysically impossible]

Rewatching Magnolia and it’s striking how the aesthetics of Frank Mackie are basically the only thing that would make him out of place on rumble or whatever

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

“They should accept it because they looked a little Mexican. It’s the price of a free society.” Kavanaugh, J., concurring.

enjoying imagining how the logistics of the Cambodian-Armenian war of 2025 would work

Jesus Christ

What a great fucking metaphor they didn't mean to employ

given the number of people necessary to make this happen I guess we have our answer regarding whether airmen or their officers would refuse illegal orders

Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.

John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

GWAR crossed a major line at riot fest

Trump: "I think water fishing, I think almost anything we have to get into a boat right now in that area would not be doing too well."

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

getting a bad cut after finishing 999 paper cranes

Interim Michigan boss Biff Poggi remains a quote machine 🤣

Trump posts a DM to his AG that she needs to prosecute his political enemies. Trump’s Border Czar took a $50k bribe from the FBI, Trump’s DOJ to shut it down. Trump issued a $100k afee for H1B visas, restricting immigrants into US unless company pays This is just the last 24 hrs. Sheesh.

I’d never seen this one.

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

Absolute full court press against the first amendment.

the only reason people are discussing it is because bad actors have misrepresented what happened!

*Extremely cop voice* SHOW US YOUR FUCKING HANDS

This is way outside of my areas of expertise, but I’d be genuinely frightened that asking for a letter like this would demonstrate the I knew or recklessly disregarded that what I was doing violated the law.

*SNRRRRRTT* YAYO SHOULD BE IN THE CPI

God it would be so funny if Sliwa gets more votes than Cuomo

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

republicans mad that it didn't become 2019 again

Perfect description of a movie I think is actually bad except that it’s made by the master so it still has some great stuff

it's incredible how voters voted for inflation man to save them from the "high inflation" of Joe Biden

anyone who posts “BREAKING” and is not an actual news source is a clout-chasing liar, episode 5bn

genuinely shocking that ABC News does not understand the difference between a unanimous vote and "unanimous consent." This resolution received no Democratic votes because... there wasn't an actual vote

Oh looks like I figured out where to put my erstwhile Disney+ money

Panopticon shares new EP 'The Poppies Bloom For No King' benefitting families affected by ICE deportations

These people are insane. It’s madness. Generations put in effort barring the doors to hell shut and they want to open them because they think the demons will politely eat a few libs and queers then leave everything else tidy and unmolested. They are risking millions, perhaps billions of lives.

Makes sense tho that a bunch of aging news media commentators are like "he's popular with the youngs, right? Bc ppl my age like him" without bothering to actually dig in further than that

This is embarrassing. Even as a lapsed Catholic I am embarrassed.

If I heard siren Alison Krauss harmonizing with her sisters, I’d get in the river too

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

You do not have nearly enough contempt for these people

I click "cancel subscription..." and get this. Not letting people unsubscribe has the whiff of fraud, don't it? Got the same -- what a coincidence! -- when I tried to unsubscribe from Hulu. ("Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later.")

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

she's almost certainly not beatable but someone ought to make her 2026 campaign season miserable anyway

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Oh. My. God. Profoundly twisted framing from @nytimes.com The casual reader of this hed and subhed would have exactly zero inkling that this is likely corrupt or even illegal or unconstitutional. Euphemistic to the point of absurdity.