looks like ken's being a little bitch on twitter

immediately ran to the safe haven and comfort of reactionary politics

im sorry but if you fell for this guy im just struggling to understand how you manage to make sense of anything at all the 4 middle east tours + voluntary mercenary work + nazi tattoo probably should’ve suggested this guy just likes inflicting violence on other people. calling him a leftist lmao

this is cinema

What I said was you could “almost feel sorry” for Platner being goaded into destroying his life, and that he is human and thus merits a “sliver of empathy.” I did not call for his rehabilitation or that he be made a senator or an outpouring of sympathy. Insane that this is somehow too much.

Bomani nailed this a while back. People go to social media to be unhappy. There’s different versions of it (being unhappy together, beating people down, etc) but that’s what it really boils down to.

Perhaps the fact I was one of the first people to see through Platner, and my insistence we should see people like Platner as immensely flawed human beings rather than heroes or monsters, are, in some way, related

Platner was the Milkshake Duck apotheosis

When my Civ VI game gets really interesting

anton chigurh: heads or tails. you must chose. me: is that a Prince Valiant cut? anton: yeah it used to have more volume me: you want to use something light on it, no silicone-heavy washes and of course... both of us (laughing): blow dry from the roots! me: alright heads anton: it's tails

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

They could have kept doing this forever quietly but LINE GO UP brain means they’re going to smoke themselves out before 2030

you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us

What’s crazy to me is how badly Virginia wants this flag back, and how little they seem to grasp that they are never ever getting it back. “It’s more important to Virginia than Minnesota” - oh, is it? Is it really? Sounds like you still don’t really get why all those Minnesota boys were out there

Depressing to see the inheritors of America’s incredibly rich and successful civic tradition toss it away for the opportunity to play-act grotesque villains who all died in disgrace, defeated by America. May this miserable band of usurpers come to the same fate in time.

::reads the Declaration of Independence:: Wow this shit goes hard. I want to live in that country.

"Biden was visibly dying" is a claim that needs to grapple with the fact that he's very much alive currently.

It’s honestly crazy how this is like, taken as a matter-of-fact on social media when Biden is healthy and making public appearances and speeches still.

i think that routine mass starvation that every generation before my great-grandparents lived throuhg was worse imo

I know it’s strategically beneficial and I know this has been said a million times but I truly can’t stand the dramatic, histrionic flopping around when “injured.” The truly maimed are usually quite still.

sport is art performed with the body. everybody can make it, but your capacity to create is naturally limited by what your body is capable of. the inherent unfairness of that is why lots of people are deeply traumatized by exposures to it in their youth! can’t really blame em!

yeah birth tourism is, while a real-ish thing, both extremely not a big deal (it's a tiny fraction of people, most of whom are wealthy parents signing their kids up to pay American taxes while not consuming any services), and also like a pretty easily addressable thing with normal enforcement.

*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom

“Why do the liberals keep voting against the fake criminal president who keeps trying to change the rules to give himself vast new powers?”

One of the most striking things here is how absolutely mutable conservatives’ specific views are. Trump emerged on the scene ten years ago and within that time, it has become dogma that the previous 160 years of birthright citizenship are incompatible with even *being* a nation.

A follow-on consequence to this is that even the most generous read of Ezra Klein’s intellectual project, trying to understand the intellectual underpinnings of his ideological opponents, is a joke. Their ideological underpinning is that they’ll make whatever claim they want in order to gain power.

As called on TV Trece in Paraguay:

Listen, even the worms aren’t gonna touch Clarence Thomas when he goes

show me the social media account of a visiting soccer fan having a terrible time in the United States, that's going to be just as entertaining for me

organ player said THIS IS MY CHANCE

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

Like 8 people asked for the Raúl windmill

The correct statement for Dems to give is this: It is a relief that the Court reaffirmed the foundational principle that anyone born in America is unquestionably American. But the close split on this simple constitutional question reveals a body corrupted beyond repair by authoritarian bullying.

yeah I mean they just weren't built for these times

There’s definitely an element of people trying to find targets they can plausibly harm. But there’s also a strong element of people wanting to cause harm - sadism as a group bonding activity

This is why Democrats across the spectrum have been foolish to declare victory - this needs to be understood as an ongoing assault, barely survived this time, and plans need to be made to push it back for good.

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

Francesca Hong doing a stream with notorious antisemite and Republican supporter “Mike From PA” is absolutely disqualifying. not to mention, nominating her in a swing state like Wisconsin will almost certainly hand the election to the MAGA Republican

SCOTUS waiting until the last possible moment to release their birthright opinion as some kind of exercise in drama is extremely annoying. underrated reform is just to mandate a day when they release all of the opinions.

Don’t know about you but I think if you flat out lie to Congress to get a lifetime appointment to SCOTUS you should be immediately removed from the job

logged in, but at what cost

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

perhaps we simply should not have created a bunch of social economies powered by abuse and contempt, requiring the constant manufacturing of new targets to keep the engine running

Futures market is about to open, you know what that means:

Sweating my ass off at the zoo but still had to let em know @edsbs.bsky.social @celebrityhottub.bsky.social

If DSA-type candidates had secret sauce that got them elected in places like Idaho, Montana and WV “centrists” would be doing backflips