Genuine question to a handful of people in my replies: do you own a dictionary

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

I know I’m being That Guy™️ guy here but it’s wild how the Democratic talking point is “we want to keep your healthcare premiums at $500 a month” instead of wanting to make it, you know, zero.

My brother in Christ if you’re a young, pregnant, American citizen who shows up at the hospital you won’t have to worry about paying at all because your party passed a bunch of bills that guarantee hospitals won’t even treat you anymore

What truly amazes me most about Pritzker is how long it took a Democrat to realize that if you simply did the right thing and kept doing it authentically, all you need to do is keep doing that and you’re going to become the president

asking people for permission to take their wallets would 'kill' the mugging industry, too

President Trump literally signed the law that says it’s not a choice.

As someone who worked there, the reason CAP isn't trying is because they're not a liberal Heritage Foundation devoted to generational furtherment of liberal ideals. They were a 501c3 dedicated to making Hillary Clinton and possibly her daughter president and they catastrophically failed at it

Republicans literally ordered a bulldozer to rip up a pride-themed crosswalk. There is no single political talking point more significant that must be repeated, loudly and frequently, than these are truly the biggest pussies on the face of the planet.

It's actually really impressive how much of where we got to right now stems from the top legal and political scholars in our media just declaring "well if that's true then the left is right, and we know they're not, so that isn't true" for like, thirty years

Yeah, lots of quotes that boil down to "Trump said he would do this, but I assumed the Norms Fairy would stop him."

Pretending to be stupid is my biggest trigger, so you can understand how I am rapidly going insane watching every person you expect snark about Bari Weiss rising from a short-lived NYT career to this CBS nonsense insinuating that it was her pluck and grit and not marrying a billionaire heiress

It remains incredibly astonishing how much time and energy this administration is devoting to a case that is going to be dismissed in under 30 minutes.

It’s constitutional to ban abortion but unconstitutional to ban torturing children. No idea why 70% of Americans say they have no faith in the supreme court’s credibility.

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

Soldiers are not getting paid right now. How on earth are Democrats losing to this

The environmental horrors aside, what's most frightening about when the AI bubble collapses (not if, when) is we're past the point where we can even afford to bail it out. nVidia was 25% of all market growth in the last year. One company. There isn't enough real money to fix this anymore

AMD gave OpenAI 10% of its stock for free in exchange for OpenAI announcing they'll buy AMD chips for ten years using the money made from the value of the stock, which then went up 30% in a day. They created $80 billion on paper doing nothing. This is definitely not going to collapse spectacularly

Maybe I'm overly optimistic here but even as Stephen Miller's insane tweets get 50,000 likes it feels like Twitter gets less and less relevant every day. Even media/liberals still on there are realizing it's an insane echo chamber of insane people and automated code

Again: none of this is happening. However, a judge who Miller attacked on this same Twitter account just had their house firebombed yesterday.

I am 44 years old and I have watched anime for more than half my life and I have never, ever truly understood the concept, the very emotional internal feeling, of the concept known as “waifu” until yesterday when I became aware of an anime called May I Ask For One Final Thing

As you read this puff piece about how brave and steadfast Amy Coney Barrett is, keep in mind that the house of South Carolina circuit court judge Diane Goodstein exploded over the weekend and some of her family members barely escaped with their lives. She had recently ruled against the admin.

Oh Jesus tap dancing Christ

Michael Moore had a bit on his old show TV Nation called Love Night where he just sent singing telegrams and mariachi bands and pony rides to hate rallies and the Westboro Church and the image of just everyone being nice and in joyful revelry next to them made them FURIOUS

It would cost like $35 to set up a webcam showing a live shot of Portland, where absolutely none of this is happening, that our media, if it had any dignity whatsoever, would immediately split screen to every time he starts saying this.

We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them

Legitimately the most pants shitting line of dialogue after like 30 hours of playtime #Hades2

“Hamas is responsible for the ongoing genocide being undertaken by the state of Israel” -a sitting United States Congressman

“It is not clear if Mr. Trump strangling the puppy violates the It Is Quite Clearly Against the Law to Strangle Puppies Act of 1922”

Fellow straight males: if you’re having trouble understanding this, it’s kind of like how you felt walking out of the theater on opening night of The Phantom Menace, but for Swifties. Just let them work through this.

I honestly think a major milestone is coming up in about two weeks or so when most of the country really starts processing that Halloween candy is like $20 a bag now and the entire United States government is posting Pepe memes about trans people about it

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Once again, Democrats’ success is not their own doing but the sheer incompetence of Republicans. “It’s the Democrats who want this shutdown“ and “we’re not going to even bring the House back for 10 more days” are simply not compatible with each other and anyone above a room temp IQ understands this

Okay, it was a joke at first but now it’s actually real: Johnson is literally refusing to bring the House back in session and prolonging the shutdown in order to not have the vote on releasing the Epstein files

I don’t understand how Democrats haven’t realized the most powerful tool to diminish Trump’s authority is to constantly and aggressively highlight to Americans that he’s probably not actually running the country anymore

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

You banned dozens of people because a Federalist article told you to like a week and a half ago

Nothing has heartened me more this day than discovering there is enough recognition of how utterly insufferable Radio Free Fuckwit is that there's literally a special label to warn you about people who consider him worth paying attention to

There is one actual good thing the Trump administration has accomplished in the last year and it is the effective political extinction of Libertarians. They just disappeared, especially online, because they were always just embarrassed Republicans to begin with. It feels great to not pretend anymore

Great news folks, Democrats have gotten better and more efficient at setting money on fire

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

This is still true and the mods would do well to remember it

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

My power bill is $200 a month for this