The current MSNBC panel is actually vibrant and asking tough questions of guests. If MSNBC were like this all the time, not just Sundays at 10pm I might actually tune in more (no shade @chrislhayes.bsky.social I <3 u)

So what I’m taking away from this specifically is that New Hampshire’s Senators suck.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

I don’t even know what you do in this situation. Pay your rent, pay your healthcare, eat rice and beans, learn to live without electricity?

We’re heading into week two of the cat being completely discombobulated by the time change.

I love that this exists and I love that I will never have to experience it. www.reddit.com/r/DIY/s/Huau...

I’ve changed my mind, Donald Trump needs to annex Canada so that Randy Clarke can run for president. www.reddit.com/r/washington...

Getting really tired of the political side that contemptuously said they were the realists who would “call a spade a spade” for the last thirty or forty years, suddenly becoming the party of “it’s not a tariff it’s a ‘licensing fee’”.

Please for the love of god let this week be the last week any of us have to hear about a Cuomo ever again.

For some reason the Reddit algorithm has started feeding me r/tattooadvice and every one is someone with the gnarliest infection ever asking whether it’s normal or they should see a doctor. If you have to ask Reddit if your tattoo should be oozing green puss, you might deserve to die of sepsis.

Attempting to find even one (1) book on my to read shelf in GoodReads that is actively available through the DC public library system.

Incredible that of all the IP Hollywood keeps rebooting and reviving, we haven’t gotten a second Master and Commander.

So after exhaustive testing we have determined that the cat’s favorite people foods are 1) cheez-its 2) ham 3) ice cream 4) sauce of any variety.

There’s a certain type of woman who doesn’t want to admit (to herself much less anyone else) that she’s actually a reactionary conservative, and boy do they not understand actual left (even center left) women At All.

Me, who has killed exactly one (1) enemy during the Ghost of Yotei tutorial, every time someone in game mentions the Yotei Six: excuse me, it’s the Yotei Five now

Just going to say again that it feels like we’re going through a period uniquely and expressly designed to torture historians.

I continue to be deeply impressed by Hilary Mantel’s dedication to hating Sir Thomas More!

This is how I feel about spelunking.

Watching All of You on AppleTV. Both of these people need serious therapy, Laura moreso than Simon, but still.

A perennial Reddit post: a lonely guy asks for advice on dating/making friends IRL. The standard advice is offered (go to bars, join clubs, take classes, go to church, join a gym, volunteer), and he rejects every suggestion with an excuse for why he can’t make the effort to do any of those things.

Lying in bed at 23:30 reading about the Edict of Nantes like a totally normal person.

Somehow video game business practices are leaking into…checks notes…sewing?? and I don’t like it. www.reddit.com/r/sewing/s/q...

Current theory on The Materialists is that Celine Song strung a bunch of sentences from thousands of Reddit posts together into a semi-coherent mass. Also Dakota Johnson has some kind of magic rock that she keeps in her pocket to suck the acting ability out of her costars.

I’m reading Wolf Hall, and every 20 pages or so I have to put it down and say “damn, Hilary Mantel really hated Sir Thomas More.”

Just watched a man ride by union station on a cabi and shout at the guard “where’s that combat patch? Where’s that combat patch, boys? Don’t got one yet? Ah that’s too bad” and I am glad they were standing behind me when he did because you know I laughed.

Glass Onion and the new Superman, although I think can’t remember if the Elon Musk stand-in dies. Lex Luther doesn’t but he does get arrested for treason.

It turns out that when you live in a city where you regularly see people in the military it’s impossible to tell at a casual glance whether someone in a uniform is a national guard troop doing a fascism or just a guy on his commute.

a profound silence

Well fuck. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

It’s not like Elim Garak is one of the most popular supporting characters in all of Trek or anything.

Please push hard for this, Councilmember Allen! An orange line infill station at Oklahoma and Benning NE would be possibly more transformative for Kingman Park and Carver Langston than the stadium rehabilitation project itself.

Disturbingly, I now find myself old enough to remember conversations in 2006 and 2007 about whether it was even possible for the US housing market to contract.

Screaming “break up! Break up!” at Ashley and Marita on Queer Ultimatum as they stumble through the world’s most drawn-out breakup discussion.

Watching @laurelpowell.net play Donkey Kong Bananza and what I’m getting from this is someone at Nintendo asked “What if Powerwash Sim had a Donkey Kong skin?”

Brandon Taylor wrote an entire novel about literally this. If you’ve ever hated the other students in your humanities seminar, this is the book for you. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671348...

Trying to read the first Star Wars: Reign of the Empire book. The writing is so hackneyed, and they just had Bail Organa say “We are all fools and dead men.” Begging everyone involved in Star Wars to learn to stop dropping the stupidest Easter Eggs into their work.

Eurostar conductor fighting for his life as he tries to explain in English why the train will be “old” (delayed).

Make a book mid Shel Silverstein’s In the Middle of the Sidewalk

Work vent: If you invoice me over FOUR YEARS after you did your work, you do not get to email me every other day seeking payment. Especially when you’re a government agency, not some guy trying to feed his kids.

me, putting literally anything on my bed The cat: you have defiled my resting place Me, putting any article of my work clothing on the bed The cat: I shall immediately lie down on this and roll over several times to get as much fur on it as possible

AP’s gotta workshop this a little more before they can post it to r/threesentencehorror

Growing up in California and figuring out that this hypocrisy was the animating force of the CA Republican Party when I was in my late teens (20 years ago, ugh) is what started my journey from conservative to progressive.

If this were Kamala Harris’s army secretary saying this it would be enough to drive an at least three day long news cycle ending in his embarrassed resignation.

Everyone is wrong about flag discourse. The correct flag to bring to a protest in LA against the federal government is the Bear Flag.

How is there still one more day in the work week??

1926. Many things I could list, but the one that just baffles me is how, a hundred years in, I’m the first person who thought “hmm, maybe a bathroom fan?” The bathroom has been rewired and remodeled, but the ventilation is still “open the window.”

The smarter Leftists also love to bemoan the 2-party system. The problem is they don’t understand that in every political system you have to build coalitions. The two major American parties are coalitions of voters that have formed pre-election.

Please, for the love of god, if you’re going to engage in structuring at least don’t WRITE DOWN that you’re knowingly doing it to get around the prohibition on structuring. I mean don’t engage in structuring period. But definitely don’t WRITE IT DOWN.

“Michael’s political philosophy seemed to merge seventies stand-up with nostalgia for his father’s Brooklyn, where you didn’t pretend sameness to achieve harmony but forged a camaraderie of confrontation”

FRED, rather than Google, gives over $42k in 2023, and a $7k increase between 2013 and 2023. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/mepai...