So much of the Onion's stuff... You laugh while the wind's getting knocked out of you.

A US Marshal who is part of Trump's surge of feds in DC shot and killed someone in DC yesterday evening and there is barely any coverage and not a single post on here yet about it? wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

“My work here is done.”

"The buck stops with one of the 20-year-old trapeze artists, Christian summer camp counselors, associate pastors, or other assorted Palm Beach weirdos who fill virtually every role in my administration."

As ICE continues its onslaught on Minnesota, the worst hiring numbers since January 2009, the Epstein files etc., it's wild to see conservative spaces in particular go into feeding frenzy over this quote to avoid actual reality. WaPo putting another nail in their coffin joining that cacophony.

It’s so depressing that this former Mace staffer’s takeaway from the situation was “never meet your heroes,” rather than reconsidering the reasons they considered Mace a hero in the first place. Few sentences more bleak than “Nancy Mace is my hero.”

So this would kill the NSO.

Tom Nichols complaining about college kids protesting someone. Because when you're facing a fascist takeover, retreading the same old tired "but what of free speech on campus?!" trope for the millionth time is definitely the way.

Just thinking about the late oughts, when Fox, Erick Erickson, and the rest of the rightwing media machine fueled assaults on over a hundred census workers by pretending that Obama had taken over the program and was going to enslave white people with them.

Great job, MAHA.

The sooner moderates like Craig get it through their heads that Republicans like Emmer *do not care* about the consequences of their actions, the better off we'll all be. No friendly lunch or stern talking to is going to sway them from gleefully celebrating the violence their politics encourage.

Watched the Titan documentary about Stockton Rush and his psychopathy is indistinguishable from the rest of the billionaires that have poisoned American society in the 21st century. I control reality, rules are for the poor, let them sort out the externalities of my hubris.

“AOC is a pErfOrManCe ArTiSt”

Watched Die Hard tonight. Struck by how William Atherton’s reporter is clearly depicted as an asshole. When Holly punches him, there’s laughter accompanying the punch. One of the proof points the film uses to paint him this way? He threatens to call immigration on a Hispanic woman.

Don’t know if they’d succeed, but the attempt would be worth watching for certain.

Nerd alert: There’s a set of Star Wars novels about a character named Darth Bane and I constantly think about how accurately it’s depiction of the Sith maps to the Republican Party.

Trayon White also sees how RCV could kick his ass to the curb in the future.

The establishment in DC has always benefits from challengers splitting opposition to them. Of course, Bowser Jr.'s got concerns.

I know I’m very late to this party but like… This isn’t news. CNN is just doing Target marketing. Also a Target in SoHo, what are we doing, NYC?

Sitting on a plane and notice someone watching the Super Girl trailer on social media, but it’s a video of someone else reacting to it. And I wonder if this type of stuff has been the field being tilled toward handing over our thought to LLMs.

Once again, heckuva job Doctor Senator Bill Cassidy.

Disney just put a billion dollars into this company and intends to feed its slop to your kids.

"Wait... Soak my baby in glue? Well, if ChatGPT says it, it must be true! Thank you, OpenAI!"

Christ, we are so doomed.

But seriously, I was an art major kid who took business classes in college and the sociopathic tendencies of the b school kids will live with me forever.

Businessmen drink my blood Like the kids in art school said they would

As futile as I know the exercise is, this is another one of those, "Any Democrat would be drawn and quartered by the media," if they ever suggested that American Football be renamed to accommodate soccer.

I'd like to announce that President Donald J. Trump will be the inaugural recipient of the Sigh Clone Foundation's first annual Very Good Boy Who Totally Didn't Rape Children award. It is an honor to bestow this highly coveted, prestigious award that heretofore did not exist on such a deserving man

One aspect of the Trump-era that is underdiscussed is just how much of it is powered by decades-long failure of institutions to call out scams and snuff them out. This allowed them to accrue vast sums of ill-gotten money which they then used to buy elections and turn our society into a grift machine

Because it just cosplays as a political film and completely amputates any original political connections that Pynchon made - One Battle After Another says nothing. It's a bad movie. Looks good. Fine cast. Meaningless waste of time and money.

As their policy increases the likelihood of climate disasters, such as wildfires, they tout making cars more flammable.

Just another day in the United States of scAmerica.

I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...

Had a feeling this would happen when I initially saw the governor’s tweet. Such irresponsible behavior is just par for the course for Republican electeds.

Sweet lord, Donald Trump is the weakest motherfucker on the planet and that so many conservatives line up to lick his boots and call him daddy is just amazing. "Please don't offend this gentleman who murdered an American resident by referencing said murder."

Will all the folks who think Schumer controls his caucus with an iron fist also be up in arms here that Jeffries is facing a "jailbreak" on this, or can we all finally admit that there are limits to caucus leader's mystical powers?

Bullshit - from the idea that a sophisticated text predictor "panicked" and blackmailed a researcher to Anthropic claiming they want regulation they offer zero details on. But even taking it at face value - why the fuck would anyone want to pay for this product? www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...

The funny thing about this is that with all this effort for someone so not worth it, she still comes across as a grifter/insane person. The details about RFK, who she "loved" - his stinky car and his habit of yelling at dogs. But seriously, can we get her an interview with @ichotiner.bsky.social ?

we’d be better off if we just skip straight to the Butlerian Jihad. IMO, Silicon Valley’s LLM path just ain’t going to give way to true AGI, but the more I think about it, the less I understand why we’d even want AGI.

It's funny to me to see so many on Bluesky, who typically take every opportunity to dunk on the likes of Silver/Yglesias/Chait as constantly wrong about everything, holding them up to say, "Even these guys agree with me!" Yeah, that should make you question your premise, no?

What bothers me is folks acting like Dems don’t also know this. Republicans control Congress and weren’t budging. Getting them on record as many times as possible taking shit positions is one piece to returning to power. Until then 47<53 - it is what it is.

No, they didn’t. Republicans did that by voting for BBB. At some point everyone needs to digest the reality that 47<53.

I think the goal for Dems was to force a mercurial Trump to deal - it’s happened before. But after election blowout, terrible public sentiment for R’s, Trump was not signaling a willingness to go to the table, it was to nuke the filibuster. Dems had to cut bait at some point.

Again, I urge journalists who get this answer to ask a simple question of Johnson: "Are your staff appropriately briefing you on current events, given this constant refrain?"

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Thing about this too is that House offices are tiny - staff are crammed on top of each other. LC is basically 3rd lowest rung on the ladder - just kind of impossible to believe that more senior staff around him didn't notice this up.

Vance, a catholic who has literally been criticized by the fucking Pope, trying to diminish Schumer’s Jewishness is sure something.

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

JFC, this guy could not be more up his own ass. Apparently my wife is unreasonable for noticing multiple armed guardsman a day on her commute to and from work. Imagine the tiny sliver of the population that Matt Yglesias must consider as "reasonable."