"It's difficult to think in celebratory terms when I have spent two years seeing what shrapnel does to a child's body. It's difficult to think in celebratory terms when I know that my tax money is doing this." - Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award

Pitt's motto is this in Latin

Why is Joe from "Holey Moley" here

Skipped Part 2 so the universe acted as the great equalizer and had the man behind me in line at the pharmacy have a speakerphone convo about the five Ws of his STD contraction.

Convinced my kid to watch the Ms. Rachel potty training video by telling them it was Emmy nominated, in case you were wondering if they were my child.

All of Bluesky this morning:

I've got wonderful news, there was a great r/askhistorians post on this a couple days ago! Even answers the club question. reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

ACC after dark

What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/

brutal but accurate (amusingly, though, this does not carry over to everyone who watched Better Call Saul, all of whom would have run through a brick wall for Kim)

I handed out neighbor-printed whistles in Flatbush tonight and it was lovely. New Yorkers in motion do not EVER stop to chat but for this, they did. One church lady in a fancy hat gleefully took a whistle and told me she’d “blow they icy asses outta her town,” then apologized skyward for swearing.

the biggest loser today is elise stefanik and to that i say lol. and furthermore, lmao.

Ahahaha eat shit Marjorie Taylor Greep I always hated that your initials were the same as Magic the Gathering, stolen fuckin valor indeed

"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game

help

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

Loomer having a sad

OH MY GOD

Who can really say which approach is most effective

It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together

my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner

pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.

This is the funniest thing that has happened this year.

I urge everyone at Thanksgiving to reply to all political rhetoric from your drunk father-in-law with “quiet piggy” and see what happens. I’ll report back with my findings.

As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.

KEXP reaffirming my love for them this morning as they play a back to back set of: - jack and diane but most of the lyrics are "sucking on a chili dog" - detachable penis - combination pizza hut and taco bell

This is where I am with ranking my year-end list. I used to do it bc I had to, now I don't have to so I don't do it. The simple reason is that the rankings are arbitrary BS, and one of my few jobs as a critic is not to bullshit my reader!

WE NEED THE WATER, THE FROGS STAY MARRIED.

teams should lose the designated hitter when the starting pitcher leaves the game

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

Now THIS???? is a white man! this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!

PATRIOTS. It's time to post rare Husses

Nearly everything you think you know about Riley Gaines is a lie or an exaggeration or both. Incredible work from @msjpauly.bsky.social and PTFO crew.

I’m howling.

hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz

imagine being so awful that you're banned from satan's funeral

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Little kids doing a pretend grown up voice are so merciless they are torching our asses

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

Oh. Oh no.

Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project

Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US. Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

Reading this perfect Onion headline like this

It's dizzying (in good way!) how many small and independent newsrooms are in Los Angeles. More spinning up as described in article. Not sugar coating news economics here. Still, these upstarts are SO valuable to civic life and community! Important we support them ALL when it comes to press rights.

It’s pedophiles all the way down.

This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...