Nine times out of ten, "they didn't teach us this in school" is shorthand for "I didn't do the assigned reading".

Whenever Trump claims that someone else is doing something to him, 100% of the time that is exactly what he's doing to everyone else. This post of his is a claim that he is going to interfere with elections and jeopardize the integrity of the 2026 elections.

But...but...we don't use the strait, I thought. I'm pretty sure I was told that.

This is how the New York Times is framing and reporting this (far down on their webpage)

John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.

Honestly my biggest takeaway from this clip is that Obama is very consciously elevating Mamdani (whom he cites unprompted as an example of the right way to do this) as a model while other top Dems still shirk him.

Dedra

Me, whispering into the void: We didn't become a country in 1776

His handlers including many if not all cabinet members are not showing him these numbers but instead are telling him he's the most popular and best president ever

You can't even really call this 'polarization' or 'politics' anymore. It's a direct attack on egalitarian and democratic values and principles, coming from venerable institutions charged with defending them. A rot from within that has to be reckoned with for what it is.

And then I said, you know, these ICE stops are brief. It'll be fine.

I hate cable news more than I can possibly put into words. Oh, the face of a violent crackdown on American cities that brutalized American citizens and destroyed countless lives? Give her tens of thousands of dollars immediately to be a contrarion that people will hate! It'll get viewers!

We were not able to watch live. A King saying this on the podium of the House is a hell of a thing.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Hell, you don't even need to have worked in hospitality. You just need to have been to a diner or, hell, watched a TV show that took place in a diner.

If Republicans feel really strongly about getting taxpayers to pay for Trump's golden ballroom, they should go out there and hold some town halls with their constituents. They can bring photos of the chandeliers and maybe a sample of the marble for them to look at. I'm sure it'll be a big hit!

This is up there with some of the most deranged pro se filings I have seen, and I'm not exaggerating even a little bit.

Reminder: Occam's Razor, and logic, demand that you start from simple explanations. Also, when you charge something - "this is a false flag/op/whatever" - the burden of proof is on the accuser, not on everyone else to prove it *isn't* a conspiracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Don’t try to shoot anyone over it, which won’t help anything, but it remains absolutely true that Trump is an existential threat to America who should be removed from office as quickly as possible. He’s a sociopathic megalomaniac whose corruption and unfitness is unparalleled in history. Impeach

The game where every time someone acts crazy about Trump we all have to pretend he’s some beloved figure or just a normal president is perverse. Trump is a lunatic, he does things every single day that would end any prior administration, and the media’s weird fetish for normalizing it is repulsive

how many host bodies do you think sam altman has had

The insider accounts from WHCA that I’ve seen say so much about what’s wrong with DC: people more concerned with establishing that they were in the important room than fixing what happened in it.

“State of the culture observation” being about how dissonant it felt to have the average American even in DC watching the Stanley cup playoffs instead of wall to wall CNN coverage about an attempted shooting in the USA would be really interesting if there was any self reflection in it. Yet!

I’d like to think they’re all booing Pat McAfee and not Goodell

I'm pretty confident that the plan all along was to kill CBS News

Is a ceasefire really a ceasefire if you're shooting rockets at each other? Asking for a friend.

I took a 2-week trip to Spain with my 27-yo son in June and a 2-week trip to Germany with my 25-yo son in December. We each took a 45L duffel/backpack that we carried on our flights and trains, even European airlines. That's all we needed.

The Fourth Estate no longer exists. An argument could be made they are not worthy of 1A protections.

Just to go back to basics: I once worked on a (winning) presidential campaign. Something too obvious for anyone to mention was: "Don't get into a fight with the Pope over who knows more about Jesus." These people are morons.

Trump humiliated her but she still valorizes him. Pathetic.

People who have their iPhone alerts audible while riding Amtrak should be arrested

I know plenty of conservative Catholics and they didn't like Francis and they certainly don't like Leo...they're fine with MAGA denouncing them and they're kinda OK with the fascism too

Trump's condemnation of Alex Jones is entirely transactional and has nothing whatsoever to do with principle. Jones has started attacking Trump over the Iran disaster, and Trump in return is throwing back anything he thinks will stick. He doesn't care about the Sandy Hook victims or survivors.

These people's brains are cooked

Happy Confederate Surrender Day

From a post: “Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”

Did the Trump administration really threaten to invade the Vatican and take over the papacy?

There is no way Trump wrote this. He may have approved it but he doesn't have the writing skills nor the vocabulary to have composed this.

I know this isn't an imminent danger like Iran but what the hell are we doing?

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

I ate six hot dogs and now I have a head ache. I think I've been poisoned

Undoubtedly it was the studio version of Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead. Had never heard anything like it (and still haven't if I'm being honest).

TLDR; don’t be a jerk, be empathetic, and stop being so self-centered Good advice for everyone, really

Self-checkout kiosks are questionable in-store tech? Maybe from a labor standpoint but certainly not from a consumer standpoint.

From his deathbed, Trump is threatening everyone that he's firing them. Someone with access to his Truth Social account posted that unhinged rant in an attempt to stay in his good graces. Only the most bloodthirsty screed can penetrate his fog.

🤔 I opened up my NYT page and saw this