I can't wait for the next episode of Pope Fights where Blue has to do some weird nonsense about the current pope and Charlie Kirk, who is the weird one true pope selected by hyper conservative American Catholics.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Every picture of Stephen Miller makes him look like "we have Lex Luthor at home."

Petition to require every Superbowl halftime show to include the guest yelling "A MINOR!"

Why use precedent when you can solve everything with history and tradition*? *Best practiced when you are not a historian, nor do you have any training in examining or researching history.

Me listening to the Maintenance Phase episodes on Richard Simmons: There should be a musical about him, he'd love it. Me getting to the end of the Richard Simmons episodes: He was working on a musical about himself before he died and I wish he got the chance to finish because he deserved it.

The fact that Eric Adams pulling a sponge out of his breast pocket to tell us to wring out the saturated sponge of despair while making an argument that there shouldn't be a separation between church and state is by far not the weirdest thing he has done continues to astound me daily.

There is pretty much no reason to offer praise for Eric Adams as a sitting Dem politician. I do not understand the calculus here. Adams is hilariously corrupt, has a competitively tiny base of support, and is not particularly liked by anyone. This is a silly statement that only engenders irritation.

Did the Haters win, or did Hell Gate win with this post?

Every time I put my kid in a sleep sack, because they put it on arms first while standing up at this point, they just look like they're wearing a captain's haori from Bleach.

Deans could do this. They may be scared of the blowback (specifically loss of federal funding), but it is very obvious that, despite what ACB says, SCOTUS is absolutely shredding the Constitution. This is an extreme moment requiring extreme, concerted, meaningful action.

I think this is a bigger deal than the Comey stuff. Like this is beyond characters in the Trump cinematic universe—this is a local pillar of his community being targeted for, what, exactly? It cannot be tolerated.

What the fuck?

Gunpla

Criticizing the enlightened centrist isn’t kicking them out of the so-called tent, it is presenting them with an opportunity to stop eroding the integrity of the tent by tirelessly trying to find commonality with people who want to burn the tent down.

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

There is no way that any Democrat can support a funding bill under these circumstances. Allowing the President to continue to illegally and unconstitutionally run roughshod over our domestic and foreign policy simply cannot be allowed.

Indeed, elite law professor brain, as I think this thread points out, is not exactly cut out for this moment because it has been trained to functionally not accept everything is currently as bad as it is.

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

We have reached the point in the fascist regime where the escalators are plotting to kill the president with the help of the UN, so, everything is going great.

Oh man, the immediately getting frustrated followed by Isaac Chotiner simply saying "Sure" is perfect.

ICE is evil and The Pokemon Company should ignore the former CLO and just become the coolest big video game company.

The right's Charlie Kirk cancellation spree has emboldened gaming's worst aftermath.site/charlie-kirk...

My God, the Cass Sunstein interview is a doozy.

Let's have experts in things report on the things.

What even is grief, anyway? Or respect? Or common decency?

Starting to think that maybe we just need to walk up to government officials with open food bags, saying things like "Please, sir, approve this high speed rail project" and "my good man, if you would just help us build some affordable housing."

Stephen Miller is the guy at the DnD table everyone is worried about. For several reasons.

Maybe everything is a dumpster fire right now, but I have an important question: Do you remember the twenty-first night of September?

The Viennese model seriously is what we should be trying to do here more aggressively.

Why am I in the top 1%, I am a rando with fundamentally boring thoughts?

The BDS news has made it onto Bluesky. Absolutely bananas wild stuff happening in the defender office in the most populous borough.

You almost certainly aren’t going to get out of the war crimes tribunal by producing a letter that you solicited because you were aware that the legality of your orders was questionable.

We've reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! I talked with @aussiastronomer.bsky.social about where things go from here. (A great graphic by @unamandita.bsky.social visualizes the amazing jumps in planet finds since the first ones were confirmed in the 1990s.)

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

Ah, it's that time of year* when all New Yorkers look at Jay Jacobs and ask why? *It's always that time.

You don't hate the rich nearly enough.

When the fascists lose power, and I do believe that will happen, one of the main things we have to do is go absolutely wild with enforcement of antitrust laws and start breaking up companies. They're too big and too invested in number-go-up-ology to be good for a democracy.

Agreed, and I think part of this is Pritzker gets more than most how being the anti-Trump isn't trying to out-funny the funny man, to compete in the irony-poised joke game, to be another outlandish character. It's being earnest and serious about the stakes of a real crisis, like a functional adult.

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Excellent piece about weird centrist word policing and how it's fundamentally silly and bad.

NEW: The family of Delta State University student Trey Reed is calling for an independent autopsy after his body was found hanging in a tree on campus. U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson is calling for a federal investigation, citing "Mississippi’s painful history of lynching and racial violence."

It would be super awesome if a messaging apparatus even tried to point out how unpopular all of this is and poke that whole “consent of the governed” thing that is kinda the foundation of representative government

chuck's gotta go, man just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public

You'll never guess how the Israeli ambassador to the UN responded to the UN COI report.* *Yes you will.

How did this supercut not include the saturated sponge of despair, which I think is the most magnificent thing anyone has ever uttered in human existence?

Yet another killing seemingly without any legal authorization. The previous boat was heading to Trinidad and Tobago and there has yet to be ANY evidence of imminent danger requiring a lethal strike. Virtually no fentanyl or opioids travel by this route.

I don't really have words for this. You can't just blow up ships full of Brown people and then say they were terrorist drug traffickers. That's not actually a justification for it.