The way republicans talk about birth tourism reminds me of all the dumb bullshit they used to say about gay marriage. I have an uncle who told me he was worried about straight men marrying each other to get tax breaks, for example

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

I'm very surprised the government's argument in the birthright citizenship case is longer than 14 words.

Trump is going to be posting like, “LOOK AT THAT WONDERFUL ROCKET I PERSONALLY CREATED! WE WILL DOMINATE THE WORLD WITH IT MAGA MAGA MAGA”

Really what is going to happen is that we’re going to get them when America’s oil and gas oligarchy have sacrificed our technological competitiveness to a point where we are so hopelessly behind that we need to accept being entirely dependent on China for our cars.

It’s taco Tuesday once again

The DOW is up again, which of course means that everything this administration is doing is OK

I am going to introduce Earthsea to my daughter when she’s old enough and not Harry Potter, very intentionally.

oh shit oh fuck I don't have nearly enough Robux to bribe these ICE agents.

Landfills (good landfills anyway) actually do a lot of really interesting environmental engineering and science.

one of my related hot takes is that we should ban news networks from real-time updates of results. they can report results when the votes are counted.

I honestly admire Ms. Rachael’s moral clarity so much

"What kind of TSA PreCheck Member are you"

I’m in the Mark, I’m in the Wayne Mullen… I’m in the combination Markwayne Mullen

I think Fetterman and Shapiro should serve as a warning against Democrats falling in love with a politician just because he’s a brash, loudmouth dude from Pennsylvania who happens to still caucus as a Democrat

Shakespeare would LOVE writing about Americans.

People acting like it was hard to tell if Elon is a right wing psycho when he named his son Saxon 20 years ago

I believe every good piece of media has a central question it’s trying to answer. My theory about Demon Slayer is that it’s a reflection on the nature of honor in a really specifically Japanese sense

Garçon! One cheeseburger my good man! Oh … and a lovely tall glass of MILK to wash it all down! I’m feeling quite based this evening

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

i think a lot of platner's boosters are taking a line that's basically "well, the tattoo is stupid but he's not really a nazi," but that's missing the full spectrum of possibilities here. you can look at fetterman. lots of these folksy populists drift right because they don't have real commitments

I see allowing Claude to write code for you with no safety measures on is exactly like googling all your problems on Stack Overflow and copy/pasting the first answer you find

A sad day for those of us who say “go Robert Mueller and the rule of law”

Sean Penn's characters really bookend this phenomenon perfectly.

The one thing Chuck Norris couldn’t beat… *falls through trapdoor*

[tears phone book in half with bare hands] I’m just very passionate about the marvel entertainment property Howard the Duck

This kind of reminds me of the discourse about people taking about music like they’re record executives, ie. that it makes people forget how to enjoy music for its own sake. To wit: IMO there’s a lane of discourse in politics where people talk about it like they’re politicians and not citizens.

“And I think I’m a sport for doing so” is going into the rotation

It is very funny to me that Markwayne Mullen is getting owned in his hearing by Rand Paul

You know it smell crazy in there

I’d love to hear more from republicans about how bad they think it is that Iran is a theocracy with vicious morality police. Maybe they’re bombing out of jealousy

Current mood

After NBA championships and Oscars from the first two, I’m excited to see what Michael C. Jordan can do.

The petro-dollar is going away, and I don’t think America’s financial ruling class fully appreciates how it’s going to wipe out their control of global markets

Fuck Coinbase

I have a pet theory that this latest round of dumb bullshit re: oil is going to be where China comes out on top in an obviously zero-sum way, and the untenable position of being overly dependent on oil is going to finally register with the cocaine-snorting frat bros who run the American economy.

Please please please don’t look at my big dipshit boys being big dipshits on camera. Please please please please

I am never going to get over this MFer’s Christian name being “Markwayne”

I will not be looking up who “woke ginger” is, thank you very much

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

This is the most brutal Onion headline in a while

Every time I start to see the utility of using Claude code in my day-to-day work I remember how much it would cost me if I didn’t work for a company that can pay for it for me

“And the Middle Eastern conflict is getting laaaarger”

They run on diesel

I am imagining what you could do after the BART extension through to Santa Clara is finished. I’m thinking you would be able to cut-and-cover homestead instead of digging out that tunnel even more, since this wouldn’t be out under downtown San Jose