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These Polymarket ads claiming they "predict the future" are going to drive me fucking insane. You're not predicting anything. You're making a bet and occasionally getting lucky. That's all. It's like a cargo cult formed around a roulette wheel.

this post is actually about mitch mcconnel

republicans in 2008: WE DEMAND TARP!! republicans in 2026: WE DEMAND TARP!!

Make America Shitty (literally) Again

1) Interesting "Dems Not in Disarray" front-page framing. 2) Point Dems need to keep making: -Virtually every Dem leader has now come out publicly against Platner. -Virtually every GOP party leader still all-in for Ken Paxton. (And, of course, for Trump) This is not a "both sides" situation.

the magic of Terry Pratchett

It wasn’t chess. It was common fucking sense! It was having values and sticking to them!

his best path forward is to get off the damn path

I have edited a lot of sexual-assault-accusation articles, and this one easily clears every veracity check: contemporaneous emails with her therapist, a boyfriend who knew, a woman she warned—all before Platner ran for office. Good on Politico for nailing it, and on Jenny Racicot for speaking up.

maine democratic party: the best day to have dropped him would have been before the primary. the next best would have been yesterday. the third best day to drop him is today. drop him.

Mitch McConnell remains in a sealed box with a cesium atom

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

as long as Taylor’s were sung and choreographed, and Travis’s used game film, i’ll allow it.

not sunset. elkset.

1. Communism is utterly un-American. 2. Authoritarianism/fascism is utterly un-American too. 3. The Democratic Party is not Communist. Not yet. Not even close. 4. The Republican Party IS authoritarian/fascist. RIGHT NOW. So…which party is the greater threat to America?

you expect me to believe that there were at least 44 people there? but not at the same time, right?

stealth ptarmigan, and a nice view of Red Cone, Pike National Forest, on the way up to Webster pass (on foot)

yeah, i was totally ghosted after breaking up too. nothing special. [holds earpiece] hold on, i’m getting an update from my editor on the meaning of that word …

Called "Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum", it was a small building in the temple & palace complex where even older objects were on display, along with clay cylinders imprinted with information ABOUT the object. Museum labels. Dating to 530 BCE. A collection of antiques from an empire already 2000 yrs old.

Phil Weiser wins the Democratic nomination for Colorado governor, defeating sitting U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, @nbcnews.com projects.

Any Democratic candidates who arent 112% in on REVENGE TOUR 2026! and 💥💥🔥🔥EXTRA BIG REVENGE TOUR 2028!!!!🔥🔥💥💥 can fuck off into the sun. Just sayin.

Tom Kean Jr. was healthy enough to authorize stock transactions up to $190,000 during his nearly 4-month absence from the House. There’s more to this story than he’s saying.

glad we invested and deployed all that cheap grid scale solar and wind which operates during peak heat/long days oh wait

Colorado has 100% mailed ballots, which can be mailed back, put in drop boxes, or voided to vote in person early or on election day. but one absolute: received by 7pm Tuesday or it doesn’t count. 7:01 in line to vote in person is fine. 7:01 at the drop box is TOO LATE.

when they run that DNA through the (then common) genome-printers, a Kaiju Uncle Sam is created, reigning death, devastation, and freedom on the world

you have to read ‘fair is closed’ in the voice Eddie used in Christmas Vacation, saying ‘shitter’s full’

ah yes, one out of every seven americans will be sitting on the grass in front of the washington monument. makes perfect sense.

[Peter Parker] so, I *don’t* have danger detecting spider sense??

"Israelis lose friends over official policy of massacring civilians" could also have worked.

Jingo, Terry Pratchett (Discworld series)

petard, meet hoist

Welcome? This witless chowderhead doesn't know that passports are issued to US citizens for use traveling abroad? Welcome? Christ, he's so relentlessly stupid.

so, *not* peace agreement, then?

No member of Congress should be able to profit off the stock market while in office, and if you can’t agree to that, you have no business being in public office.

camel-leopard campaign completes, luckily lost no longer

Just the Speaker of the House pledging that if you vote Republican he will continue to make sure all the corruption and criminality happening in the Trump admin will be covered up by him and his do-nothing committee chairs. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

when i was young and single and shy, this was just called being ‘young and single and shy’

Free is no longer all right now

heard a song titled “phenobarbiedoll” and wondering why i’ve never heard that phrase before open.spotify.com/track/4soKql...

just ignoring the "a big dem tent, but not like that" howling and moving right along. we are a meaningful and soon to be powerful bloc in the future of the party i've been a member of my entire adult life and that's not going to change

This is the way. If Democrats aren’t progressive enough, PRIMARY them. Be active in, and vote in the primaries. But once you get to the general election, VOTE, and vote Democrat no matter what. Because whatever your reservations are, Trumpism is 100x worse.

“We’ve watched as a talentless totem of meaningless celebrity gutted scientific research, pardoned traitors, paid off terrorists, tortured families, murdered innocents, and wrapped himself in the flag of freedom while demanding our gratitude for each humiliation.”

I want to see all the OpEds tomorrow about how all the left leaning candidates winning and all the centrists losing means Dems need to reach out to MAGA voters better, somehow.

Mission Accomplished

wait, its a win to allow inspectors into the ‘totally obliterated’ nuclear sites?

no sand in sight. checks out.

job? when he’s living in a van down by the river??

Dad Joke of the Day: Penguins secrete an oil that coats their feathers and aids heat retention, proving the old adage that the oily bird gets the warm. #DJotD 🐧

wait … i have some questions: 1) therapy ferrets? 2) to kill rats? 3) at UK’s largest children’s prison?? 4) what do all the rest of the UK children’s prisons use for rat control???