The Trump Administration wants us to think of Trump's racism as a character flaw grandpa sometimes sadly lets express itself too aggressively, when the reality is that the white nationalism is the governing, organizing logic of his administration that all Republicans are complicit with.

President Trump: Things aren't working in Minnesota. Let's put an even more depraved idiot in charge. Advisors: Brilliant idea, sir. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I feel personally aggrieved at the frequency with which this administration is making me nod along while Rand Paul is talking.

Me, on January 31: so glad I did dry January. Feels great to reset and I’ve lost a few pounds. Me, on February 1:

It’s just that only white midwestern Americans think mayo’s a little too spicy.

Divisive views like “do unto others as you would have done unto you” and “love your neighbor as yourself”

🎵”wolves and cougars ate our roast beef”

"To invoke Nietzsche, the problem with Shapiro’s dives into philosophy and spirituality aren’t just that they fail to be deep. It’s that they aren’t even superficial." Oof. Great review by @mattpolprof.bsky.social and Nathan Robinson. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...

As someone who’s read all of McCarthy’s work and is halfway through After Virtue I can’t recommend this great easy by @mattpolprof.bsky.social essay enough: jacobin.com/2025/08/corm...

Here’s a thing I’d like news outlets to distinguish as protests of the mad king continue. Property damage (graffiti) is not violence in the same sense that assault (cops beating protesters) is violence. You can’t just say a protest was violent because someone shit on the hood of a cybertruck.

I know philosophy of science isn’t in vogue, but it’s really important to understand how to tell which direction the causal arrow goes sometimes.

This obviously isn’t the most important problem with this, but the way he tents his fingers and repeats himself as if the pseudo-profound pablum he’s spewing is going make peoples’ minds blow is really irritating.

I also see jokes, sports, good dogs, and bodega cats. You control your feed.

In my opinion August and Everything After is an A+ album, Recovering the Satellites is a solid B and I’ll never listen to any other of their albums because I’m not in college anymore.

Just give me the Playmobil regular.

They’re calling it transubstantiation aren’t they folks? Transubstantiation. We’re transubstanting better than we ever have before. They’re saying it’s the best blood and maybe the best wine too but we’ll see about that.

Would it kill them to—just one time—put the “this is a dumb idea” part in the headline and not in the fourth paragraph?

Finished this really interesting book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social today. Would recommend.

I asked ChatGPT about Hume, Spinoza, and Frankfurt. oystermonkey.blogspot.com/2025/03/chat...

Cancelled tv show you will never stop thinking about.

The clock in my Lyft drivers car is 4 hours and 26 minutes slow.

The thing is, yes, we want Ebola prevention. We also want all the other things our elected representatives voted to fund. Not sure where the idea came from that we suddenly have line item veto for federal spending bills.

Doing anything that benefits anyone but billionaires is woke.

I get the impulse to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy- but it really just doesn’t matter. Law is power, precedent is for suckers, democracy is obsolete.

There are many, many problems with anti-DEI rhetoric, but one thing that is clear from the arguments of most of the critics of DEI efforts is that they haven’t really worked in places where it’s been implemented.

[Cop]: do you know how fast you were going? [Heisenberg]: no. [Cop]: you were doing 68 in a 55. [Heisenberg]: Great. Now I’m lost.

On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston

Do I read mgoblog too much if this is my first thought? @mgoblog.bsky.social @mgoseth.bsky.social

Kyle McCord throwing for 380 and 3 TDs against a top 10 team on a day OSU scored 10 points against 5 loss Michigan couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fanbase.

Gotta order these fast before the tariffs on overseas products kick in and the cost goes up 20%.

Would have been nice to have a country for a change.