I’m very proud to be Puerto Rican. Thank you, Benito ❤️🇵🇷

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By god, that's a Wisconsin curler

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

For Liam.

This is beside the point, and in the overall scheme of things, relatively unimportant, but: we will know what the real deal is with supposed positive masculinity influencers like Richard Reeves and Scott Galloway by what - and how much - they have to say about Alex Pretti.

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

People do care about prices. The question is, do Democrats actually have a *plan* to address prices? Genuinely asking, because I have not seen anything. If this is where we're staking our claim, we should probably have a plan!

Minnesota has been extremely bravely engaging in fierce but non-violent resistance for so long now. Actually acknowledge that for once instead of constantly saying "don't take the bait" God

You just got trucked by a man who who has a promise ring

Con law professors stop giving good faith to neoconfederate white supremacists in a suit and tie challenge difficulty impossible.

i don’t mean to be dramatic but i’d pay a million dollars for this coat

He tried to tell you...

baby beluga swam so wild and swam so free that now he’s leading a liberation army. he grew up and he has a rocket launcher now.

you can't position yourself as the defenders of liberal democracy if you can't say that a summary execution, caught on camera, should result in an arrest

Speaking of the American church, where I have landed is that it is so difficult as to be nearly impossible to be both prosperous and capable of humbling oneself and rejecting temporal notions of hierarchy -- i.e., a Christian in the image of Christ.

Name names or shut the fuck up. This routine is so fucking boring, man

i don't know what my sons will be when they grow up but i know what they won't be and that's in the fucking military

Trumpism is the worst of the last 50 years of Republican politics, amped up, legally unbound, and garnished with some noise and nonsense about tariffs. That's all it is and all it's ever been.

Zohran has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

Young men may have said that to canvassers or whoever, but what they actually believed was "only a man should be able to tell other men to do war stuff," and this was not particularly difficult to discern.

I simply cannot take into account the opinions of people who believe in Blexas

what rankles the most is that in all likelihood no one is going to do a fucking thing about this beyond a collective shrug. BAU

Saw a guy in his late 70s at the cafe in Barnes & Noble holed up with a small black coffee and four newly purchased WWII books. 2026 is looking up already.

Is there a more satisfying holiday activity than shaving one's sweaters?

This, more than anything else, is the reason why the U.S. will never meaningfully rebuild from this admin.

The taxidermy situation in this house is sending me

*Movies they saw when they were in their 20s

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

When it comes to understanding movement conservatism (at least in the Anglosphere) you’d be better served by watching a four hour YouTube video about the Last Jedi than by reading Reflections on the Revolution in France

It’s very very frustrating to know that there isn’t much chance of any accountability for this behavior after Trump

What this boils down to is what you think the purpose of art is. And that is something about which people have very different views.

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I think all the time about how far and wide the "litter boxes in schools" talking point spread. To me it is the best representation of Will's thesis that the information environment - particularly social media - is the controlling factor in what people believe.

The most prominent example of this is on his second Presidential term. People do not pay any attention to records

This is basically what happened with vaccines.

Where is the public health guidance?! Could the problem possibly be that the people who gripe to each other about vaccines on Facebook are not people who would take 5 seconds to look for and read very easy to find information?

Was struck on a recent rewatch that, more than anything else, the pilot put viewers in the "Walter's life sucks because his bitch wife emasculates him; therefore, his meth-making is actually good and cool because he's reclaiming control" frame.

This does give me ideas for how to use ChatGPT for good (suggesting ways to enrich myself via wealthy morons and the placebo effect)

What I cannot understand is, *who is this for?* If he gave even the slightest shit about kids or Hep B patients, he wouldn't have voted to confirm RFK. So why pretend now?

Thinking of the time I overheard two 60-something coworkers discussing Pokemon, and one described it as cock fighting for kids.

I love going to the dog park with my kids. The old (human) regulars will make a beeline for me, ready to subject me to their endless chatter, then BAM! my 5-year-old hits them with the reverse. They never see it coming. When they get tired of her, in swoops the 13-year-old to charm their socks off.

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

"Natural Birth" was a fairly obvious ploy to get women to be their own oppressors that nevertheless was wildly successful because it activated that part of our lizard brains that loves the opportunity to prove ourselves better than other women

8-year-old told me he had a dream that his dad and I got divorced and I remarried...Ryan Reynolds. "He was always trying to act cool around us, like Deadpool. I didn't like him at all."

A whale caught in crab nets is fighting for her life on the Oregon Coast near Yachats, with so many people rushing there before official help arrives at dawn. The whale is vocalizing distress, asking for help. It's devastating. We have to find a way to stop entanglements. Unconscionable.

Was finishing up vacuuming out the car when a royal blue, 1998(?) Cadillac DeVille came rolling down the street blasting "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," so, yeah, my Saturday's going pretty great.

if microsoft just made outlook search not suck they'd see triple the productivity gains of any AI integration