so take heed, take heed of the western winds, take heed of the stormy weather, and yes there is something you can send back to me, spanish boots of spanish leather man what a fucking great song

Tried to read some of the Epstein shit, but a) it's revolting, and b) everything that motherfucker wrote makes me feel like I'm having some sort of cognitive meltdown.

just gonna mambo into the world's most secure room here real quick to talk about this made up thing

A court that does not follow stare decisis and does not publish opinions not a court at all, but some arbitrary body unknown in Anglo-American tradition.

truly wild that vance went from poor white trash to the military to the ivy league and just ended up where he always was, a gutter racist. nature vs nurture taking a brutal ass whooping on this one

imagine constructing a religious narrative where the most busybody repressed assholes get shipped off the planet and everybody else is supposed to be sad.

And it's like, how much more Idiocracy could this be? And the answer is none. None more Idiocracy.

[guy who voted to confirm a dipshit] man, this guy’s a fucking dipshit

online is actually a quite forgiving space. bill kristol is basically a fifth beatle on this place despite being an imperialist his whole life. people don’t like yglesias and silver because they suck shit. my advice to them is to stop sucking shit.

it is remarkably transparent how "the Mental and Physical Competence of the President" were profession-defining issues for political journalists for like two years but now they don't exist

Anxiety up a band: My Chemical Spill

It feels like if AI blorps were actually so transformative, I would not need to be told all day every day how transformative AI blorps and blips are.

An aggressive and dedicated overhaul of the SCOTUS is now the number one determinant of whether this is ever a functioning country again

anyway, what I'm learning is that Texas doesn't have a regulatory nanny state, they have an honor culture... it's all but impossible to prevent someone from harming you, but once they do you are entitled to hire dead-eyed legal assassin to carve your due compensation from their mortal flesh

POTUS basically full horizontal slumped over the Resolute Desk while court schemers practically dance around him like forest nymphs in a Shakespeare comedy is an absolutely terrible look every day and it reinforces just how bad they are at comms in general. Nobody watches this and feels confident.

Gork, what countries have ketamine and no extradition treaty

Me: Hey, I made my first dovetail joint today. It was a disaster! Dad: Did you get your jig dialed in? What router bit did you use? Me: Oh, I did it with hand tools. Dad: Oh, fuck.

My 60-year-old aunt, a woman who has moderate social anxiety and has been intensely indifferent to politics her whole life, was out protesting this weekend for the first time in her life. The backlash to this administration is coming.

We Asked Ten Guys We Found Jerking Off Outside Of Gas Stations What They Thought Of Trump's First 100 Days

You have to wonder who, exactly, he thinks he's fooling.

The time is now.

This, right here.

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

this is really ripe for an excellent farce.

America is, in a twisted way, blessed that its version of fascism has barely anyone (at least, anyone willing to work in govt) capable of passing any real-life equivalent to the marshmallow test. Hegseth can't. Elon can't. Bondi can't. Noem can't. Homan can't. Trump can't. And thus they'll lose.

I don’t want this to be true and I don’t say stuff like this because it makes me sound like a scold but I do think there is a lot of truth here and reading both Plato and Milton it has been on my mind: lack of self control seems like freedom but it’s actually enslaving yourself to your worst parts.

like, this is clown shit, they don't know what they're doing, and analysts and traders who pretend things are looking up are volunteering to get fleeced by the wallet inspector. clown-ass economy, clown-ass government.

Notable this is happening based entirely on stock market moves. Tariff price hikes, everyone knowing at least one person laid off because of the recession, business slowing everywhere, a collapse in even domestic tourism — that’s all in the *future*

I really do wish someone would do a grand takeout on this in one of the bigger places. All of the people obsessed with trans people's bodies and rights are doing gray market HRT and their supervision is a guy at their gym. Other than the hypocrisy, it's also making them obviously too emotional.

Do all modern country songs sound like third-rate Skynyrd knockoffs? Is that where we are now?

lots of people have lots of theories for why this is happening, but, honestly, i think most of it is just cowardice. american elites are, as a class, people who've largely never had to fight for anything in their lives, and they are even more afraid of throwing a punch than taking one.

man, it's just absolutely bizarre to see so many institutions tucking tail and running from trump, even as he's underwater *on every single issue, including immigration* in less than 100 days. total elite failure.

T: How's your writing going? Three steps forward, two steps back? F: More like three steps forward, take a left, do a little moonwalk, step to the side, take two steps back, walk widdershins around the glade at midnight, write five thousand words, delete four thousand, repeat. T: So, normal, then?

mind you this is all before things start getting really bad we are still in the “wow this is gonna suck” stage, economically, we haven’t hit “wow this fucking sucks” yet whatever you think Trump’s popularity floor is, it’s gonna be tested once we hit a deep recession that is 100% his fault

conspiracy brain is fascinating because osama bin laden was like hello i am osama bin laden, you know me from such things as masterminding 9/11, a thing i did and loved, i’d fucking do it again and people like ron johnson say hm tough to say what happened here

‘Pete Hegseth? I thought you might be worried...about the security...of your shit.’

so they're mycoblogging

I had to screenshot this conversation of @marisakabas.bsky.social for posterity due to its surrealness

Better get ready to march into the streets alongside David Brooks, every weird YA fan on here, an angry rural farmer who speaks only in cusses and slurs, Reagan judges who still think the "Gipper" could totes fix this, and enough wine moms to defeat Pete Hegseth in a binge drinking contest.

announcing my candidacy for school board.

AXIOS: some anonymous Democrat says that we shouldn’t go to bat for immigrants BILL KRISTOL, FORMERLY OF THE WEEKLY STANDARD, CITING JONATHAN VAN LAST ALSO FORMERLY OF THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Abolish ICE was right, these bastards are fuckers ALMOST ALL DEMOCRATS: btw we’re with Bill on this

Musk and Trump got zapped by the third rail. They’re not invulnerable and never let anyone tell you they are. Don’t let up on protecting Social Security.

Whether it’s Republicans causing chaos with random arrests and deportations, Republicans causing chaos with mass layoffs, or Republicans causing chaos with whiplash tariffs, voters are exhausted by chaos from both parties.

🎵screaming cuz I got it too good to cry🎵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=aXly...

dipshit markets hypothesis

This post caused me to break out in hives.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.