promise I’m not stirring the And You’re Surprised Because???? Idiot Pot, but this part HAS surprised me. not in the sense that there’s been nobody brave enough to try and stop this, but in the sense that so far nobody has been *ambitious* enough to try and cast themselves as Maverick Heroes

i’m old enough to remember when erick erickson was thought of as a Smart Thoughtful Conservative but trust me the man has always been a bitchy little high school mean girl, and dumber than a sock full of rocks

Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally” Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

man, when *germany* is telling you “yo dawg y’all gotta cool it with the nazi shit,” you seriously need to get right with jesus

describe your bluesky account with a single image

guys do you think excessive lead levels is why the dinosaurs went extinct

the only thing Nashville has over Memphis is a nicer airport, and even that might have changed since the last time i was there

They all end up finding out what we've been telling them all along -- that cozying up to white supremacy won't save them. But they always think nah, but I'm different.

ok, i’ve blown right past “dude’s got demons and i hope he can get help” and am squarely in “fuck this asshole”

I can’t believe Pam Bondi’s blind, bootlicking loyalty to Trump wasn’t enough to keep her around. It’s just not like him to turn on someone like that

hear me out: this is actually a good thing—not that these women are basically indentured servants in their own homes, obvs, but that these bonkers Gilead-ass households will only be casting 1 vote instead of 2

ME: remember how keith olbermann was this cool funny guy when he was on sportscenter but then it turned out he was a massive prick who was a total chore to deal with in real life … INTERVIEWER: i asked you about your interpersonal communication style ME: yeah no doy einstein, i just fuckin told u

Neil Gorsuch, most cases: In the case of Protester vs. Tank, I find the protester's family liable for stain damage to the treads Neil Gorsuch, in any case involving Native American law:

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

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.

me talking to anyone younger than 30

for all the shit biden’s taken about how slow he’s gotten, you know what the only difference between him and trump is? confidence. when biden stopped to gather his thoughts he looked like a doddering old man. but trump has no thoughts to gather. he just plows on ahead regardless.

take it from a cradle Catholic: there are few people more annoying than mid-life Catholic converts. they are the Tracy Flicks of organized religion, always bringing up obscure rules nobody’s cared about since the 1600s and just generally being annoying as fuck

ordered a copy of Richard Scarry’s “Cars and Trucks and Things That Go” and i’d forgotten just how hard as fuck this book goes

(Looks around at the burning wreckage of the United States) Yup. Can’t argue there.

His speech calling Maverick a piece of shit but a damn good pilot is a classic. Rest in peace.

i was today years old when i learned tiger woods was dating donald trump jr.’s ex-wife. if hitting don jr’s sloppy seconds + a dui doesn’t constitute a cry for help, i don’t know what does

To be fair he *is* small and afraid of his shadow.

i dream of a day when america’s fiercest debate is “billionaires should have to power their own data centers by pedaling stationary bikes” vs. “nah let’s just burn them for fuel”

apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers

this headline is dripping with “squabbling kids knocking over potted plants in the orthodontist’s waiting room while dad mumbles ‘hey guys enough’ without looking up from his phone” energy

yeah, we don’t need anything from our so-called “allies,” and fuck them for not providing it

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

having watched approximately 50 campaign ads per day from the two leading GOP gubernatorial candidates here in Georgia, I feel like I know them better than I know members of my own family, so please believe me when I say they both need to be pushed into a volcano as soon as possible

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

giants may emerge from their thousand-year sleep near park amphitheatre, use caution

maybe other UF students should exercise their “right” to make a Nazi salute, and if that raised hand just happens to forcefully connect with a College Republican’s throat, oh well

I’ve been told by more than one family member that Robert E. Lee is one of our distant ancestors. I haven’t confirmed whether that’s true or not, but either way, I feel this needs to be said: fuck Robert E. Lee

I once did Oklahoma City to Columbus, Georgia (901mi, 13h13m according to Google Maps) in a single day. The previous day I’d gone from Douglas, Wyoming, to OKC (848mi, 12h40m). Just me, a Plymouth Grand Voyager, and the motliest bunch of radio stations your mind can conjure

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to put on a tactical vest and go to the newark airport at 6 am on monday. your order is to wander around like a confused oaf. when a mom drops her sandwich at jersey mike's and scares you, pull out your gun and start shooting. good luck soldier

So it has begun

take a group of people that is manifestly untrained and unqualified to do the jobs they’re already doing, and give them some new shit to do. no way that ends in tears

See how easy that is?

you can tell our government is fucked because nobody even has the bare minimum of courage it would take to tell trump to stop signing his fucking social media posts

The world’s most honest disclaimer.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

I'd really like a Sunday talk show host to pose this to a Trump admin official: "Suppose China had attacked the U.S. four years ago in the hopes of spurring a popular uprising that would oust Joe Biden. As a vocal opponent of President Biden, would you have joined that uprising?"

good morning america opened on a somber-looking shot of trump this morning and for the fleetingest of seconds i really thought “donald trump: 1946–2026” might appear on the screen

Believe Everything They Tell You... When They Say Atlanta Not A Real Place 🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️😭😂

my wife has a new nickname for me

I need everyone to screenshot this so we can all whip it out when the bens shapiro and lauras ingraham of the world scold us for dancing in the streets when trump finally kicks it

great, so now you can look forward to being tased and beaten if they find more than 3.4 ounces of liquid in your carry-on