Was in SoHo earlier and the cadres were already fully differentiated by ideology and had selected comrades to lead a purge.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

we told you radical socialism extremism was a dead end, have you tried deregulating consolidated corporate power and coddling the extraction class?

Feel like in more functional countries if a bunch of random dudes turned up to a daycare and demanded to see the children they would be immediately escorted to prison

I am determined as God is my witness to start the Trump fake hand conspiracy theory. His hand isn't showing signs of an undisclosed illness. It's a fake painted Halloween costume hand because his hand was already removed. It's time.

There are two types of people in the world: People who finish their thoughts

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

i'm stupid. put me in the ny times.

I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic

so I can’t shrink down to the size of a little mouse? or pat my belly, completely satisfied with an apple core and bit of cheese? nor will I ever get tucked into a warm sock hanging by a fireplace to sleep??

IMO senior Dem leaders are actually okay with “thermostatic elections forever” because preventing that from happening would require such fundamental democratic changes to how the party operates that it would threaten their internal leadership positions.

This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on

My dream is to be a college football coach and make 15 million dollars a year to yell at 19 year olds that they need to take the Bisquick Pancake & Baking Mix Bowl more seriously. My wife has a severe haircut, I cheat on her with several women named “Applebee’s Tami”

Every time I get on a horse I tie our hair together and try to think directions at it

being a rich tech guy in the 90s must have been so sick. every morning you start a web page that sells ring tones, sell it at lunch for 2 million dollars, get dinner at a “sushi” restaurant and go to a night club wearing a cologne called Apartheid Sapphire

if i’d been the winter caretaker of the overlook hotel it wouldn’t have gone down like that

I do not fear the Menswear Guy. what's he going to tell me about myself that I am not already acutely aware of. "you dress like you don't respect yourself" good eye ace

It only seems that "you" are in your head because that's where your sensory organs are. But you are no more in your head than you are in your Ass. Some of you perhaps even more so

Like 90% of conservatism is people with sheltered and segregated childhoods, assuming their understanding back then was complete. That's probably also why their political ideas don't really advance. Grover Norquist came up with his tax "policy" pledge at 14, and basically stopped thinking.

staffer: you talked to the little girls? trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked staffer: what

My wife just referred to TCW as "that guy who writes opinion pieces from the Carlton Banks point of view"

COBBLER: Oh woe is me! I'm too poorly to finish these fine leather shoes! ~next day~ COBBLER: Goodness! My work was finished overnight with perfect craftsmanship by kindly elves! ~that night~ COBBLER: (loudly) Oh how dearly I need to shave my armpits, pubic mound, legs and anus with no razor burn!

It’s soft liberalism.

GF is on a sister trip for Christmas so I'll be at moms eating cheese and smoking weed in my childhood bedroom using a spoof for a little christmas nostalgia magic #reason4theszn

I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die. He was unable to. He still walks among us, cursed to remember in a world where everyone has forgotten. He’s out there now, just beyond the light your lantern throws,

BOOTSIE COLLINS: *doing a first take for 'Weapon of Choice'*

The mistake, of the NYT & everyone else, was in participating in the obvious bad faith lie that this lawless authoritarianism was about saving money & reducing the debt. We could have just all acted like adults, & read the laws & constitution, & treated it like the criminal enterprise it always was.

Worth repeating this with every new Epstein document drop. The party of Denny Hastert is the party of Jim Jordan is the party of Matt Gaetz is the party of Donald Trump. Looking the other way and protecting child predators from the law is their brand.

it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

The president is a pedophile and Hakeem Jeffries is talking about his name on buildings. He's not built for this. This moment calls for a ruthless son of a bitch and Hakeem ain't it.

Being forced to release documents you don't want to get out, spiking it for months and months, reacting huge chunks of it, accidently forgetting some of it, then telling everyone "all that stuff actually is fake news." Another masterful chess move again, pizza party in the break room!

Me, 5.5 years ago, on self-styled champions of free speech doing "free speech for me but not for thee" while scolding others for supposedly opposing free speech, using Bari Weiss as a specific example. And I was hardly the only one to notice this. Full thing here: medium.com/arc-digital/...

First Elon Musk at Twitter, now Bari Weiss at CBS. What’s next, finding out others who loudly proclaimed themselves free speech champions never valued free speech at all, and were always doing “speech I like must be widely distributed and cannot be criticized, speech I don’t like must be censored”?

Fascism selects for people who think they see through the lie of liberal democracy but who are actually just too broken and malformed to eke out a reasonably satisfying life on conditions of general equality with their fellow citizens.

incredible that these guys make more money than they could ever dream to spend and THEN decide that the most important thing in life is spreading their genetic material as widely as possible. buddy you talked yourself into having the same life goal as ragweed

As i’ve become older it’s become increasingly apparent that the politics of like half of white guys are “some people criticized me and now i will contort everything i believe to be against them” and it’s like i just found out that santa isn’t real again

Matty has negatively polarized himself against the concept of activism to the point where he no longer seems to understand how political parties work at all.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD

Jesus Christ @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Senators like Kaine should resign mid-term, but insofar as they won’t, they ought to serve as archetypes for candidates who need to lose their primary elections. This kind of irresolute wimpiness ~entirely explains Democrats’ historically consequential failures in the Trump era.

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at