Every single day that we do not impeach and remove Trump, every single member of Congress is violating their oath of office.

lol. lmao.

Apple loves to make a TV show with Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg starring a best lead actor Oscar winner and best lead actress Oscar nominee and not tell a single soul about it

my centurion told me barbarians keep destroying his cohorts, so I asked how many cohorts he has. he said he just requisitions a new legion from Rome every time it happens. so I said it sounds like he's just feeding legionaries to barbarians, and then his daughter started crying

Cropped name out because I'm not trying to start a pile on but: Republican DOJ prosecutes activists and a Republican appointed judge confirmed with Republican votes gives them a 100 year sentence and it turns into content bashing *Democrats* because of a future hypothetical refusal to pardon them

Am I view the past with rose tinted glasses or is public racism against Haitians and Somalis way more acceptable than racism has been against any nationality for like … decades?

it is amazing how much worse she has gotten since i was fighting with her as a reactionary centrist making social-justice-like noises about Asian rights on Twitter

coming out against glp-1's for utilitarian reasons (all the positives are offset by prolonging the life of one guy)

important to understanding this statistical "insight" is the fact that Yglesias' whole brain is a perfectly smooth Gaussian

75% of the PDB is basically TV Guide for Apple TV

I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?

wild

I'm sure the guy who elder abused his way onto his family's home builder company, then quit that position of actual responsibility to promote meme stocks will do a good job here.

i would 100% watch a Star Wars Munich show about Dedra Meero, Kleya, and Vel Sartha hunting Imperial war criminals

absolutely wild to see New York centrists reaching for literal Nazi conspiracy theories to fight the DSA.

i think it is an unsurprising albeit incorrect opinion for the ADL to believe that all criticism of Israel is antisemitic. but i do not know how they arrived at the conclusion that nothing but criticism of Israel is antisemitic.

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

THIS. www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

the thing you need to understand about Sinema is that she never changed her opinion, from when she was a Green, about whether the Democrats were corporate whores who were on the take. she just changed her opinion on whether it was good.

death to travel influencers

why is it opiates which got lethally tainted and not cocaine

I've never seen a discourse about this, but I sense we all have a handful of mutuals whose reposts feel like a three beer buzz. You know you cooked something good when they choose to pass it along.

under normal circumstances it's because the pool guy fucked up. under these circumstances it is somehow because the president did

nobody in British politics seems to want to say it but the single biggest driver of their inability to keep a prime minister for any length of time is that Brexit was stupid and ruinous and made everyone’s lives worse

jaxxon, 23, furry porn artist (laudatory): it’s about the sanctity of art as a product of the beautiful human mind, something no billionaire tech ceo will ever understa brian, 61, acted in 3,000 hallmark christmas films: I DON’T WANT THE POORS STEALING MY JOB

"The Indian is my wife" i don't have much sympathy for usha vance but still the way he talks about her is wild

ME: okay, kiddo, I hope you have a great week at sumer camp! KID: don't you mean "summer" camp? UR-NAMMU: construction of the great ziggurat begins at first light ME: your counselor seems nice

i legit think the gulf petromonarchies are our most morally bankrupt allies. yes, even more than the ones you’re imagining

This is the root of the Soros accusations- the right wing chud aristocracy were actually all on the take from a shadowy network based out of Eastsrn Europe

And you know, if doing things this way *doesn’t* improve electoral chances, we’re gonna get wilder and wilder swings between elections that probably shake our whole structural foundation apart.

But as the gap between left and right widens it’s just a fact that there’s basically no votes for a center left party to draw from its right anymore, especially without losing votes to its left. Republicans realized (caused?) this long ago so they don’t even try.

Does that mean forsaking timidity and half measures will get you better outcomes electorally? No! I mean maybe, but there’s no way it’s a guarantee.

Assuming the @whstancil.bsky.social position about incumbents declining in popularity more quickly now than before for whatever reason, it seems like the conclusion is that power is for using, and timidity and half measures don’t buy you shit.

i feel like twitter / tumblr discourse was mild compared to any three of the things which happened on shakesville near the end

Finally, a perfect phone call

my favorite part of this in tech has been “yes you have to come back to the office, no you cannot have your own desk” deeply unserious policy

It is a reflection of our worst national instincts: the thrill of dominion, the decadence of hierarchy, the treatlerism. An island of lotus eaters floating on a sea of blood. We should have nothing to do with it but sanctions and secret networking with slave elements.

Genuinely hate all those Instagram reels about how great the UAE is because they don't have to pay taxes unlike us silly Westerners. It's from slavery, dawg. What they're glorifying is the master's freedom. UAE glazing is unironically a sign of moral decay present at the highest levels of power.

this is a load-bearing insight

significantly, religious adherence is positively correlated with the requirements of the faith

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

the same spirit animates the kitten “hang in there” poster and the people who say shit like “you don’t hate mondays you hate capitalism”

trying to think of a name for the reflecting pool scandal. thinking maybe 'Watergate.'

the difference between MBC and PEG is that PEG knows what mpreg is

”The Director of National Intelligence was acting at the direction of an obscure Hindu cult you’ve never heard of” is up there with “DOGE was led by a teenager involved in a Nazi-Satanist child abuse network” in terms of True Facts That Will Make You Sound Unhinged If You Say Them Out Loud

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NYT house style writing about Mamdani is like ... an inch away from using slurs