trump gave a rally yesterday saying he hates the opposition. his deputy chief of staff said he would wage war on the left. his fcc is pressuring to fire comedians. he's suing the media. he's trying to throw opposition members in prison. the two highest ranking democrats are meeting him to chat.

The whole administration in one quote

Study: Pretending Everything's Okay Works https://theonion.com/study-pretending-everythings-okay-works-1819573735/

Leading national political reporters vowed that never again would they look the other way when a president was showing every sign of being too debilitated to do the job

Much to celebrate with this but here are two: 1. 200 people will have their gig back, including AFM musicians and other unionized industry workers 2. He’s gonna sooooo pissed lolololol

Every day Merrick Garland reads the news like a baby bird encountering the edge of its nest for the first time before cautiously backing down. "Golly, I didn't think you could do that," he says, watching shrikes impale his siblings to feast upon later.

I take off my second set of gloves to reveal a third set of gloves. All the liberals groan at my shit

hate to say I told you so www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

I guess it's called "corruption." I've never heard that before. I said wow what a beautiful word. It comes from the Latin [spicy voice] corrumpere. But it's something we're doing and we'll be doing it perhaps more than ever before

i don't profess to understand too much of this stuff but does it seem like they're just cycling the money back and forth here to keep the scam going

being a "bluesky elder" means that probably 2/3rds of my followers stopped using the service a long time ago.

apropos of nothing but uh a pretty interesting documentary just came out www.avclub.com/riefenstahl-...

a skeet that will appear in my coroner’s report.

Look, if you give me this much butter, it’s all going on the pancake.

Any movie poster / promotional material designers available for some work this week that requires a quick turnaround?

Finally got around to changing our bsky handle to our domain name. ☕️🎉

Love this photo. macaulaylibrary.org/asset/641825...

exhibit 478 on why all the LLM-as-AGI stuff is nonsense, they are very impressive prediction machines but they do not think and they’re never going to stop producing bullshit

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

Remember the Titans (2000)

Since November of last year I’ve been ringing the alarm bell that the real threat is Trump destroying the US dollar. He can’t do that, many people I respect told me. Dollar hegemony is too strong, they said. US won’t collapse that fast. lol, lmao even

2 episodes down, 5 to go!

The fact that Charlie Kirk was viewed as some kind of a Titan of free speech and debate shows a bizarre trend where it somehow became acceptable for adult non student conservatives to invade college campuses and talk about why women and black people shouldn’t have basic civil liberties

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

"What do you expect Democrats to do!?!???'

There's a fixed belief in centrist wonkism that all progressive policies are sugary chocolate Christmas sweets that mummy and daddy can only give out on special occasions and that any conservative idea is definitionally sensible, kitchen-table stuff everyone wants and knows they need

Disney has no incentive to publish cancellation data, but if a subscription boycott was gaining steam, there would be signs. creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...

When we opened the Intelligentsia in SIlverlake many early Yelp reviews lamented not feeling cool enough to be there — even though it's the exact same crowd they'd queue up with at Vons or Trader Joes without complaint. It's just a line to buy coffee, not a velvet rope outside the Limelight.

Coffee shops are the heart of darkness for republicans. All their horror stories take place inside them. They have taken the place of the forest in middle American gothic.

Going to an American Cinematheque screening of Twin Peaks The Return episodes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 tomorrow at the Egyptian theater. Not sure what this'll do to my brain (and still contemplating what modifications I'll make to my brain beforehand).

starbucks looms large in these peoples minds. it is a location near their massive suburban home and inside it is a LEFTIST YOUTH who will look at them haughtily

You know something is up when every TV and radio starts playing CATS

It's Friday night, and you know what that means! Time to put on a horse costume and stand motionless in my neighbor's garden for 6 hours

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

congrats to everyone just living their lives right now, incredible focus and endurance, amazing commitment to the mission. no idea how you're doing it tbh

lol they know where the votes are. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

If you don’t feel like writing to Disney but do want to complain to someone, this is another great option. In LA, KTLA is nexstar.

a comic by @alexkrokus.bsky.social that hits close to home. (also, we have an extremely tasty natural Ethiopia shipping this week www.yesplz.coffee/product/sing...) ☕

posting Boards of Canada daily until they release something new or the regime shuts down Bluesky. It’s Too Orangey (1995 Twoism (outro to Basefree)) youtu.be/D75pMWn8eg8

Got upset with a landscape and now it's abstract expressionist

Pro tip for everyone else who, like me, has been diagnosed with Clinical Swiss Cheese Brain: I’m out, so I just set a reminder in my phone for when I will be home, where my envelopes and stamps are. No matter how hard I want to, I will not “just remember to do it later.” Set the reminder.

if these companies would just put out a statement saying “we told him to go fuck himself” they would instantly have the type of loyal and dedicated customer base corporations dream of and spend decades trying to cultivate

there's always a twee—errrr, 1939 news story that someone should have paid more attention to

all the Gun Guys! I mean my whole goddamn life I’ve been pervasively lectured at by Gun Guys who Need The Guns to Resist Government Jackboots. and it turns out those guys are the government jackboots! america is a cheap con and the world should erase us.

A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please

good morning

It’s darkly funny that the search for the shooter’s politics never provided much clarity about *his* politics but brought the politics of a lot of powerful people into sharp relief.