Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

i also think it’s mclellan-brained and i’d remind everyone that mclellan went on to run against lincoln as the candidate for surrender and appeasement.

1902 dress uniform was peak, im afraid to say

when I used to draw this is similar to how I did things. LOTS of vertical and horizontal comparisons but avoiding a full grid which can make things feel stiff. Lots of size measure comparisons, love looking at negative space. Thinking about volume and perspective with cross contour

I get a lot of ppl asking me how I draw do studies. This is the basics of it. I'm sorry it looks so much like pringling 😭

RFK is the more powerful of the two *now* because he is a literal cabinet secretary and Nuzzi has incinerated her credibility as a journalist. A year and a half ago, he was a fringe crank and she was a star political reporter. The person most responsible for that reversal is Olivia Nuzzi!

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

is the right's vision of the family miserable? yes. but it's important to remember that their visions of work, friendships, and personal ambitions are also miserable

Lol the crazy thing is, no, you’re not running out of good ideas. There are tons of great ideas everywhere. You’re just not willing to fund them because you’re all cowards.

Unless you are actively engaged in spice bullshit or fremen bullshit, there is literally no reason to go there, and for 99.9% of the universe's history, Fremen do not matter until they suddenly conquer the galaxy.

It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries. A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."

idk if it's a residue of meritocratic ideology that I was raised with or what but I do find it shocking, more than I feel like I should, how much the people running the world are just the stupidest most shallow motherfuckers. I think it's also not an accident that almost none of them are ever funny.

trying to figure out why Windows 11 doesn't suck for me as much as it does for everyone else. like it doesn't make me have a Windows account or show me ads or any of the Copilot stuff. I do update normally. it nags me to log into an account but I don't

a lot of people also don't conceptualize the random acts of murder in the Caribbean this way but they should because basically every one of the strikes gets posted by official US government accounts on twitter so the base can jerk off to snuff films

AOC: Speaker Johnson kept Republicans home for a month to avoid negotiating health care. Trump and Vance did the same—ignoring a 30-day shutdown while Dems pushed to extend premium subsidies. A clean extension would stop real suffering.

It's lame how US developers will build discrete new neighborhoods like this without a little town center. I think to most people, a little hub with a coffee shop, barber shop, post office, and/or convenience store would be a real amenity.

Urbanists will talk about how cars are a machine that makes you selfish and crazy, and I know it’s easy to roll your eyes at that but if you give drivers the ability to comment they will say “yes I am selfish and crazy”

i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.

Steve Bannon ripped off his own followers with his ‘build the wall’ scam. Trump pardons him. Then photos come out showing him hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein AFTER he was charged with child trafficking, and yet he somehow has an audience because really MAGA stands for nothing.

Will the U.S. relationship with its allies recover "after the midterms"? Hint: No. No, it absolutely won't.

Sometimes I think about how my very Mormon grandmother had to ask me who Kirk was on the day of his assassination because she’d seen the news, and while I was explaining it I got the push notification that he had died in the hospital and she just said “good” with the matter-of-fact expression ever

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

The logical endpoint of class reductionism: solidarity demands that we support a racist “worker” and label anyone who takes offense at racial slurs as a decadent bourgeois.

this is a fantastic point that I hadn’t thought about: when antivaxx was associated with crunchy Marin libs and caused an outbreak at Disneyland what happened? Dems fought back and passed stronger vaccine requirements now that antivaxxers are republicans they instantly took over the party

Something I have been thinking about a great deal is how the administration thought the prosecution of Abrego Garcia would be an absolute milk run, and be the case study demonstrating the effectiveness of their agenda. They are *stunned* it didn't work, and hell-bent on punishing him for that.

The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.

A threat is a promise, and Trump can’t fucking keep promises. The decentralized stochastic violence shit let’s you do it without having to say you’re doing it but you can’t do it *reliably* and dictators can be a lot of things, but they can’t be unreliable to everyone

They like Trump and want to help him. They have pre-written "THE COMEBACK KID" narratives ready to break out of he crosses back over 40% approval for a couple polls, not to report a narrative but to try and change it

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

And reporters wonder why Biden was not able to get voters to connect him with the billions his party invested in their name.

"Why hasn't Ireland fixed the housing crisis" is a question that has an answer as simple as "the government doesn't really want to"

We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed

If the last ten years have taught us anything it's that nobody knows what will resonate with the American public, least of all the paid politics knowers. Might as well go with your moral instincts around right and wrong. This was obviously wrong on day one, and it was right to fight for him.

the indiana GOP is not suddenly super principled. that’s not what’s relevant. what’s relevant is that what happened in indiana is another sign of something we are seeing with increasing frequency: republican pols determining that bucking trump is, overall, in their self-interest.

Americans have no idea the price they will pay for the regime’s crimes against all of their former Allies. We haven’t even hit a real crisis yet. The silence from our former Allies will be deafening. 79M voted to destroy NATO. 90M couldn’t be bothered to vote.

I get the impression that Americans believe they can just elect a president who is a tad less crazy than this one and everyone will be friends with the US again. I don´t think that will happen. The US will not recover from this anytime soon. A fair share of Europeans see you as enemies now.

Folks sometimes say that as a political party they have no principles, but that's not really true. They almost to a person believe passionately that if you haven't found a way to acquire employer-sponsored healthcare from the ages of 21-67, you deserve to be sick and financially ruined.

I think it’s a bummer that the GOP has decided it would rather eat the shit sandwich on health care than negotiate a bipartisan bill, but now it’s down to us to make them eat that sandwich.

Indiana Republicans telling the regime to pound sand should really be seen as a disaster for the regime. A year ago there wasn't a Republican in the country who wouldn't immediately kiss the the ring.

100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.

The most crucial thing about this scandal remains that Nuzzi wanted to suppress damaging information to both help Trump *and* to protect Kennedy's chances of becoming the Secretary of Child Murder should he win, and it worked: www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/a-ma...

The administration genuinely seems to believe it can pull back from the world stage yet somehow still tell the rest of the world what to do. And it has a very firm idea of what it wants Europe to do, which is “be as racist and xenophobic as Trump.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were all participants in Bush v. Gore. They would go on to become key players in the dismantling of the United States.

Unfortunately Sam Altman is very good at his job and his job isn't making AI it's selling it.

This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.

Not to cite a church father from a faith that I don’t believe in but Marx reviled gambling as providing the exact kind of false hope that the lefty defender of it in the screenshot uses to call it a potential point of relief

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…