Political scientists baffled by all these nasty people on the downside of their careers being so drawn to the Make And Keep It The Past movement.

"My oil executive told me Venezuelans keep nationalizing his businesses and he has to get the US military to seize more drilling rights, and I said it sounds like he's just feeding capital investments and technical expertise to the proletariat and then his CFO started crying"

it's not that the moral arc of the universe naturally bends towards justice, it's that the conditions that create and enable such evil do eventually cannibalize themselves, and in there, new opportunities arise. nothing is permanent, including these horrible pieces of shit.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

“Welcome to Supply Chain Management 201. There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet.”

You should seriously try for conviction but I think it's a mistake to see the possibility of conviction as the only purpose of impeachment, both on practical politics and in principle. Doing it just to shine as big as possible a spotlight on the malfeasance and crimes is also a legitimate goal.

An economic policy reporter really should know better than to categorize operational costs of a constitutionally required service as a revenue loss or negative profit margin. You don’t see them do this when talking about the DoD budget or the money required for interstate upkeep.

the whole concept of "white genocide" is very funny because unlike a regular genocide where people try to butcher you with machetes or gas your family in white genocide your cousin marries an Indian guy

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

AI has proven what i always suspected - that jimi hendrix is up in heaven jamming with charlie kirk and pliny the elder

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

“They should do it the right way”

"We finish each other's sentences"

“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

Things fell apart on that Charlotte 49er drive with the Okonkwo interception in the end zone

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: i know a lot of popular songs. a lot of times when i’m out and about and i hear a song, i know exactly which song it is operator: oh wow. were you born in any particular year me: i sure was operator: that’s great. gotta love it

It's the weekend, baby

pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.

the grand opening of oakshire place mobile home sales of union city, tennessee, may 1970, with free entertainment by... who?!

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

"So that's it? After 20 years, so long, good luck?" "I don't recall saying good luck."

Trickeration!

Priests being arrested

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

China dragging us kicking and screaming into a survivable future

The RESCUERS DOWN UNDER Happy Meal was so much cooler than it needed to be. Most kids would have been alright with little toys from the movie, but instead, we got these incredibly sweet viewmasters. (1990)

Remember when some guy killed a far right provocateur and every major right wing presence was calling for the Democratic Party to be labeled a terrorist organization and disbanded? If you are asking for less to be done to the party that doubles as a sex trafficking ring you are unequal to the moment

music.apple.com/us/album/blu... the gentlest feeling

The most important and load-bearing person in your life is secretly that friend-of-friends you love to hang out with at parties who you have known forever. You see them maybe once every two years and have never exchanged contact information. You would be nothing without them

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

I’m pretty sure winning a slam dunk lawsuit against this criminal extortion would have been cheaper than dropping $60m during a bad budget crunch. They didn’t cave to pressure. They collaborated with the regime and sold out their students and staff.

It's the weekend, baby

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Progressive leaders really need to seize this moment to spell out how all of this is not just a failure of the Trump administration specifically, but of conservative governance as a whole. This is *what they want.* This is *what their vision looks like.*

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

This is so messed up. You cannot outsource this work to computers or AI. Sound craniometry requires actual measurement by experts using calipers. A computer cannot do this work accurately.

“No one or nothing will ever divide us” says Andrew Cuomo while giving one of the most divisive and disgusting concession speeches in American political history