Severely underrated take. Everybody's dunking on the failure to *draw* audiences, but nobody seems to be running with the fact this is *driving people away*. I've been to DC several times. Especially near the Fourth of July, this kind of ghost town is remarkable.

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

This in an excellent discussion of the state of YouTube, and I'd go further: Academia and journalism both suffer from this same dynamic. Nearly 20 years ago, I was interviewed by both Fox News and NPR about "negative campaigns." My answers today would be virtually identical, and equally useless.

Weird. The administration that... willfully rejects historical facts disregards all principles of the country's governing standards is incapable of comprehending the idea of collaborative effort and sacrifice ...is having trouble getting people excited about the country's 250th birthday.

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

>Wins battle royale >Dramatic scene about the trauma and hardships of war veterans >Floss dance

Everyone this man has hired has a name that you would make up in a panic at an improv show.

There are thousands and thousands of cases of GOP officials subsisting solely on bat guano and wiper fluid. This happens all the time. But the Republicans want to tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it.

The art of the deal

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

Honestly am I the only person putting in the work on this web app

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

“Do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” Yeah, because they’ll fucking lay you off to spend a trillion dollars making Clippy able to stand in as a virtual wife who has positive views on school shooters

"But I thought we hated the same people," says gullible bigot. "Gosh, that's too bad. Well, luckily that's never gonna happen to me," says remaining gullible bigots as the next bus approaches.

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

You know what's the most interesting thing about the potential rainout of Trump's cringe birthday party AND the almost-guaranteed failure of his promised signing of a deal with Iran today? It's that Trump is an ever-present character in the Epstein Files. Stop letting the distractions work.

<me, trying to get back into watching soccer> <game comes on, twelve seconds in, there are two players laying motionless as if dead> <me, watching the Key & Peele sketch about the soccer player flopping so hard he fakes his own death> <me, deciding that's enough soccer for the day>

Shaka, when the letters fell.

the little boy here grew up to be one the guys who built the scaffolding, do not fact check this it is canon

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

So we're at the "hang 'em all and let God sort 'em out" stage of democracy. Many of those inmates have *still* not even been charged with crimes, but sure, let's just execute them. (Stuff like this is why I loathe people making the "nO dIfFerEnCe bEtWeeN DeMs and GOP" argument.)

Incredible line from a grand juror in the Broadview 6 case, who had just asked the prosecutors why they get "unlimited tries" to indict people they don't want to indict: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

Is that bad you think

Imagine what these guys would think when you show them the fear mechanic in the Arkham games.

I swear, so much of our current political landscape can be summed up in the "Ted's boss makes a building that looks like a penis and nobody will tell him and then they unveil it to the client who immediately and correctly calls it a penis" episode of HIMYM.

Saw a clip of that guy from Staind saying that Bruce Springsteen duped us with Born in the USA because it’s actually not patriotic but I don’t think it’s really duping people to ask them to listen to more than four words of a song

hey, @jaketapper.bsky.social, any new books in the works

(*me in 2027 waiting in line for my live-streamed execution in the now-permanent UFC arena in front of the White House*) “You know I actually did kinda think it would end this way”

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Happy Pride! I hope any trans folks reading this are surrounded by people like Kor!

I'm excited to announce that today we have filed to take Magic Beans, Inc. public. This is an important milestone for our team, our investors, and our customers. We expect to list in the coming weeks, hopefully before the general public discovers the Terrible True Cost of our beans.

"This is not the crowd to dodge." Daaaaayum. Get his ass!

I know it’s a big ask, but everyone needs to watch more interviews and panels with CEOs. They are so disturbing and repellent but to really face the reality of not only the fact we’re in a class war but the nature of who it is we’re battling, and the future they are authoring, is essential.

Are we finally ready to talk about how terfs have been helping the far right destroy women’s rights by pushing hyper femininity yet or is it too early for this decades old information too.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Widow's Bay. Go watch Widow's Bay.

More evidence for the technique: You can't get Trump. But you can absolutely get his flying monkeys. And the best part is that every time you do, he will LOUDLY remind the world of who he is. He's going to run out of lackeys and have trouble recruiting new ones as he flames out.

DO YOU SING?

The last 10 years in a nutshell: Nazi: I’m a Nazi! Media: Outspoken Man Touts Unconventional Ideas Nazi: No, I’m just a Nazi. Media: Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who— Nazi: No, seriously! I’m quoting Mein Kampf! I love Hitler! Media: Why Both Sides Have an Extremist Problem.

BREAKING: The Riverbottom Nightmare Band have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 Celebration

I think the most important takeaway about Bret Michaels dropping the Freedom 250 event is that if the Epstein Files were a movie, Trump's name would be above the title on the poster.

These cities aren’t great because that’s where the planes go. The planes go there because that’s where the great cities are.

Trump’s DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just announced that they are “drawing up plans” to block all international flights into blue cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

What a perfect bill for the upcoming hyperinflation that this moron is pushing us towards. "How much does it cost to fill up your gas tank? One Donald!"

It's like the entire GOP is made up of that weird older brother of one of your friends when you were a kid. You thought he was edgy and cool...and then you reached junior high and realized that he was a stunted loser.