Weird to see some of the same people who a month ago were saying Platner didn’t know it was a Nazi tat to then saying it was never a Nazi tat to “well, hey, who hasn’t gotten a Nazi tat or two?” That’s the left-to-right slide: it happens when you make excuses.

Rudy Giuliani had a noun, a verb, and 9/11. Every Republican now has a noun, a verb, and Biden.

I mean, they’re attending a taping of Real Time with Bill Maher. What’d you expect, Billy?

In that way, he kind of foreshadowed Bari Weiss' entire approach to public communications. Creating an aura of authority - even if explicitly wrong - will be helpful to certain people, & speaking out against that aura of authority can be dangerous. I've been thinking of it for more than 20 years.

He didn't tell the story because he was right, that wasn't the point - plenty of people were. He told the story as a metacriticism of the commentariat because there's a running, paralyzing fear of being an outlier and cultivating cocktail party-safe takes will always be vital to the unimaginative.

Wondering what the big deal was with the Civil War while praising Robert E Lee. Not even pretending anymore with the White Nationalism.

Game Stop?

Give me a break. Jon “How bad could Trump be?” Stewart has opinions about Platner and Democrats.

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

As long as I’m outing myself as an old: As someone who survived the Explicit Lyrics Wars of the 80’s/early 90’s nothing motivates young people to seek out content like adults saying “That’s too mature for you.” It’s still cowardly bullshit though.

I didn’t know I had an arch-nemesis but apparently there’s an opinion piece going around suggesting that since we’re all doomed we should also just take up smoking.

Brown appliances to hide nicotine stains! Cigarette butts everywhere! Getting irritable every 2 hours cause you needed a fix! I smoked for 18 years and of all my vices I miss that one the least.

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

Wait till ya’ll hear that there was an attempt at universal healthcare in year one of the Clinton presidency, and Hillary Clinton was the face of that legislation.

Amazing to see people try to use this as an opportunity to *slam* Dems. Come on! They won this battle, period—and the won *despite* being in the minority. If you were (justifiably!) pissed at Dems for caving in the last shutdown, they did the exact opposite this time!

Went to the well one too many times with that property.

What are the chances that said “autopsy” mentions that party leadership giving Biden the grey shove less than 4 months before election day had a negative effect on turnout? Anybody wanna lay odds?

Happy “Hitler turns his head into a canoe” Day to all who observe.

You laugh, but A/B testing is best practice in effective messaging,

I don’t Trump’s boyars are misleading him so much as Trump has lost touch with reality, and everyone around him is just hanging on for the ride.

So Collins wins by 4pts instead of 10? Good job everyone.

Mills is broke. It’s gonna be Platner.

“You have to let them keep punching you in the face otherwise you’re a bad person”

Is no one capable of reading a history book?

I’m going to run for office and my one, and only, policy position will be that people who complained about the cost of “burrito taxis” be forced to work picking tomatoes during a Texas summer.

People will absolutely choose the tax rebate over healthcare if you run on a 'I will not give u a tax rebate because that could pay for universal healthcare' message you will be screamed at about depriving poor struggling young people of their stimulus checks to pay for old pedo boomers viagra pills

Holy shit are leftists bigly mad that someone who hasn’t been in office in 13 years said something mean about them from his deathbed. Do ya’ll need a minute?

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, stated that Putin is worried about the May 9th parade and has therefore decided to propose a truce.

I'm on parental leave this week and next, so of course Callais came down today. Just a few top-line thoughts: 1. Don't believe Alito's claim that the majority is merely tinkering with precedent. In effect, this decision pretty much eliminates what remained of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

There's just so goddamn much so many people didn't have the imagination to assume bigots with power would try to do to us. A lack of imagination and an overdose of apathy has poisonous effects on healthy societies.

Dred Scott ass decision

So a Russian op.

Interesting SPLC report on the groups Fidelity & others will fund through donor advised funds.... www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

BREAKING: Fidelity won't let customers donate to the SPLC anymore via their charitable gift/donor-advised funds, citing Trump admin indictment of SPLC. No response yet from Schwab, Vanguard... but soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...

Khodorkovsky: Putin is scared. His "fortress" is cracking and half his decrees are now secret — so Russians can't see how badly the regime is failing. Here's what he's hiding threadreaderapp.com/thread/20494...

The last two DOJ filings about the WHCD perp invite all the inferences that Joyce Carol Oates makes here.

The conduct of DOJ and FBI throughout is just weird and consistently suggests they are motivated by things other than law enforcement. It's already enough to fuel a thousand conspiracy theories, some of which may well turn out to be true.

Todays SCOTUS decision is inline with the conservative worldview that racism no longer exists. At least not in the way cons want you to understand it.

BREAKING: US Supreme Court blocks Louisiana voting map with second Black-majority district reut.rs/3R8QbTy

More Kagan: "[Callais] will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification.... Section 2 will play no role. “Whatever”—whatever—results from the State’s asserted justification is all its minority citizens are entitled to."

DW: Suspected Russian spy (Kazakh national) arrested in Berlin — accused of passing on info reg German military aid to Ukraine; arms and defense industry. He was also passing on photos of public buildings in Berlin and of military convoys on highways, incl a convoy from a NATO member state.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the Iran war: "The Americans clearly have no strategy... This whole affair is ill-considered, to say the least. At the moment, I cannot see what strategic exit the Americans are now opting for... An entire nation is being humiliated."

This is not what I voted for. I thought he was going to pass socialized health care and peace in the Middle East and bring prices back to 1995 and tuck me in at night.

Wrong way around. Sir Mix-A-Lot culturally appropriated whale songs.

Whale songs are actually all Sir Mix-A-Lot covers

On the one hand fuck the regime, on the other hand fuck James Comey. Quite the conundrum here.