One of the most catastrophic voluntary decisions a polity and its leadership have ever made

Man, gotta love some Wall Street guy who decides It’s Time To Care About Poverty and uses vibe math to recalculate the poverty line, as… $136,500 Extreme “it’s one banana, Michael” energy

Gasoline Georg, who lives in a Hummer that does continuous donuts in an abandoned mall parking lot, is an outlier and never should have been counted.

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

An ancient times, a person did not simply *tell* another person that they cared about them; person A in this scenario, in a totally normal way, spent several days making a mixtape of the most choice Oasis b-sides OR the best Guided By Voices tracks obv

all his fans are waiting for him to threaten denaturalization and he's just like: oh boy! the mayor! talking to me!

That one part of Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 when Hunter S. Thompson fucks Hubert Humphrey >>>

somehow the crown we threw in the gutter is going to be waiting for us to pick it up when we're able

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

Primary for the replacement in Mikie Sherrill's 11th Congressional District seat officially set for 02/05/2026.

Trump is working harder to protect literal Nazis than he is to lower your costs.

Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Everyone needs to understand that to have this done, you need a ballot question to go to a general election for the voters to change the state constitution. The legislature could have, at best, put this to the ballot for general election 2026, after the House races have been run already.

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

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Willingly scarring your body to own the libs. These people are straight up insane. This is Manson Family shit

The core problem here is that when you actually look at what happened, it wasn't a grand conspiracy, just capitalism at work. GM has some responsibility, yeah, but the mismanagement of private streetcars and public racism was much more important.

So an invalidly appointed prosecutor brough an unvoted indictment, based on evidence violating the 4th amendment, attorney client privilege, and the 5th amendment. Against "false claims" that were literally true, all on direct order of a vindictive president? Is this the most dismissable case ever?

My "I'm not allowed to say what the career staff recommended" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by my "I'm not allowed to say what the career staff recommended" t-shirt

SOUTH JERSEY MENTIONED

One Thousand Year Burgerreich

If I wanted to learn linguistics, I'd study with Steven Pinker. If I wanted to practice law, I'd learn from Alan Dershowitz. So it should be obvious that I, wanting to have sex with females several decades younger than me, would learn from the great Jeffrey Epstein. by Larry Summers

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

pretty clear a big part of the mainstream media-led backlash to #metoo is the number of people in media who take advantage of and abuse others. they made it seem like it's about fairness, but they just didn't want to face any real consequences for their behavior.

More than 34 million passengers climbed aboard Amtrak trains during Fiscal Year 2025, the railroad announced on November 18, a new record for “America’s Railroad” and a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year railfan.com/amtrak-break...

We need your help! But let me explain why:

Reminder that Bazelon is fresh out of undergrad, his stat knowledge is questionable, and his qualifications are an internship with Matty's blog that he might have gotten because his mom is a well known journalist.

Hello Keith this is your lawyer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit

People coming to bluesky because twitter is broke

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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

As somewhat of a Niponophile (that's Japan lover to all you gaijin on here) I enjoy this most honourable country's esoteric cinema, like that of Akira Kurosawa (you probably wouldn't get him don't even try) and Hayao Miyazaki (think of him as the Michael Bay of drawing cartoons),

Found on another site, replace Parsippany with the appropriate town for what you're discussing.

thanks linus torvalds

why polls matter!

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

the nuzzi coverage is a real insight into the utter perversion of the press corps

guy lied to both his donors and voters about what he actually intended to do and probably handed the election to bush in the process and has spent the last quarter century being an absolutely impenetrable shithead about it, providing a permission structure for lolnothingmatters low-info dickheads

it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen

@tommalinowski.bsky.social was one of just a handful of NJ Democrats willing to buck the party machine and support @andykimnj.bsky.social’s Senate campaign. Today, Senator Kim is returning the favor, endorsing Malinowski in the packed special election for NJ-11. newjerseyglobe.com/congress/tom...

"Fewer people" housing policy vs. "more people" housing policy:

BREAKING: at D+14.2% Mikie Sherrill has surpassed Murphy 2017 to become the second best Democratic performance in an NJ Gov race since Jim Florio's win in 1989!

If you put Peter Thiel into a 1930s novel people would say the vampirism, evil crystal balls, AI cults, and connections to notorious pedophiles were just a way of justifying contemporary homophobia and can't be taken literally. Same is probably true of Epstein and antisemitism, for the record.

She gave us the best tweet archive update ever lol

um, it’s actually misogyny to suggest the NYT shouldn’t do a glam cover story of the reporter who fucked her source. in fact, it’s also misogyny to suggest that our reporter shouldn’t have rolled his tongue out while his eyes grow x10 larger like an old acme cartoon while he reported on her.

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.