The funny thing is in real life, men like this would be shut down quickly by other men because no one likes a pair of screeching harpies who are also attention whores when they’re just hanging out.

MAGA is either a circus show of freaks or fake tans, blonde extensions, Botox, and hormone replacement therapy. No in-between. And if you're a young MAGA, you're going to end up in one of those 2 camps at some point.

So, like, Cuba does have diagnoses of autism. And Cuba also has access to Tylenol or acetaminophen so...0 for 2?

Just to show you what time is like when you have a toddler at home and teach in a public school - it's been 6 fucking days since this happened??? It felt like yesterday, damn.

This fucking guy has all the right moves.

This is all very weird because blue America accounts for something like 60-70% of America's GDP.

Ellen isn't owed a comeback. She can try a comeback but if no one gives a shit about what's she's selling, then that's that. Louis CK is still gigging and making a living. Just because he isn't the star he once was has nothing to do w/ "cancel culture" & everything to do w/ the free market.

One of my favorite covers of "Sultans of Swing." (Unsurprising considering how talented both Mary and Josh are.)

OK, so this administration IS going to make me judge books by their covers from now on.

Either people like this have killed their shame reaction (and essentially become sociopaths) or they live in a totally different epistemological framework where falsity does not delegitimize information. Either way, it's a terrible place to be for a country to have 30% of its ppl be like this.

Anti-corruption and fighting oligarchy are the 2 most straightforward ways to message during Trump 2.0 & yet the Democrats are paying consultants six figures to learn “magic phrases” that will hypnotize the working class into voting for them.

Anytime one of these guys chastises the Left for “abandoning persuasion,” what he’s really doing is giving his elite class permission to ignore the Left. Leaving X is acknowledging that the site is captured by a Far Right owner & only a child would think we can only have one public square.

It really was very easy to predict. bsky.app/profile/whps...

Camilla: "But she's radiating intense cold and malice, Charles." King Charles: "She's our guest, darling. Do it for king and country."

The Beatles, "Stand by Me," and "The House of the Rising Son."

Sure, just skip over Gen X. It’s not like we haven’t been ignored our whole lives. (Most Gen X complaint.)

I can't believe Cook is listed at 5'11" because he looks tiny compared to everyone else.

Soooooooo they're the average America who watches about 5 hours of TV a day.

Let's invent another Torment Nexus to help us rectify all the problems caused by the first Torment Nexus we created!

Blahahaha, hilarious.

Another point of epistemic decoupling between Left and Right: As a person on the Left, I don’t grasp how important Kirk was to the MAGA ecosystem. I saw him as an unserious troll & therefore all the posthumous honors being bestowed on him feel performative & weaponized to me.

A Watergate sized scandal every other day.

i.e., after whatever merger deal ABC or one of its subsidiaries needs greenlit by the FCC goes through.

This is a good start to shifting the Overton Window towards re-assembling the US as a loose confederation of autonomous regional blocs with a shared currency and national defense but not much else.

MAGA will read this from President Obama and claim “Obama used the FCC to clamp down on speech he didn’t like too!” when he absolutely did not but they’ll never believe you. This is called an epistemic crisis, folks, and it’s at the root of all of our problems.

My god, how can this photo be real? Even our fascists are weird as fuck.

Same as it ever was. It's why I'm showing my students "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media."

There is no fucking way I'm going to reward a corporation that cares more about its bottom line than about American democracy. #CancelDisney #CancelABC

<first cop to pick up shell casing and read the engraving> Cop #1: "If you...read this...you are...gay...LMFAO." Cop #2: "Hey, Garry's gay!"

If you're confused why MAGA are suddenly criminalizing speech, nationalizing industries, or federalizing the Nat'l Guard against the will of states because this seems like rank hypocrisy, you're missing the point: MAGA believes only their ppl deserve rights while everyone else deserves hell.

A fun cover of Hall & Oates's "Rich Girl" by one of my favorite YouTube bands.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

The Left should absolutely trumpet the many, many times they are silenced and canceled by the Corporate Right for speech.

I’m just sayin’ - maybe there are very foreseeable consequences for trying to make money off of arguing that empathy is a bad thing. You might think you’re being edgy, it might earn you some clout & a book deal, but what you’re really doing is giving ppl an excuse to act savagely.

The spontaneous street celebrations when Trump finally shuffles off this mortal coil will probably spark a 2nd Civil War 😑

That sounds exactly like what “free speech absolutist” Charlie Kirk would say 😂😂😂

Can't these people just stop being pieces of shit for like 5 seconds?

I was excited to finally see Longlegs on streaming and while it has style and eeriness for miles, I ultimately found it kind of vacuous.

Btw, I’m just saying - making the murder of a social media influencer much more important than the murder and attempted murder of two politicians kinda tells crazy people who want notoriety that murdering politicians isn’t worth your time.

When America needs to choose what patch to walk down during a critical juncture in its history, for the last 25 years, it has consistently chosen the dumbest path.

Hey, Republicans and MAGA, is this so hard? Most people are tired of this non-stop culture war bullshit.

It does make you wonder what his last thoughts were considering he was trolling someone about gun violence right before he was fatally shot?

Bottom line - America is going to react to what happened today in the dumbest, most self-destructive way possible so 🤷‍♂️

It's on a day like this that Bluesky really needs sports content.

Are you kidding me? "Healthcare subsidies"??? Fucking nerds.

Important thread. This is how you best this chickenshit, Mickey Mouse authoritarian-lite bullshit. Through organization and mutual aid.

Docs I trust more than RFK jr

It'll be "$8 gazillion" right before the midterms.

They're making him wear that hat to remind him where he is.