How do they not just collapse like a black hole from reaching infinite stupidity in a finite space?

A prayer request I can get behind.

America's favorite new gameshow: Sundowning or Lying?

straight up child murder www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Sign of the times: @mjgault.bsky.social interviewed ABC's John Quiñones re: his podcast about Vanessa Guillén, a soldier who was murdered at Ft Hood in 2020. When Gault asked how Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth could roll back reforms made in response to Guillén's death, a PR person cut in to shut it down.

all presidential administrations are partisan, but trump and the people in his white house are partisans bordering on sectarians, and one result is that they see nothing of actions that strain and weaken the union itself

It really should not go unremarked that Mike Johnson *just admitted that the President of the United States is unwell.*

Personally, I think this practice of rescission alone demands a shutdown unless 1) it is halted completely and 2) the four corners of the budget are secured by ironclad agreement.

SCOTUS's reasoning on why Trump can fire the boards of every other agency but not the Fed's is going to be something to behold. It will be studied in law schools for centuries when analyzing this SCOTUS's complete estrangement from any semblance of principle.

"Though we control the House, the Senate, the White House and the Supreme Court, our inability to get a budget has nothing to do with our own incompetence but in fact a handful of Democrats."

ICE Beats More US Citizens, Can't Seem To Shake 'Gestapo' Label Somehow www.wonkette.com/p/ice-beats-... By Doktor Zoom @doktorzoom.bsky.social

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

The Democrats ran, among other things, on democracy being under threat in the 2024 election and they were clearly right. They should act like they were right, not that they were wrong because they lost at one particular moment in time. Trump considers them an internal enemy, not a minority party

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

2017, after my first shower post-surgery. The kid can drive now and the beard got too gray so I shaved it off.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

I read a piece earlier that said “imagine how MAGA would react if seatbelt laws were introduced today,” to which I reply: We don’t need to imagine

The science is perfectly clear - no causal link between acetaminophen and autism has been demonstrated. NPR’s framing is also perfectly clear - but it won’t restore their funding and damages their credibility with those who donate to help their member stations.

Where are the post-Rapture parties happening?

How about Elon Musk bails out Argentina instead of the federal government?

it's important to make these companies more afraid of people with empathy and good sense than they are of weird fucking brigading authoritarian babies we outnumber these assholes by a wide margin

I am quite confident that if you picked any random person convicted of first-degree murder it's a 99.9% chance they would be a better president than Trump paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hey-lets-u...

Very much in favor of this strategy, as the only way to truly disprove it is to find out what he really said…

Dear gestapo trash:

Dutch late night TV has its take

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

“I’m shocked you would make that claim” 😕🤷🏻‍♂️ 🤦🏼‍♀️ Another one that hasn’t aged great. (Her condescending looks really seal the deal)

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online, MSNBC has learned.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

Once again lamenting the consultant class forcing the ticket to stop framing the GOP as 'weird' (derogatory) - it was salient, effective with normies, and above all, absolutely enraged the right, because they couldn't show anyone the lie.

My own pet theory is his obsession with the AI art of himself as strong and virile and masculine is causing a reverse Dorian Gray effect, sapping every ounce of his remaining vitality, draining it into the cloud with every new prompt, to feed Grok’s insatiable thirst.

Well, I think that's enough internet for today. Gonna go read my book about an authoritarian dystopia where they murder people for unwanted speech and songs, since it's less depressing than...all this.

Thank Jibbers Crabst. I was worried there for a minute.

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Feels like only yesterday that a Fox News host advocated murdering the homeless and yet kept his job.

And not that it's relevant to the free speech issue, but Kimmel said literally nothing negative about Kirk per se at all. This is just a pure pretext to getting another critic of Trump off the air, and Disney is a willing regime collaborator

John Oliver warming up for Sunday night

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.