COLLINS: So you're telling me you're willing to vote no every time? BERNIE SANDERS: Damn right

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

This is my chief assessment of so many of the MAGA crowd. Those who aren't just gleeful sadists seem like they're terribly unhappy and angry all the time.

It’s decision time. If we are going to fund the government, it should only be a government that respects our democracy, that isn’t corrupt, that doesn’t treat people and places that oppose President Trump as enemies, deserving of indictment or military deployment.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Anti-woke? Going broke.

Go see One Battle After Another, folks

/2 HEGSETH: NOBODY tells a warrior "hey ease up" or "haven't you had enough" or "must you vomit into my handbag" GENERALS: [eerie silence, cough, creak of chair] HEGSETH: and NOBODY tells a warrior how to keep his women in order or how to chase tail GENERALS: .... HEGSETH: NOT. EVEN. MOTHER.

Bummed about Tides, but stoked for Patrick to go independent.

So many liberal technocrats of the previous decades very clearly long to have been 19th century colonial viceroys.

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

Silksong and weekend travel means I haven't watched many movies this week, just a fun Godzilla and a fun sexy costume drama

The obvious and enduring left critique of liberalism forever is that it can naively accommodate those who would seek to destroy it, and Sunstein cannot even be bothered to look at the arsonists he's brought into his big tent and figure out what they're doing with lighter fluid and matches.

anti-vax is one the most toxic political positions in america but it hasn't usually been covered like that because one segment of the population where it *is* somewhat popular is among business and media elites.

Christ, I had forgotten that Greenspan is still alive. He's almost 100!

Democrats need to jump on the Argentina bailout – and tie it to cuts in health care for Americans. It's not "America First." It's "Suck Up to Trump First."

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

since a lot of ppl are discussing the ICE camp shooter's apparent lack of ideology, i would like to posit that online irony blackpill is absolutely an ideology with coherent tenets - the reason it appears incoherent is because this an ideology primarily defined by faithlessness, negative space

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This is my cats every single damn day.

Another isolated, alienated, terminally online loser. Sadly the least surprising thing in the world.

Called this back in February.

The totally unhinged responses this post has provoked are really something. Libs spouting neo-con foreign policy talking points like the weird mirror image of tankies defending Mao and Stalin.

The goldbug ads I'm getting on Behind the Bastards this week are absolutely killing me. "We're the goldbug grifters who AREN'T trying to rip you off" ok, buddy sure. Oh, wait, you're selling me gold but biblically? Well say no more!

Feel deeply ambivalent about this.

Approximately 70% of all people who get cancer have eaten pickles. Most people who have recently died in car accidents ate a pickle in the past year. All Americans who ate pickles in 1901 have died. Therefore, pickles obviously kill people. (This is a post about Tylenol and autism. )

Look, when he's right he's right.

The only people weaker than this administration are the people who buckle and bow down to their completely empty bluster

Number 3 is huge, here, folks. These are by and large the same people who hurriedly staffed up DEI offices when they were being yelled at by libs and hurriedly liquidated then when they were being yelled at by cons. They'll bend with the prevailing wind.

"my kids are defective!" is the battlecry of nearly every reactionary movement

Was the fall of Rome this stupid? I spoke to Revolutions and History of Rome host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about the decline of empires, and the unraveling of America. Full interview at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Imagine thinking that this woman and her ilk are the sort of people you need to be courting politically.

What's a movie you think is perfect?

sometimes you see something so evangelical that it takes your breath away

At the Minnesota Renn Festival. It's fun.

no doom loops for me, please. virtuous cycles only

*A Centrist restaurant consultant walks into a pizza parlor* "I can't understand why you're not doing more to get people who hate pizza to come in here to complain about your menu"

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Pretty good week.

"When one law firm, one college, one media company rolls over for Trump, it compels others to do the same. Meanwhile, with every new capitulation, Trump grows bolder." At the end of the day, resisting is *easier* than caving. www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...

Keep waiting for the Great Awakening among cops that homeless people, fentanyl, or liberals are no where near as dangerous to them as abusive men and that they really should get on board the social project of doing something about them.

The media company that can figure out how to produce news or news adjacent video content without relying on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, broadcast TV, cable, or corporate streamers will make a billion dollars and probably help save American democracy — or exist long enough to document its end

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Watching prominent commenters followed by dozens of people I know say "it's over" because Jimmy Kimmel got suspended...like, they actually killed Medgar Evers, in defense of a fascist system that had been in place for decades. Imagine social media that day! Read history and have some self-respect.

we (left of center pundits) are going to have to live here with one another (conservative pundits), believing what we believe (that we should get paid large sums of money), disagreeing in the ways we disagree (without them sending their rabid horde of followers to kill us).

Playing Silksong and my only note so far is that they should let me pat the bell beast

If this is what tears the right-wing coalition apart, it will be so poetic and beautiful.

an entire generation and everyone coming up after them have essentially been making pirate tv stations for each other on repurposed video game streaming websites for like about a decade now. if we had the money that demonic old baby boomers have poured into nasty jesus creeps you would be astonished