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I’ve had to explain “everything’s coming up Milhouse” more than I care to admit

After all, why would we expect a special representative of DHS to speak to what DHS says?

concede is the key word here. he seems to think that democrats should operate from a position of fundamental weakness and essentially work as much as possible not to offend anyone. it's why he sees so much promise in golden and gluesenkamp perez — that is essentially what they do (it barely works)

"we got too wealthy and invented the illuminati because we were bored" bsky.app/profile/daph...

Idk, I think he has the juice

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

The Robber Barons would be astounded at the wealth the Tech Nazis have. Like, orders of magnitude more money, even adjusted for inflation

Things were at least *marginally* better when the robber barons thought they were going to hell for the shit they pulled to accumulate their wealth and power and tried to offset that by building museums, libraries, and colleges. The ones we have today would never bother to do that.

Graham Platner's collapse is an indictment of what Twitter has done to people's brains, and a major W for this platform and the general idea of "not spending time in Elon Musk's sandbox" slate.com/technology/2...

Anyone who's surprised by this doesn't know George! The Prequels were a massive R&D project for digital filmmaking because the man spent 6 years making Star Wars movies with practical effects and analog editing machines and went, "Wow, this sucks, there must be an easier way to do all this."

I’ve seen only two movies with Billy Zane and he plays a dickhead at sea in both.

In honor of the late, great Sam Neill, tonight’s flick is one I’ve been meaning to revisit for a while: DEAD CALM

I'm tired, boss

Laura Dern pays tribute to Sam Neill. “Sam was my beloved lifetime friend. He showed me the depths of loyalty, protectiveness and love, always with the driest wit. He was a true and noble gentleman, wrapped up in my dream leading man. I will love you forever, Dr. Alan Grant.”

I generally try not to doom; I tend to be a "it will get worse before it gets better" type. But I admit, the question "Just *how* much worse does it have to get before it gets better?" is one that I'm both tired of asking myself and increasingly afraid of having answered.

Neither winning the war nor losing the war but a secret third thing (losing the war then attempting to extort your allies for some reason?)

mandatory reading

Fuck.

After having his lips surgically attached to Trump’s ass, it’s fitting (and entirely predictable) that Trump wouldn’t give two shits about him in any truly substantive and publicly treat the ordeal as an annoying inconvenience.

I think not tolerating people who rape other people and get Nazi iconography tattooed on their body is a good rule to follow

Imagine being lectured about fake jobs by the vice-president lol my guy, you sit around waiting for a pulse to stop

Remember when they were just goofy dudes that said “banana”

Really scraping the barrel of millennial nostalgia here

This was very obvious when, in 2019/2020, the then-newest season of Stranger Things was a topic of discussion for like a weekend whereas Baby Yoda dominated pop culture for two months because Disney+ released 8 episodes of Mandalorian on a weekly basis.

"The people of Iran will rise up against the regime when we start bombing them." Sure, Don.

Honestly, the best part about being a kid who got into the Simpsons starting at age ~6 because my mom got a new season on DVD every year for Christmas has been growing up and watching movies and going “Oh, *that’s* where that gag came from.”

Best STAR TREK captain. Wrong answers only.

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So a passing mention of needing one's glutes massaged is to be strictly interpreted as an invitation for sex that trumps the part where she said she didn't want company that evening? Do I have that right?

He is *so* good on Shrinking Also if you havent watched Shrinking you’re seriously missing out

Why is the alignment on this thing so fucked

The nihilism of the "I don't care, I vote for policy," is also a deadend. I understand the cynicism, but come on now, if you can't trust them to tell you the truth about their personal history, why would you trust them to follow through on their policy promises? Trite as it is, character does matter

If one substitutes "Western Civilization" with "White Hegemony", the pathologies of the Right start to come into much clearer focus.

A British prime minister thought appeasing a fascist bully was a good idea? What year is it again?

So there’s a famously pugilistic poster on here (who has me blocked) who said, essentially, that character doesn’t matter when choosing to vote. Only policy. And I think that is just fundamentally backwards and, ultimately, the reason why the online left keeps falling for lying grifters. (Thread)

How rapey of him

Students increasingly view higher education as just another hurdle they need to clear to get something they want. It really begs the question: if students are not interested in doing the work, then why are they there in the first place?

This politico headline is from October btw I guess it’s true it wasn’t new social media posts

if only there were more signs this guy was an absolute piece of trash

GIFT LINK: An ex-girlfriend of embattled Senate candidate Graham Platner told The Washington Post that he repeatedly removed protection without her consent when they were having sex. wapo.st/4f2xXvc

The touching redemption story of waiting until bad shit you did came to light (and threatening former employees who might help it come to light) and then saying “uh I didn’t know / that doesn’t count / those bitches are liars anyway”. Weird that anyone would have any doubts

This is a more personal piece than usual, and I'm really grateful to @liberalcurrents.com for giving me the space for it.

Failed a precalculus class in college