Trump could win because he gave supporters plausible deniability (to themselves, if not to outsiders). He's putting on a show, messing with the media, trolling the left, that's just the way he talks, seriously but not literally, etc. Vance's unabashed, creepy white nationalism doesn't have that.

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

Earth Kitt, 1960s Catwoman singing her villain song in the rough draft of Emperors New Groove www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbIo...

[pounding fists on the table to emphasize each word] longest night! longest night! longest night!

Hard Candy Christmas is the best Christmas song because Dolly’s answers to seasonal depression are either picking up a new hobby or getting on a bus and leaving town forever and that’s the best truest depiction of the season.

The criminal. The crime.

I need the politics nerds to read more history and military theory because "wait I won so many battles, how did we lose?" is what happened to Hannibal and it's what this exclusively data driven approach is vulnerable to

"Lemon, we can't afford another costly failure during the Holiday season. Kabletown still hasn't recovered from the Jimmy Fallon Holiday Vinyl Debacle."

• spiky hair dad who has not been there for years “is that also a red flag?” • • other dad who has been there for their son “CRIMSON” (book worm son has been going through things for the last 10 years)

Paul and Tate getting their brains turned to mashed potatoes the moment they stepped in the ring with somebody in the same weight class who isn't afraid to punch back feels like God flashing a big red warning sign to our country.

Back on my bullshit (carrying a film camera through the woods in subfreezing temperatures)

she really said teehee

one must imagine the scribe well fed, happy, and w/ an editor who can so NO not going to print that

Mom and Dad are here

the smile, that emerges automatically this version of the photo cropped so you do not see the influencer about to get punched

“Literary snob takes issue with Epstein’s reading of Lolita” is an onion headline

I want to raise a few issues with this ... - The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025. - There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025. - There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees. - 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.

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One of the group chats I’m in is convinced that the tell a man is normal and well adjusted in 2025 is if he owns and uses a toilet brush, and this started as a bit but at this point I’m basically convinced that it’s true

yep

She’s discovered that she can hop on the coffee table and this is going to be a problem

The insult that got hurled at Caesar most consistently, per the sources, was the allegation that he had bottomed for the king of Bithynia

It's so funny when people idolize Roman aristocrats like Cicero, Caesar, and Sulla, because reading the primary sources about them makes it clear they were catty bitches who insulted each other by gossiping about the shame of a rival's grandpa owning a rope-making business and a bakery

She gave an interview to Vanity Fair and that author has relayed a bunch of stuff to the NYT so a little extra intrigue for the why of that too

a truly generational, sustained run for this account

his job is box

the beast must feast

if anyone needs to see a dog in the snow

this Awoke something in me

[evolutionary psychologist voice] it is the nature of the male, to subordinate himself to the desire of the Female

it is snowing on earth the cold wind says PERSEPHONE IS HAVING SEX IN HELL

True story, titanium was once so scarce that the CIA had to trick the Russians into selling large quantities of it so they could build the SR-71 Blackbird

idle thought for it is so close to the weekend so I am letting my thoughts wander to lizard people … tailor editions … and their messy twinks full of youth and earnest vigor attention @rasher.bsky.social and @levin.bsky.social who host a great DS9 podcast, Deep Space Dive

2nd; something a lot of policy nerds fundamentally don’t get is politics is a sales job, not an engineering one

best gender (yelling “I am on tv” out of focus and too close) soon ! ( me getting tired for winter is coming )

balanced diet of Looney Tunes, Muppets, Sesame Street, etc it is important to have junk food (chuck jones) even if it was also spiritually nutritious

bnuy

stupid calvinism* ( the elect was chosen for the tv ) * yes the pedantic side of me knows John Calvin the man is different than the ism … that is the slip !

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

elite DEI panic is just status competition, part infinity

@liberalcurrents.com is doing a fund raiser right now, funds and other four letter words 🫡

brb starting a GoFundMe

Magneto: All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you. Quicksilver: Please stop quoting Watership Down at me.

The corollary to “Everything is a conspiracy when you’re dumb” and “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” is “Everything computer is indistinguishable from magic when you’re dumb”

Need a law of one price but as an actual law so bad

I know Americans overly romanticize Europe but I still think moving to a little house on a canal in the Netherlands could solve like 82% of my problems