Just re-watched Kubrick’s “Lolita” and it remains a brilliantly funny, incredibly disturbing film, and — like the novel — a foolproof litmus test.

Operation Throbbing Gristle

Operation Strapping Manservant

I used to think Anthony Weiner had the most embarrassing leaked correspondence in American history, but that was before “Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor.”

reference for the blogs thing from the greatest interview ever conducted

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

I hope the dead kids haunt her house

All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.

By the way, Olivia Nuzzi employer Vanity Fair is owned by Condé Nast ... which recently fired four employees for union activity www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats

She gave us the best tweet archive update ever lol

I know we live in a post-shame society, but this is a shameful bit of writing.

Speaking of people I hoped would never reenter the discourse…

So, uh, funny story… www.thegamer.com/game-of-thro...

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Just a couple of days ago, the Moral Avatar on the Charles (and Jeffrey Epstein pen pal) was trying to get an investigation launched against Harvard’s excellent student newspaper

What blows my mind is how all of these powerful people are putting all of this self-incriminating material IN WRITING in emails to JEFFREY EPSTEIN. He didn’t have to make secret tapes to obtain compromat. These mooks just typed it out and freely sent it to him of their own free will!

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

concerning to me that former harvard president and treasury secretary larry summers writes like a functionally illiterate zoomer

Ken Starr, the Zelig of sex crime cover-ups

honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate

Sure. You just keep telling yourself that, Governor Indefinite Pause on Congestion Pricing.

The best way to show that MAGA is not part of some dark authoritarian movement is to remove professors who suggest that it is

We’ve completed this cycle in less than a week this time:

The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

Wow, that’s crazy. Republicans lied and are screwing you over? Who could have seen that coming?

the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look I mean come on

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

Still seething that my former sainted editor cut my long couple paragraphs about all the ways Andreessen misunderstood the economics of 18th-century whaling. He was so wrong, y’all. Whaling was not like venture capital.

This sounds like a request for people at his church to give him whatfor

3) They deliberately roundup senators who aren't facing voters to do the selling out. And, the coup de grace ... 4) They sell out *in order to preserve the filibuster*, one of the very artifacts that makes the Senate so miserable & useless. Perfectly shitty, as though designed in a Shit Lab.

I'm trying to do real work today & everyone is bashing this already, but my god: 1) Schumer clearly arranges or at least greenlights the sellout but then votes against it so he can pretend to have a spine. 2) They sell out for a *promise from Republicans*, who lie like they f'ing breathe.

Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.

getting a more powerful GPU to heat my apartment in the winter

I would please like for Angus King, and anyone else in the ostensible opposition who believes “standing up to Trump doesn’t work,” to resign immediately. Like, say what you will about the efficacy of the first term #resist movement, it is infinitely preferable to whatever the fuck this is.

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Democrats just won a blowout election, the polling shows that the public blames the Republicans for the shutdown, Trump was freaking out and demanding the GOP abolish the filibuster, and now they quit with nothing to show for it? Absurd. Pathetic.

i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Kill the filibuster. Kill it dead. Stop protecting the GOP from the consequences of its actions

I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate

Yeah, I'm sorry, but you do not keep the government shut for more than a month and then NOT get a deal on the main item you have been messaging on without completely shifting the blame dynamic.

The agreement to hold a vote on ACA subsidies is not a concession. It's worth literally nothing. It should be ignored when evaluating the merits of the deal