this mf POSING

that non-ideological, low-information and apathetic 20% is the key swing voting bloc and why really the only thing that matters for the midterms and beyond is gas prices and grocery prices (and to a lesser extent vibes around 'the economy')

Basically the shape of public opinion in the 2020s is that 30% of the US public is implacably in a death cult around Trump and are immune to persuasion, 40% are implacably opposed to the cult, 20% are willing to back the cult if they think it'll help the economy and 10% are insane/misinformed

This one is important, because it's a thing Republicans all do--you tell them how badly they're handling the war and they deflect it as if you were blaming the troops, which nobody does of course. Peters does such a fine job of exposing this rhetorical malpractice for what it is.

god im so tired

chat you ever just look at your spouse and go "man. they're so cute and awesome i'm so lucky to have them"

Also true. We’re a party of ‘pick me I’m not like other Democrats’ and Republicans are a party of ‘hell yeah I’m a conservative republican”

A man who is ineligible to be President is President. SCOTUS is acting as a wing of the Republican Party. ICE and CBP have been converted into openly partisan paramilitary units, sent, by the President's own words, to terrorize "Democrat cities" and "Democrat communities" How about shut the fuck up

cartoon cold open where he throws his sheets off in the morning and he’s wearing a suit

it's👏🏽about 👏🏽damn 👏🏽time👏🏽

my god i hate it here

me an hour ago: "you all need to get comfortable talking about art. what's in your soul." *bsky feed refreshes and the monkey's paw curls*

Larry got a mouse this morning.

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

jesse

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Glad to see the Afghanistan comparison in the question framing

Oh look, DOJ's getting ready to lose a lawsuit again, all at the cost of a few hundred thousand dollars or more in taxpayer funding to be paid to the states for their in legal fees!

Been through a handful of Army Leader Professional Development trainings which could have been titled "why we shouldn't invade Iran" which largely consisted of someone slapping this map on a PowerPoint slide and pointing out that Iran has three times the land and twice the population of Iraq.

“Call me Penelope the way nobody shows me respect around here…I tell ya”

If you are an American going there for any reason other than to burn that place to the fucking ground, you are a traitor, and that’s exactly where I’m at with this.

why is the butt a thing you can get tendonitis on and why won't it fix itself

Clausewitz. Yeah. Of course. You can see it right in On War. If you're the superpower, you just win! Stab yourself repeatedly in the face in a confused war with no clear political end-state? It doesn't matter! Nothing matters!

Me when i hear “smoot-hawley”:

i just saw someone compare candace owens to hasan piker as the same level of 1) influence and 2) badness and it truly boggles the mind that some people are incapable of feeling embarrassment

i don't know what this means but damn if that isn't some evocative imagery

can i play the 1 like = 1 pointless opinion game?

on it boss 🫡

can't get comfortable:(

im tired boss

i think the thing i love the most about "the odyssey" is its the same story (but it's not) handed down across the generations (each one modifying it a little bit more). it's homer, it's the bible, it's shakespeare, it's tolkein, it's nolan himself. it's you it's me it's anyone who's ever had a story

Ngl “the USG commits a new spectacular class of war crimes the same weekend everyone is talking about the classical myth movie with a major ‘committing war crimes will destroy your entire society and ruin the lives of everyone you care about’ theme” feels like pretty heavy handed symbolism

it's pretty good!

haha the odyssey is really good

apparently we're just putting whatever words together

lol lmao

Brother have you watched a single baseball game

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

Good article that identifies Joe Gebbia and the National Design Studio as the spirtual heirs of DOGE but also fail to mention that Gebbia posts white nationalist messaging daily. Is that no longer notable? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

truly the webbed site for 38 year olds

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

These Peltola ads are getting more and more direct.

the jibonacci sequence

Yglesias thinks he's shrewdly cynical, but really he's just an unprincipled dolt with mean impulses. Democratic candidates gain absolutely nothing by adopting conservative bigotries, they just signal to their base that they're not worth voting for. The net result is always negative.

Are we sure it wasn't the fashion police?

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Look, either Virginia is for lovers or it’s not