I mean, as long as we're handing out consequential jobs to people who are laughably unqualified for them, why the hell not?

The President appreciates your sacrifice.

God the amount of credulousness you have to fake to write heds and deks at the NYT

Tucker "Do your own research" Carlson

On the bright side, think of how much business this will generate for credit monitoring and -fixing companies

*SIGH*

This is yet another shit merger that will limit consumer choice and, as the last 24 hours demonstrate, make it easier for the government to exercise control over what you do with your free time.

One reading of this is it demonstrates unequivocally that linear television has entered the final curl of its death spiral. Sure, losing Kimmel will further enshittify ABC, but that's like saying the Titanic's gonna sink 2% faster.

I still don't understand the people who treat these like good-faith news events instead of hostile propaganda from an insurgent, anti-American regime.

The journey of most imagination-free idiots who chin-strokingly endorse police-state tactics in intellectually sanitary hypothetical-land, only to find themselves assuming the position once dirty reality arrives.

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Woke up to the news that apparently we're still talking about Charlie Sheen

Good thing only people in blue states fly

Really?

Yeah, I know we're supposed to be circumspect and reasonable and hedge our assertions lest they be impolitic or, worse, intemperate. But what if we didn't worry so much about all that and just told the plain and obvious truth? www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-enigma...

I remain a huge fan of Condé Nast, much respect and love, spent the best years of my professional life there. But as a professional — in this business, at this moment in time — this job looks to me like what's known in European soccer as a "hospital pass" www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Turns out what's behind those masks is the American Stasi

One of the unexpected and uncomfortable takeaways from watching "Luther" — easily one of the best cop dramas of all time — is that if British cops carried guns this would be a much shorter show.

Substack seeming more and more like higher-brow Medium. Average quality and rigor of content higher, but similar problems with organization, discovery, promotion, poor recommendation quality, and spamming. Basically all the enshittification that comes with trying to "scale" like social media.

We have to endure 10 gushing grafs before we get to the rub of all this, which is that it's a dick-stroking publicity stunt, completely unenforceable, in some cases not even deliverable by the negotiating parties. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

I see stuff like this and I honestly wonder whether they're trying to make the federal government so odious people get radicalized against having a union at all, or whether they're just plain old corrupt power hungry fascists who think there'll never be a breaking point.

Trump's entire administration is a giant fuck-you to the very idea of the American government as anything other than a means of personal enrichment and revenge on anyone who tries to hinder his use of the American government as a means of personal enrichment.

"A thing happened and someone on TikTok/Instagram/X/BlueSky said a thing in response" is the kind of quote-unquote news story, popularized in the teens and perfected in the pandemic, that needs to die a fiery death.

Sorry cancer patients present and future, Trump needed a big ol' room where people can line up to smooch his ample ass.

The shame falls on all of us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Guy who went from propagandist podcaster to Deputy FBI Director in one step expresses dismay over politicization of government www.thebulwark.com/p/dan-bongin...

Cool, cool. Been needing more lead in my diet. Kids without cognitive damage just grow up tryna be coastal elites anyway.

Literally the dumbest possible argument — "They concocted these files and then DIDN'T USE THEM TO KEEP ME FROM WINNING" — but I have zero doubts the base will nod sagely and rattle their outrage canes. He thinks you're stupid af and you prove him right every time.

Proving that you can be factually and also morally correct, however weakly and accidentally — and still be a raw, gaping, morally corrupt and septic asshole

How am I supposed to build a restaurant if I keep having to pay for all these ingredients? You want they paid for every pound of potatoes and beef, I understand. But you just can't do it.

It's like the AI bots all hang out in gang and Grok is the leader

Next up: The United States was never called the United States, it was always called Oceania, and it has always been at war with Eurasia.

Welp. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

TCL is the kind of lightweight vibes-riding intellectual who eventually learns to love the fascists for aesthetic reasons. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

I submit to you that the Democratic party still — STILL — does not have one fucking dime-sized clue what the moment calls for, and remains utterly oblivious to the shit sandwich it's about to be force-fed BY ITS OWN WOULD-BE CONSTITUENTS.

Realllllllly struggling to find the downside of a Bongino resignation. On the other hand realllly struggling to find the downside of a Bondi firing. Any way we can make BOTH happen?

MAMA* *(Make American Medieval Again)

The gap between "it'll speed up the cure for cancer" and "it'll relieve you from basic daily demonstrations of your humanity" getting pretty yawning

A+ photo editor/caption writer collab here, well done

I know rank and file Trump voters will join me in saying IT'S ABOUT TIME RICH PEOPLE GOT A BREAK AROUND HERE

SUPER important point at a moment when political rhetoric is blurring these lines for deeply undemocratic reasons.

"Free" markets, yo!

Is there anyone literally anyone who understands the rules of the Slack left rail?

So much for the Golden Age presidency of "No more wars"!

They're just brazenly daring us to take notice and do something about it

sorry but don't we all assume the answer to this is "till the world blows up" because Trump, the standard bearer for the whole crew, does not give one single shit?

When the sitting vice president thinks this is a thing he should do in public (or, ffs, even in private), one of two things must be true: Either he is woefully unfit for the office, or the office no longer has meaning and none of us need respect it.

Mass death reintroduced as kitsch.

Welcome to the new Golden Age www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sure, it's fun, but it's also heartbreaking to be incontrovertibly reminded of the levels of idiocy, juvenility, and narcissism to which we've sunk