in many states, the same procedures and treatments performed on intersex infants who are unable to consent have been banned for adolescents who want them and have parental permission

The “Trump blew Bill” thing is advantageous in a bunch of ways but my favorite is that, aside from Trump, it’s a genuinely victimless joke. Bill Clinton doesn’t give a shit if you believe Trump sucked him off. In fact, I promise you the man feels alive right now in a way he hasn’t for 30 years.

I think the line should be "We're not going to comment on if it did or didn't happen." and then when the inevitable follow up comes, "It's cheep speculation. I mean would you trust that man not to use teeth?" Non-zero odds Trump goes on about how he'd give a great blow job.

I'm begging for Posadists to add an ounce of ethics in gaming journalism to their politics.

there was, in fact, a sexual allegation concerning bill clinton in the epstein files

i especially -- especially -- do not want to experience any more scandals that involve two presidential dicks. that's entirely too many

if possible we should elect a lesbian. i would like there to be zero more dick-related scandals of any kind after this

you can all see the joke right? i can't make it. it's not funny and kind of mean if i make the joke. it's really fucking funny if she makes the joke

so has anyone asked Monica her opinion of this yet

recursively profiling people until elite journalism collapses into an orgy-singularity

i like it when my enemies have a lot of enemies. i try not to redirect anyone when that is happening. this is easy because it mostly requires me to sometimes do nothing

the correct way to handle truly odious defections from an enemy is just to refrain from spitting on them. you don't have to make friends with them and you absolutely shouldn't trust them. just refrain from spitting on them when they are attacking your enemies

that's sure one way to have this dog him the rest of his life

boy, the epstein stuff really triggers him, huh

Thriller where three women stumble onto a sinister conspiracy in Washington DC but it’s Nancy Mace, Boebert and MTG

Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.

Trump has to remain able to at least bluff that he can make a head roll on demand and he can't make MTG's head roll

this one is a mistake

This strikes me as most likely to be actual 'locker room talk' between extremely gross, rapey men who fantasize about humiliating others by making them suck their dicks. However, stranger things have happened.

Chicago really sending only its most handsome faith leaders for these gigs huh

The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.

The ongoing search for the 10th President of UVA needs to be stopped until Spanberger is sworn in. On January 17, 2026, Spanberger needs to fire the Board for being illegally constituted. If not the entire board then at minimum those members named in Jim Ryan's letter to the Faculty Senate today.

no, no, I'm in Your Party (Marxist-Leninist Corbynite), not those splitters and wreckers in the Your Party (Revolutionary Corbynite Tendency)

while we're on the topic, though, people keep mentioning legislators that they like as candidates for who to get the senate leader job, and, gang, you don't want someone you like in that job, because, sure as the sun will rise, you will come to dislike them

Quentin Tarantula: ok now put all 8 of em up on the dashboard

God can one thing not be fucking gender for once

You can really understand a lot of the outrage and contempt from the press at Democrats seriously trying to contest the GOP in redistricting and legislative brinkmanship as the equivalent of those 19th century anti-suffragist cartoons attacking women for pretending to be men.

there's a portrait in RFK's attic that just keeps getting younger and better-looking

the "trans culture" that Nicole calls "we" is based around reifying oppression and suffering and a refusal to participate in mainstream society. that culture absolutely is going to die out, and future generations of trans women will be like Sarah McBride and not like what Nicole imagines she is.

take a moment, close your eyes, inhale deeply, exhale, and then imagine hearing "livvy" in RFK jr's voice

um, it’s actually misogyny to suggest the NYT shouldn’t do a glam cover story of the reporter who fucked her source. in fact, it’s also misogyny to suggest that our reporter shouldn’t have rolled his tongue out while his eyes grow x10 larger like an old acme cartoon while he reported on her.

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

is there literally anything an elite journalist can do to get blackballed other than MeToo a powerful colleague

the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding

Oh, so you’re reaching the correct opinions? You’ve come to agree with me? You ass. You fucking moron. You inbred piece of filth. You subhuman drooling waste of genetic material. What took you so long? Do you want a cookie? Do you want a bottle and a baby blanket? Does baby want a nap? You ghoul. Yo

It's funny how the ideological split between Twitter and Bluesky has done nothing to stop the power users of both sites from being convinced that leadership is personally conspiring against them in particular.

he's no Beria, but also, he's no Beria

I'd rather the guy in charge of the potential secret police was a corrupt incompetent than a competent ideologue, but it's still very very bad.

i think the issues with this are twofold: 1) if you constantly, obviously pivot what you support in accordance with what’s popular, voters tend to view you as untrustworthy and shady 2) if you don’t have any principles you’re working towards, there’s no point to doing politics at all

"those who have some social capital and education who nonetheless feel dispossessed by the current status quo disproportionately agitate against it?"

downwardly mobile educated alienated elite-adjacents clearly are a large part of the contemporary american left's constituency, but it's such a stupid thing to have a complex about or considering particularly damming. read like any history book ever about who starts political movements.

Only half-joking when I say climate change is the best argument for space militarization because building some kind of solar cannon would make solar power less soy gay pinko lib girl coded. Like how conservatives like nuclear power because it reminds them of nuclear bombs.

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

This is just another type of 'Paradox brain.' "As long as we choose the right traits without being saddled with the wrong flaws at Character Creation, then our candidates can't lose"

Under new plans to be unveiled by Labour, UK citizenship test has a whole section on Northern Ireland. If you get any of them right, you don't get citizenship.

Turns out trying to pursue a "maximally woke" idea actually just gets you to "maximally antisocial" because the good ideas are mostly boring

my most woke opinion is that about 70% of the QTs of this are actually reactionary

regarding AC as a decadent, climate-irresponsible indulgence and regarding home heating as an essential necessity is unironically eurocentrism considering that one is objectively more emissions heavy than the other.

I am not going to unblock Talia Bhatt to quote tweet her, but my most woke opinion is, as mentioned before, that private, home, and religious schooling should be criminalized. This obviously should be coupled with an extensive expansion of protections for students with special needs.