(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

MTG is just trying to be the MAGA presumptive when Trump kicks the bucket (everyone dies, don't @ me secret service). She's going back to toxic as soon as the interregnum struggle is over. By all means let's help her, metaphorically, shiv the king, but don't be surprised after.

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

If an ICE agent got shot breaking, unprovoked, into an occupied car, how likely is it they manage to pull a jury that would convict? There's no new information someone could give me that would make me return a guilty decision.

When people say the law should be "applied neutrally" and "without politics" -- that doesn't means anything. There is no neutral application of the law. Every decision to stop someone, to question them, to arrest or not, to charge, to seek the death penalty etc is a political choice.

If Bill Clinton were a real partner as a husband and a true American, he'd come out in a live address and acknowledge the rumor was true (even if it isn't). What could possibly be funnier than seeing online MAGA-ites try to process that?

Bill Clinton's dick is the lament configuration that has cursed american politics for the entirety of my lifetime

Object of Desire.

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

This is unbelievable. I got suspended by bluesky just for quoting the lyrics of the Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and changing “hold your hand” to “stab you with a big knife”

Hoffman responds.

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.

this is a major blow from trump

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Goldeneye is 30 years old .. oof

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Have Death By Lightning on in the background... I know I'm middle aged because I love this cast of men. Did not think this could possibly be interesting, but he fact that Garfield had sat with Guiteau in the White House to be solicited for an office a long while before the assassination is wild.

NPR reported this morning that, based on their review of the #Epstein emails released yesterday, Trump’s name appeared more than 1,000 times in the document— "I have met some very bad people, none as bad as #Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." - Jeffrey Epstein

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car he was married at the time

If the emails prove one thing, it's that unfortunately billionaires can't be trusted. A few bad apples ruin it for the whole batch We have to take everyone's money who is a billionaire now. Just to be safe.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Behind the Music had far more intimate, honest, and complex portraits of artists than most of these recent celebrity documentaries coming through the slop machine these days.

Right now, Karoline Leavitt is being coached on how to say “ephebophilia” in the least creepy way possible.

Christian white nationalist fires shots at Neo pagan white nationalists.

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

i just want to stress that this isnt about trump anymore, its about the entire republican party and maga movement covering for a child sex trafficking ring

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America TRUMP: No you don't. No. INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?

they elected and have been covering for THEE main epstein guy, like they were trying to decode pictures of pizza and meanwhile started worshipping the guy with an epstein punch card

So for those keeping score, Hillary Clinton using a (secure) private email server was worth notifying the public of ahead of an election, but Donald Trump having participated in sexual molestation with Jeffrey Epstein was not worth telling us about.

The F150 is an excellent car. The conservatives attacking it as a liberal stupid project are the same conservatives that want Americans to have big families. You can't fit a family, let alone 2 people and a large dog, in a Prius. Small commuter EVs are great for cities not built for cars.

The Democratic Party is fat, lazy and stupidly. The current party is like the turn of the 20th century U.S. military heading into WW1 & 2. The existing leadership, structure and ethos has to be razed and replaced by impatient, brusque men and women who can get the actual job done, not trade favors.

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

people from san francisco should be confined to a different internet than everyone else and then prove their ability to exist normally among the rest of us

Yup, pretty much sums it up

Truly amazing. This is one of the few pieces of news to actually make me laugh gleefully this year.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

entirely possible some senators experienced some flight issues getting home and decided selling out the entire American healthcare system for the poor was a reasonable trade for fixing it

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

The guy is an M.D.. He understands risk pools. He's just a dirty snake oil salesman. This is evil, not dumb.

The average age of these senators is 70 (69.75). Everyone should be asking how they made their decision to be a turncoat, and what they did to make sure they were including the viewpoints of non wealthy gerontocracy.

The salaries paid to air traffic controllers are a joke. A $10k bonus is a joke. Think about the amount of revenue associated with the flights and airports air traffic controllers are supporting. People selling windows will routinely get a better single sale commission check than this 10k bonus.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.