”why learn to throw pots when you can go to Target and buy a perfect mug with a funny picture of a flamingo on it for five dollars” idk man

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.

your average Democratic voter thinks ICE is a bunch of vile thugs who deserve ostracism and public trials but the higher you climb the ranks of the party the less agreement you find with that entry-level liberal/left commitment and by the time you get to DC it's gone entirely

it's coming from the top, too, because a good number of loyal machine cogs have unrestrained contempt for ICE; based on what I've heard, the (watered-down) slate of anti-ICE bills in the NJ legislature are moving because leadership accepted that their rank-and-file legislators wanted to do something

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Just say you hate bards and get over it!

Betting on human lives is utter depravity and it cannot be allowed in a civil society.

Teamwork and fairness are feminine traits

it's the combination of that performance of placidity and bad faith combined with obvious teeth-grinding rage that really gets me.

the thing that makes me angriest about arguments from Yglesias and Bazelon is the bland, placid insistence that it is not just imperative to vote for politicians with no principles, but that if you as a private citizen have principles then you may as well be turning on the gas chambers yourself.

saw someone mention earlier that candace owens, while absolutely batshit, frothingly insane, is the only person who has responded to all of this with anything that looks like honest loss and grief

Wayyyy too much botox in the glabella. She can’t emote at all. But, I doubt she’s that good of an actress anyways.

whenever we talk about the eternal humanities versus STEM debate on here, it’s probably worth remembering that an American fascist administration is very actively trying to finish off the already-weakened humanities, even *more* so than it’s trying to do the same to all science it doesn’t like

I think the Trump condom part is particularly weaponizable when it comes to tearing up the GOP base

Just talked politics with my dad and I am pleased to announce that Trump has lost the Giant Man Baby demographic

mark, we are trying to help you. if you guys don't get with the program and stop standing in the way of the idea that government should do things for regular people, your risk is not going to be higher taxes on your income, it's going to be seizure of your assets

The unanimous Hoosier response to threats to pull funding for roads is “the roads were never getting fixed anyway you sons of bitches” and I think that’s beautiful

When I was in college I accidentally sliced off my finger tip. I was bleeding profusely. I made a tourniquet with a hair tie, wrapped a pad around my finger, and drove myself to the hospital because I could not afford a $1,000 ambulance ride. Then I was billed $1,200 for the ER visit after insurance

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

This is really incredible. The government's battle to deport Abrego Garcia has apparently been based on a lie from the start. Not even the "gang affiliation" lie or the "human smuggling" lie, but the more basic assertion that he was ordered to be deported in the first place.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social what the actual fuck is your problem?

When we win back power from the fascists, we must put a weapons-grade shock collar on Big Tech. And we must prosecute and imprison demons like Elon Musk.

*Catholicism intensifies*

Gonna laugh my ass off if Indiana goes blue for the first time since Obama ‘08 out of spite

A bigot may remain a bigot in his heart, but it’s still very much a strategic win if he becomes too intimidated to be horrible to others in public. When bigots are afraid, it becomes a lot *harder* for them to recruit others and to brutalize innocent people.

ICE being evil enough they start angering famously racist police departments was really not a turn I was expecting

Dresses above the knees with no tights at the White House is giving me a heart attack. Major dress code faux pas.

The hack comes after Paramount CEO David Ellison reportedly told Trump administration officials that “sweeping changes” would be made at CNN if Paramount acquired Warner Bros. instead of Netflix.

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

The White House has been hammering this message as they flail on affordability; nothing at all is our fault, while literally everything is the fault of undocumented immigrants, a group whose numbers we keep claiming are higher and higher every time we need a bigger scapegoat.

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

it rules that this addled prat is the literal fucking president of the united states. like how did we somehow rig things were the white house is the residence of last resort for people who keep getting kicked out of memory care units for behavior

CONFIRMED: Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, will be the new mayor of Miami. She'll be the city's first Democratic mayor since the 1990s. She flipped the office from Republicans, and does so easily. She leads the DeSantis-endorsed Emilio González 59/41 right now with most ballots counted.

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

the answer to "how do I communicate to puerile shitlord tween boys that bigoted authoritarianism is uncool" is to have schools sponsor it

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

A lot of you say "Gaslight" when what you mean is Bamboozle. The result is that we've watered down the real psychological harm of gaslighting and we've underutilized a really fun word to say.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

no idea

“Uh I’m neurodivergent and a minor???”-ing as the CEO of one of the most influential companies in the world

You expect disabled people to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Baldur's Gate where I might get slapchopped for being myself.

we've entered a new era where rich people who behave badly blame it on autism and not bipolar disorder, i suppose

ladies and gentlemen. the patagonian mara.

I think an important thing to understand about brofluencer ideology is that they do not just deny that being toxic and shitty makes you a less appealing partner, they insist that women are only genuinely attracted to toxic and shitty men and being kind will instead make women lose respect for you.