Missed opportunity to call it a MILFlife crisis

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

I dont understand what is going on here, direct light vs indirect? A blurring filter? Is it some quirk of the makeup? I dont see how shifting his head slightly utterly changes his appearance.

It's sort of bleakly funny, or perhaps even bleakly apropos, if there was even a shred of truth to the idea the media went easier on Trump because they wanted him to win to juice ratings and readership again like in 17, that they have to suffer this.

Yeah, I think this was a DM he accidentally made public. I don't think he'd publicly admit that the administration's reputation and credibility is suffering. He's leaning on Bondi to appoint Halligan to E.D. Va.

I feel like I'm definitely going to get roped into paying for Novelpia Global. I thought I'd read just the completed novels during the free event, but I've started like 40 novels without finishing any. Granted I tossed several as not worth the effort but that still leaves +15

This is probably helpful for anyone seeking dismissal of criminal charges as a vindictive prosecution.

I want to say it's the opposite but I cant say so definitively because my mind turns to 25 years ago when off brand stuff was just pure garbage like MadCatz. off brand products from 15 years ago just don't stick in my mind like the garbage from 25 years ago.

Sort of fun to fine a music video on the official youtube channel offered in 280p as the highest setting, real blast from the past.

What is going on with his gums?

"It is possible to commit no mistakes & still lose" is a lesson completely anathema to the Ezra Klein crowd, where all achievement is earned, & anything earned is an achievement

All this is scary for a similar reason as March 2020 when Tom Hanks got COVID and the NBA shut down. It’s a volatile and uncertain moment and we don’t know how things are going to resolve. I think in the face of that, focusing on our strengths and his weaknesses is the best, the *only*, way through.

I know most of this is the right were looking for an excuse, a casus belli to go even further, but I cant shake the feeling some of this is genuine, in that Kirk was viewed by them as, and likely was, a once in a generation talent at networking and the behind the scenes politics of the movement.

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

The one bright spot to the Trump admin nuking Kimmel it does change the discussions a bit as far as normies go. Furthermore, while not a bright spot as such, I personally take some grim satisfaction, that it serves as a big F U to whatever Ezra Klien thought he was doing.

the total lack of interest from business and media elites in defending the liberal norms that underpin civil society and like, modern capitalism for that matter has been truly shocking

Colbert was a bribe. This is pure police state.

"We are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree." is not something someone says when they are being genuine it's what they say when they are trying far too hard to sound profound.

I hesitated on clicking the video for a moment because I knew he'd be doing that sort of whispering voice people use when they try to talk gentle to children, the tone they use when they are making an active choice to condescend, and sure enough I was right,

Many seem to have a “noble savage” view of the reactionary right — a view which would be rapidly dissuaded by spending some time in the places where it is ascendant. As I think I mentioned at the Rita Hayden lecture, living in a pit village where Reform dominates has clarified the stakes for myself

I’d like to think it would but those kids are addicted, they’ll switch, or like 70 percent of the active ones will; now that said those ones will be angry as hell about losing people in the move and any changes they see

I for one love to have my nation’s content moderated by like the same five guys with close links to the belligerent ruling faction

So only adult suicides for now, well adult suicides and suicides for teens that sound mature.

I like Rupar but I confess there are times when he injects a tiny bit of extra spin into his descriptions, not this time though, Patel is losing his shit.

Do not laugh off the Trump NYT defamation suit. Joke lawsuit but will potentially go in front of a joke judge. MMFA is currently being dismantled in a similar circumstance. Only defense would be journalistic solidarity to punish Trump for attacking their profession but it's probably too late.

Making it an Academy isekai.

yeah, I remember them saying all this about #TeslaTakedown protestors too, but we're still out here and Elon's out of government so

If you think middle America isn't concerned about authoritarianism, then your job is to make them care, not pivot to a focus group polled soundbite.

I grant you that there are limited options for Dems while in the minority, but sometimes it really feels like Schumer in particular read a memo six months ago saying, 'focus on kitchen table issues, ignore Trump' and just fixates on that.

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

Charlie Kirk literally said that Joe Biden should be executed.

Liquor store owner: People that don’t drink liquor may one day be at a significant cognitive disadvantage

Even if they fire Patel tomorrow, Patel's basically cleaned house of senior leadership, reorged the geographic branches, changed the qualifications to work there, etc., the damage is done and they can't reset to January.

What can you even say. It's hardly just Loomer, Musk and Miller both talk like this too. So many right wingers now are talking like this. I fear for the future but have no idea what to do with that fear. We cannot give in to fear and assume it's inevitable, that would be surrender and capitulation.

The irony of these “free speech” committees is that these will lead to something that the legislature has tried but failed to do for the past two sessions: A statewide bounty system where students, or anyone for that matter, can report profs to the state who teach things they don’t like.

By the right's own belief system, this doesn't work! Their whole thesis in the 2010s was that cancel culture created a backlash that has led to the present moment, and if that's true, they're just setting up Woke 2: This Time It's Personal.

Condemning his assassination doesn’t require lying about who he is and what he did. He participated in and amplified the right’s descent into white nationalist racism and its attacks on the republic itself, which has now metastasized.

I was honestly unprepared for how much more brutal reddit had been than Bluesky.

Dude, WTF?

If he can do the first three things without me having broken the law, he already took away my freedom.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

New, from me: It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Gen X explains the internet

I do not care how much this annoys people on this website: there is no evidence (yet) that this guy was a groyper. Yes, there are similarities and shared DNA between groypers and the nihilistic brainrotted gaming circles this guy likely came from, but they are not the same thing.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

The pivot from rage to empathy and sorry is like 50 times too brazen to even be funny, it's just the most crude and evil demonstration possible that none of these people genuinely care about any of this shit

fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.

the WSJ story is about editorial recklessness but also radicalization within government. the WSJ will probably maintain that they were simply reporting on a real government bulletin, but that bulletin was the output of government agents who saw random symbols and thought it was "trans ideology"

Yeah this guy isn’t actually antifa he just wanted to put on a show … he didn’t even get the Iron Front symbol right and for all we know he could’ve been referring to the 1800’s version of Bella Ciao written by pissed off rice farmers in the Po Valley