This is also true but also leaves out an important part: there was also a bipartisan consensus that "storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers" HAD ACTUALLY HAPPENED. In the last 5 years MAGA has convinced itself that the Jan 6 protestors were peaceful and that what everyone saw was a "hoax"

If you tell him the oil is too dense, he’ll suggest adding aspirin to it to thin it out

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

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Seems like the closest parallel is the invasion of Panama in 1989, no?

Time to take a big sip of coffee and check the news to see what I missed over Shabbos --

Okay hivemind, I need help with a minor crisis. Went to put the dogs in the back of our minivan this afternoon to take them for a drive, and discovered the rear windshield was completely shattered 1/

[Scott Show! runs in, breathless]: HAM-let by William SHARK-speare

[my boy dog singing to my girl dog] Carabiner Queen Now we're sharing the same leash And our tails that wag as one No more treats on the run

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

"Bamakom she-ayn anashim, hishtadel lihiyot ish" is going on my gravestone.

OH MY GOD IT WORKS

Can anyone who understands how the postal system works explain to me why a package that is supposed to be delivered in Ann Arbor would go from Detroit to Ann Arbor and then *back to Detroit* the next day?

People don't generally know this but Trump has a gang tattoo on his right hand, too. That's the real reason why it's always covered with bandages and makeup

Where have you gone, Archimedes Plutonium? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you

If I had Bari Weiss’ job I would basically do it the same. I would watch news reports and then say “not enough sources” only instead of giving them Steven Miller’s phone number I’d be like “here is Maria Bamford’s email, I want her on record, in several funny voices.”

I have trans kids. I am not a weirdo. I swear.

On the last night of Chanukah, it's important to remember that the rededication of the Temple did not mark the *end* of the struggle for liberation from Seleucid tyranny, but actually came very close to the *beginning*. A short thread:

Another thought about this (not directly connected to the thread I just posted): 35-ish years ago I apparently told an artsy friend something like "Math is the language the universe speaks in". (I say 'apparently' because I don't remember saying this at all, but the friend remembers it.).

I agree (obviously) with everything in this post, and yet I have to point out that it still adopts, more or less uncritically, the tacit premise that the value of what we learn is in its *usefulness*, even if that usefulness is indirect. And I fundamentally disagree with that premise

Genuine question: Is this like one of those d/b/a things, where a business is legally known by one name but does business under another? Like "The Gap, Inc. d/b/a Old Navy"? So for example the Dept of Defense is still *legally* the DoD, but it's doing business as Dept of War

Incredible line, from Vanity Fair part 2: @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/v...

Rob Reiner took the lawless hero — Jason Bourne, Ethan Hunt, Batman — and reminded us that this is actually the bad guy. It’s a lesson worth remembering today.

"You finally, really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you all to hell!"

The DC KO event feels like the worst kind of "who would win in a fight" storytelling over and over again, with shallow characterizations, a paper-thin plot device, and stakes that *should* feel weighty but come across as fluff. I don't know who this is for but it ain't me

Guys I don't want to brag but famous Holowood star the Bargarean Jade herself liked my post. (thanks @moujanz.bsky.social)

Our new series begins NOW! Buckle your space belts, put on ur headphones & settle in for the first installment of THE YOUNG OLD DERF CHRONICLES, a memoir about an elderly space wizard (with the mysterious power of resurrection) who keeps jucking up. www.missiontozyxx.space/tyodc/d01-th...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Shout out to my high school World Lit teacher, Jim Corcoran

This reboot of Night Court looks way better than the last one

I named my fists Air and Bud because what they'll do to you is not in the rulebook

I named my fists Zermelo and Frankel cuz they're gonna leave you with No Choice

I named my fists Position and Momentum because you can't watch them both

My uncle owned a (pre-direct market) comic book shop in Detroit in the 1970s, and he would bring home stacks of unsold comics with half the cover cut off. Whenever my brothers and I would visit we would get to bring some home with us. On Halloween, we'd give out comics instead of candy.

@missiontozyxx.bsky.social releases a 2-hour episode AND @bullseye.maximumfun.org releases a 2 hr 30 minute episode IN THE SAME WEEK that @deathblart.bsky.social is going to drop? Are you people trying to kill me???

He's a 10 but he pronounces homogeneous "huh-MAHJ-en-us" instead of "homo-JEEN-eus"

Like the original pilgrims, we celebrate by eating a meal with Indians.

Attention, please. This is the canonical list of best Thanksgiving foods, ranked: 10. Rasam 9. Dal 8. Masala dosa 7. Sambar vada 6. Aloo gobi 5. Iddly manchurian 4. Baby corn manchurian 3. Chana masala 2. Spinach kofta curry 1. Vegetable korma

Can someone who actually knows what the UCMJ says help me understand this part of the DoD's statement?

I just read an entire article about Teen Vogue, its politics, and its demise -- without one mention of Lauren Duca. Seems crazy to me?

SCENE: A dark alley. In the corner, a man lies beaten unconscious. As we approach, we see wears the uniform of an ICE agent. “Who is he?” we ask. We look up, and see, spray-painted on the wall, our answer: SOME PIG

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

This (from an article in @thenewrepublic.bsky.social) points at a pet peeve of mine, but still gets it wrong: "orders of magnitude" is about *powers* of 10, not *multiples* of 10. Think 10, 100, 1000, not 10, 20, 30. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

I'm just spitballing here, but have you considered the possibility that it's because of the Nazi tattoo?

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

I called both Peters's and Slotkin's offices and left angry voicemail messages and shortly after that they both voted no, so you're welcome

Did the GOP have *any* good news tonight?